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 Review: A delicate mix of hard-hitting and thoughtful proseScott Thornley has won more than 150 awards for design, and his second job as writer is also on a successful trajectory. He introduced Detective Superintendent MacNeice in his first page-tuner novel, Erasing Memory, and he builds on the character development and action in The Ambitious City.
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 Sunshine Coast author Lars Guignard makes good money on ebooksSunshine Coast author Lars Guignard has published three books on Amazon, and says he is making a good living on ebooks alone.
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 Review: Crime thriller paints bleak picture of Edmonton's underbellyLeo Desroches struggles through the gritty, unforgiving, crime-ridden, freezing downtown, dodging bullying security guards. He comes close to dying of the cold in a doorway. He has to take refuge in a grotty peep show movie arcade. Here’s a city where you wouldn’t want to live, let alone work. And that place is … Edmonton.
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 Publishers try to read the industry's futureThere’s a revolution in reading filled with innovative and exciting possibilities underway, but whether the book industry will be able to sustain itself remains to be seen. Ebooks have transformed the experience of reading — everything from interactive fiction, where readers choose the outcome of a story, to books with embedded links to video or audio is possible. But ebooks have also caused a sea change in the publishing business model.
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 Johnny Ramone charming, grumpy punk in memoir CommandoThe book was written from a series of interviews Ramone gave in the final years of his life for the purposes of a memoir
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 Isha Judd: Happiness comes from giving abundantlyAs a child, Isha Judd didn’t understand human beings — she says she didn’t quite get things like prejudice or war, and she really wanted to change the world for the better. But when the young Australian reached early adulthood, she says she turned away from her humanitarian instincts and instead pursued a career in horse training and racing that was both competitive and very lucrative.
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 B. Glen Rotchin's protagonist mourns the loss of the Expos and his Hampstead homeHis marriage has ended badly, his only son’s gay wedding looms awkwardly on the horizon, his only daughter has forsaken her liberal Jewish upbringing to join the Orthodox Lubavitch movement, and he feels compelled to repeatedly revisit the burned remains of his former family home in Montreal’s upscale Hampstead – a fire that the friendly neighbourhood cop thinks he may have had something to do with. All in all, though, the titular hero of B. Glen Rotchin’s second novel, Halbman Steals Home, is doing pretty well. Just don’t tell him so.
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 Giller winner Johanna Skibsrud among finalists for Danuta Gleed prizeScotiabank Giller Prize winner Johanna Skibsrud is among the finalists for the 15th annual Danuta Gleed Literary Award.
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 John Irving: At 70, the novelist explores sexual identityIrving's new novel delves into the labyrinthine world of sexual identity — chronicling decades of social change and erotic revolution through the often troubled prism of a bisexual narrator named Billy Abbott.
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 Maurice Sendak, children's author, dies at 83American writer and illustrator Maurice Sendak was best known for his classic children's books including "Where the Wild Things Are."
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 Review: Fraud tale a story for our times“Dear respectable one, My name is Lawrence David. I work with the Citizens Bank of Nigeria Plc. Branch manager of the foreign remittance department. Please I need you to get back to me concerning your late cousin’s fund worth $36 million. Get back to me with your full name, home address and home number.” This is an excerpt from an email message that I received the day I started writing this review of 419, the latest book by Calgary writer Will Ferguson.
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 Review: Search for home is never-endingBy the early 1970s, the hippie dream was largely a thing of the past. Yes, the fashions and music lived on, but the accompanying ideals and beliefs faded from view.Those ideals, however, still loomed large for a proportionately few dedicated seekers who, as a rule, went – literally — to ground, creating or participating in intentional communities where they could, they hope, live according to ideals of equality and equanimity, co-operation and environmental sensitivity.
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 A bleu tale of the fabled ImpressionistsChristopher Moore’s new novel blends diligently researched art history smoothly with his fevered, fiendish imagination. So smoothly, in fact, that you must never, EVER give this book to a docent who gives museum tours.
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 Ireland flavours Malarky, a tale of coping with griefAnakana Schofield lives in Vancouver, but her debut novel, Malarky, makes splendid use of the time she lived in Ireland as it is set on a farm just outside of Dublin and is packed with Irish diction and syntax.
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 Review: A lively wander in the desertIts protagonists, like its themes, are multiple, while its plot braids together numerous tales spanning four centuries. So if we’re to locate an entry point from which we can start discussing "Gods Without Men" we’d best turn to its geography. Or, better yet, geology.
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 Noah Richler raises some important questions in a new book, What We Talk About When We Talk About WarIn just a few short years, the Harperites have manoeuvred Canadians into seeing themselves as a “warrior nation” instead of the “peacekeeping nation” so many of us previously thought we inhabited, Richler says in his new book What We Talk About When We Talk About War.
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 Anna Quindlen revisits familiar themes, explores new territoryFirst of all, let me say that I am a huge fan of Anna Quindlen for her work both as a novelist and as a journalist. I have been reading her since her days at the New York Times, when she wrote about her life as a young mother in her column Life in the 30s. She won the Pulitzer Prize for her column Public and Private in 1992 and, since then, she has written five bestselling novels, seven non-fiction books and a column for Newsweek. She writes with equal skill and accessibility about politics, women’s rights, being a mom or life in New York.
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 Civil War comes to the Fraser Valley thanks to Tim BowlingLurid, gut-wrenching tales of the American Civil War. That’s only half the story in Tim Bowling’s new novel, his fourth, adding to an impressive oeuvre that includes 10 poetry collections.
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 Review: Vanishers bubbles in sardonic witThough a critic recently dubbed Heidi Julavits’ latest novel “the first astral detective thriller,” don’t pick it up expecting The X Files. The Vanishers is a convoluted and often jabbing satire which deflates the paranormal, academia, human relationships (especially the mother-daughter tangle) and society’s current mania for artificial perfection.
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 Review: Multiple murder mystery a story of love for a cityTimothy Wilde is still adjusting to his job as a New York City police officer when a blood-soaked Irish-American street urchin literally runs right into him late one summer night. The 10-year-old girl, Bird Daly, has escaped from the brothel where she’s lived for as long as she can remember.
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 Wilbur Smith's Courtney books destined for TVThe first three books in Wilbur Smith's bestselling Courtney series of novels have been acquired by Corona Pictures for TV adaptation.
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 My Friend Dahmer is a portrait of the serial killer as a young manMy Friend Dahmer is a portrait of the serial killer as a young man. Derf Backderf was a high school acquaintance of serial killer Jeff Dahmer.
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 Best-selling erotic novel sparks parodies and spoofsSpoof book of Fifty Shades of Grey gets publishing deal; spoofed by Ellen DeGeneres.
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 The Walrus leads National Magazine Awards nominationsNominees for the 35th-anniversary National Magazine Awards were announced Tuesday.
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 In Straphanger, Taras Grescoe makes a case against the carPart travelogue, part history of the city, part treatise on the need for more and better public transit, Taras Grescoe's new book, Straphanger, shows how people around the world are trying to tame the car to cut congestion and pollution and generally make cities nicer places in which to live.
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