Authors for Indies is quickly approaching! Mark your calendars for Saturday, April 29, and plan to visit all four Book City branches to meet with your favourite authors to discuss their books, the books they love and to celebrate independent bookselling! Here’s our guest list: Beach: Dana Harrison & Joel MacCharles 11am-12pm Lisa de […]
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April 2016 Newsletter
April 2016 Newsletter The new literary spring season gets well and truly underway this month. We’ll feature highlights from a variety of publishing houses so you get a concise and representative sample of titles releasing throughout April. We’ll also feature some recent editions of classic New York Review of Books(NYRB) re-prints that should pique your […]
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Great Deals on Good Books Get ’em while they last! Nora Webster (Colm Tóibín) Pub. List Price: $32.95 Our Price: $8.99 From one of contemporary literature’s most acclaimed and beloved authors comes this magnificent novel set in a small town in Ireland in the 1960s, where a fiercely compelling, too-young widow and mother of four […]
Read MoreIn like a lion, out like a lamb laden with books
March 2016 Newsletter What will it be folks? “In like a lamb, out like a lion?” or, as John Belushi quipped, will it be more like “[i]n like a sea otter, out like a giant anaconda?” Well, whatever manner of transition March throws at us weather-wise, we can be sure there’s lots of literature available to […]
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What to Read: February 2016 In case you are gearing up for CBC Canada Reads next month between March 21-24, here is a brief listing of the titles that will be under discussion in this lively and always entertaining annual debate. The focus this year is on “starting over” and the five panellists have each chosen the […]
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