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DIY Book Festival Sets Award dates for 2005 *
Los Angeles, CA. The 2005 DIY Book Festival has set Saturday, October 8, 2005 as the date for its annual awards ceremony honouring the success of independent authors and publishers.
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Fallout: Green Stone of Healing Book Two (Garber review) ****
If you were enamoured of The Vision, you will find this second book just as gripping a "page-turner," and the characters even more deeply and convincingly drawn.
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Flavours of Cooper's Cove Guesthouse named finalist *
Prosperi-Porta is an award-winning chef, and with his partner, Ina Haegemann, he owns and operates the luxurious Cooper's Cove Guesthouse on the Sooke waterfront on Vancouver Island, BC.
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Foreign book publishers boost Canadian industry *
The book industry in Canada grew substantially in 2000-2001, but that didn't mean it was all good news for Canadian book companies.
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Giller author John Bemrose reads at North Van Library *
December 16, 2003, North Vancouver, BC
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Is this a flair for fictions? *
A mysterious blond organizer of an allegedly bogus writers' conference is alleged to have other secrets, some of which made it into her novel.
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iUniverse *
The world's biggest independent publishing source -- and a big bookstore of hard-to-find titles.
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Super Sonic Book Signing of Baker's Dozen *
December, 2003, Seattle, WA
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The porn queen's sad epiphany *
When Linda Lovelace, a woman best known for carnal abilities that rivalled Saracen the Sword Swallower's, published Ordeal, her third autobiography, in 1980, she triggered the coining of a phrase in porn circles known as "The Linda Syndrome."
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Anne Garber's Cheap Eats Vancouver **** 1/2
ISBN:0-9695187-9-X
Author:Anne Garber & John T.D. Keyes
Publisher:Serious Publishing, $14.95 (CAD),
BC's best-read restaurant critic's favourite ma-and-pa joints, vegetarian cafes, diners, greasy spoons, coffee shops, lunch counters, truck stops, cafeterias and other great eateries.
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Canada cool to Hollywood madam *
Another Hollywood celebrity has cancelled a planned visit to Toronto, but this time it has nothing to do with fear of the SARS outbreak.
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Vancouver's Best Bargains ****
ISBN:0969518757
Author:Anne Garber & Lorraine Gannon
Publisher:Serious Publishing, $18.95 (CAD or USD),
The BEST (and actually the ONLY, but, you know, still the best) bargain shopping guide to one of Canada's most expensive cities: Vancouver.
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