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Backstage Vancouver: A Century of Entertainment Legends (Keyes review) ****
You don't have to be a Vancouverite to get a kick out of Backstage Vancouver, although certainly most of the book's buyers will be from the Lower Mainland, or else they'll be homesick ex-pat Vancouverites desperate to savour a slice of local history.
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Beatles Book Is Fab! (Keyes review) *****
John Keyes says: "If you're looking for a last-minute Christmas present, I can't think of a reader who wouldn't find The Beatles: The Biography interesting.
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Bob Hope: My Life in Jokes *
Reprinted by permission of Hyperion Books
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Chatty Ashley has lots to say, but is anyone still willing to listen? *
Ashley MacIsaac, the virtuosic and volatile Cape Breton fiddler who made self-destruction a public endeavour, popped up in Halifax to sign his new autobiography, Fiddling With Disaster, the first and last stop on a one-city book tour.
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Kate Remembered: Parlour games ****
Biographer A. Scott Berg's 20-year relationship with Katharine Hepburn began with a unique set of initiation rites. Once they were passed, Hepburn promised to tell him all, with one stipulation: He could not publish until she had died, GAYLE MacDONALD writes
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Lord Black's art of investing stirs controversy *
The appropriateness of Hollinger buying the Roosevelt papers is being questioned as the press baron pens FDR's biography
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Super Sonic Book Signing of Baker's Dozen *
December, 2003, Seattle, WA
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The full Lucy (Maud Montgomery) *
She was trapped in a loveless marriage. Her son was a philanderer and crook. A female stalker tormented her. Now, with a new bio on the way, new names named from her early journals, and her final diaries losing full copyright protection, Lucy Maud Montgomery may finally become an open book, JAMES ADAMS writes.
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Tickled Pink to be here *
Canadian actress Daniela Saioni switches horses, but not in mid-stream.
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