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Breaking Dawn$16.79 add to cart

Midnight Release of Breaking Dawn
where: Grant Park location only, Winnipeg
when: Friday Aug 01 2008 12:01 pm

From 12:01 a.m. to 1:00 a.m., the 4th volume of Stephanie Meyer's hugely popular Twilight Saga, Breaking Dawn, will be available for purchase at the Grant Park location. Vouchers can be bought in advance at a special price. Buy your voucher today or pick up your book at midnight and read until the dawn breaks.

Breaking Dawn Launch
where: Kids Bookstore, Saskatoon
when: Saturday Aug 02 2008 9:00 am

Come celebrate the release of the 4th and final novel in Stephenie Meyer's breathtaking Twilight series! 30% off book vouchers are on sale now until 11:00 pm, August 1. Vouchers can be exchanged for books starting at 9:00 am on August 2 in the Kids Bookstore. Customers wanting to purchase the book on August 2 will pay regular price, and can purchase the book from the Cash Circle on the Main Floor. Teens are invited to participate in our Twilight essay-writing contest. For more information, please contact the Kids Bookstore at 955-1477.

When a small bear from Darkest Peru first arrived at Paddington Station in 1958, no one would have predicted that he would become one of the most well-loved of celebrity bears. Now, with his 50th Anniversary fast approaching, his publishers are planning a special celebration.

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Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow creeps in this petty pace from day to day to the last syllable of recorded time

Macbeth -- William Shakespeare

Shakespeare had something completely different in mind when he wrote the above, but it nicely fits the feeling of readers when their favourite author's new book is delayed. I found myself wondering, last night, just who it is that suffers the most when a book doesn't arrive as expected.

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Lucinda Gosling has put together one of the most fascinating books about the Great War that you are likely to find,Brushes & Bayonets.

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The Host$28.99 add to cart

Hooked on Stephenie Meyer, but can't wait until August for Breaking Dawn, the next and final installment in the Twilight series? Look no further than Meyer's May release, The Host.

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Chip Kidd may be known to book design aficianados as the genius behind some of the most striking cover designs of the last decade and a half, but as it turns out, he's pretty good between the covers as well. In 2001 he published The Cheese Monkeys--his first novel--and followed it up earlier this year with a sequel of sorts entitled The Learners.

In a recent interview with CBCNews' Andre Mayer, Kidd talks about the difference between writing and designing, and how the story of his protagonist, Happy, evolved from one book to the next.

For the full interview, click here.

Two of the highlights of March's schedule for us booksellers are the appearance in pocket book size of Anne Bishop's Belladonna as well as the release of her new Realms of the Blood book, Tangled Webs, featuring Surreal SaDiablo. It also marks the tenth anniversary of the publication of her first novel, Daughter of the Blood,. With nearly a dozen books in ten years, her fans are fortunate in having an author who can keep them satisfied, while keeping them guessing. I'm fortunate that Anne has agreed to do an interview with me, via email, which I'm pleased to share with you below.

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In a Time of Treason$28.95 add to cart

With his novels In the Eye of Heaven, and the forthcoming In a Time of Treason, David Keck has delved deeply into myth, folklore and history to create Errest the Old, a world both strikingly familiar, yet tantalizingly strange. I have stated before that In a Time of Treason was one of my most anticipated books of 2008, and it didn't disappoint.

When Keck writes about knights and tournaments you can smell the armour, feel the horses thunder across the lists and you shudder with the impact of lance on shield. The quieter moments of the novel are equally powerful, as Durand Col must choose between staying true to his Lord Lamoric, or his love, Lamoric's young wife Deorwen.

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There's been a lot of well-deserved hype around The Dangerous Book for Boys, and subsequently The Daring Book for Girls.

Another book that might fall just beneath the radar deserves a good look. Howtoons, published by the creators of the magazines Make and Craft, teaches kids how to make their own cool toys. Using a graphic novel format, the book follows the exploits of Tucker and Celine, a brother and sister pair who decide to make their own fun.

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