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Treasure Hunters 08$10.99 add to cart

Join McNally Robinson Booksellers for the 2008 Manitoba Comic Convention at the Winnipeg Convention Centre October 11 & 12, 2008. We'll have tons of young adult fantasy books and graphic novels at the convention, but here are a few favourites on our shelves right now.

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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy$19.99 add to cart

There will be a sixth novel in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, entitled And Another Thing... and arriving October 2009.

"It's a gift from the gods," says Eoin Colfer, popular author of the comic children's fantasy series Artemis Fowl, "So, thank you Thor and Odin." Colfer's involvement was requested personally by Douglas Adams' widow Jane Belson. No details have yet emerged regarding the novel's plot.

 

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Black Hole$22.00 add to cart

David Fincher, acclaimed director of among other films, Fight Club and Zodiac has been attached to direct the live action movie based on Charles Burns' Harvey Award winning graphic novel Black Hole.

Originally serialized over ten years by Kitchen Sink Press and then Fantagraphics Books, Black Hole was finally collected in hardcover and now trade paperback by Pantheon Books.

Black Hole features a group of suburban Seattle teens in the 1970's who catch The Bug, an STD that causes physical mutations, some subtle, some grotesque. The alienated teens face prejudice and exile.

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In the wake of the movie adaptation of her biography Persepolis' opening on Christmas Day, Marjane Satrapi was interviewed at Newsarama, along with her co-director Vincent Paronnaud.

Persepolis tells the story of Satrapi's childhood growing up in Tehran. A time that saw the overthrow of the Shah's regime and the triumph of the Islamic Revolution.

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Marvel Comics in partnership with Del Rey Books, will be releasing original English language Manga titles featuring Wolverine and the X-Men.

The books are expected to have a 2009 release, and will not be a part of the regular X-Men continuity. According to the press release, the stories will have familiar elements, but will take the characters in radical new directions.

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Ever since the release of The Deathly Hallows Harry Potter fans have been wondering if J.K. Rowling would ever write another book. The good news is: she has! The bad news is that if you don't know her personally, you probably won't get to read it...

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Release date announced for Book 3 in the Inheritance series!

I am sure that all of you are as excited about this as I am. For the past two years we have been answering the question "When will the 3rd Eragon book come out?"

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Despite the fact that July was supposed to be the final round of book-related Harry Potter hype, the heat continues.

A book based on the immensely popular internet fan site The Harry Potter Lexicon was slated to be published at the end of this month has been put on hold until a lawsuit filed by J.K. Rowling can either dismissed or until the publisher can convince Rowling to change her mind:

In a statement, RDR Books publisher Roger Rapoport characterized the legal proceedings as a “David and Goliath battle,” noting that Rowling has previously praised Vander Ark’s Web site, on which his book is based. Further, Rapoport urged that Rowling, in the name of “literary freedom and free expression,” drop “her complaint against a book we are confident she would enjoy reading.”

There was also a rumour that a new Potter series is in the works, after an Australian news agency reported on a site that appeared to be marketing for just that. Rowling's agent has since stated that the site has no connection to anything officially Potter.

Finally, Reuters is reporting that Harry Potter is the most re-read book in Britain. Conflictingly, the BBC reported in the spring that Potter was the second-most unfinished book in Britain.

Then again, maybe that's why they're re-reading it.

Previously:

Dumbledore is Gay
Banned Books Week U.S.
Potter and Colbert
Review of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Harry Potter Smashes Records
Muggle Mixer in Saskatoon
Pre-Release Roundup
Successor Found
Harry Fits

Legendary comic book creator Walter Simonson has been tapped to adapt the hugely popular World of Warcraft computer game franchise to comics.

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