The Calgary McNally Robinson Booksellers and Prairie Ink Restaurant closes its doors at 6:00 pm on Friday, July 25th, 2008.

We extend a sincere thank you to our loyal customer base and are hopeful you will continue to do business with McNally Robinson as an online customer.

Thank you!

 

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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.

The International Horror Guild has named author Peter Straub this year's recipient of their Living Legend Award. Straub is the author of seventeen novels (two co-authored with Stephen King) and many short stories and novellas. Ramsay Campbell, whose Grin of the Dark was nominated for Best Novel, was honored as a Living Legend by the Guild in 2007.

 

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Zombie Blondes$18.95 add to cart

On the run? Looking for a small town to finally fit in, make some friends, maybe score a football player boyfriend? Welcome to Maplecrest, where people are just dying to get in.

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The Grin Of The Dark$28.95 add to cart

Presented annually since 1995, the International Horror Guild Awards are juried prizes chosen from public recommendations recognizing achievement in the fields of horror and dark fantasy.

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Shakespeare's Wife$36.99 add to cart

Reviewed by Caroline Walker.

When I finished reading this book I immediately turned to the beginning and started reading again. It's an incredibly rich journey into sixteenth and seventeenth century England, full of fascinating details about everyday life and death in that era as well as tantalizing glimpses of Shakespeare's wife, Ann Hathaway. This is not so much a biography of the woman, because so little is known about her, as a whack at all the male academics and critics over the years who have made assumptions about her based on their own prejudices. Was Ann a homely spinster who trapped young Will into marriage (she was 26, he 18), or was she an attractive woman of independent means who was wooed and courted by an eager young pup until she finally let him into her bed?

Greer draws on myriad sources such as letters, wills, church records, and legal documents, as well as Shakespeare's own poetry and plays, to explore the attitudes and practices of the day and to paint a vivid picture of the town of Stratford and its inhabitants.

 

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The Doom of Kings Vol 1 Legacy of Dhakaan$8.99 add to cart

Don Bassingthwaite lives in Toronto, and is one of a surprising number of Canadians writing fiction for Wizards of the Coast, set in the worlds of the Dungeons and Dragons roleplaying game. I was fortunate that Don took the time to answer some of my questions about the writing life of a shared world author and his forthcoming novel, The Doom of Kings.

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The Doom of Kings Vol 1 Legacy of Dhakaan$8.99 add to cart

Toronto author Don Bassingthwaite revisits characters from his previous Eberron trilogy in this first book of the Legacy of Dhakaan, The Doom of Kings.

In the savage nation of Darguun, Lhesh Haruuc, the hobgoblin who rules, is growing old. Upon his death the kingdom he forged will tear itself apart, while the other nations of Khorvaire will watch with relief as the goblin peoples descend once more into anarchy. But what is more dangerous: a ruler-less goblin, or one directed by the firm hand of a mighty general?

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Airhead$18.99 add to cart

After a freak accident at the grand opening of the new Stark Megastore, the life of high school student Emerson Watts is over. Almost.

Upon waking Emerson finds out her parents signed a secret agreement to put her tom-boy attitude and computer game playing brain into the recently deceased body of It-Girl Nikki Howard. She soon finds herself with a closet stuffed with designer clothes, purses and shoes, a new BFF and roommate, and in a head spinning love triangle. Her new life should be aces but something is not right. Stark Enterprises, her medical savior, is hiding something, and the boy she really likes thinks she died.

Photo shoots, rock musicians and papperatzi: Nancy Drew in killer stilettos is on the case.

Watch for Being Nikki in May 2009.

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