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UPCOMING AND RECENT EVENTS AND PUBLICITY
Last updated August 15, 2008
** Items not
previously announced are marked in RED.**
Times listed are local
to broadcasting city.
AWARDS
BESTSELLERS
PUBLICITY
FOR NEW TITLES
PUBLICITY
FOR RECENT TITLES
AWARDS:
·
Gillian Wigmore, author of Soft Geography
(Caitlin), has won the 8th Annual ReLit Award.
·
Non-fiction writers David Spalding (Enchanted Isles: The Southern Gulf Islands,
photographs by Kevin Oke), Arthur Black (Black to the Grindstone), Barry Gough (Fortune's a River: The Collision of Empires in Northwest America),
and poet Patrick Lane (Last Water Song)
have been longlisted for the Victoria Butler Book Prize
BESTSELLERS:
- BC Bestsellers, week of August 10, 2008 (Source
Association of Book Publishers of BC)
1. Jean Barman: British Columbia: Spirit of the People
ISBN 978-1-55017-446-5
10. Stephen Hume: Simon Fraser: In Search
of Modern British Columbia
ISBN 978-1-55017-434-2
Children’s Titles
1. Eileen Van der Flier-Keller: A Field Guide to the Identification of Pebbles
ISBN 978-1-55017-395-6
3. Jeremy Moray: Timmy
the West Coast Tug
978-1-55017-005-4
4. Meg Hickling: Boys, Girls & Body
Science: A First Book about Facts of Life
978-1-55017-236-2
· Hardback · 32 pp · October 2002
- National Bestsellers, week of August 9, 2008 (Source TB M BookManager’s Best on the
Shelf)
Hardcover:
Non-Fiction
9.
Jean Barman: British Columbia: Spirit of the People
ISBN
978-1-55017-446-5
Canadiana
3. Eileen Van der Flier-Keller: A Field Guide to the Identification of Pebbles
ISBN 978-1-55017-395-6
PUBLICITY FOR NEW TITLES:
(sorted
alphabetically by author)
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James Barber: The Genius of
James Barber: His Best
Recipes 978-1-55017-449-6 ·
1-55017-449-5, $26.95 · Paperback MEDIA Print/Online Mention- Quill & Quire-July/August
2008 |
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Jean Barman: British Columbia:
Spirit of the People ISBN
978-1-55017-446-5, $49.95,
hardback, Harbour Publishing BESTSELLER NEW!! #1 BC
Bestseller, week of August 10, 2008 NEW!! #9 National
Bestseller, Hardcover: Non-Fiction, week of August 9, 2008 MEDIA Radio/TV Interview with CKNW’s The
Christy Clark Show -August 4 at 2:30 Interview with Global TV-
August 4 at 7:50am Print/Online NEW!! Interview with Joseph Planta
of thecommentary.ca-
Aug 4, 2008 ADVERTISING Harbour Spiel, August 2008 BC Bookworld, Summer 2008 |
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Keith Billington: House Calls by
Dogsled: Six Years in an Arctic Medical Outpost ISBN
978-1-55017-423-6, $19.95,
paperback, Harbour Publishing ADVERTISING BC Bookworld, Summer 2008 |
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Ken Belford:
lan(d)guage: a
sequence of poetics 978-1-894759-29-8
· $16.95 · Paperback · August 2008· Caitlin Press ADVERTISING BC Bookworld, Summer 2008 |
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Kate Braid:
A Well-Mannered
Storm: The Glenn Gould Poems 978-1-894759-28-1
· $16.95 · Paperback· Caitlin Press ADVERTISING BC Bookworld, Summer 2008 |
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Chris Czajkowski: A Mountain Year:
Nature Diary of a Wilderness Dweller 978-1-55017-441-0
· $36.95 · Hardback · October 2008 MEDIA Print/Online Mention- Quill & Quire,
July/August 2008 |
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Diane Eaton
and
Allison Eaton: Exploring the
B.C. Coast by Car (Revised Edition) ISBN 978-1-55017-415-1, $24.95, paperback, Harbour Publishing MEDIA Print/Online NEW!! Mention-
Nanaimo News Bulletin, August 7 Mention- RV Times, July/August 2008 ADVERTISING BC Bookworld, Summer 2008 |
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Anne Edwards:
Seeking Balance:
Conversations with Women in BC Politics 978-1-894759-31-1
·$28.95 · Paperback · October 2008· Caitlin Press ADVERTISING BC Bookworld, Summer 2008 |
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ISBN
978-0-88971-219-5, $16.95,
paperback, Nightwood Editions MEDIA Print/Online Review- Quill & Quire,
July/August 2008 ADVERTISING NEW!! Geist, Summer 2008 sub-Terrain, Summer 2008 BC Bookworld, Summer 2008 |
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Stephen Hume: Simon Fraser: In
Search of Modern British Columbia ISBN
978-1-55017-434-2, $36.95,
hardback, Harbour Publishing BESTSELLER #10 BC
Bestseller, week of August 10, 2008 MEDIA Print/Online NEW!! Interview with Joseph Planta
of thecommentary.ca-
Aug 4, 2008 Review- The Harbour Spiel, August
2008 ADVERTISING NEW!! Geist, Summer 2008 BC Bookworld, Summer 2008 |
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Robert H. Jones
and Larry E. Stefanyk: Island Salmon
Fisherman: A Guide to West Coast Hot Spots ISBN 978-1-55017-425-0,
$24.95, paperback, Harbour
Publishing ADVERTISING BC Bookworld, Summer 2008 |
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Rick M. Harbo: A Field Guide to
Seashells and Shellfish of the Pacific Northwest
ISBN
978-1-55017-417-5, $7.95,
pamphlet, Harbour Publishing ADVERTISING BC Bookworld, Summer 2008 |
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Vivien Lougheed: Understanding
Bolivia: A Traveller’s History ISBN
978-1-55017-446-5, $49.95,
hardback, Harbour Publishing ADVERTISING NEW!! Geist, Summer 2008 BC Bookworld, Summer 2008 |
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Rafe Mair: What the Bleep is
Going on Here? ISBN
978-1-55017-458-8, $24.95, paperback,
Harbour Publishing ADVERTISING BC Bookworld, Summer 2008 |
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Mike McCardell: The Blue
Flames that Keep Us Warm: Mike McCardell’s Favourite Stories ISBN
978-1-55017-440-3, $32.95, hardback, Harbour Publishing ($24.95,
paperback) EVENTS Festival
of the Written Arts in Sechelt, Aug 16 at 9am |
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Martin Mitchinson: The Darien Gap:
Travels in the Rainforest of Panama ISBN
978-1-55017-421-2, $26.95,
paperback, Harbour Publishing MEDIA Print/Online NEW!! Review-
The Globe and Mail, August 9 ADVERTISING NEW!! Geist, Summer 2008 BC Bookworld, Summer 2008 |
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ISBN 978-0-88971-223-2,
$16.95, paperback, Nightwood
Editions AWARDS Selected for Poetry in Transit (BC), 2008 MEDIA Print/Online NEW!! Review- Small Press Bookwatch, Summer 2008 Review- sub-Terrain, #49 (Summer 2008) ADVERTISING NEW!! Geist, Summer 2008 sub-Terrain, Summer 2008 BC Bookworld,
Summer 2008 |
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Gwen Sjogren: Cross-Canada
Crosswords 4: 50 New Themed Puzzles ISBN
978-1-55017-429-8, $9.95,
paperback, Harbour Publishing ADVERTISING BC Bookworld, Summer 2008 |
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John Stiles: Taking the Stairs ISBN
978-0-88971-221-8, $21.95,
paperback, Nightwood Editions ADVERTISING NEW!! Geist, Summer 2008 Atlantic Summer Reading Guide, Summer 2008 Sub-Terrain,
Summer 2008 BC Bookworld,
Summer 2008 |
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Betsy Trumpener: The Butcher of
Penetang 978-1-894759-30-4
· $17.95 · Paperback 2008· Caitlin Press ADVERTISING BC Bookworld,
Summer 2008 |
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ISBN
978-0-88971-213-3, $16.95, paperback, Nightwood Editions AWARDS Selected for Poetry in Transit (BC), 2008 ADVERTISING BC Bookworld,
Summer 2008 |
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Tom Zytaruk: Like a Rock: The
Chuck Cadman Story ISBN
978-1-55017-427-4, $26.95,
paperback, Harbour Publishing ADVERTISING BC Bookworld,
Summer 2008 |