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Top Nine Short Story Collections I Love: Life After God by Douglas Coupland For anyone who has ever felt lost, felt too old to be feeling lost, felt too self-conscious and ridiculous to be feeling too old to feel lost, this book is for you. Full of vivid depictions of British Columbia, from the green [...]

I don’t read nearly enough. That bothers me because I thoroughly enjoy it, there are hundreds of books I’d love to read and I come from a family of readers – I’m letting the side down for heaven’s sake! I am determined to read more (maybe I should consider learning to speed read) and part [...]

Some friends of mine are moving out of the city today and before they left, I wanted to get them each a small gift.  When thinking about what to buy, I recalled a conversation I’d had with him about keeping a journal, not a daily diary but for a specific purpose and with her, we’d [...]

According to this article in the National Post nearly half of Canadians can’t name a Canadian author… Findings of the survey of 1,502 Canadians, aged 15 and older, suggest young Canadians are the most ignorant about Canada’s writers. Almost two-thirds (62%) could not name a Canadian author in an unaided exercise. Among respondents who could [...]

Textbooks anyone? Here’s a reminder for North America’s students that school is just around the corner (as if you didn’t know it) and AbeBooks.com has your textbook needs covered. While the fall semester tends to slowly creep up after that long summer holiday, the spring semester arrives like an express train. I know there is [...]

Happy birthday to J.D. Salinger – the reclusive author of The Catcher in the Rye is 90 years old today. No big party, no busty blonde bombshell jumping out of a cake, no parade down the streets of Cornish in New Hampshire where he lives/hides. The Catcher in the Rye was released in 1951 and [...]

I’ll confess – this isn’t a new read for me. My fondness for Charlotte Zolotow‘s William’s Doll actually goes back to Kindergarten when it was read to my class by the school librarian. At the age of five I was smitten with babies and was set to have 11 myself, and found it perfectly understandable [...]

With 2008 coming to a close, we have just published AbeBooks’ most expensive sales of the year. Rather than just listing the 10 most pricey sales like we usually we do, this year we have also recorded some of the expensive sales in certain genres such as photography, poetry, children’s books and science fiction/fantasy. The [...]

Calling all JK Rowling fans. AbeBooks.com has a contest just for you. We are offering a collector’s edition of The Tales of Beedle the Bard and a copy of the Sotheby’s auction catalog for the hand-written edition of Beedle the Bard from December 2007. The value of the collector’s edition of Beedle the Bard is [...]

Patricia Cornwell