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For one year food journalists Alisa Smith and J.B. MacKinnon decided to eat only food which had been grown or raised close to home. Now everyone is trying "The 100 Mile Diet".
Added: July 24, 2007, 9:44 am
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Artist Allen Smutylo has spent several months gathering material for a new exhibit and book in one of the most remote places on earth the Indian Himalayas. There he lived with a nomadic tribe called the Kharnakpa. The book is "Wild Places Wild Hearts".
Added: July 24, 2007, 8:35 am
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Colin Angus is the first man to circumnavigate the planet using only human power. He began his adventure with one partner, but when they had a falling out his fiancee Julie joined him. 4,000 chocolate bars, 72 inner tubes, 250 kgs of freeze-dried foods, 31 dorado fish (caught from the sea), 2 offshore rowboats, 4 bicycles, 80 kgs of clothing, two tropical storms and two mid-Atlantic hurricanes later, he tells the story of how they made it home in his book "Beyond the Horizon".
Added: July 24, 2007, 9:49 am
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George W. Bush and Vladimir Putin may be all smiles and handshakes when they meet, but nevertheless tensions between their two nations are rising. Former Globe & Mail Moscow correspondent Mark MacKinnon examines the revolutions, rigged elections and pipeline politics in the former Soviet Union and the 'industry' which has aided the so called 'Color Revolutions'. It is all part of The New Cold War.
Added: July 24, 2007, 9:55 am
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First time novelist Mark McNay makes an impressive debut with "Fresh" the story of a day-dreaming worker in a Scottish chicken processing plant.
Added: July 24, 2007, 10:00 am
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You've probably never heard of Sir George Cayley but according to author Richard Dee about a hundred years before the Wright Brothers Cayley is "The Man Who Discovered Flight".
Added: July 22, 2007, 2:07 pm
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Look up on the shelf!
It's a literary novel!
It's a super-hero comic!
It's Austin Grossman's debut novel Soon I Will Be Invincible!!!
Added: July 22, 2007, 4:19 pm
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When the other local farmers ask Jon Katz what he grows on his farm, he replies: "stories". The canine-loving author with the feline name is back with more dispatches from Bedlam Farm in: "Dog Days".
Added: July 22, 2007, 8:11 pm
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Conrad Black, recently convicted on fraud and obstruction of justice charges, is also a highly respected biographer. The Invincible Quest: The Life of Richard Milhouse Nixon is the most thorough biography ever written about America's most controversial President.
Added: July 24, 2007, 10:35 am
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Architect and writer Sarah Susanka, whose "The Not So Big House" books have been hugely successful, has now written "The Not So Big Life". At first it might seem that the jump from design to self-help is a great one, "The Not So Big Life" is in many ways a prequel because before she could write her first six books, she had to change her own life.
Added: July 27, 2007, 9:13 am
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Whether we like it or not, we are all getting older, but how we age is the subject of a new book by Dr. Sherwin B. Nuland. He offers a doctor's prescription for well-being in The Art of Aging.
Added: July 27, 2007, 11:40 am
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Journalist Sally Armstrong has ventured through the Taliban's Afghanistan dressed in a burka. She has documented the lives of women on four continents. Now she is telling a story very close to home in The Nine Lives of Charlotte Taylor: The First Woman Settler of the Miramichi.
Added: July 27, 2007, 4:30 pm
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The late Carol Shields won both Pulitzer prize and the Governor-General's Award for "The Stone Diaries". She was in the midst of writing it when she spoke with Bookbits about her just published novel "The Republic of Love".
Added: August 3, 2007, 2:20 pm
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Karen Connelly was just in her teens when she travelled to Thailand then wrote about it in "Touch the Dragon". The book went on to win the Governor-General of Canada's Literary award for non-fiction.
Added: August 3, 2007, 2:24 pm
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If that last messiah was the humble son of a carpenter from Nazareth, who says the next one can't be a retired florist from Edmonton, Alberta? That's the starting point for Todd Babiak's new novel "The Book of Stanley".
Added: September 14, 2007, 5:11 pm
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"Glass Voices" is the title of a new novel by Nova Scotia's Carol Bruneau. It follows one family's story through three generations from December 16th, 1917 into the post lunar-landing days of 1969.
Added: September 14, 2007, 5:30 pm
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The concept of sanctuary, finding a refuge for you and the ones you love from the rest of the world, has long been an appealing one. Author Larry Gaudet moved his wife, kids and in-laws to a small village in Nova Scotia. But is his "Safe Haven" really what he was looking for?
Added: September 14, 2007, 5:35 pm
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Fantasy writer Guy Gavriel Kay's second series of books is The Sarantium Mosaic beginning with "Sailing to Sarantium".
Added: September 14, 2007, 5:55 pm
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Self-published books are usually doomed to failure...but that didn't stop the Podleski sisters, Greta and Janet, from trying. Looneyspoons has sold more than 850,000 copies and spent some 85 weeks on the bestsellers' list. It also happens to be a FANTASTIC and fun cookbook!
Added: September 14, 2007, 6:22 pm
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The Honourable Angus MacLean served as premier of the province of Prince Edward Island and in Ottawa as Fisheries minister in John Diefenbaker's cabinet. But before his life in politics the late Mr. MacLean had a harrowing time being smuggled out of occupied Europe after his bomber was shot down in WWII. His autobiography is entitled: Making it Home
Added: September 14, 2007, 6:40 pm
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Canada's unofficial national troubadour is Stompin' Tom Connors. His name comes from his habit of stamping his boot down hard on the stage to keep time. So hard in fact that he brings a sheet of plywood along to save the stage from splintering into bits. Stompin' Tom, who sings about every corner of the country has written his autobiography "Stompin' Tom: Before the Fame"
Added: September 17, 2007, 4:32 pm
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A first book of poetry is usually a collection gathered from the poet's entire life output. Not so Steven Price. The Anatomy of Keys is an ambitious project part poetry, part biography and all wonderful. Steven Price talked about his new book at the recent Eden Mills Writers' Festival.
Added: September 18, 2007, 3:01 pm
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The author of the bestselling "Griffon and Sabine" series, Nick Bantock talks about his very sensual book "The Venetian's Wife".
Added: September 22, 2007, 12:13 pm
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Acclaimed photographer Courtney Milne and his parter, writer Sherrill Miller, talk about their follow-up project to the best-selling The Sacred Earth. They combine words and pictures once again in Visions of the Goddess.
Added: September 23, 2007, 12:18 pm
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M.G. Vassanji is a two-time winner of the prestigious Giller Prize for Fiction. He has just been nominated a third time for his new book "The Assassin's Song".
Added: September 23, 2007, 3:47 pm
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Separately they were: Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, Neal Cassady and Allen Ginsberg. Together they were the core members of the literary movement called "The Beats". Author David Creighton takes readers "on the road" to understanding The Ecstasy of the Beats.
Added: September 25, 2007, 12:34 pm
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Anne Szumigalski, the Saskatoon poet and 1995 winner of the Governor General's Award for Poetry, died in 1999. Her editor and literary executor Mark Abley has produced a posthumous collection of new poems When Earth Leaps Up.
Added: September 26, 2007, 11:53 am
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Gail Anderson-Dargatz, best known for her 'British Columbian Gothic' novel The Cure for Death By Lightning, has a new book out. Turtle Valley is threatened by a forest fire coming down the mountain, but the real menace is much closer to home.
Added: September 28, 2007, 9:11 am
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