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If you’re a book lover (yes, they still exist) you’ve probably shared the experience of finding a bookstore, any bookstore, and walking in with a sigh of delight, nostalgia and sadness. There’s so much going on in the modern bookstore that’s more about us as a society than it is [...]  You won’t hear it said in many publishing houses these days, where those editors and managements who have survived the 10% cull in their numbers following the credit crunch now appear frozen in the headlights of the onrushing digital revolution. But from the point of view of authors, these are potentially exciting [...] Counting my latest, The Miracle Tree, Google says it’s near 130 million. Start reading. Inside Google Books: Books of the world, stand up and be counted! All 129,864,880 of you.. Average consumer, step right up, have I got a deal for you! If you really want to buy The Miracle Tree, my (sporadically funny) novel about a young reporter who gets sent to cover a tree that might make wishes come true, it’s your lucky day. Readers in Vancouver can get it immediately from The People’s [...] Spitting in the face of common sense and economic feasibility, I wrote a novel. It’s called The Miracle Tree. It’s about a tree that might make wishes come true. And also about reality, race, politics, ecology, trees, love, redemption, spirituality, hope and miracles. It’s supposed to be funny. Buy the eco-friendly, plant-saving, guilt-assuaging, electronic version here. Offered [...] You can too judge a book by its cover. Horsemen of the Esophagus: Competitive Eating and the Big Fat American Dream is pretty much all there in the title. It’s an inside look at eating competitions. Not so much the ones with cherubs stuffing their cheeks on country-fair blueberry pies; more on the modern version where [...] |
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