Anne book could fetch record price
CBC.ca (Free subscription) | yesterday
A first-run edition of Anne of Green Gables is expected to bring a record price at a Sotheby's auction next week.
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Queen Anne Books benefit Book Fair (for glorious benefit of McClure Middle School et al)
Metroblogging Seattle (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
Tomorrow at Queen Anne Books (1811 Queen Anne Avenue N, i.e. on the west sidewalk just north of Blaine), the store is holding a Book Fair from 3:00 to 5:30 pm to benefit McClure Middle School: 20% of every purchase made at the fair will be donated to the school. For your entertainment, school [...]
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Queen Anne Books' best sellers
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Local authors Sherman Alexie and Timothy Egan are among the top sellers at Queen Anne Books.
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Revisiting Anne
Of Books and Bicycles (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
I’m deep in the middle of the semester now, and in need of shorter books and lighter reading, since my time is limited and when I do have time, I often don’t have energy. So I thought I’d continue my reread of the Anne of Green Gables series, which I began over a year ago [...]
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Reading Tonight: A Popular Local Author and Some Real Stinkers
Slog (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
There's a lot going on tonight. Some of it is good. Stephen Majeski is up in the U District, giving a lecture titled U.S. Foreign Policy in Perspective: Clients, Enemies and Empire . Elsewhere in the U District, at University Book Store to be precise, Brian Brett reads from his book Trauma Farm: A Rebel History of Rural Life . It's about one day on his farm, which is for some reason...
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Reading Tonight: Stacey Levine, Lesley Hazleton, and More
Slog (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
... I hope you'll join me. Besides that, you have some great choices tonight. Dave Boling is at Queen Anne Books. Guernica is a " multigenerational family saga " set mostly during the Spanish Civil War, which, as we all know from Pan's Labyrinth , was a barrel of laughs. In other literary novels, Jennie Shortridge is at Third Place Books tonight. When She...
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The Eleventh Hour of the Eleventh Day of the Eleventh Month
Scheiss Weekly (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
... I know about World War I from reading L.M. Montgomery’s Rilla of Ingleside , and yes, it’s another Anne book; this one is mostly about Anne and Gilbert’s daughter Rilla. I cry every time I read it, even though I know what’s going to happen. You’ll cry, too. This book was written eighteen years before Anne of Ingleside , which takes place when the children are...