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Enhance your book club experience with reading guides designed to get your book club talking
When your book club gets together, it's all about the book (okay, and the wine). We want to help you make the most out of your meetings with reading guides, author interviews, contests, and more! Sign up for our new book club newsletter, The Art of Book Club Maintenance, for goodies, tips, and freebies for your club.
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 WIN A SET OF FAR TO GO FOR YOUR BOOK CLUB!
Inspired by the harrowing five-year journey Alison Pick's own
grandparents embarked upon from their native Czechoslovakia to Canada
during the Second World War, Far to Go is an epic historical
novel that traces one family's journey through these tumultuous and
traumatic events. A layered, beautifully written, moving, and
suspenseful story by one of our rising literary stars.
In stores this week, this hotly anticipated novel is the perfect book club selection. To enter to win five copies of Far to Go for your book club, reply to this email telling us your favourite book your book club has read. The winning book club will be chosen at random at 12 pm EST on September 1st, 2010. Canadian residents only please, excluding Quebec.
For more about Far to Go and Alison Pick: pick up the September issue of Quill and Quire for a cover story on Alison Pick, join the Facebook page for Far to Go, and follow Alison on Twitter!
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Our latest paperback picks for book clubs everywhere:
 Lisa Moore's February has been a favourite book club pick since it came out last year. The story of a woman who is left behind when her husband dies in the 1982 Ocean Ranger oil rig disaster, book clubs have embraced the themes of love, loss, and loneliness in this profoundly moving novel. Recently longlisted for the prestigious 2010 Man Booker Prize and the 2010 ReLit Awards, the buzz around February continues to grow.
"If you read only one book this year, let it be February, Lisa Moore's astonishing novel."
-- Chronicle Herald
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 Zoe Whittall's Holding Still For As Long As Possible has resonated with audiences of all ages. In both high school and adult book clubs, readers are connecting with Whittall's expertly crafted portrait of a group of twenty-somethings coping with anxiety, relationships, and life after SARS and Hurricane Katrina. This exciting contemporary novel was recently longlisted for the 2010 ReLit Awards. ". . . Whittall is a dexterous puppeteer, and the book is unputdownable." -- Globe and Mail***
 Emily Schultz's Heaven is Small stars Gordon Small, a slacker and failed fiction writer who has failed to notice that he is recently deceased. He begins working in the "limbo" that is the Heaven Book Company, the world's largest romance publisher, where things are sort of . . . odd. This profound and humorous novel earnestly explores the human condition and encourages book clubs to really look at what it means to be truly alive. Heaven is Small was recently shortlisted for the Trillium Book Award.
". . . captivating . . . hilarious . . . seems tailor-made for a Hollywood adaptation."
-- Flare
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