PG Canada - *May* news summary (fwd)

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Here is the news from PG Canada for May.

We published a total of 18 ebooks during the month: we have now published a=
 cumulative total of 325 ebooks.

The New Releases section at the top of the PGC main page always gives the d=
etails of new releases for the most recent three months.

LANGUAGES:
- 15 in English
- 3 in French

GENRES

- 7 novels
- 4 history books
- 2 cookbooks
- 1 book of essays
- 1 dictionary
- 1 book of poetry
- 1 personal journal
- 1 children's book

8 of this month's ebooks were by Canadians or had a connection to Canada.

9 of this month's titles were fiction, and 9 were non-fiction.

April saw the posting of two further titles by the famous English novelist =
and essayist Arnold Bennett (1867-1931), courtesy of Distributed Proofreade=
rs Europe.

May was notable for the posting of our first titles by the famous missionar=
y, explorer, historian, and linguist Adrien-Gabriel Morice (1859-1938), cel=
ebrated in the annals of British Columbia, and of the Canadian historian Er=
nest Alexander Cruikshank (1854-1939).

Authors new to PGC this month included:

Bennet, Robert Ames (1870-1954) [American novelist]
Bosse, Sara [n=E9e Eaton] (1868-1940) [Canadian author] and Watanna, Onoto =
[Reeve, Winnifred Eaton: n=E9e Eaton, Winnifred] (1875-1954) [Canadian nove=
list]
Boucher-Belleville, Jean-Philippe [Jean-Baptiste] (1800-1874) [Journaliste =
canadien]
Cody, Hiram Alfred (1872-1948) [Canadian priest, novelist, and biographer]
Cruikshank, Ernest Alexander (1854-1939) [Canadian historian]
Dionne, Narcisse-Eutrope (1848-1917) [Historien, lexicographe et biblioth=
=E9caire canadien]
Hodgson, William Hope (1877-1918) [English novelist and poet]
Isle, June (active around 1864) [American children's author]
Lighthall, William Douw (1857-1954) [Canadian lawyer, politician, historian=
, novelist, philosopher, and poet]
Monck, Frances Elizabeth Owen (d. 1919) [Irish memoirist]
Morice, Adrien-Gabriel (1859-1938) [Missionnaire, explorateur, ethnologue e=
t lexicographe canadien]
O'Duffy, Eimar Ultan (1893-1935) [Irish playwright, novelist, and economist=
]
Wallace, Edgar [Wallace, Richard Horatio Edgar] (1875-1932) [English noveli=
st, playwright, and screenplay writer]

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Thanks as ever for your support!

Mark
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