September news from PG Canada

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Here's the news from PG Canada for September.

We published a total of 13 ebooks during the month: we have now=20
published a cumulative total of 177 ebooks.

The New Releases section at the top of the PGC main page always=20
gives the details of new releases for the most recent three months.

LANGUAGES:
- 5 titles were in English
- 8 were in French

GENRES
- 7 of the books were novels (the 7 ebooks represented 5 novels,=20
since we published Henry Gr=E9ville's "Les Koumiassine" in two parts,=20
and followed the same course with "Le moulin Frappier").
- 1 was a children's book
- 1 was a collection of poems
- 1 was an issue of a literary magazine
- 3 were non-fiction: a collection of essays, a book of history, and=20
a biography

One of PG Canada's objectives is to have a strong collection of=20
ebooks in French.  We were delighted that this month an actual=20
majority of the new titles we offered are in French!

Five of this month's ebooks were by Canadians.

One of the highlights of the month was the completion of our=20
collection of major works by the eminent novelist, poet, dramatist,=20
and translator Pamphile Le May (1837-1918): we now offer no fewer=20
than 18 of his works.

We published four novels in our continuing series of novels by Henry=20
Gr=E9ville (1842-1902).

Authors and illustrators new to PGC this month included:

Charlesworth, Hector Willoughby (1872-1945) [Canadian journalist and=20
essayist]
Garneau, Fran=E7ois-Xavier (1809-1866) [Historien et po=E8te canadien]
Graham, George Rex (1813-1894) [Publisher]

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Thanks as ever for your support!


Mark Akrigg

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