PG Canada - January news

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Dear Michael:

Here is the news from PG Canada for January.

We published a total of 23 ebooks during the month: we have now published=
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cumulative total of 251 ebooks.

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

LANGUAGES:
- 17 in English
- 5 in French
- 1 in German

GENRES
- 9 novels
- 2 biographies
- 2 instructional manuals
- 2 books for children
- 2 books of drawings
- 1 book of music criticism
- 1 history book
- 1 technical monograph
- 1 personal journal
- 1 collections of essays
- 1 play

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

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

The month featured a very wide variety of ebooks.  We published our first=
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Tieck's translation into German of Shakespeare's "The Tempest".  We also=20
published the first of the two volumes of O. D. Skelton's massive biograp=
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Canadian prime minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier, one of Canada's most celebra=
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political biographies.

Authors new to PGC this month included:

Brazil, Angela (1868-1947) [English novelist]
F=E9val, Paul (1816-1887) [Romancier fran=E7ais]
Foster, Robert Frederick (1853-1945) [Scottish authority on card games]
Lambert, Leonard Constant (1905-1951) [English composer and conductor]
Legendre, Napol=E9on (1841-1907) [Journaliste canadien]
Lyall, Edna [Bayly, Ada Ellen] (1857-1903) [English novelist]
McIlwraith, Jean Newton (1859-1938) [Canadian author and editor]
Melville, Frederick John (1882-1940) [British philatelist]
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) [English playwright and poet]
Tieck, Johann Ludwig (1773-1853) [German novelist and poet / romancier et=
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allemand]

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Thanks as ever for your support!

Mark

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