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Margaret Atwood has announced plans to launch her new novel, The Year of the Flood, simultaneously at Word on The Street festivals in Halifax, Toronto and Vancouver on September 27.

Read more about this at The National Post.

Looking for other books by Margaret Atwood be sure to check out our website. We have many of her titles currently in stock.

Bluebeard’s Egg

Bodily Harm

Cat’s Eye

Lady Oracle

and more!!

On May 27, 2009 Alice Munro won the Man Booker International Prize.  The Man Booker International Prize is awarded once every two years.  Alice Munro is best known for her short stores and is one of Canada’s most celebrated writers.

Alice Munro has written many books, many of which have won Book awards.

• Dance of the Happy Shades – 1968 (winner of the 1968 Governor General’s Award for Fiction)
• Lives of Girls and Women – 1971
• Something I’ve Been Meaning to Tell You – 1974
• Who Do You Think You Are? – 1978 (winner of the 1978 Governor General’s Award for Fiction)
• The Moons of Jupiter – 1982 (nominated for a Governor General’s Award)
• The Progress of Love – 1986 (winner of the 1986 Governor General’s Award for Fiction)
• Friend of My Youth – 1990 (winner of the Trillium Book Award)
• Open Secrets – 1994 (nominated for a Governor General’s Award)
• Selected Stories – 1996
• The Love of a Good Woman – 1998 (winner of the 1998 Giller Prize)
• Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage – 2001
• No Love Lost – 2003
• Vintage Munro – 2004
• Runaway – 2004 (winner of the 2004 Giller Prize) ISBN 1-4000-4281-X
• The View from Castle Rock – 2006
• Too Much Happiness – 2009

Currently we have two books by Alice Munro:

Friend of My Youth by Munro, Alice

The Love of a Good Woman by Munro, Alice

I received my Mysteries.ca newsletter the other day and their is an article in it about Gail Bowen accepting an invitation to be the writer in residence at the Toronto Public Library, from May 1 to June 30 this year.

Gail Bowen resides in Regina, Saskatchewan and is well known for her Joanne Kilbourn mysteries.  Her first book in the series was Deadly Appearances (1990). Several of her mysteries have been made into TV movies starring Wendy Crewson as Joanne.

If you are interested in reading some of Gail Bowen’s mysteries you can find a few at our website.

A Colder Kind of Death: A Joanne Kilbourne Mystery by Bowen, Gail

A Killing Spring by Bowen, Gail

Verdict in Blood by Bowen, Gail

The Last Good Day [A Joanne Kilbourn Mystery] by Bowen, Gail

If you would like to win free books and are a Canadian resident, be sure to visit the Mysteries.ca website and enter their current contest.

Exciting news. We have just finished transfering all our blog posts from our old Blogger blog to a new Wordpress blog.  We hope you like the new look.

We have big plans for our new blog. We plan on posting to the blog more frequently about our Book Club selections, newly listed titles, recently sold books, and current book sales we are running. Also, we are working on a Glossary page for book terms.

Be sure to drop by soon and see what’s new on our blog.

This is a follow-up on our last post about the CPSIA and childrens books. Apparently the CPSIA has granted a one year stay of testing and certification requirements for certain Products. Read the announcement about this here. Also there is an article in The Houston Chronicle about this.

There is still no word on an Exemption for books. You can read more about this here.

As well Libraries and Schools are still in suspense about the regulations. Read more about this here and here.

For the latest news on this issue be sure to check the CPSIA website.

I just finished answering an inquiry from a customer on The Beginners Bible New Testament: Timeless Children’s Stories.

While looking through this book I remembered that effective February 10, 2009 any product (including books) intended for children 12 years or under must be tested and meet the new lead limits as set out in The Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA). and if not will no longer be allowed to be imported or sold in the United States. This new Law requires lead testing for all products for children 12 years or under and this includes books. Also, this law is retroactive, which means it covers any and all chlidren books, no matter when published.

If you have not heard of this new law, you are not alone, many people are unaware of it. To learn more about The Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA) click here.

How does this affect us at Trylinski Books?. It basically means that we may no longer be able to sell to customers in the United States any books intended for children 12 years or under.

According to a recent News Release from the CPSC …”The new safety law does not require resellers to test childrens products in inventory for compliance with the lead limit before they are sold. However, resellers cannot sell childrens products that exceed the lead limit and therefore should avoid products that are likely to have lead content, unless they have testing or other information to indicate the products being sold have less than the new limit. Those resellers that do sell products in violation of the new limits could face civil and/or criminal penalties.“

The above News Release points out that we can resell products (books) without having them tested, but if it is found that the product (books) have lead limits that exceed the new limits set out in the CPSIA, then we could face civil and/or criminal penalties.

Here at Trylinski Books, we are waiting to see if Books will be made exempt from the CPSIA, but if they are not, then we will have to decide if we are going to remove all our books intended for children under 12 years of age OR somehow identify which books will or will not be available for shipment to the United States.

Links to more information about the CPSIA

• Read the Legislation here.
• Visit the Consumer Product Safety Act Website for updates and news.
• January 8, 2009 Release from the CPSC Clarifying Requirements of New Children’s Product Safety Laws……
• Article on the AASL Blog “CPSIA Law…..Librarians are Making Their Voices Heard..”
• Sorry, books you are not exempt from CPSC general counsel
• Book Burning on Feb 10th, 2009 due to CPSIA article on the Bookshop Blog.

Currently our Children’s Books are on sale for up to 50% off. Read more about the sale here.

Recently our Web Designer Lee Robertson, operator of LGR Internet Solutions (formerly LGR Computer Services) was interviewed on BloggerTalks about Blogging and SEO. In this interview, they discuss the differences between a blog and a website, why blogs are valued so highly with regards to SEO and more.

Blogging is a very popular method of communicating on the internet these days, and here at Trylinski Books we use our blog to inform our customers about new featured books, new books added and to highlight other books in our store. If you have not done blogging before, LGR Internet Solutions can help you with this.

If you are interested in starting a Blog or creating a website for your small business, we recommend that you check out his site LGR Internet Solutions and contact him about your needs.

Recently, we having been receiving inquiries from customers asking “how do we purchase a book on your website?”.

To purchase a book on our website, first search by Author, Title, ISBN or Keyword to find the book that you are looking for. Once you have found that book, click on the Title name and a new screen with come up showing you an image of the book and description. If this is the book that you would like to order, then click on “Add to Basket”. After you have done that click on “View Basket”

Now, you will be taken to our checkout, where you can decide if you want to pay by PayPal (Visa, Mastercard, Discover or American Express) or if you want to pay by cheque/check or international money order.

If you want to use our checkout and pay by PayPal or credit card, then Select your Country and also your shipping preference (surface or air) and then click on “Checkout”. When you click on Checkout, a new window or tab should open taking you to PayPal’s secure server where you can see our name “Trylinski Books” , the book title and the Total with Shipping at the top of the screen. If you have a PayPal account then sign in using your email and password. If you are not a PayPal member, then enter your billing information, etc. Remember, you do not need to be a member of PayPal to pay with a credit card.

If you prefer to pay by cheque/check or International Money Order, then add the book you would like to the basket (as explained above), and then complete the form entitled “Order by Cheque or Money Order”. After we receive your order we will send you an email with payment instructions. It would be helpful if you could indicate whether you want surface or air mail shipping in the Additional Information part of this form.

Other News!!!

We are now set up to accept Visa and Mastercard payments, so if you do not wish to provide your credit card information on the internet, fill out the “Order by Cheque or Money Order” form and indicate in the “additional information” section that you wish to pay by Visa or Mastercard and then give us a call and provide us with your credit card information. You can find our contact information under the Contact Us tab at the top of the screen.

This weeks Tip!!

Before calling us, please check to see what time it is here in Saskatchewan. You can do this by doing a search on Google - Time in Saskatchewan, Canada. Google will then show you what time it is here.

Happy Reading!!

Further to our post of July 16, 2008, we can now report that the Invoicing problem we were having with PayPal has now been resolved. We can now access our invoice templates as well as create new ones.

We would remind our customers that if you have ordered a book from us and have not gone through checkout, please follow the payment instructions we provide in our email. If you have not received an email from us within 24 hours of your order, please be sure to contact us and/or check your SPAM folder as sometimes our emails are directed to SPAM by some email providers.

Thank you!

It has been a very frustrating week here at Trylinski Books. We rely on PayPal quite a bit, as many other small internet businesses do, and this week we have been unable to send custom invoices to our customers. Our PayPal Invoice templates will not load and we are unable to create new invoices on PayPal.

If you order a book from us and go through our check-out, your payments are being received.

If you have ordered one of our books from one of the other sites we list on or have not gone through our check-out, we will be sending you an email with your order details and our payment instructions. Please follow the instructions in our email to pay for your order.

Let’s hope that PayPal can get this problem fixed soon!!