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The World's Biggest Bookstore is a bookstore owned by Indigo Books and music in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Located at 20 Edward St, just north of the Toronto Eaton Centre, it was unquestionably the biggest bookstore in the world when it first opened in 1980 in a converted bowling alley.
Although it retains the name, the actual world's largest bookstore, according to the Guinness Book of World Records[citation needed], is currently a Barnes and Noble outlet in New York City. Nevertheless World's Biggest Bookstore still claims the title on the basis that it depends on how "biggest" is defined. The Barnes and Noble has more floor space, however World's Biggest Bookstore carries more titles.
Powell's Books, in Portland, Oregon USA, claims that it is the largest "used and new" bookstore in the world, with over one million books on the shelves.
The World's Biggest Bookstore was the first of the book "superstores" and was originally owned by Coles, which was bought along with SmithBooks to create Chapters Inc. Although it retains its unique name, its stock, distribution and advertising are closely integrated with the Chapters and Indigo chains.
It is noted for its cramped spaces and bright lights, with over 20 kilometres of bookshelves. The store particularly focuses on books about computers, the occult, fiction, and children's literature.
The store made a brief appearance in the movie Short Circuit 2 when the main character, a robot named Johnny 5, enters the store and creates chaos as he reads through the books.
The World's Biggest Bookstore is a bookstore owned by Indigo Books and music in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Located at 20 Edward St, just north of the Toronto Eaton Centre, it was unquestionably the biggest bookstore in the world when it first opened in 1980 in a converted bowling alley.
Although it retains the name, the actual world's largest bookstore, according to the Guinness Book of World Records[citation needed], is currently a Barnes and Noble outlet in New York City. Nevertheless World's Biggest Bookstore still claims the title on the basis that it depends on how "biggest" is defined. The Barnes and Noble has more floor space, however World's Biggest Bookstore carries more titles.
Powell's Books, in Portland, Oregon USA, claims that it is the largest "used and new" bookstore in the world, with over one million books on the shelves.
The World's Biggest Bookstore was the first of the book "superstores" and was originally owned by Coles, which was bought along with SmithBooks to create Chapters Inc. Although it retains its unique name, its stock, distribution and advertising are closely integrated with the Chapters and Indigo chains.
It is noted for its cramped spaces and bright lights, with over 20 kilometres of bookshelves. The store particularly focuses on books about computers, the occult, fiction, and children's literature.
The store made a brief appearance in the movie Short Circuit 2 when the main character, a robot named Johnny 5, enters the store and creates chaos as he reads through the books.
Read any good books lately?
LISA F
I like all kinds of books. Just list your favorites, new or old. Give a little bit of the what the story is about and I will give you 10 points.
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Here are some books that I have read this year that I loved...
Favorite New Find
Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon (6 books in all) - Historical Fiction, Romance, Adventure, Time Travel...
Outlander
Author: Gabaldon, Diana
In Scotland with her husband on a second honeymoon after World War II, Claire enters a circle of stones and is transported back to the Battle of Culloden 200 years earlier, where she must marry a Scot to save her husband.
New York: Delacorte Press, 1991, 627 p.
Other's I have loved this year
Lost diary of Don Juan, The: an account of the true arts of passion and the perilous adventure of love, a novel
Author: Abrams, Douglas Carlton
Raised secretly by nuns until he falls in love with one, Don Juan leaves the church and is recruited to be a spy by the powerful Marquis de la Mota, who teaches him to become the world's greatest libertine and seducer of women.
New York: Atria Books, 2007, 320 p.
Blood of flowers, The: a novel
Author: Amirrezvani, Anita
After her father dies without leaving her with a dowry, a seventeenth-century Persian teen becomes a servant to her wealthy rug designer uncle in the court of Shah Abbas the Great, where her weaving talents prove both a blessing and curse.
New York: Little, Brown, 2007, 384 p.
Catering to nobody
Author: Davidson, Diane Mott
Caterer Goldy Bear has been able to pay her bills from the income from her catering business until rat poison is put in the food of her buffet and the police close her business.
St. Martin's Press, 1990, 266 p.
Moon women
Pamela Duncan
Author: Duncan, Pamela, 1961-
Ruth Ann's life is turned upside down when she takes in her elderly mother, her pregnant nineteen-year-old daughter, and her ex-husband, in a story of three generations of women separated by a long-hidden family secret.
New York: Delacorte Press, c2001, 352 p.
Wideacre
Author: Gregory, Philippa
Since Beatrice loves the estate of Wideacre, she plots her father's death in hopes of tempting her weak brother Henry through incest so that she can circumvent the laws of entail.
New York: Pocket Books, copyright 1987, 635 p.
Lost memoirs of Jane Austen, The
Syrie James
New York: Avon Trade, c2008, 352 p.
Fictional account of Jane Austen's romance with a man betrothed to another as written in a diary locked away since her death. Also details her evolution as an author and gives real facts interspersed with the fictional elements.
Historian, The: a novel
Elizabeth Kostova
Author: Kostova, Elizabeth
Discovering a medieval book and a cache of letters, a motherless American girl becomes the latest in a series of historians, including her late father, who investigate the possible surviving legacy of Vlad the Impaler.
New York: Little, Brown and Co., c2005, 656 p.
Rhett Butler's people
Author: McCaig, Donald, 1940-
New York: St. Martin's Press, 2007, 512 p.
Wonderful retelling of Gone With the Wind through the eyes of Rhett Butler. Adds new depth to one's understanding of the time period and the character's as written in the original book.
Nefertiti: a novel
Author: Moran, Michelle
Raised far from the Egyptian court with her sister, Mutnodjmet, the beautiful and ambitious Nefertiti becomes the wife of the radical new pharaoh, Amunhotep, encouraging his plans to overturn Egypt's state religion and making powerful enemies in the process.
New York: Crown Publishers, 2007, 480 p.
Angels all over town
Author: Rice, Luanne
Una Cavan, an actress in soap operas, looks back on her relationship with her father, whose ghost has begun to visit her
Atheneum, 1985, 292p.
Ghostwalk
Author: Stott, Rebecca
When the death of a Cambridge historian leaves her opus on Sir Isaac Newton unfinished, Lydia Brooke is called in to finish the book, only to find herself embroiled in a mystery in which the present becomes entangled with a past based on Newton's life.
New York: Spiegel & Grau, c2007, 320 p.
Also anything by Anita Shreve, Nicholas Sparks, Jennifer Weiner, V.C. Andrew, Helen Fielding, Emily Gifin, Billie Letts, Elizabeth Noble, Anya Seton, or Lauren Weisberger
Here are some books that I have read this year that I loved...
Favorite New Find
Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon (6 books in all) - Historical Fiction, Romance, Adventure, Time Travel...
Outlander
Author: Gabaldon, Diana
In Scotland with her husband on a second honeymoon after World War II, Claire enters a circle of stones and is transported back to the Battle of Culloden 200 years earlier, where she must marry a Scot to save her husband.
New York: Delacorte Press, 1991, 627 p.
Other's I have loved this year
Lost diary of Don Juan, The: an account of the true arts of passion and the perilous adventure of love, a novel
Author: Abrams, Douglas Carlton
Raised secretly by nuns until he falls in love with one, Don Juan leaves the church and is recruited to be a spy by the powerful Marquis de la Mota, who teaches him to become the world's greatest libertine and seducer of women.
New York: Atria Books, 2007, 320 p.
Blood of flowers, The: a novel
Author: Amirrezvani, Anita
After her father dies without leaving her with a dowry, a seventeenth-century Persian teen becomes a servant to her wealthy rug designer uncle in the court of Shah Abbas the Great, where her weaving talents prove both a blessing and curse.
New York: Little, Brown, 2007, 384 p.
Catering to nobody
Author: Davidson, Diane Mott
Caterer Goldy Bear has been able to pay her bills from the income from her catering business until rat poison is put in the food of her buffet and the police close her business.
St. Martin's Press, 1990, 266 p.
Moon women
Pamela Duncan
Author: Duncan, Pamela, 1961-
Ruth Ann's life is turned upside down when she takes in her elderly mother, her pregnant nineteen-year-old daughter, and her ex-husband, in a story of three generations of women separated by a long-hidden family secret.
New York: Delacorte Press, c2001, 352 p.
Wideacre
Author: Gregory, Philippa
Since Beatrice loves the estate of Wideacre, she plots her father's death in hopes of tempting her weak brother Henry through incest so that she can circumvent the laws of entail.
New York: Pocket Books, copyright 1987, 635 p.
Lost memoirs of Jane Austen, The
Syrie James
New York: Avon Trade, c2008, 352 p.
Fictional account of Jane Austen's romance with a man betrothed to another as written in a diary locked away since her death. Also details her evolution as an author and gives real facts interspersed with the fictional elements.
Historian, The: a novel
Elizabeth Kostova
Author: Kostova, Elizabeth
Discovering a medieval book and a cache of letters, a motherless American girl becomes the latest in a series of historians, including her late father, who investigate the possible surviving legacy of Vlad the Impaler.
New York: Little, Brown and Co., c2005, 656 p.
Rhett Butler's people
Author: McCaig, Donald, 1940-
New York: St. Martin's Press, 2007, 512 p.
Wonderful retelling of Gone With the Wind through the eyes of Rhett Butler. Adds new depth to one's understanding of the time period and the character's as written in the original book.
Nefertiti: a novel
Author: Moran, Michelle
Raised far from the Egyptian court with her sister, Mutnodjmet, the beautiful and ambitious Nefertiti becomes the wife of the radical new pharaoh, Amunhotep, encouraging his plans to overturn Egypt's state religion and making powerful enemies in the process.
New York: Crown Publishers, 2007, 480 p.
Angels all over town
Author: Rice, Luanne
Una Cavan, an actress in soap operas, looks back on her relationship with her father, whose ghost has begun to visit her
Atheneum, 1985, 292p.
Ghostwalk
Author: Stott, Rebecca
When the death of a Cambridge historian leaves her opus on Sir Isaac Newton unfinished, Lydia Brooke is called in to finish the book, only to find herself embroiled in a mystery in which the present becomes entangled with a past based on Newton's life.
New York: Spiegel & Grau, c2007, 320 p.
Also anything by Anita Shreve, Nicholas Sparks, Jennifer Weiner, V.C. Andrew, Helen Fielding, Emily Gifin, Billie Letts, Elizabeth Noble, Anya Seton, or Lauren Weisberger
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