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Monday, October 31, 2005
News

Listen Live to Hay House Radio: Radio for the Soul

HayHouseRadio.com features live broadcasts and call-in shows, and if you’ve missed a program check the archive for streaming audio, downloadable MP3s and podcasts. 

Show hosts include Crystal Andrus, Sylvia Browne, Dr. Wayne W. Dyer, Caroline Myss, Doreen Virtue and many others.

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Friday, October 28, 2005

Raincoast Books is pleased to be working with At Large Media on a podcast for author Jim Lynch and his book The Highest Tide.

Listen to Jim Lynch in this excerpt from the podcast (MP3).

Thirteen-year-old Miles O’Malley is the first person to ever encounter a live giant squid, but it’s not the first or the last of Miles’ discoveries.

I think when the ocean spits interesting stuff up on the beach it might be sending us postcards we don’t know how to read yet.

Enter to win a signed copy of The Highest Tide:
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Thursday, October 27, 2005
News

H.G. Wells’ spellbinding account of an invasion from outer space is now a musical opening at the H.R. MacMillan Planetarium in Vancouver. Runs until Nov. 20. For details visit, www.thewaroftheworlds.ca

Cover image of The War of the WorldsThe War of the Worlds was first published in 1898 and was famously dramatized by Orson Welles in a 1938 radio presentation. A new edition of The War of the Worlds is available with illustrations by Edward Gorey.

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Monday, October 24, 2005
Blogging

Welcome to the Raincoast Books blog. Template changes and posts to come.

A special thanks to the fine folks at Hop Studios who helped sort out some install glitches, as well as the moderators and supporters in the Expression Engine community forums. Biggest thanks to the support guys at Nexcess.net who performed the final miracles to get us up and running.

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