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	<description>Author of The Life of Helen Betty Osborne, 7 Generations, and Sugar Falls</description>
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		<title>Sugar Falls is a #1 Best-Seller</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sugar Falls: A Residential School Story, has been the number one best-seller at McNally Robinson Booksellers for two straight weeks in their books for young people category. The launch for Sugar Falls contributed. A packed house snatched up all the copies, leaving McNally with a sold-out book that they hopefully re-ordered right away! I cannot [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.darobertson.ca/2012/02/06/sugar-falls-is-a-1-best-seller/</link>
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		<title>Sugar Falls Book Launch!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Please join HighWater Press, The Helen Betty Osborne Foundation, and McNally Robinson Booksellers with Author David Alexander Robertson (me!) and Illustrator Scott B. Henderson&#8230; A BOOK LAUNCH FOR SUGAR FALLS: A RESIDENTIAL SCHOOL STORY DATE: Thursday, January 26, 2012 TIME: Reading at 7:30pm, Reception and Book Signing to follow PLACE: McNally Robinson Booksellers, Prairie Ink [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.darobertson.ca/2012/01/22/sugar-falls-book-launch/</link>
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		<title>Sugar Falls: A Residential School Story coming soon&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My upcoming graphic novel, based on a survivor&#8217;s account of their residential school experience, is coming in December. Sugar Falls, named after an area on the way from Cross Lake to Norway House, is a story that will hopefully reach and teach many about the residential school system. Tweet]]></description>
		<link>http://www.darobertson.ca/2011/11/11/sugar-falls-a-residential-school-story-coming-soon/</link>
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		<title>Manitoba Reads Crowns Winning Book</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Manitoba Reads wrapped up on Saturday, September 24, 2011. Gabrielle Roy&#8217;s &#8216;Where Nests the Water Hen&#8217; finished first in the competition. A well-deserved win. David Alexander Robertson&#8217;s The Life of Helen Betty Osborne finished an amazing 2nd place, and won the audience choice award! A great job was done by Vincent Ho in defending David&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.darobertson.ca/2011/09/30/manitoba-reads-crowns-winning-book/</link>
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		<title>Thin Air Opening Night Reading a Hit!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Opening Night Review Check out the blog post reviewing the opening night of Thin Air, The Winnipeg International Writer&#8217;s Festival. Excerpt: &#8220;First of five authors is David Alexander Robertson, renowned for his graphic novels: a stand-alone biography of Helen Betty Osborne; and a series about residential schools and their effects, called Seven Generations. He is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.darobertson.ca/2011/09/22/thin-air-opening-night-reading-a-hit/</link>
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		<title>Selected for the top 4 of Manitoba Reads!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re in the final round! The Life of Helen Betty Osborne, my first graphic novel, was first selected as one of 16 books for the first ever Manitoba Reads competition. It was then voted into the top 8 by the public. It has now been selected to be in the final 4 by one of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.darobertson.ca/2011/08/28/selected-for-the-top-4-of-manitoba-reads/</link>
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		<title>Story on David in the Metro/Times</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Click here to check out a story on David in the Winnipeg Free Press Communities paper Metro and The Times! Tweet]]></description>
		<link>http://www.darobertson.ca/2011/07/28/story-on-david-in-the-metrotimes/</link>
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		<title>The Life of Helen Betty Osborne in early lead for MB Reads</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Life of Helen Betty Osborne has opened up an early lead in the first ever Manitoba Reads Battle of the Books, which is being put on by cbc&#8217;s Manitoba Scene and Thin Air. Keep voting!!!! Vote here. Tweet]]></description>
		<link>http://www.darobertson.ca/2011/07/13/the-life-of-helen-betty-osborne-in-early-lead-for-mb-reads/</link>
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		<title>The Life of Helen Betty Osborne to battle!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the spirit of Canada Reads, Canada&#8217;s biggest battle of the books, CBC Manitoba is proud to present Manitoba Reads, in partnership with McNally Robinson Booksellers and the Winnipeg International Writers Festival. The long list of sixteen books by Manitoba authors is up, and one of my books, THE LIFE OF HELEN BETTY OSBORNE, is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.darobertson.ca/2011/07/08/the-life-of-helen-betty-osborne-to-do-battle/</link>
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		<title>Story on my upcoming appearance in Moose Jaw</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Read it here. Tweet]]></description>
		<link>http://www.darobertson.ca/2011/06/16/story-on-my-upcoming-appearance-in-moose-jaw/</link>
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