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Munro's Books is a large independent bookstore in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Munro's has a staff of 30 and a large children's book section. The store celebrated its 50th anniversary in September 2013. Since 1984, the store has been located in downtown Victoria in a neo-classical building (Royal Bank Building) with a 24-foot (7.3 m) coffered ceiling, designed in 1909 for the Royal Bank of Canada by architect Thomas Hooper. Munro's Books has been described by journalist Allan Fotheringham as "the most magnificent bookstore in Canada, possibly in North America."

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  • Munro's Books (en)
  • 孟若書店 (zh)
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  • 孟若書店是加拿大的一間大型獨立書店，位於卑詩省維多利亞，一座原加拿大皇家銀行擁有，建於1909年的新古典主義建築內。書店於1963年由吉姆·孟若及其第一任妻子2013年諾貝爾文學獎得主艾麗斯·孟洛共同創辦。書店曾經被加拿大記者評為北美洲最美的書店"。吉姆決定於2014年退休，書店亦會易主。 (zh)
  • Munro's Books is a large independent bookstore in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Munro's has a staff of 30 and a large children's book section. The store celebrated its 50th anniversary in September 2013. Since 1984, the store has been located in downtown Victoria in a neo-classical building (Royal Bank Building) with a 24-foot (7.3 m) coffered ceiling, designed in 1909 for the Royal Bank of Canada by architect Thomas Hooper. Munro's Books has been described by journalist Allan Fotheringham as "the most magnificent bookstore in Canada, possibly in North America." (en)
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  • Munro's Books (en)
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  • Victoria, British Columbia (en)
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  • Munro's Books entrance, 2012 (en)
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  • Jim Munro and Alice Munro (en)
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  • Munro's Books is a large independent bookstore in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Munro's has a staff of 30 and a large children's book section. The store celebrated its 50th anniversary in September 2013. Since 1984, the store has been located in downtown Victoria in a neo-classical building (Royal Bank Building) with a 24-foot (7.3 m) coffered ceiling, designed in 1909 for the Royal Bank of Canada by architect Thomas Hooper. Munro's Books has been described by journalist Allan Fotheringham as "the most magnificent bookstore in Canada, possibly in North America." The store was founded in 1963 by Jim Munro and his first wife Alice Munro, the 2013 Nobel Prize-winning short-story writer; at the start, its stock was mostly paperbacks. According to Jim Munro, Alice Munro began to write after reading some of the bookstore's stock and deciding angrily that "I can write better books than this." Although Alice Munro has not had any relation to the bookstore for decades, the store still receives fan and press calls asking for her. Textile artist Carole Sabiston, Jim Munro's second wife, created the tapestries that decorate the bookstore. (en)
  • 孟若書店是加拿大的一間大型獨立書店，位於卑詩省維多利亞，一座原加拿大皇家銀行擁有，建於1909年的新古典主義建築內。書店於1963年由吉姆·孟若及其第一任妻子2013年諾貝爾文學獎得主艾麗斯·孟洛共同創辦。書店曾經被加拿大記者評為北美洲最美的書店"。吉姆決定於2014年退休，書店亦會易主。 (zh)
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