Yawn's Books & More...Your Downtown Canton Independent Book Store!

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January News

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The New Year has arrived and with it many exciting new books at Yawn's Books & More. We look forward to serving you!

This year we'll be continuing our Monthly Book Club. Our group meets on the third Thursday of each month and is a fun group!

Nothing greets this cold weather as a warm place to enjoy a great book!

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Events at Yawn's Books & More!

2009-08-17T05:49:00.001-07:00

Wedding Bells are Ringing....

We introduce to you Mr. and Mrs. Farris Yawn, owners of Yawn's Books

(Who were married December 5th, 2009)

Welcome to Yawn's Books & More in the heart of downtown Canton, Georgia! We are an Independent Book Seller and proud to be your neighborhood bookstore! Come in, make yourselves at home, and enjoy reading with us! Yawn's Books seeks to be your family's book store. Featuring next day book orders, an Ice Cream Shoppe, and a full range of personalized service, Yawn's wants to be your local and on-line source for all your reading materials!

Special Orders

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Yawn's Books & More provides next-day ordering services for clients. We will gladly order any book not in stock and have it available "next day" at no extra charge. If you need assistance in having a book ordered for you please contact us:

By Phone: 1-678-880-1922 Fax: 1-678-880-1923

or by email at: fyawn@yawnsbooks.com

or come by our store at 210 East Main Street in Canton, Georgia

We'll look forward to serving you!

Book Keeping

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Special Offers:

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Our Authors

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Rebecca Johnston

Newspaper columnist and local writer Rebecca Johnston is a Cherokee County native and former managing editor of the Cherokee Tribune. For more than a decade in the 1980s and 1990s she was a reporter and editor at the county newspaper. For the last eight years she has been a local columnist for the Cherokee Tribune and has won several Georgia Press Association awards for her writing, including the 2007 First Place Award for Serious Columnist. Growing up in the Canton of the 1960s flavors her writings with a wonderful sense of times past. A graduate of Cherokee High School and the University of Georgia, during her career she has also hosted local radio shows and appeared on cable television news and programming. She and her husband, Harry Johnston, live in historic Canton. They have two grown children.

Gene McSweeney

Gene McSweeney is a writer, a private counselor and a former professor of interpersonal relationships. He is married and lives with his wife, Nancy, and two adopted cats in Northern Georgia.

Jane Stringfellow Haydn

Jane is a nurse and a freelance writer residing in Canton, Georgia with her husband, Mike. Together they parent four children: Becky, Jamye, Lauren and Michael. She is the proud grandmother of Olivia Jane and Corinne. Her work has been published in Nursing 2005 and Nursing 2007. She has won various contests for both her poems and short stories. Currently, she is working on a book, God’s Waiting Room, a collection of inspiring short stories and practical knowledge dealing with nursing home placement.

Publishing

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Yawn's Publishing offers high quality publishing services for authors, speakers, and organizations. It is our goal to provide efficient, economical ways for authors to be published. Yawn's Publishing is proud of our authors and is able to assist authors with a product they can be proud to share with family, friends, and clients

About Us

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Yawn's Bookkeeping

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Yawn's Publishing

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Yawns's Publishing is a full service publishing house located in Canton, Georgia. Our goal is to publish quality books for authors

About Us

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