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2008 Awards

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2008 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Illustrated Books

2008 Governor General’s Literary Award – Young People’s Literature — Illustrated Books Winner and Nominees

2008 Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Illustrated Books WinnerThe Owl and the PussycatStéphane JorischAfter a courtship voyage of a year and a day, the owl and the pussycat finally buy a ring from Piggy and are blissfully married, in this illustrated version of Lears nonsense poem....Amazon2008 Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Illustrated Books ShortlistMy Letter to the World and Other PoemsIsabelle ArsenaultAmazonShin-chi’s CanoeKim LaFaveAmazonThe Emperor’s Second Hand ClothesJosée BisaillonAmazonYellow Moon, Apple MoonMatt JamesAmazon
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2008 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Drama

2008 Governor General’s Literary Award – Drama Winner and Nominees

2008 Governor General's Literary Award - Drama WinnerBone CageCatherine BanksJamie is twenty-two years old and works twelve-hour shifts operating a wood processor, clear-cutting for pulp. At the end of each shift, he walks through the destruction he has created looking for injured birds and animals and rescues those he can. Jamies...Amazon2008 Governor General's Literary Award - Drama Shortlist10 Days on EarthRonnie BurkettAmazonCopper ThunderbirdMarie ClementsAmazonPalace of the EndJudith ThompsonAmazonReverend JonahPaul CiufoAmazon
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2008 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction

2008 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction Winner and Nominees

2008 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction WinnerThe Origin of SpeciesNino RicciWinner of the 2008 Governor Generals Award for Fiction Montreal during the turbulent mid-1980s: Chernobyl has set Geiger counters thrumming across the globe, HIV/AIDS is cutting a deadly swath through the gay population worldwide, and locally, tempers are...Amazon2008 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction ShortlistAtmospheric DisturbancesRivka GalchenAmazonCockroachRawi HageAmazonThe Great KarooFred StensonAmazonThe Lost HighwayDavid Adams RichardsAmazon
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2008 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction

2008 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction Winner and Nominees

2008 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction WinnerFifteen Days: Stories of Bravery, Friendship, Life and Death from Inside the New Canadian ArmyChristie BlatchfordLong before she made her first trip to Afghanistan as an embedded reporter for The Globe and Mail, Christie Blatchford was already one of Canadas most respected and eagerly read journalists. Her vivid prose, her unmistakable voice, her ability to connect ...Amazon2008 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction ShortlistAn Imperfect Offering: Humanitarian Action in the Twenty-first CenturyJames OrbinskiAmazonGod’s Mercies. Rivalry, Betrayal and the Dream of DiscoveryDouglas HunterAmazonThe Black Grizzly of Whiskey CreekSid MartyAmazonThe Geography of Hope: A Tour of the World We NeedChris TurnerAmazon
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2008 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry

2008 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry Winner and Nominees

2008 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry WinnerMore to Keep Us WarmJacob ScheierBoth chronicle and confrontation, the poems of Jacob Scheiers debut work out and through notions of loss. As the death of a young mans mother instigates and informs these investigations, the realities of romantic failures become inextricably connected, a...Amazon2008 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry ShortlistAide-MémoireRuth Roach PiersonAmazonNoise from the LaundryWeyman ChanAmazonThe Invisibility ExhibitSachiko MurakamiAmazonThe SentinelA. F. MoritzAmazon
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2008 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Translation

2008 Governor General’s Literary Award – Translation (French to English) Winner and Nominees

2008 Governor General's Literary Award - Translation (French to English) WinnerNikolskiLazer LederhendlerThis is a story of three characters--Noah, Joyce, and the anonymous narrator--as each leave their far-flung birthplaces to follow their own personal songs of migration. All three end up in Montreal, each on his or her voyage of selfdiscovery, each compell...Amazon2008 Governor General's Literary Award - Translation (French to English) ShortlistBeatitudesJo-Anne ElderAmazonOrfeoFred A. ReedAmazonThe Making of the Nations and Cultures of the New WorldPaul Leduc Browne and Michelle WeinrothAmazonThe Postman’s RoundLiedewy HawkeAmazon
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2008 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Text

2008 Governor General’s Literary Award – Young People’s Literature — Text Winner and Nominees

2008 Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Text WinnerThe LandingJohn IbbitsonAfter the Great Depression, Ben, who sneaks in violin practice between chores, gets a job fixing up an old cottage on nearby Pine Island where he is introduced to a world of wealth that makes him desperate to escape Cooks Landing....Amazon2008 Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Text ShortlistChild of DandelionsShenaaz NanjiAmazonLibertadAlma FullertonAmazonShimmerdogsDianne LindenAmazonSkimMariko TamakiAmazon
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2008 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, British Science Fiction Association, BSFA - Novel

2008 BSFA – Novel Winner and Nominees

2008 BSFA - Novel WinnerBrasylIan McDonaldThis is rich, epic SF that opens our eyes to the world around us and posits mind-blowing alternative sciences. It is a landmark work in modern SF from one of its most respected practitioners....Amazon2008 BSFA - Novel ShortlistAlice in SunderlandBryan TalbotAmazonBlack ManRichard MorganAmazonThe Execution ChannelKen MacLeodAmazonThe PrefectAlastair ReynoldsAmazonThe Yiddish Policemen's UnionMichael ChabonAmazon
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2008 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Costa Book Award, Costa Book Award - Novel

2008 Costa Book Award – Novel Winner and Nominees

2008 Costa Book Award - Novel WinnerThe Secret ScriptureSebastian BarryNearing her one-hundredth birthday, Roseanne McNulty faces an uncertain future, as the Roscommon Regional Mental hospital where she's spent the best part of her adult life prepares for closure. Over the weeks leading up to this upheaval, she talks often wi...Amazon2008 Costa Book Award - Novel ShortlistA Partisan's DaughterLouis de BernieresAmazonThe Other HandChris CleaveAmazonTraumaPatrick McGrathAmazon
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2008 Awards, All Book Awards, August Derleth Award - Horror Novel, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, British Fantasy Awards

2008 British Fantasy Awards – August Derleth Award – Horror Novel Winner and Nominees

2008 British Fantasy Awards - August Derleth Award - Horror Novel WinnerThe Grin of the DarkRamsey CampbellOnce upon a time Tubby Thackeray's silent comedies were hailed as the equal of Chaplin's and Keaton's, but now his name has been deleted from the history of the cinema. Some of his music-hall performances before he went to Hollywood were riotously controve...Amazon2008 British Fantasy Awards - August Derleth Award - Horror Novel ShortlistHeart-Shaped BoxJoe HillAmazonThe IntrudersMichael MarshallAmazonThe ServantsMichael Marshall SmithAmazonThe TakenSarah PinboroughAmazonThe TerrorDan SimmonsAmazon
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