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2013 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction

2013 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction Winner and Nominees

2013 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction WinnerThe LuminariesEleanor CattonThe bestselling, Man Booker Prize-winning novel hailed as "a true achievement. Catton has built a lively parody of a 19th-century novel, and in so doing created a novel for the 21st, something utterly new. The pages fly."--New York Times Book Review It is ...Amazon2013 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction ShortlistA Beautiful TruthColin McAdamAmazonThe Hungry GhostsShyam SelvaduraiAmazonThe Lion SeekerKenneth BonertAmazonThe OrendaJoseph BoydenAmazon

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2013 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction

2013 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction Winner and Nominees

2013 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction WinnerJourney with No Maps: A Life of P.K. PageSandra DjwaPoet, traveller, artist, and mystic - the story of one extraordinary womans many lives....Amazon2013 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction ShortlistProjection: Encounters with My Runaway MotherPriscila UppalAmazonThe Idealist: Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End PovertyNina MunkAmazonThe Juggler’s Children: A Journey into Family, Legend and the Genes that Bind UsCarolyn AbrahamAmazonThe Memory of WaterAllen SmutyloAmazon

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2013 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry

2013 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry Winner and Nominees

2013 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry WinnerNorth End Love SongsKatherena VermetteAn ode to Winnipegs north end, where Ms. Vermette grew up. Its also the neighbourhood where her Métis brother went missing....Amazon2013 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry ShortlistBirds, Metals, Stones & RainRussell ThorntonAmazonBite Down Little WhisperDon DomanskiAmazonThe PolymersAdam DickinsonAmazonWhere the Sun Shines BestAustin ClarkeAmazon

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2013 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Translation

2013 Governor General’s Literary Award – Translation (French to English) Winner and Nominees

2013 Governor General's Literary Award - Translation (French to English) WinnerThe Major VerbsDonald WinklerMary Daltons fifth collection, Hooking, is a series of centos that, on one level, draw inspiration from a traditional Newfoundland craft. Like a hooked rug made up of strips of fabric cut from old clothes, the cento is stitched together from lines scissor...Amazon2013 Governor General's Literary Award - Translation (French to English) ShortlistAnd the Birds Rained DownRhonda MullinsAmazonCanada’s Forgotten Slaves: Two Hundred Years of BondageGeorge TombsAmazonFor SureRobert MajzelsAmazonThe Stalinist’s WifeLuise von FlotowAmazon

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2013 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

2013 Governor General’s Literary Award – Young People’s Literature — Text Winner and Nominees

2013 Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Text WinnerThe Unlikely Hero of Room 13BTeresa TotenFilled with moments of deep emotion and unexpected humor, this understated and wise novel explores the complexities of living with OCD and offers the prospect of hope, happiness and healing. Perfect for readers who love Eleanor & Park and All the Bright Pl...Amazon2013 Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Text ShortlistBecoming Holmes: The Boy Sherlock Holmes, His Final CaseShane PeacockAmazonCounting Back From NineValerie SherrardAmazonOnce Upon a Northern NightJean E. PendziwolAmazonThe White BicycleBeverley BrennaAmazon

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2012 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

2012 Governor General’s Literary Award – Young People’s Literature — Illustrated Books Winner and Nominees

2012 Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Illustrated Books WinnerVirginia WolfIsabelle ArsenaultWhen Virginia wakes up feeling "wolfish," her sister, Vanessa, tries to cheer her up. After treats, funny faces and other efforts fail, Vanessa begins to paint a glorious mural depicting the world of the sisters’ imagination. Will it help lift Virginia fro...Amazon2012 Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Illustrated Books ShortlistBig City BeesRenné BenoitAmazonHouse Held Up by TreesJon KlassenAmazonIn the Bag! Margaret Knight Wraps it UpDavid ParkinsAmazonPicture a TreeBarbara ReidAmazon

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2012 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Drama

2012 Governor General’s Literary Award – Drama Winner and Nominees

2012 Governor General's Literary Award - Drama WinnerIt is Solved by WalkingCatherine BanksWhen Margaret learns of the death of her former husband, she recalls their earliest days together as Ph.D. candidates, beginning a journey through her past. Told through the sensations of Wallace Stevenss poem Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird,â- t...Amazon2012 Governor General's Literary Award - Drama ShortlistBrothel #9Anusree RoyAmazonDrama: Pilot EpisodeKaren HinesAmazonLost: A MemoirCathy Ostlere and Dennis GarnhumAmazonThe Romeo InitiativeTrina DaviesAmazon

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2012 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction

2012 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction Winner and Nominees

2012 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction WinnerThe PurchaseLinda SpaldingWinner of Canadas 2012 Governor Generals Award for Fiction In this provocative and starkly beautiful historical novel, a Quaker family moves from Pennsylvania to the Virginia frontier, where slaves are the only available workers and where the familys va...Amazon2012 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction ShortlistDr. Brinkley’s TowerRobert HoughAmazonSiege 13Tamas DobozyAmazonThe Headmaster’s WagerVincent LamAmazonThe Juliet StoriesCarrie SnyderAmazon

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2012 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction

2012 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction Winner and Nominees

2012 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction WinnerLeonardo and the Last SupperRoss KingFor more than five centuries The Last Supper has been an artistic, religious and cultural icon. The art historian Kenneth Clark called it the keystone of European art, and for a century after its creation it was regarded as nothing less than a miraculous...Amazon2012 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction ShortlistA Thousand Farewells: A Reporter’s Journey from Refugee Camp to the Arab SpringNahlah AyedAmazonInto the Silence: The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of EverestWade DavisAmazonThe Pursuit of Perfection: A Life of Celia FrancaCarol Bishop-GwynAmazonWhat We Talk About When We Talk About WarNoah RichlerAmazon

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2012 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry

2012 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry Winner and Nominees

2012 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry WinnerMonkey RanchJulie BruckComic and sober by turns, these poems ask us what is sufficient, what will suffice? ... a mandrill, a middle-aged woman, a shattered Baghdad neighbourhood, a long marriage, even a spoon, grapple with this unanswerable conundrum -- sometimes with rage, or p...Amazon2012 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry ShortlistAny Bright HorseLisa PasoldAmazonLi’l BastardDavid McGimpseyAmazonSailing to BabylonJames PollockAmazonThe New MeasuresA. F. MoritzAmazon