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All Book Awards

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2009 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

2009 Governor General’s Literary Award – Young People’s Literature — Illustrated Books Winner and Nominees

2009 Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Illustrated Books WinnerBella’s TreeJirina MartonWith grandmother unable to pick the Christmas tree this year, Bella takes on the task with the help of her dog and some birds....Amazon2009 Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Illustrated Books ShortlistAlegoNingeokuluk TeeveeAmazonBradley McGogg, the Very Fine FrogRachel BermanAmazonMy Great Big MammaLuc MelansonAmazonThe Imaginary GardenIrene LuxbacherAmazon
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2009 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Drama

2009 Governor General’s Literary Award – Drama Winner and Nominees

2009 Governor General's Literary Award - Drama WinnerWhere the Blood MixesKevin LoringWhere the Blood Mixes is meant to expose the shadows below the surface of the authors First Nations heritage, and to celebrate its survivors. Though torn down years ago, the memories of their Residential School still live deep inside the hearts of those w...Amazon2009 Governor General's Literary Award - Drama ShortlistAnother Home InvasionJoan MacLeodAmazonEast of BerlinHannah MoscovitchAmazonInnocence Lost: A Play about Steven TruscottBeverley CooperAmazonTalkMichael NathansonAmazon
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2009 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction

2009 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction Winner and Nominees

2009 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction WinnerThe Mistress of NothingKate PullingerThe American debut of an award-winning novel about a ladys maids awakening as she journeys from the confines of Victorian England to the uncharted far reaches of Egypts Nile Valley When Lady Duff Gordon, paragon of London society, departs for the hot, d...Amazon2009 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction ShortlistGaloreMichael CrummeyAmazonThe Golden MeanAnnabel LyonAmazonToo Much HappinessAlice MunroAmazonVanishing and Other StoriesDeborah WillisAmazon
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2009 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction

2009 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction Winner and Nominees

2009 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction WinnerA Place Within: Rediscovering IndiaM.G. VassanjiA Globe and Mail Best Book It would take many lifetimes, it was said to me during my first visit, to see all of India. The desperation must have shown on my face to absorb and digest all I possibly could. This was not something I had articulated or resolve...Amazon2009 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction ShortlistAmerican Raj: Liberation or Domination?Eric S. MargolisAmazonFire and Fury: The Allied bombing of Germany, 1942-45Randall HansenAmazonGrass, Sky, Song: Promise and Peril in the World of Grassland BirdsTrevor HerriotAmazonThe Cello Suites: J.S. Bach, Pablo Casals, and the search for a Baroque masterpieceEric SiblinAmazon
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2009 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry

2009 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry Winner and Nominees

2009 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry WinnerThe Fly in AutumnDavid Zieroth"The Fly in Autumn" is a nuanced work that constantly shifts between the inane and the macabre, between black humour and self-mockery. There is an absurdist, Kafkaesque twist to this collection in which the landscapes are sometimes recognizably our own but...Amazon2009 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry ShortlistBe Calm, HoneyDavid W. McFaddenAmazonExpresswaySina QueyrasAmazonLittle HungerPhilip Kevin PaulAmazonThis Way OutCarmine StarninoAmazon
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All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Translation

2009 Governor General’s Literary Award – Translation (French to English) Winner and Nominees

2009 Governor General's Literary Award - Translation (French to English) WinnerPieces of MeSusan OuriouMirabelle, a talented artist from a broken home, befriends the free-spirited and confident Catherine, whose friendship brings Mira out of her shell, but Mira soon learns that her newfound confidence can be shattered in an instant....Amazon2009 Governor General's Literary Award - Translation (French to English) ShortlistA Slight Case of FatiguePhyllis Aronoff and Howard ScottAmazonEmpire of Desire: The Abolition of TimeFred A. ReedAmazonOneJo-Anne ElderAmazonWildlivesDavid Homel and Fred A. ReedAmazon
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2009 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

2009 Governor General’s Literary Award – Young People’s Literature — Text Winner and Nominees

2009 Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Text WinnerGreener Grass: The Famine YearsCaroline PignatFinding their life becoming more difficult everyday, the Byrne family is forced to leave their homeland to escape the Great Famine....Amazon2009 Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Text ShortlistA Thousand Shades of BlueRobin StevensonAmazonHome FreeSharon JenningsAmazonSister WifeShelley HrdlitschkaAmazonThe UninvitedTim Wynne-JonesAmazon
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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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