Tuesday, November 26

All Book Awards

2007 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

2007 Governor General’s Literary Award – Young People’s Literature — Text Winner and Nominees

2007 Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Text WinnerGemini SummerIain LawrenceIn the quiet of Hogs Hollow, each member of the River family pursues a dream. Old Man River sets out to build a fallout shelter in case the war in Vietnam "brings the end of everything;" his wife Flo, who collects Gone with the Wind dolls, attempts to pen...Amazon2007 Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Text ShortlistCarnation, Lily, Lily, Rose: The Story of a PaintingHugh BrewsterAmazonElijah of BuxtonChristopher Paul CurtisAmazonKanadaEva WisemanAmazonThe Alchemist’s DreamJohn WilsonAmazon
2006 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

2006 Governor General’s Literary Award – Young People’s Literature — Illustrated Books Winner and Nominees

2006 Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Illustrated Books WinnerAncient ThunderLeo YerxaWith rich illustrations that makes each page look like a leather shirt, tells the proud tale of wild horses in the natural world and the special importance they had in the communities of the First Peoples....Amazon2006 Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Illustrated Books ShortlistCasey at the BatJoe MorseAmazonEarth MagicEugenie FernandesAmazonLet’s Go for a RideMaxwell NewhouseAmazonThe BirdmanAnnouchka Gravel Galouchko, Stéphan DaigleAmazon
2006 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Drama

2006 Governor General’s Literary Award – Drama Winner and Nominees

2006 Governor General's Literary Award - Drama WinnerI Still Love YouDaniel MacIvor"Daniel MacIvors plays have been labelled everything from postmodern to metatheatrical, but these are cold terms that do nothing to capture the warm, accessible soul of a writer whose honesty and compassion for both audiences and his characters is at the ...Amazon2006 Governor General's Literary Award - Drama ShortlistAdapt or Die: Plays New and UsedJason ShermanAmazonCast IronLisa CodringtonAmazonIn a World Created by a Drunken GodDrew Hayden TaylorAmazonThe OptimistsMorwyn BrebnerAmazon
2006 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction

2006 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction Winner and Nominees

2006 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction WinnerThe Law of DreamsPeter BehrensIreland, 1846. A boy on a life-changing journey which lives in the mind long after the final page. It is 1846, the height of the Great Hunger, and young Fergus is forced to grow up fast. Following the destruction of his home, he loses not only his family b...Amazon2006 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction ShortlistDe Niro’s GameRawi HageAmazonGargoylesBill GastonAmazonThe Dodecahedron, or A FramePaul GlennonAmazonThe Fearsome ParticlesTrevor ColeAmazon
2006 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction

2006 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction Winner and Nominees

2006 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction WinnerThe Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World ImpressionismRoss KingThe fascinating new book by the author of Brunelleschis Dome and Michelangelo and the Popes Ceiling: a saga of artistic rivalry and cultural upheaval in the decade leading to the birth of Impressionism. If there were two men who were absolutely central t...Amazon2006 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction ShortlistStarlight Tour: The Last, Lonely Night of Neil StonechildSusanne Reber, Robert RenaudAmazonThe Empire of Mind: Digital Piracy and the Anti-Capitalist MovementMichael StrangeloveAmazonThe Half-Lives of Pat LowtherChristine WiesenthalAmazonThe Hanging of Angélique: The Untold Story of Canadian Slavery and the Burning of Old Mo...
2006 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry

2006 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry Winner and Nominees

2006 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry WinnerStumbling in the BloomJohn PassWinner - Governor Generals Award (2006) The poems in Stumbling in the Bloom engage the ever-present enticements and entanglements of beauty on lifes, and arts, home ground - in wilderness and garden. But this surprising volume, the finale of John Passs...Amazon2006 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry ShortlistAirstream Land YachtKen BabstockAmazonHome of Sudden ServiceElizabeth BachinskyAmazonInventoryDionne BrandAmazonThe Good BacteriaSharon ThesenAmazon
2006 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Translation

2006 Governor General’s Literary Award – Translation (French to English) Winner and Nominees

2006 Governor General's Literary Award - Translation (French to English) WinnerVetiverHugh HazeltonThe poems in Antimatter are declamatory, politicized, experimental, occasionally concrete, recited, chanted, stuttered, and sung poetry produced by a Montreal poet-translator-visual artist who believes that poetry should bite, caress, stroke, laugh at, con...Amazon2006 Governor General's Literary Award - Translation (French to English) ShortlistA Threat from Within: A Century of Jewish Opposition to ZionismFred A. Reed (withYakov M. Rabkin)AmazonBonbons Assortis / Assorted CandiesLinda GaboriauAmazonThe Bicycle EaterSheila FischmanAmazonThe Immaculate ConceptionLazer LederhendlerAmazon
2006 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

2006 Governor General’s Literary Award – Young People’s Literature — Text Winner and Nominees

2006 Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Text WinnerPirate’s PassageWilliam GilkersonNova Scotia, 1952. Not exactly the place you’d expect to run into pirates. But an old mariner, his boat driven ashore in a gale, brings with him enough stories about buccaneers and their lore to make it seem that he must have had firsthand experience of th...Amazon2006 Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Text ShortlistFriendshipsBudge WilsonAmazonIngrid and the WolfAndré AlexisAmazonMe and the BlondesTeresa TotenAmazonSkinnybones and the Wrinkle QueenGlen HuserAmazon
2005 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

2005 Governor General’s Literary Award – Young People’s Literature — Illustrated Books Winner and Nominees

2005 Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Illustrated Books WinnerImagine a DayRob GonsalvesImagine a day when your swing swings you higher than the highest treetops. Imagine a day when you can ride your bike up a path of falling leaves into the very tree they are falling from. Imagine a day when you release a handful of blue balloons into a clou...Amazon2005 Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Illustrated Books ShortlistCity AngelKyrsten BrookerAmazonMaria ChapdelaineRajka KupesicAmazonMixed BeastsWallace EdwardsAmazonThe HighwaymanMurray KimberAmazon
2005 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Drama

2005 Governor General’s Literary Award – Drama Winner and Nominees

2005 Governor General's Literary Award - Drama WinnerHalf LifeJohn MightonHad they previously met somewhere else under different circumstances? Why is their love so troubling for their children? Indeed, the light at dusk is sometimes warmer and more enveloping than that of the midday sun. Characters navigate between being and ap...Amazon2005 Governor General's Literary Award - Drama ShortlistChina DollMarjorie ChanAmazonCul-de-sacDaniel MacIvorAmazonThrough the EyesDon DruickAmazonTwo Words for SnowRichard SangerAmazon