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• Nobody Move

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  Winner of the Arthur Ellis Award for First Novel in 2020. The Arthur Ellis Awards are presented annually by the Crime Writers of Canada for the best Canadian crime and mystery writing. When a debt collection turns into a double murder, Eddie Vegas…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Cobra Clutch

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  Winner of the Arthur Ellis Award for First Novel in 2019. When ex-wrestler "Hammerhead" Jed Ounstead's former tag-team partner asks for his help finding his kidnapped pet snake, Jed finds himself back in the world of sleazy promoters, gimmicky…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Though the Heavens Fall

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  2019 Arthur Ellis Award winner. In 1995, Halifax attorney Monty Collins heads to Belfast, Northern Ireland, to take a short job at a law firm. He finds himself involved in the case of Eamon Flanagan, who supposedly drowned three years ago after a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Moon of the Crusted Snow

  A Novel

  Rice, Waubgeshig,

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  Winner of the 2019 Evergreen Award, presented by the Ontario Library Association to the best work of Canadian fiction or non-fiction, as voted by library patrons. As fall turns to winter, a small northern Anishinaabe community goes dark when…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Birds of a Kind

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  Winner of the Governor General's Award for Translation (from French To English), 2019. The Governor General's Literary Awards are presented annually by the Governor-General and the Canada Council for the Arts for outstanding books in both English…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Five Wives

  a Novel

  Thomas, Joan, (Sandra Joan),

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  Winner of the Governor General's Award for Fiction, 2019. Based on real-life events, Five Wives is the story of a group of evangelical Christian missionaries and their families who come to the Ecuadorian rainforest in 1956 with the intention of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Holy Wild

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  Winner of the Governor General's Award for Poetry, 2019. In Holy Wild. Gwen Benaway writes about the experience of being an Indigenous trans woman through lyric poems that speak to Canada's legacy of abuse, violence, and colonial erasure of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Other Side of the Game

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  Winner of the Governor General's Award for Drama, 2019. The Other Side of the Game is about Black women who support their men no matter what, fight racism, and care for their families. The play highlights the emotional, physical, and mental toll…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Mamaskatch: A Cree Coming of Age

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  Winner of the Governor General's Award for Non-fiction, 2018. In Mamaskatch, author Darrel J. McLeod recounts stories from his mother, Bertha, about their culture and about the abuse she and her sisters experienced in a residential school. Growing…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Bush Runner

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  Winner of the 2020 RBC Taylor Prize. presented annually by the Charles Taylor Foundation for the best work of literary non-fiction by a Canadian. Bush Runner is the story of Pierre-Esprit Radisson, namesake for a global hotel chain who played an…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City

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  Winner of the 2018 RBC Taylor Prize. Award-winning investigative journalist Tanya Talaga tells the stories of the seven Indigenous high school students who died in Thunder Bay, Ontario, from from 2000 to 2011.

• Reproduction

  a Novel

  Williams, Ian, 1979-

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  Winner of the 2019 Scotiabank Giller Prize, awarded annually in Canada to a Canadian author for the best novel or short story collection published in English. Felicia and Edgar meet in a hospital room shard by their dying mothers. The two form a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Washington Black

  a Novel

  Edugyan, Esi,

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  Winner of the 2018 Scotiabank Giller Prize. George Washington Black is a slave on a sugar plantation in Barbados. When amateur scientist Christopher "Titch" Wilde, nephew of the estate owner, takes an interest in him, Washington is taught math,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Brother

  Chariandy, David,

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  Winner of the 2018 Toronto Book Award, awarded annually by the city of Toronto to the author of the year's best fiction or non-fiction book "that is evocative of Toronto." Michael and Francis, young men of black and brown ancestry, are constantly…Read moreRead more of this annotation