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VaughanPL: Adult Reads: Recent Canadian Award-Winners

Celebrate Canada Day with an award-winning work of fiction, non-fiction, poetry or drama. All titles listed below are available digitally through OverDrive or Hoopla.

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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
    eBook, 2018Toronto : ECW Press, 2018.
  • 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…
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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…
    eBook, 2019New York : HarperCollins Canada, 2019.
  • 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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
    eBook, 2019New York : Random House of Canada, 2019.
  • 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,…
    eBook, 2018New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2018.
  • 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…
    eBook, 2017New York : McClelland and Stewart, 2017.