Award Winners

Products - 33 in this category - showing 16 through 30

Kasztner's Train: The True Story of Rezso Kasztner, Unknown Hero of the Holocaust - hardcover
By Anna Porter - $37.95

Winner of the 2007 Nereus Writers' Trust Non-Fiction Prize.Finalist for the 2008 Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction.In summer 1944, Rezso Kasztner met with Adolf Eichmann, architect of t...

 

King Leary - trade paperback
By Paul Quarrington - $19.95

Winner of CBC's Canada Reads 2008.Percival Leary was once the King of the Ice, one of hockey’s greatest heroes. Now, in the South Grouse Nursing Home, where he shares a room with Edmund “Blue” Herm...

 

Late Nights on Air - hardcover
By Elizabeth Hay - $32.99

Winner of the 2007 Scotiabank Giller Prize.The eagerly anticipated novel from the bestselling author of A Student of Weather and Garbo Laughs. Harry Boyd, a hard-bitten refugee from failure in ...

 

Mean Boy - trade paperback
By Lynn Coady - $21.00

Winner of the 2007 Georges Bugnet Award.Earnest, small-town Lawrence Campbell is fascinated by his poetry professor, the charismatic and uncompromising Jim Arsenault. Larry is determined to escape ...

 

Mwakwa Talks to the Loon - children's paperback
By Dale Auger - $12.95

Winner of the 2007 R. Ross Annett Award for Children's Literature.Discover Dale Auger’s world of myth, magic, and human experience in Mwâkwa—Talks to the Loon: A Cree Story for Children, which fea...

 

One Child at a Time - trade paperback
By Julian Sher - $22.00

Winner of the 2008 Arthur Ellis Award for Best Non-Fiction. From a renowned investigative reporter, the true story behind a horrifying Internet abuse epidemic – and the heroes who are out to stop i...

 

Road Home - trade paperback
By Rose Tremain - $21.95

Winner of the 2008 Orange Prize for Fiction.Lev is on his way to Britain to seek work, so that he can send money back to Eastern Europe to support his mother and little daughter. Readers will b...

 

Stupid to the Last Drop: How Alberta Is Bringing Environmental Armageddon to Canada (And Doesn't Seem to Care) - hardcover
By William Marsden - $29.95

Winner of the 2008 National Business Book Award.A bestselling investigative journalist takes a tour of the Alberta oil and gas industry, revealing how Canada’s richest province is squandering our c...

 

The Book of Negroes - trade paperback
By Laurence Hill - $24.95

Winner of the 2007 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize.winner of the 2008 Commonwealth Writer's Prize for Best Book.Longlisted for the 2007 Giller Prize.Abducted as an 11-year-old child from her vi...

 

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - hardcover
By Junot Diaz - $30.00

Winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.Things have never been easy for Oscar, a sweet but disastrously overweight, lovesick Dominican ghetto nerd. From his home in New Jersey, where he lives...

 

The Gathering - trade paperback
By Anne Enright - $14.95

Winner of the 2007 Man Booker Prize for Fiction.Anne Enright is a dazzling writer of international stature and one of Ireland’s most singular voices. Now she delivers The Gathering, a moving, evoca...

 

The New Moon's Arms - hardcover
By Nalo Hopkinson - $29.99

Winner of the 2008 English Long-Form Prix Aurora Award. THE NEW MOON'S ARMS is a mainstream magical realism novel set in the Caribbean on the fictional island of Dolorosse. Calamity, born Chastity,...

 

The People's House of Commons - trade paperback
By David E. Smith - $25.95

Winner of the 2008 Donner Prize.Canada’s House of Commons is under attack, charged with being unresponsive to public opinion, its party leaders too much in control, and individual MPs essentially i...

 

The Years of Extermination - trade paperback
By Saul Friedlander - $21.50

Winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction.The enactment of the German extermination policies that resulted in the murder of six million European Jews depended upon many factors, including t...

 

The Yiddish Policemen's Union - trade paperback
By Michael Chabon - $17.25

Winner of the 2007 Nebula Award.For sixty years Jewish refugees and their descendants have prospered in the Federal District of Sitka, a "temporary" safe haven created in the wake of the Holocaust ...

 

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