Subscribe via RSS 2.0by Ryan McBride - Tuesday Nov 25 2008 12:10 pm
Posted in: Awards, buzz
Five great Canadian books have been chosen for the 2009 Canada Reads showdown. From March 2-6, 2009, celebrity panelists will defend their pick for this year's winner.
Here are this year's finalists and their celebrity defenders:
- The Book of Negroes by , defended by Avi Lewis
- The Fat Woman Next Door Is Pregnant by , defended by Anne-Marie Withenshaw
- Fruit by , defended by Jen Sookfong Lee
- Mercy Among the Children by , defended by Sarah Slean
- The Outlander by , defended by Nicholas Campbell
Visit the Canada Reads website for further details.
| By Lawrence Hill - $19.95 - add to cart | |
Abducted as an 11-year-old child from her village in West Africa and forced to walk for months to the sea in a coffle - a string of slaves - Aminata Diallo is sent to live as a slave in South Carol...
| By Michel Tremblay - $19.95 - add to cart | |
Tremblay's first novel is an affectionate and funny chronicle of the lives of a family in its community. "A comic tour de force covering one day in the life of a Montreal street". -- U of T Quarterly
| By Brian Francis - $18.95 - add to cart | |
Thirteen-year-old Peter Paddington is overweight, the subject of his classmates' ridicule, and the victim of too many bad movie-of-the-week storylines. When his nipples begin speaking to him one da...
| By David Adams Richards - $22.00 - add to cart | |
Winner of the 2000 Giller Prize.At the age of 12, believing he has killed a friend, Sidney Henderson vows to God never to harm another human being. In the years that follow, the brilliant, self-edu...
| By Gil Adamson - $18.95 - add to cart | |
In 1903 a mysterious, desperate young woman flees alone across the west, one quick step ahead of the law. She has just become a widow by her own hand. Gil Adamson's extraordinary novel opens i...
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