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2019 Toronto Book Award winner announced!

Author Dionne Brand has been awarded the Toronto Book Award for her novel Theory, published by Knopf Canada. This is the second win for Brand who claimed the prize in 2006 for her novel, What We All Long For. Theory, also won the 2019 OCM BOCAS Prize for Caribbean Literature, and was a Globe and Mail Best Book. Her latest poetry collection, The Blue Clerk, was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize and won the Trillium Book Prize. 

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Canada Reads 2019

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By chance alone by Max Eisen Winner!

Homes by Abu Bakr al Rabeeah

Brother by David Chariandy 

Suzanne by Anais Barbeau-Lavalette

The woo-woo by Lindsay Wong Coming soon!

First Nation Communities Read - Children's Nominees 2019

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When we were alone by David Robertson*

My heart fills with happiness by Monique Gray Smith

The cloud artist by Sherri Maret Check your public library!

The water walker by Joanne Roberston

Akilak's adventure by Deborah Kigjugalik Check your public library!

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Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction 2018

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All things consoled by Elizabeth Hay Winner!

Antigone undone by Will Aitken Coming soon!

Heart berries by Terese Marie Mailhot

In praise of blood by Judi Rever

The woo-woo by Lindsay Wong Coming soon!

Shaughessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing 2018

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Boys by Rachel Giese Winner!

Homes by Abu Bakr al Rabeeah

Breaching the peace by Sarah Cox Coming soon!

Pipe dreams by Jacques Poitras Coming soon!

Big lonely Doug by Harley Rustad 

TD Canadian Children’s Literature Awards 2019

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TD Children’s Literature Award - Ebb & flow by Heather Smith

Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award - Africville by Shauntay Grant (Please use Printbraille request form)

Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children’s Non-Fiction - Turtle pond by James Gladstone Coming soon!

Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction - The journey of little Charlie by Christopher Paul Curtis 

John Spray Mystery Award - Sadie by Courtney Summers

Amy Mathers Teen Book Award - The house of one thousand eyes by Michelle Barker Coming soon!

CBC Fan Choice Award - They say blue by Jillian Tamaki

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