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2019 Shortlisted Titles
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Dual Citizens: A novel
Alix Ohlin - Vintage
Format: Paperback
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A Scotiabank Giller Prize Finalist. Raised in Montreal by their disinterested single mother, half-sisters Lark and Robin form a fierce team in spite of their differences. When Lark flees to America to attend college, her sister soon joins her.But even as Lark discovers a calling working... |
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Immigrant City
David Bezmozgis - HarperCollins Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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David Bezmozgis, the writer who brought us the "pointed, emotionally resonant tales" (The Globe and Mail) of Natasha and Other Stories, brings us a new collection, his first in more than a decade. In the title story, a father and his young daughter stumble into a bizarre version... |
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The Innocents
Michael Crummey - Doubleday Canada
Format: Hardcover
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Lampedusa: A Novel
Steven Price - Macmillan Audio
Format: Audiobook
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"Combining a British accent with seamless Italian pronunciation, Jonathan Aris slow and steady narration lends an appropriate tone of dignity and melancholy to Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusas account of a lifetime of memories and tragedies." (AudioFile magazine) Like Colm Tóibíns... |
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Reproduction: A Novel
Ian Williams - Audible Studios
Format: Audiobook
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A hilarious, surprising, and poignant love story about the way families are invented, told with the savvy of a Zadie Smith and with an inventiveness all Ian Williams own, Reproduction bangs lives together in a polyglot suburb of Toronto. Felicia and Edgar meet as their mothers are dying.... |
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Small Game Hunting at the local coward gun club
Megan Gail Coles - Anansi
Format: Book
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By turns biting, funny, poetic, and heartbreaking, Megan Coles' debut novel rips into the inner lives of a wicked cast of characters, building towards a climax that will shred perceptions and force a reckoning. This is blistering Newfoundland Gothic for the twenty-first century, a wholly... |
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2018 Shortlisted titles.
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French Exit
Patrick DeWitt - House of Anansi Press
Format: eBook
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Frances Price - tart widow, possessive mother, and Upper East Side force of nature - is in dire straits, beset by scandal and impending bankruptcy. Her adult son Malcolm is no help, mired in a permanent state of arrested development. And then there's the Price's aging cat, Small... |
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Songs For The Cold Of Heart
ERIC DUPONT - Baraka Books
Format: Paperback
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Nuns that appear out of thin air, a dinner party at the Goebbels', Quebec's very own Margaret Thatcher, a grandma that just won't die (not until the archangel comes back) ...Songs For The Cold Of Heart is a yarn to rival the best of them, a big fat whopper of a tall tale that... |
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Washington Black
Esi Edugyan - Vintage
Format: Paperback
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MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST * ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWS TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR * "A gripping historical narrative exploring both the bounds of slavery and what it means to be truly free." - Vanity FairEleven-year-old George Washington Black - or Wash - a field... |
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Motherhood: A Novel
Sheila Heti - Macmillan Audio
Format: Audiobook
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From the author of How Should a Person Be? ("one of the most talked-about books of the year" - Time Magazine) and the New York Times best seller Women in Clothes comes a daring audiobook about whether to have children. In Motherhood, Sheila Heti asks what is gained and what is lost... |
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An Ocean of Minutes: A Novel
Thea Lim - Simon & Schuster Audio
Format: Paperback
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In the vein of The Time Travelers Wife and Station Eleven, a sweeping literary love story about two people who are at once mere weeks and many years apart. America is in the grip of a deadly flu pandemic. When Frank catches the virus, his girlfriend, Polly, will do whatever it takes to save... |
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2017 Shortlisted titles
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Transit: A Novel (Outline Trilogy, 2)
Rachel Cusk - Picador
Format: Paperback
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National Bestseller * A Finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize * A Finalist for the Goldsmiths Prize * Long-listed for the International Dublin Literary Award * One of Time Magazines Top 10 Fiction Books of the Year. A New York Times Book Review Notable Book * Named a Best Book of the Year... |
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Minds of Winter
Ed O'Loughlin - Anansi
Format: Print book
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In a journey shrouded in mystery and intrigue, Sir John Franklin's 1845 campaign in search of the Northwest Passage ended in tragedy. All 129 men were lost to the ice, and nothing from the expedition was retrieved, including two rare and valuable Greenwich chronometers. When one of the chronometers... |
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Bellevue Square
Michael Redhill - Doubleday Canada
Format: Hardcover
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From award-winning and bestselling author Michael Redhill comes a darkly comic literary thriller about a woman who fears for her sanity--and then her life--when she learns that her doppelganger has appeared in a local park.Jean Mason has a doppelganger. At least, that's what people... |
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Son of a Trickster
Eden Robinson - Knopf Canada
Format: Print book
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With striking originality and precision, Eden Robinson, the Giller-shortlisted author of the classic Monkey Beach and winner of the Writers' Trust Engel/Findley Award, blends humour with heartbreak in this compelling coming-of-age novel. Everyday teen existence meets indigenous beliefs,... |
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I Am A Truck
Michelle Winters - Invisible Publishing
Format: Paperback
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Fiction. A tender but lively debut novel about a man, a woman, and their Chevrolet dealer. Agathe and Rjean Lapointe are about to celebrate their twentieth wedding anniversary when Rjean's beloved Chevy Silverado is found abandoned at the side of the road - with no trace of Rjean.... |
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