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The Beautiful Children (Michael Kenyon) has been shortlisted for the 2010 Relit Award for Fiction. My Sweet Curiosity (Amanda Hale) and The Wolsenburg Clock (Jay Ruzesky) were long-listed.
Cantilevered Songs (John Lent) was long-listed for the 2010 Re Lit Award for Poetry.
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Mostly Happy by Pam Bustin has won the 2010 OLA White Pine Award |
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"Mostly Happy is a coming-of-age story akin to Tobias Wolff's memoir, This Boy's Life, and Janet Fitch's White Oleander. Yet Bean E. Falwell is a unique character whose survival will give hope to readers in comparable situations." — Ruth Latta, CM Magazine |
"Brilliant, moving and utterly believable." — R.P. MacIntyre, author of Feeding At Nine and Yuletide Blues |
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| Kristin Butcher's Return To Bone Tree Hill was shortlisted for the 2010 Sheila A. Egoff, BC Book Prize and the 2010 Manitoba Young Readers Choice Award |
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In Return to Bone Tree Hill, experienced YA writer Kristin Butcher chronicles a mystery that has the reader piecing together the evidence alongside Jessica and Jilly.Even the most reluctant readers will be caught up by the minute-to-minute action of these furtive, accidental detectives. |
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Shortlisted for the Georges Bugnet
Award for Fiction
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Lori Hahnel’s stories fracture stereotypes of the sanctity of marriage, the values of good people, and the expected happy ending. Provocative, talkative, sardonic and glib, Hahnel’s characters strike friction between the sentimental values of bygone Hollywood flicks and the misgivings of lower class life in western Canada.
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Shortlisted for the
R. Ross Annett
Award for Children's Literature
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"Author Dianne Linden inhabits Mike's world in a story that is life-affirming without ever being sentimental, that is in equal measures trgic, funny and poignant." — Governor General's Award jury citation. |
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Fall 2010
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| Raising Orion , Lesley Choyce |
| Flyways, Devin Krukoff |
| Mennonites Don't Dance, Darcie Friesen Hossack |
| Memoir Of A Good Death, Anne Sorbie |
| Man Facing West,
Don Gayton |
| The Mystery Of the Cyber Bully, Marty Chan |
| A Girl Called Tennyson,
Joan Givner |
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Spring 2010
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| Never Going Back, Antonia Banyard |
| Monkeyface Chronicles,
Richard Scarsbrook |
| The Kayak,
Debbie Spring |
| Draco's Child,
Sharon Plumb |
| Endgames,
Andrew Stubbs |
| What We Miss,
Glen Sorestad |
| Gaits,
Paulette Dubé |
| This Hot Place,
Bernadette Wagner |
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