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Five finalists of the 2012 Scotiabank Giller Prize announced
Oct 01 2012
The following five books have been shortlisted for the 2012 Scotiabank Giller Prize. The winner of the C$50,000 will be announced at a ceremony on October 30. Fifty-one publishing houses submitted 142 titles for consideration, the three person jury consists of novelists Gary Shteyngart and Roddy Doyle, and Canadian publisher Anna Porter.
419 by Will Ferguson (not yet released in the USA, but available through online booksellers)
A bold, mesmerizing novel about the woman known as "Typhoid Mary," the first known healthy carrier of typhoid fever in the burgeoning metropolis of early twentieth century New York.
Two Lives is a memoir written by international best-selling author, Vikram Seth. In this interesting and engaging book, Seth writes about his great...
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Z, the novel about the life of Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald is at points charming and; like another reviewer, I kept thinking of the movie, "Midnight...
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Although heavy on the scientific details, which slowed down the story for me (OK, I admit, I was one of those liberal arts majors who skipped out on...
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Judge rules unused Borders gift cards to be worthless(May 23 2013) Borders owes nothing to holders of roughly $210.5 million of gift cards that had not been used by the time the bookstore chain shut down, a Manhattan federal...
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