Canada Reads 2014

The CBC has announced the panelists and titles for the next Canada Reads, which runs March 3–6, 2014.

This year’s panelists are:

Philanthropist and activist Stephen Lewis defending The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood

Journalist and activist Wab Kinew defending The Orenda by Joseph Boyden

Olympic medalist Donovan Bailey defending Half-Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan

Comedian Samantha Bee defending Cockroach by Rawi Hage

Actress Sarah Gadon defending Annabel by Kathleen Winter

Winners of Governor-General’s Literary Awards (English, French)

Fiction
Eleanor Catton, The Luminaries (McClelland & Stewart)
Stéphanie Pelletier, Quand les guêpes se taisent (Leméac Éditeur)
Poetry
Katherena Vermette, North End Love Songs (The Muses’ Company)
René Lapierre, Pour les désespérés seulement (Éditions Les Herbes rouges)
Drama
Nicolas Billon, Fault Lines: Greenland – Iceland – Faroe Islands (Coach House Books)
Fanny Britt, Bienveillance (Leméac Éditeur)
Non-fiction
Sandra Djwa, Journey with No Maps: A Life of P.K. Page (McGill-Queen’s University Press)
Yvon Rivard, Aimer, enseigner (Les Éditions du Boréal)
Children’s Literature – Text
Teresa Toten, The Unlikely Hero of Room 13B (Doubleday Canada)
Geneviève Mativat, À l’ombre de la grande maison (Éditions Pierre Tisseyre)
Children’s Literature – Illustration
Matt James, Northwest Passage, text by Stan Rogers (Groundwood Books)
Isabelle Arsenault, Jane, le renard & moi, text by Fanny Britt (Les Éditions de la Pastèque)
Translation
Donald Winkler, The Major Verbs (Signal Editions); English translation of Les verbes majeurs by Pierre Nepveu
Sophie Voillot, L’enfant du jeudi (Les Éditions du Boréal); French translation of Far to Go by Alison Pick

Canada Reads Top Ten

Check out these great Canadian titles which are available at your library!

• Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondaatje
• Annabel by Kathleen Winter
• Cockroach by Rawi Hage
• Half Blood Blues by Esi Eduygan
• Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
• October 1970 by Louis Hamelin
• Orenda, The by Joseph Boyden
• Sunday at the Pool in Kigali by Gil Courtemanche
• What the Body Remembers by Shauna Singh Baldwin
• Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood

 

November Top Ten

Adult Fiction

Never Go Back by Lee Child
And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
The Longest Ride by Nicholas Sparks
Sycamore Row by John Grisham
Gone by James Patterson
The 100 Year Old Man who Climbed out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson
Mistress by James Patterson
How the Light gets In by Louise Penny
Takedown Twenty by Janet Evanovich
The Cuckoos Calling by Robert Galbraith

Adult Movies

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Admission
Cloud Atlas
Dead Man Down
Epic
Gangster Squad
George Gently
Inherit the Dead
Iron Man 3
Les Miserables

November Book Group Theme

The Adult Book Club will be travelling throughout our home and native land in November.  We will discussing books that are set in or about Canada. 

New members are always welcome.  Come join us for some great discussion!

For more info, contact Jill at 905-563-7014

2013 Scotiabank Giller Prize Short List

The finalists for the 2013 Scotiabank Giller Prize shortlist are:

• Dennis Bock for his novel Going Home Again, a Phyllis Bruce Book published by HarperCollins Publishers Ltd.
• Lynn Coady for her short story collection Hellgoing, published by House of Anansi Press.
• Craig Davidson for his novel Cataract City, published by Doubleday Canada, a division of Random House of Canada Limited.
• Lisa Moore for her novel Caught, published by House of Anansi Press.
• Dan Vyleta for his novel The Crooked Maid, published by HarperCollins Publishers Ltd

October Top Ten

Adult Fiction

And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
Never Go Back by Lee Child
How the Light Gets In by Louise Penny
Inferno by Dan Brown
The Cuckoos Calling by Robert Galbraith
The 100 Year Old Man who Climbed out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson
Mistress by James Patterson
The Kill Room by Jeffrey Deaver
Gone by James  Patterson A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin

Adult DVDs

Admission

Downton Abbey

Safe Haven

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Dead Man Down

The Host

Quartet

George Gently

Iron Man 3

Oblivion