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Good Books Make Great Gifts
We've stocked this year's Gift Ideas in Books store with a huge selection of bestsellers, editors' picks, and holiday favourites for all tastes, at prices that will let you delight everyone on your list without breaking the bank.
›See more gift ideas for book lovers 2009 Governor General's Literary Award Winners
This year's Governor General's Literary Awards honoured Kate Pullinger with the fiction prize for The Mistress of Nothing, her Victorian-era tale of a London lady's maid transformed by Egypt. M.G. Vassanji won for his first nonfiction book, the memoir A Place Within, and for the first time, the English-translation award went to a young adult novel, Pieces of Me.
›See all the 2009 GG Award winners Canadian Voices, Canadian Stories
Independent publisher Douglas & McIntyre is driven by the passion to create great Canadian books for all kinds of readers. Browse recent releases from some of their most inventive, compelling Canadian voices, both fictional and real, from the front lines in Afghanistan, to the political battle for the Arctic, to the struggles and pleasures of life on a Gulf Island farm.
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2009 Giller Prize: Linden MacIntyre for The Bishop's Man
On November 10, Canada's most coveted fiction prize went to veteran CBC broadcast journalist Linden MacIntyre for The Bishop's Man, a sensitively told story of crimes and cover-up in a Cape Breton Catholic church.
›See all 2009 Giller Prize finalists What Makes Peter Thomas So Special?
Peter Thomas says he's no more gifted, intelligent, or lucky than the average person, but he lives an extraordinary, fulfilling life. Learn his method for unlocking your own incredible potential in Be Great.
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