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Good Books Make Great Gifts

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2009 Governor General's Literary Award Winners

The Mistress of Nothing
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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.

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Who hasn't fantasized about a leather-clad life of excess? With shocking revelations, diary entries, and never-before-seen photos, these decadent reads will drag you to the darkest parts of human nature and back. From Bon Jovi to Russell Brand to AC/DC, these stars have not only survived, but lived to write the tale.

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2009 Giller Prize: Linden MacIntyre for The Bishop's Man

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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.

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In his longest novel since The Stand, Stephen King delivers a chilling portrayal of a town's battle for survival when it's trapped Under the Dome.

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2009 Man Booker Prize

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The 2009 winner of the Man Booker Prize, the UK's top literary prize and the most watched single-book award in the English-speaking world, was announced on October 6: Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel.

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