"A little before seven in the morning, Stacey wakes to the police pounding on her door. They search her home and seize her computer and her phone, telling her they're looking for "illegal digital material." Left to unravel what's...
Scotiabank Giller Prize 2020
This award recognizes excellence in Canadian fiction – long format or short stories — and is Canada's largest purse for a literary award. Thanks to a partnership with the Scotiabank Giller Prize, shortlisted titles are available in accessible formats from NNELS on the date they're announced nationally. Learn more about the program from the Scotiabank Giller Prize website.
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Auteur:Crocker, EvaSommaire: - Auteur:Ekwuyasi, FrancescaSommaire:
"An intergenerational saga about three Nigerian women: a novel about food, family, and forgiveness. Spanning three continents, Butter Honey Pig Bread tells the interconnected stories of three Nigerian women: Kambirinachi and her twin...
- Auteur:Lyon, AnnabelSommaire:
"A smart, mysterious and heartbreaking novel centred on two sets of sisters whose lives are braided together when tragedy changes them forever. From the award-winning author of The Golden Mean. Saskia and Jenny are twins who are...
- Auteur:Kellough, KaieSommaire:
"Kaie Kellough is the author of the novel Accordéon (2016). Short stories taking place in Montreal, Paris, and the South American rainforest."--
- Auteur:Good, MichelleSommaire:
"Taken from their families when they are very small and sent to a remote, church-run residential school, Kenny, Lucy, Clara, Howie and Maisie are barely out of childhood when they are finally released after years of detention. Alone and...
- Auteur:Bergen, DavidSommaire:
"From the streets of Danang, where a boy falls in with an American missionary, to the Canadian prairies, where an aging rancher finds himself smitten and a teenage boy's infatuation reveals his naiveté, and a young woman in a cloistered...
- Auteur:Thammavongsa, SouvankhamSommaire:
"In her stunning debut, Souvankham Thammavongsa captures the day-to-day lives of immigrants and refugees in a nameless city, illuminating hopes, disappointments, love affairs, and above all, the pursuit of a place to belong. An ex-boxer...
- Auteur:King, ThomasSommaire:
"Meet Bird and Mimi. The brilliant new novel from one of Canada's foremost authors. Inspired by a handful of old postcards, sent by Uncle Lenny nearly a hundred years before, Bird and Mimi attempt to trace the steps of Mimi...
- Auteur:Mootoo, ShaniSommaire:
"Some secrets never die... Priya and Alexandra have moved from the city to a picturesque countryside town. What Alex doesn't know is that in moving, Priya is running from her past--from a fraught relationship with an old friend, Prakash...
- Auteur:Adamson, GilSommaire:
"November 1917. William Moreland is in mid-flight. After nearly twenty years, the notorious thief, known as the Ridgerunner, has returned. Moving through the Rocky Mountains and across the border to Montana, the solitary drifter,...
- Auteur:Mandel, Emily St. JohnSommaire:
"From the award-winning author of Station Eleven, a captivating novel of money, beauty, white-collar crime, ghosts, and moral compromise in which a woman disappears from a container ship off the coast of Mauritania and a massive Ponzi...
- Auteur:Donoghue, EmmaSommaire:
Dublin, 1918. Ireland is ravaged by war and disease. Nurse Julia Power works in a quarantined maternity ward. Two outsiders step into her world, who she will connect with in unexpected ways.
- Auteur:Coady, LynnSommaire:
After her mother’s sudden death, Karen finds herself back in her childhood home in Nova Scotia for the first time in a decade, acting as full-time caregiver to Kelli, her older sister. Overwhelmed with grief and the daily needs of Kelli...
