Dans son journal intime daté de 1989, Rose-Marie relate les événements étranges qui se déroulent dans les bois où elle se terre avec sa maman et le petit copain de cette dernière à la suite de son propre enlèvement et d'un vol...
Governor General's Literary Awards 2020
Congratulations to the 2020 Governor General’s Literary Award Winners! It has been a pleasure to work with the Canada Council for the Arts to bring you the 2020 winners in accessible formats. As they have in previous years, the Council granted us early access to the winners' list, which made it possible for us to have them here for you today. The full list of winners, and further information about the GG's and Canada Council for the Arts, can be found on the Governor General's Literary Awards website.
Check out some of the 2020 finalists, below, and read about the 14 winners, here! Including Disfigured, by Amanda Leduc, which is the first Canadian title to be published in all accessible and traditional formats simultaneously!
More titles will be added to this collection over the coming month, so feel free to check back to see what has been included. While we cannot always produce every longlisted title, if our collections do not contain a book you would like to read, or your preferred format is not available, we encourage you to send us a request! To access our request form, log into your NNELS account and search for the book you want. If we do not currently have the book in our libraries, there will be a link to the Title Request Form above the filters on any page of search results.
For more great Canadian reading, check out some of the previous years' winners and nominees of the Governor General's Literary Awards!
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Author:Blais, FrançoisSummary: - Author:Fontaine, ValérieSummary:
Une fillette vivait seule avec sa mère. Mais voilà que cette dernière tombe amoureuse… et qu'elle fait entrer, sans le savoir, le grand méchant loup dans leur maison. Dès lors, les sourires tombent. Et les hurlements commencent. La...
- Author:Dommange, ThomasSummary:
Ce qui est, est deux fois : une fois comme être générique, une fois comme être singularisé par ses manières. Mais tant que les manières d'être continuent de renvoyer à un être qui les possèdent, tant qu'elles ne sont pas...
- Author:Bélanger, JenniferSummary:
Une jeune femme aux prises avec des douleurs chroniques cherche à comprendre et à apprivoiser son mal. Depuis quelque temps, elle s'évanouit dans les lieux publics, sans que la médecine puisse l'expliquer. Des années plus tôt,...
- Author:Cassidy, SaraSummary:
Resourceful fourteen-year-old Odette is on the move again, traveling as a stowaway on a cheese cart with her hapless mother, Anneline. They are in Burgundy, France, in 1799, fleeing yet another calamity caused by Anneline (who is prone...
- Author:Carson, AnneSummary:
Anne Carson's new work that reconsiders the stories of two iconic women—Marilyn Monroe and Helen of Troy—from their point of view
Norma Jeane Baker of Troy is a meditation on the destabilizing and destructive power of beauty,... - Author:Massoutre, GuylaineSummary:
Il y a d'abord une violence aveugle et indicible. Les disparus, les torturés, les fusillés, les exilés, les prisonniers politiques de la dictature militaire en Argentine, entre 1976 et 1983. Puis une femme écrivaine, professeure et...
- Author:Goyette, SusanSummary:
Sue Goyette propose dans ce livre étonnant rien de moins que la biographie de l’Océan! La poète de Halifax réinvente l’univers de l’Atlantique Nord à coups d’images et de métaphores percutantes, de nouveaux mythes et de légendes...
- Author:Dumont, DawnSummary:
Tout est là : voici la vie sur la réserve, en haute définition. Dawn, la narratrice, revisite sa vie familiale, se replonge dans ses années d'école et s'engage résolument sur la voie de l'avenir. Situé quelque part entre le roman d'...
- Author:Kane, DonnaSummary:
Orrery is a collection that orbits around the theme of Pioneer 10, an American space probe launched in 1972 to study Jupiter's moons. Having achieved many firsts before reaching Jupiter and a few more after being hurled away from the...
- Author:Tamaki, JillianSummary:
A crew of resourceful neighbors comes together to prepare a meal for their community. Includes a recipe and an author's note about the volunteering experience that inspired the book.
- Author:Horvath, PollySummary:
From Newbery Honor— and National Book Award—winning author Polly Horvath comes a story of four sisters searching for home. Fiona, Marlin, Natasha, and Charlie McCready are left on their own when their missionary parents are washed away...
- Author:Cook, ChristopherSummary:
“Everyone hears voices. I’m treated like I’m broken for admitting it.”Can a weekend trip to visit family ever be smooth? Nick was hoping for a quick dinner at his brother Reid’s house when he stopped by with his seventeen-year-old...
- Author:Murakami, SachikoSummary:
Render (v.tr.): to submit, as for consideration; to give or make available; to give what is due or owed; to give in return, or retribution; to surrender; to yield. To represent; to perform an interpretation of; to arrange. To express in...
- Author:Fontaine, NaomiSummary:
Naomi Fontaine raconte à Shuni l'histoire du peuple innu avec amour, passion et dignité. Prix des collégiens 2020 Finaliste Prix Voix autochtones 2020 Finaliste Prix Une ville un livre (Ville de Québec) 2020 Résumé Naomi Fontaine écrit...
- Author:St. Bernard, Donna-Michelle, Albert, Kern, McKim, Andy, Parasram, JiveshSummary:
"Compassion is good, but it’s just motivation. Cars need engines. Movements need mobilization."Through spoken word, storytelling and hip hop, acclaimed wordsmith Donna-Michelle St. Bernard illuminates racial discrimination, the...
- Author:Thomas, RebeccaSummary:
What does it mean to be Mi'kmaq? And if Swift Fox can't find the answer, will she ever feel like part of her family?
When Swift Fox's father picks her up to go visit her aunties, uncles, and cousins, her belly is already full of... - Author:Fan, Terry, Fan, DevinSummary:
In a world built for Perfect Pets, Barnabus is a Failed Project, half mouse, half elephant, kept out of sight until his dreams of freedom lead him and his misfit friends on a perilous adventure. A stunning picture book from...
- Author:Robertson, DavidSummary:
Narnia meets traditional Indigenous stories of the sky and constellations in an epic middle-grade fantasy series from award-winning author David Robertson.
Morgan and Eli, two Indigenous children forced away from their families... - Author:Simard, MatthieuSummary:
A novel about silence, tinged with the fantastic, The Country Will Bring Us No Peace sneaks the brutality of grief into your imagination. Simon and Marie can't seem to have a baby. And so they flee the city for an idyllic village, where...
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