2009 Award-Winning Books

Award-Winning Books in the Atwater Library Collection

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2009 Award Winners in the Atwater Library Collection:

	WINNER of the 2009 CBC Canada Reads The book of Negroes / Lawrence Hill. Call #: BLK Fic Hil
	WINNER of the 2009 Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction Shock troops : Canadians fighting the Great War, 1917-1918 / Tim Cook. Call #: 940.41 C771s
	WINNER of the 2009 Crime Writers of Canada Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel Too close to home / Linwood Barclay. Call #: MYS Fic Bar
	WINNER of the 2009 Crime Writers of Canada Arthur Ellis Award for Best Non-Fiction Mafiaboy : how I cracked the Internet and why it’s still broken / Michael Calce, with Craig Silverman. Call #: QWF 364.16 C144m
	WINNER of the 2009 Governor General’s Literary Awards for English-Language Fiction The mistress of nothing / Kate Pullinger. Call #: Fic Pul
	WINNER of the 2009 Governor General’s Literary Awards for English-Language Non-fiction A place within : rediscovering India / M.G. Vassanji. Call #: 813.54 V337p
	WINNER of the 2009 Grand Prix du livre de Montréal L’énigme du retour : roman / Dany Laferrière. Call #: BLK QWF FR Fic Laf
	Canadian WINNER of the 2009 Griffin Poetry Prize The sentinel : poems / A.F. Moritz. Call #: 811.54 M862s
	WINNER of the 2009 QWF Award – Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction WINNER of the 2009 QWF Award – McAuslan First Book PrizeThe cello suites : J.S. Bach, Pablo Casals, and the search for a Baroque masterpiece / Eric Siblin.Call #: QWF 787.4 S564c c.2
	WINNER of the 2009 QWF Translation Prize Nikolski : a novel / Nicolas Dickner. Translated by Lazer Lederhendler. Call #: Fic Dic / QWF Fic Dic
	WINNER of the 2009 Scotiabank Giller Prize The bishop’s man : a novel / Linden MacIntyre. Call #: SC Fic MacI
	WINNER of the 2009 Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour Never shoot a Stampede Queen : a rookie reporter in the Cariboo / Mark Leiren-Young. Call #: 070.43 L531l
	WINNER of the 2009 Winterset Award Come, thou tortoise / Jessica Grant. Call #: Fic Gra
	WINNER of the 2009 Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize The golden mean : a novel / Annabel Lyon. Call #: Fic Lyo
	WINNER of the 2009 Agatha Award for Best First Novel The sweetness at the bottom of the pie / Alan Bradley. Call #: MYS Fic Bra
	WINNER of the 2009 Agatha Award for Best Novel The brutal telling / Louise Penny. Call #: MYS Fic Pen
	WINNER of the 2009 Edgar Awards for Best Novel Blue heaven / C.J. Box. Call #: MYS Fic Box
	WINNER of the 2009 Edgar Awards for First Novel The foreigner / Francie Lin. Call #: MYS Fic Lin
	WINNER of the 2009 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction Wolf Hall / Hilary Mantel. Call #: Fic Man
	WINNER of the 2009 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Netherland / Joseph O’Neill. Call #: Fic ONe
	WINNER of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Olive Kitteridge / Elizabeth Strout. Call #: Fic Str
	WINNER of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction Slavery by another name : the re-enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II / Douglas A. Blackmon. Call #: BLK 305.896 B629s
	WINNER of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for History The Hemingses of Monticello : an American family / Annette Gordon-Reed. Call #: BLK 973.4 H488g
	WINNER of the 2009 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Best Book Award The slap / Christos Tsiolkas. Call #: Fic Tsi
	WINNER of the 2009 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Best First Book Award, Africa Region Say you’re one of them / Uwem Akpan. Call #: BLK Fic Akp
	WINNER of the 2009 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Best Book Award, Canada and the Caribbean Region Good to a fault / Marina Endicott. Call #: Fic End
	WINNER of the 2009 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Best Book Award, Europe and South Asia Region Unaccustomed earth / Jhumpa Lahiri. Call #: Fic Lah
	WINNER of the 2009 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Best First Book Award, Europe and South Asia Region A case of exploding mangoes / Mohammed Hanif. Call #: Fic Han
	WINNER of the 2009 CWA Dagger Awards for Best Crime Novel The chalk circle man / Fred Vargas ; translated from the French by Siân Reynolds. Call #: MYS Fic Var
	WINNER of the 2009 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Man gone down / Michael Thomas. Call #: BLK Fic Tho
	WINNER of the 2009 Man Booker Prize for Fiction Wolf Hall / Hilary Mantel. Call #: Fic Man
	WINNER of the 2009 Orange Prize for Fiction Home / Marilynne Robinson. Call #: Fic Rob
	WINNER of the 2009 Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Book Award for Fiction Kieron Smith, boy / James Kelman. Call #: SC Fic Kel