2011 Award-Winning Books

Award-Winning Books in the Atwater Library Collection

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2011 Award Winners in the Atwater Library Collection:

	Winner of the 2011 BMO Winterset Award The shell of the tortoise / Don McKay Call #: 819.1 M153s
	Winner of the 2011 British Columbia’s National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction The tiger: a true story of vengeance and survival / John Vaillant Call #: 799.2 V131t
	Winner of the 2011 CBC Canada Reads The best laid plans / Terry Fallis Call #: Fic Fal
	Winner of the 2011 Agatha Award for Best First Novel Learning to Swim / Sara J. Henry Call #: Fic Hen
	Winner of the 2011 Agatha Award for Best Novel Three-Day Town / Margaret Maron Call #: MYS Fic Mar
	Winner of the 2011 Crime Writers of Canada Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Crime Novel The Debba / Avner Mandleman Call #: Fic Man
	Winner of the 2011Crime Writers of Canada Arthur Ellis Award for Best Crime Non-fiction On the Farm / Stevie Cameron Call #: 364.1523 C182o
	Winner of the 2011 Governor General’s Literary Awards for Fiction Winner of the 2011 Rogers Writers’ Trust Prize for FictionThe Sisters brothers / Patrick deWittCall # : Fic deW
	Winner of the 2011 Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction Winner of the 2011 Governor General’s Literary Awards for Non-FictionMordecai / Charles ForanCall #: Bio R5315f
	WINNER of the 2011 Grand Prix du livre de Montréal Guyana / Elise Turcotte Call #: FR Fic Tur
	Winner of the 2011 Griffin Poetry Prize Ossuaries / Dionne Brand Call #: BLK 811.54B817o
	Winner of the 2011 Leacock Medal for Humour P ractical Jean / Trevor Cole Call #: Fic Col
	Winner of the 2011 QWF Award – Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction Niko / Dimitri Nasrallah Call #: QWF Fic Nas
	Winner of the 2011 QWF Award – Mavis Gallant Prize for non-fiction Bad Animals / Joel Yanofsky Call #: QWF 813.54 Y24b
	Winner of the 2011 QWF Award – Concordia University First Book Prize The truth of houses / Ann Scowcroft Call #: QWF 811.6 S421t
	Winner of the 2011 QWF Award – Cole Fondation Pize for Translation Apocalypse for beginners / Nicolas Dickner, translated by Lazer Lederendler Call #: QWF Fic Dic
	Winner of the Novel 2011 ReLit Award Blood Relatives / Craig Francis Power Call #: Fic Pow
	Winner of the 2011 Scotiabank Giller Prize Half-blood blues / Esi Edugyan Call #: BLK Fic Edu
	Winner of the 2011 Trillium Book Award The amazing absorbing boy / Rabindranath Maharaj Call #: Fic Mah
	Winner of the 2011 Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel The lock artist / Steve Hamilton Call #: MYS Fic Ham
	Winner of the 2011 National Book Awards for Fiction Salvage the bones / Jesmyn Ward Call #: BLK Fic War
	Winner of the 2011 National Book Awards for Non-Fiction The swerve / Stephen Greenblatt Call #: 940.21 G795s
	Winner of the 2011 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction Binocular vision / Edith Pearlman Call #: Fic Pe
	Winner of the 2011 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction The collected stories of Deborah Eisenberg / Deborah Eisenberg Call #: Fic Eis
	Winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction A visit from the goon squad / Jennifer Egan Call #: Fic Ega
	Winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Non-fiction The emperor of all maladies / Siddhartha Murkherjee Call #: 616.994 M953e
	Winner of the 2011 Commonwealth Writer`s Prize for Best Book The memory of love / Aminatta Forna Call #: BLK Fic For
	Winner of the 2011 Commonwealth Writer`s Prize for Best Book, Canada and the Caribbean Region Room / Emma Donoghue Call #: Fic Don
	Winner of the 2011 Crime Writers Association International Dagger Award Three seconds / Anders Roslund and Börge Hellström Call #: Fic Ros
	Winner of the 2011 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Let the great world spin / Colum McCann Call #: Fic McC
	Winner of the 2011 Man Booker Prize The sense of an ending / Julian Barnes Call #: Fic Bar
	Winner of the 2011 Orange Prize for Fiction The tiger’s wife / Téa Obreht Call #: Fic Obr
	Winner of the 2011 Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Book Award for Fiction Lyrics Alley / Leila Aboulela Call # : SC Fic Abo
	Winner of the 2011 Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Book Award for Non-Fiction Red Dust Road / Jackie Kay Call # : SC Bio K23r
	Winner of the 2011 Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Book Award for First Book T he Death of Lomond Friel / Sue Peebles Call # : SC Fic Pee