At the Library

Books about:

Ian Brown has been awarded this year's Charles Taylor Prize for excellence in literary non-fiction.  You can see a full list of previous winners here.

At the Library

Books about:

• True Crime books about murder
• Arthur Ellis Award winners for best non-fiction (formerly True Crime)

Authors who write True Crime:

General

I just watched a terrific program on Nature, about colony collapse disorder.  What's CCD?  It's a condition where bee colonies have been dying off, recently at alarming rates.   Scientists and researchers are working around the clock to find an answer and cure, because without bees, the human race is doomed. 

 Finalists for The Charles Taylor Prize, have been announced.  The award is given each year to a Canadian aut

Here are some titles from Booklist's Top 10 Sci-Tech Books of 2009:
 

Booklist has published a list of its best adult religion books reviewed in 2009:
 

Two-time Giller award winner M. G. Vassanji has won the 2009 Governor-General's Literary Award for Nonfiction, for his book "A Place Within: Rediscovering India".  

We remember 1989 for a lot of things, not the least of which is the fall of the Berlin Wall, which set off a chain-reaction of events that led to the end of The Cold War and communist rule in Eastern Europe:   

Time 1989: The Year that Shaped Today's World  

Nominees for the Governor-General's Award and the Writers' Trust of Canada have been named.  A few lucky titles found themselves on both lists.  All titles are available at the library.  Check them out!

2009 Governor General's Literary Awards Finalists - Nonfiction