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2007 GILLER PRIZE WINNER!!!!
Former CBC Radio producer turned novelist Elizabeth Hay's new book "Late Nights on Air" has won Canada's richest literary prize, the Scotiabank Giller Prize.

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Former US Justice Department Nazi war crimes investigator and intelligence journalist John Loftus has ventured into the world of fiction with "The Witness Tree". It examines the Dulles family: John Foster Dulles, Secretary of State, Allen Dulles, the first head of the CIA and their little known sister Eleanor who was critical to the founding of the state of Israel.

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Lorri Neilsen Glenn only 'came out' as a poet in 2001. Before that she had been an academic. Now she is poet laureate of Halifax, Nova Scotia. The reasons for her rapid rise are clear. She is a stunning new writer who can stir laughter and tears with equal skill. Lorri Neilsen Glenn spoke recently about her new collection "Combustion" as she prepared for a reading at a Toronto book store.

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Roman Griffen reveiws Tess Gerritsen's latest book, The Keepsake.
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Cookbook author Bonnie Stern has just published her most personal book yet. Friday Night Dinners is Bonnie's attempt to share the tradition she was raised with and has continued with her own children: family, friends and, of course, great food. She talks about Friday Night Dinners from the kitchen of the Bonnie Stern Cooking School in Toronto.

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Edith Wharton was the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize, a celebrated designer and a close friend of fellow novelist Henry James. Hermione Lee, who has previously written a biography of Virginia Woolf says Wharton was both chronicler and critic of life in the upper classes of New York City at the dawn of the 20th Century.

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How much of the media coverage of the seemingly always threatening flu pandemic is hype and how much is real? Doctors Vincent Lam and Colin Lee prescribe a cool head and realistic precautions in their new book The Flu Pandemic and You.

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Bernie Lucht-Ideas for a New Century-Bookbits author interview Bernie Lucht-Ideas for a New Century-Bookbits author interview
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The CBC Radio One program Ideas is one of the longest running, and smartest shows on the air. Executive Producer Bernie Lucht has edited a collection of interviews and essays by some of the guests who have appeared on the show since the turn of the millennium: including former host Lister Sinclair, Louise Arbour, David Schindler and many others into "Ideas for a New Century".

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First time novelist Mark McNay makes an impressive debut with "Fresh" the story of a day-dreaming worker in a Scottish chicken processing plant.

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So, who's going to run the world of the future? According to Parag Khanna, Senior Research Fellow in the American Strategy Program at the New America Foundation , it probably won't be the United States of America. His new book The Second World looks to Europe and China for leadership in the new Global Order.

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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values by Robert Pirsig is a classic book which affected an entire generation of readers. Thirty-four years later, Canadian writer Mark Richardson has hoped on the back of his own motorcycle and headed out on the route followed by Pirsig in his book, and has come up with a worth successor to the original Zen and Now.

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Dorris Heffron loves dogs and wolves. "City Wolves", her latest novel, is both the story of how canines became domesticated but also how a rural Nova Scotia woman battled her way through chauvinism to become Canada's first female veterinarian and one of the Sourdoughs of the Dawson Gold Rush.

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Roman Griffen reveiws Anita Shreve's latest book, Testimony.
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Journalist turned author Rebecca Eckler has moved away from highly personal non-fiction subjects, like her unexpected pregnancy in Knocked Up, to writing the first of a series of teen fiction books: Rotten Apple.

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Orhan Pamuk won the 2006 Nobel Prize for Literature. This Turkish-born writer, and Columbia University professor is the author of several books including: "Snow", "The Black Book" and "Istanbul: Memories of a City" for which he was awarded the Nobel. His latest book "Other Colors: Essays and a Story" is exactly what the subtitle suggests.

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