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The Endless Steppe: Growing Up in Siberia
The Vanishing of Katharina Linden
Blitzcat
Only You Can Save Mankind
Nice and Mean
Cruisers Book 1
The City of Ember
Crispin: The End of Time
Lost Goat Lane
Amelia Rules! Volume 1: The Whole World's Crazy
Middleworld
How I, Nicky Flynn, Finally Get a Life
Crunch
Countdown
As Simple as It Seems
Wolf Brother
Lob
Sparks
The Ogre of Oglefort
The Pickle King


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Monday, May 17, 2010

National Business Book Award 2010

Finalists have been named for the $20,000 National Business Book Award, honoring the author of an outstanding Canadian business-related book published in English or French. Quill & Quire reported that the shortlist includes:

Coal Black Heart: The Story of Coal and the Lives It Ruled by John DeMont
Gravity Shift: How Asia’s New Economic Powerhouses Will Shape the Twenty-First Century by Wendy Dobson
Laying It on the Line: Driving a Hard Bargain in Challenging Times by Buzz Hargrove
Manulife: How Dominic D’Alessandro Built a Global Giant and Fought to Save It by Rod McQueen
Why Your World Is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller: Oil and the End of Globalization by Jeff Rubin

The winner will be announced June 9 in Toronto.

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