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The literary award picks fiction, non-fiction, books for young adults, and books for children.

The Odd Book of Baby Names by Anees Salim won the best English fiction award and Tagore & Gandhi: Walking Alone, Walking Together by Rudrangshu Mukherjee won the best English non-fiction category. 

"The Memory Keeper of Kyiv" is set in both modern-day Illinois and 1930s Ukraine, when 3.9 million people died due to Stalin's efforts at forced collectivization.

"The Memory Keeper of Kyiv" is set in both modern-day Illinois and 1930s Ukraine, when 3.9 million died due to Stalin's efforts at forced collectivization.

A time capsule created in 1995 by students from a Moose Jaw, Sask. high school was recently discovered 18 years after it was intended to be opened.

S. Nadja Zajdman has written a very compelling book that deserves more than one read as it is a story of her mother’s remarkable life. She weaves passages from her

What looks to be Canada’s first literary festival to focus on Haudenosaunee writing and storytelling will be held on Aug. 25 and 26.

For centuries, the Akimel Oodham—the River People—lived on the banks of the Gila River. The bountiful river attracted birds of all kinds, and its waters irrigated the Akimels crops—corn, beans and squash and, eventually, white winter wheat. The river provided them with food to eat and wares to sell; by the 19th century they were the most dominant venders of white wheat in Territorial Arizona, as anthropologist Tom Sheridan writes in the book Paths of Light. But by the 1860s, white ...