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CBC Canada Reads 2018 March 26 - 29, 2018
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The boat people
by Sharon Bala
Journeying to what he hopes will be a new life with his young son on a rusty cargo ship with 500 fellow refugees from Sri Lanka's civil war, a young father arrives on Vancouver's shores, where the group is thrown into a detention processing center and threatened with deportation amid accusations of terrorism. A first novel.
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Precious Cargo
by Craig Davidson
For readers of Kristine Barnett's The Spark, Andrew Solomon's Far From the Tree and Ian Brown's The Boy in the Moon, here is a heartfelt, funny and surprising memoir about one year spent driving a bus full of children with special needs.
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The marrow thieves
by Cherie Dimaline
In a world where most people have lost the ability to dream, a fifteen-year-old Indigenous boy who is still able to dream struggles for survival against an army of "recruiters" who seek to steal his marrow and return dreams to the rest of the world
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WINNER! Forgiveness : A Gift from My Grandparents by Mark SakamotoIntertwines the experiences of two Canadian families during World War II, one in which a son is captured by the Japanese and sent to prison camp and the other, a Japanese Canadian family who is sent to a work farm in Alberta. 10,000 first printing.
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American war
by Omar El Akkad
A first novel by an award-winning journalist depicts a second American Civil War and devastating plague in the late 21st century that forces a family into a camp for displaced people, where a young woman is befriended by a mysterious functionary who would transform her into a living weapon.
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