NoveList will soon have a new look and fresh content helping you connect readers to their next favourite book. Some of the new features include appeal factors, reading recommendations, and easy list printing. Get a sneak peek of the new site here.

Summer Reading Club time is here!

This year's theme is Destination Jungle. Learn more about it at the national SRC website.

PRL Children’s Programming Boxes can be booked for the summer. Boxes that work especially well with this year’s theme include:

• Jungle Fun
• Monkeys
• Zany Zoo
• Spiders
• Creepy Bugs
• Caterpillars and Butterflies
• Summer Fun
• At the Beach

Nikolski by Nicolas Dickner, translated by Lazer Lederhendler has won the 2010 CBC Canada Reads contest.

The 2010 Canada Reads books were announced on December 1. Canada Reads celebrates five Canadian books for three months online, on the air and at public events. It all leads up to a week-long show hosted by Jian Ghomeshi. In this annual title fight, five celebrity panelists defend their favourite work of Canadian fiction. One by one, books are voted off the list, until one panelist triumphs with the book for Canada to read this year. The winning title will be announced nationally on Friday, March 12, 2010.

This year the panelists and books are:

The first phase of selection in the Alberta Readers' Choice Awards is now complete. Nominations from libraries around Alberta have chosen the top ten Albertan books. During phase two a panel of jurors will narrow the field down to the top five finalists. The final phase will start in February, when a public vote will decide which of the finalists will win the award. Find out more at their website.

The ten finalists are:

• The Frog Lake Reader by Myrna Kostash
• Crossing the Swell by Tori Holmes

The 2009 Governor General Award winners were announced on November 17. Congratulations to the winners:

Congratulations to Linden MacIntyre for winning the 2009 Scotiabank Giller Prize! More details at the Giller Award Site.

 The Bishop’s Man
9780307357069
Random House Canada

NorQuest College is pleased to announce that a new interactive ESL teaching resource is available free of charge to ESL providers and libraries within Alberta, either online or in a CD format.

Interactive English – Volume 1 is an interactive resource for teaching English as a second language (ESL). Language instruction is imbedded into real-life scenarios, such as finding a job or visiting a doctor, and set within a Canadian cultural context.

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Congratulations to Lawrence Hill's The Book of Negroes, winner of the 2009 CBC Canada Reads contest. The other contenders were: The Fat Woman Next Door is Pregnant by Michel Tremblay, Fruit by Brian Francis, Mercy Among the Children by David Adams Richards, and The Outlander by Gil Adamson.