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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.

The first book in Robert J. Sawyer's new WWW trilogy is out. Wake is the story of a blind girl who discovers that the World Wide Web is slowly becoming a conscious and highly intelligent entity.

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.

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.

The War in Iraq continues to take the lives of American soldiers and journalist and military historian Gwynne Dyer says that situation is unlikely to change until after the 2008 Presidential election. "The Mess They Made" is Dyer's third book on the Iraq war and is a stinging indictment of the policies of US President George W. Bush.

John Lennon was always the most controversial Beatle. He was also the most complicated. Biographer Philip Norman, who's book Shout about the Fab Four is gold standard amongst Beatle fans, spoke with many of the most important people inside John's tight circle, including his widow Yoko Ono. The result is the massive new biography John Lennon: The Life.

"Enter the Babylon System" by Pound Magazine founders Rodrigo Bascunan and Christian Pearce examines the often deadly intersection between Hip-Hop culture and Gun culture. ... music rap hip-hop guns murder poverty Bookbits

Roman Griffen reveiws David Liss' latest book, The Whiskey Rebels Bookbits Interview Nora Roberts Booktrailer Sophie Kinsella Jodi Picoult Russell Banks Danielle Steele Meg Wolitzer Richard Price Mary Higgins Clark Today Show Ellen Oprah Winfrey Regis

Roman Griffen reveiws Anita Shreve's latest book, Testimony. Bookbits Interview Nora Roberts Booktrailer Sophie Kinsella Jodi Picoult Russell Banks Danielle Steele Meg Wolitzer Richard Price Mary Higgins Clark Today Show Ellen Oprah Winfrey Regis

The woman who created iconic "Anne of Green Gables" is the subject of a new biography by scholar Mary Henley Rubio. "Lucy Maud Montgomery: The Gift of Wings" reveals the tragic life of the woman who made Prince Edward Island famous around the world.

Kenneth Whyte is the editor and publisher of MacLean's Magazine. The subject of his new book, The Uncrowned King was also an editor and publisher, but also had the title of owner. The subject of Kenneth Whyte's biography is William Randolph Hearst, the son of George Hearst the richest man in America. Hearst was given a million dollar bankroll by his mother to buy his way into the New York newspaper business and the rest is literally history.

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.

Roman Griffen reveiws Tess Gerritsen's latest book, The Keepsake. Bookbits Interview Nora Roberts Booktrailer Sophie Kinsella Jodi Picoult Russell Banks Danielle Steele Meg Wolitzer Richard Price Mary Higgins Clark Today Show Ellen Oprah Winfrey Regis

The hottest new writer from Britain is Nikita Lalwani. Her brilliant first novel "The Gifted" tells the story of a young Indian girl, raised in Wales, who has a gift for mathematics. But is it her gift or the relentless pressure of her success-obsessed father?

Author Joy Fielding is back with another thriller. The protagonist of"Heartstopper" is the deputy sheriff in a small Florida town dealing with the disappearances of attractive teenage girls.

Bret "The Hitman" Hart was a World Wrestling Federation champion in and out of the ring. Beyond his remarkable physical skills he also spoke out on behalf of his wrestling brothers and sisters. His new book "Hitman" is a warts-and-all look at his life, his father Stu the wrestling teacher, his profession and the colourful characters of wrestling.

The author of the best-selling "Griffon and Sabine" series talks about his sensual book "The Venetian's Wife".

Author Aatish Taseer was the result of a week of passion between a young Indian journalist and one of then Pakistan Prime Minister Bhutto's closest supporters. Aatish grew up in India, but always wanted to understand his father, his father's religion and his father's culture. Stranger to History begins in Istanbul, then travels to Mecca, Iran and finally to his father's home in Pakistan on the night Benazir Bhutto, the daughter of the man his father had so long admired, was assassinated....

The late Carol Shields won both Pulitzer prize and the Governor-General's Award for "The Stone Diaries". She was in the midst of writing it when she spoke with Bookbits about her just published novel "The Republic of Love".

When the other local farmers ask Jon Katz what he grows on his farm, he replies: "stories". The canine loving author with the feline name is back with more dispatches from Bedlam Farm in "Dog Days".

In "Shanghai Girls" novelist Lisa See mines the rich vein of the Chinese side of her heritage for a story of sisters who emigrate to America as war comes to their country.

For one year food journalists Alisa Smith and JB MacKinnon decided to eat only food which had been grown or raised close to home. Now everyone is trying The 100 Mile Diet.

In 2006 eleven climbers died on Mt. Everest. Author, adventurer and mountaineer Nick Heil has been on the world's tallest mountain and recounts the story of the men who died and the miraculous survival of one left for dead in "Dark Summit".

The Wasted Vigil by novelist Nadeem Aslam explores life and death, right and wrong, evil and good, power and innocence in post 9/11 Afghanistan.

Colin Angus is the first man to circumnavigate the planet using only human power. He began his adventure with one partner, but when they had a falling out his fiancee Julie joined him. 4000 chocolate bars, 72 inner tubes, 250 kgs of freeze-dried foods, 31 dorado fish (caught from the sea), 2 offshore rowboats, 4 bicycles, 80 kgs of clothing, two tropical storms and two mid-Atlantic hurricanes later, he tells the story of how they made it home in his book "Beyond the Horizon".