Winnipeg, MB - Polls are now open to select the book that will get Manitobans On The Same Page for 2014-2015. Everyone is invited to visit OnTheSamePage.ca to vote for the book they’d like to see featured in the next edition of this annual project, which encourages all Manitobans to read and talk about the same book at the same time.
The short list consists of:
- Imagining Winnipeg: History Through the Photographs of L.B. Foote by Esyllt W. Jones (University of Manitoba Press)
- North End Love Songs by Katherena Vermette (The Muses’ Company, an Imprint of J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing)
- Stuck in the Middle: Dissenting Views of Winnipeg by Bartley Kives & Bryan Scott (Great Plains Publications)
- The Wittenbergs by Sarah Klassen (Turnstone Press)
A reading from all four titles on the shortlist will be held at McNally Robinson Booksellers (1120 Grant Avenue) on the evening of Thursday, September 11, just before the voting closes on Monday, September 15.
On The Same Page was launched in 2008 and is a partnership between Winnipeg Public Library and The Winnipeg Foundation. Now in its seventh year, the program encourages participation throughout the province through a variety of author readings and special events, book giveaways, and promotions within libraries and bookstores. Previous titles featured have been: In Search of April Raintree by Beatrice Mosionier, Reading by Lightning by Joan Thomas, Juliana and the Medicine Fish by Jake MacDonald, Le soleil de lac qui se couche (The Setting Lake Sun) by J.R. Léveillé, Manitowapow, edited by Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair and Warren Cariou, and The Lucky Ones by Anne Mahon.