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  Under the Bridge:
  The True Story of the Murder of Reena Virk
  by Rebecca Godfrey

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  Dead Man In Paradise
  by J.B. MacKinnon

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  The Boys or,
  Waiting for the Electrician's Daughter
  by John Terpstra

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  The Golden Spruce:
  A True Story of Myth, Madness and Greed
  by John Vaillant

After an exciting inaugural year that saw Patrick Lane win for his memoir There Is a Season, the 2006 finalists for the British Columbia Award for Canadian Non-Fiction are Rebecca Godfrey, J.B. MacKinnon, John Terpstra, and John Vaillant.

The British Columbia Award for Canadian Non-Fiction celebrates the finest Canadian writers of literary non-fiction, and offers a major prize of $25,000. It is the only national book award to originate in BC. The winner of the second annual award will be announced at a special ceremony in Vancouver on May 26, 2006.

Please click on the book covers above to read the jury citations for each finalist.

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