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The Personal Book Shopper Contest: July's Book Picks Revealed #mybookshopper

This month's Personal Book Shopper panelists came back with a diverse range of titles for our winners. Read on to find out which three books they matched to each reader!

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Congratulations to the winners of July's Personal Book Shopper Contest!

Our panelists went to their corners, their hidey-holes, their secret places and have come back with their individual picks for each winner, using only five words! Crazy!

Let's meet our panelists:

Door #1: Corey Redekop writes sometimes (see: Shelf Monkey), publicizes the works of others more often (see: Goose Lane Editions), and aggrandizes himself most of all (see: his inflated sense of self-worth [you can see it from space!]). (Ed. Corey submitted his own bio. I can only see his sense of self-worth on sunny days between the hours of 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. Get on it, Corey!)
Door #2: Ryan Deschamps is twitterin' knitterin' former Haligonian, new Reginian librarian, who likes readable non-fiction, zombies and super heroes.
Door #3: It's a new car . . . and Steph VanderMeulen, indie bookseller, book blogger at Bella's Bookshelves and freelance copyeditor.

Our winners:

Shelley Savor: readaholic, greenishblue, curious, driven, pensive
Tracey G. Paris: Swims deep but loves deeper.
Avis Anderson: quiet, quirky, questioning, québécoise, quibbler

Corey's Picks:

Shelley Savor: readaholic, greenishblue, curious, driven, pensive
Shining at the Bottom of the Sea, (Penguin) by Stephen Marche
The World More Full of Weeping, (ChiZine) by Robert J. Wiersema
The Incident Report, (Pedlar) by Martha Baillie

Tracey G. Paris: Swims deep but loves deeper.
The Waterproof Bible, (Random House) by Andrew Kaufman
Raymond and Hannah, (Doubleday) by Stephen Marche
Because I Have Loved and Hidden It, (Cormorant) by Elise Moser

Avis Anderson: quiet, quirky, questioning, québécoise, quibbler
YOU comma Idiot, (Goose Lane) by Doug Harris
ManBug, (Arsenal Pulp Press) by George K. Ilsley
The Three Fates of Henrik Nordmark, (ECW Press) by Christopher Meades

Ryan's Picks:

Shelley Savor: readaholic, greenishblue, curious, driven, pensive
The Young in Their Country: and other stories, (Great Plains Publications) by Richard Cumyn
The Rehearsal, (McClelland & Stewart) by Eleanor Catton (it's greenishblue)
A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder, (Insomniac Press) by James De Mille

Tracey G. Paris: Swims deep but loves deeper.
The Water Man's Daughter, (McClelland & Stewart) by Emma Ruby-Sachs
The Watch That Ends the Night, (McGill-Queen's University Press) by Hugh MacLennan
Raising Orion, (Thistledown Press) by Lesley Choyce

Avis Anderson: quiet, quirky, questioning, québécoise, quibbler
Breakfast with Cora, by (McArthur & Company) Cora Tsouflidou
Cigar Box Banjo: Notes on Music and Life, (D & M Publishers) by Paul Quarrington
Chorus of Mushrooms, (NeWest Press) by Hiromi Goto

Steph's Picks:

Shelley Savor: readaholic, greenishblue, curious, driven, pensive
This Cake is for the Party, (Thomas Allen & Son) by Sarah Selecky
The Rehearsal, (McClelland & Stewart) by Eleanor Catton (Ed. Our first duplicate title!)
Come Thou Tortoise, (Knopf) by Jessica Grant

Tracey G. Paris: Swims deep but loves deeper.
The Bone Cage, (NeWest Press) by Angie Abdou
Late Nights on Air, (McClelland & Stewart) by Elizabeth Hay
Surfacing, (McClelland & Stewart) by Margaret Atwood

Avis Anderson: quiet, quirky, questioning, québécoise, quibbler
Sandra Beck, (House of Anansi) by John Lavery
Last Night in Montreal, (Unbridled Books) by Emily St John Mandel
Apocalypse for Beginners, (Knopf) by Nicolas Dickner

Join us again next month when we reveal a new twist on The Personal Book Shopper Contest. Think bigger, bookier and bloggier!

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