RBC Taylor Prize names short list

Five non-fiction books are shortlisted for the RBC Taylor Prize. A threemember jury announced finalists for the $30,000 award, to be handed out Feb. 26: James Maskalyk’s Life on the Ground Floor; Tanya Talaga’s Seven Fallen Feathers; Max Wallace’s In the Name of Humanity; Daniel Coleman’s Yardwork: A Biography of an Urban Place; and Stephen R. Bown’s Island of the Blue Foxes.