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August 25
2013 PEN/Hemingway Award
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The Yellow Birds: A Novel
Kevin Powers · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 240
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A novel written by a veteran of the war in Iraq,"The Yellow Birds" is the harrowing story of two young soldiers trying to stay alive."The war tried to kill us in the spring." So begins this powerful account of friendship and loss. In Al Tafar, Iraq, twenty-one-year... |
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September 29
2010 Minnesota Book Award
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The Book of Night Women
Marlon James · Riverhead Books
Pages: 417
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"The Book of Night Women" is a sweeping, startling novel, a true tour de force of both voice and storytelling. It is the story of Lilith, born into slavery on a Jamaican sugar plantation at the end of the eighteenth century. Even at her birth, the slave women around her recognize... |
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October 27
2012 National Book Award
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The Round House
Louise Erdrich · Harper
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One of the most revered novelists of our time, and a brilliant chronicler of Native-American life, Louise Erdrich returns to the territory of her Pulitzer Prize finalist, "The Plague of Doves". With "The Round House", she transports readers to the Ojibwe reservation... |
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November 17
2012 LA Times Bestseller
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San Miguel
T.C. Boyle · Viking
Pages: 384
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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Women, a historical novel about three women's lives on a California island.
On a tiny, desolate, windswept island off the coast of Southern California, two families,... |
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December 8
2011 Orange Prize
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The Tiger's Wife: A Novel
TÉA Obreht · Random House
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In a Balkan country mending from war, a young doctor is compelled to unravel the mysterious circumstances surrounding her beloved grandfatherrs' recent death. Searching for clues, she turns to his worn copy of "The Jungle Book" and the stories he told her of his encounters... |
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