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Award Season for Books

Published October 11, 2013 Submitted by: Erin

Truthfully, it is always award season for books. There are awards for every genre and style of writing. Here a few that made the national news recently. We have copies of winning titles just for you.

National Book Award Longlists

The Man Booker Prize

Nobel Prize in Literature

Book Awards from the American Library Association

The lowland : a novel / Jhumpa Lahiri.

Dear life : stories / Alice Munro.

A tale for the time being / Ruth Ozeki.

Bleeding edge / Thomas Pynchon.

Going clear : Scientology, Hollywood, and the prison of belief / Lawrence Wright.

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