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ALA Notable Books - Winner

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The Hours

A Novel

Michael Cunningham Picador

A daring, deeply affecting third novel by the author of A Home at the End of the World and Flesh and Blood. In The Hours, Michael Cunningham, widely...

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ALA Notable Books - Winner - Fiction
ALA Stonewall Book Award - Winner - Fiction
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award - Nominee - Fiction
Boston Book Review - Nominee - Fiction
National Books Critics Circle Awards - Nominee - Fiction
Book Sense Book of the Year Award - Nominee - Adult Fiction
PEN/Faulkner Award - Winner - Fiction
Lambda Literary Award - Nominee - Gay Men's Fiction
Triangle Awards - Winner - Gay Men's Fiction
Pulitzer Prize - Winner - Fiction

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Learning Human

Selected Poems

Les Murray Farrar, Straus and Giroux

A bighearted selection from the inimitable Australian poet's diverse ten-book body of work Les Murray is one of the great poets of the English language,...

ALA Notable Books - Winner - Poetry

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Bucking the Tiger

A Novel

Bruce Olds Picador

An American Library Association Notable Book John Henry Holliday was an Ivy League-educated dentist from a genteel Georgia family when at the age of...

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Opened Ground

Selected Poems, 1966-1996

Seamus Heaney Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

As selected by the author, Opened Ground includes the essential work from Heaney's twelve previous books of poetry, as well as new sequences drawn from two of...

ALA Notable Books - Winner - Poetry
Nobel Prize For Literature

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Tales from Ovid

24 Passages from the Metamorphoses

Ted Hughes Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

A powerful version of the Latin classic by England's late Poet Laureate, now in paperback.When it was published in 1997, Tales from Ovid was immediately...

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ALA Notable Books - Winner - Poetry
Whitbread Book Award - Winner - This book was a winner in both Book of the Year and the Poetry categories. This award was renamed the Costa Book Award in 2006.

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The Bounty

Poems

Derek Walcott Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

The Bounty was the first book of poems Walcott published after winning the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature. Opening with the title poem, a memorable elegy to...

ALA Notable Books - Winner - Poetry
Nobel Prize For Literature

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Beowulf

A New Verse Translation

Seamus Heaney Farrar, Straus and Giroux

A brilliant and faithful rendering of the Anglo-Saxon epic from the Nobel laureate. Composed toward the end of the first millennium of our era, Beowulf is...

ALA Notable Books - Winner - Poetry
Whitbread Book Award - Winner - This book was a winner in both the Book of the Year and Poetry categories. This award was renamed the Costa Book Award in 2006.

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The Corrections

A Novel

Jonathan Franzen Picador

Stretching from the Midwest at midcentury to the Wall Street and Eastern Europe of today, The Corrections brings an old-fashioned world of civic virtue and...

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International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award - Nominee - Fiction
L.A. Times Book Prize - Nominee - Fiction
National Book Awards - Winner - Fiction
Book Sense Book of the Year Award - Nominee - Adult Fiction
PEN/Faulkner Award - Nominee - Fiction

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The Future of the Past

Alexander Stille Picador

A fascinating tour of the past as it exists today, and of the dangers that threaten it, through incisive portraits of our attempts to maintain it: the...

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ALA Notable Books - Winner - Nonfiction

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I Sailed with Magellan

Stuart Dybek Picador

Following his renowned The Coast of Chicago and Childhood, story writer Stuart Dybek returns with eleven masterful and masterfully linked stories about...

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Society of Midland Authors Book Awards - Winner - Adult Fiction

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Gilead

A Novel

Marilynne Robinson Picador

Twenty-four years after her first novel, Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson returns with an intimate tale of three generations from the Civil War to the...

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ALA Notable Books - Winner - Fiction
L.A. Times Book Prize - Finalist - Fiction
National Book Critics Circle Awards - Winner - Fiction
Ambassador Book Award - Winner - Fiction
Book Sense Book of the Year Award - Nominee - Adult Fiction
Christianity Today Book Award - Fiction
PEN/Faulkner Award - Nominee - Fiction
Midwest Booksellers' Choice Award - Winner - Nonfiction
Society of Midland Authors Book Awards - Winner - Adult Fiction
Pulitzer Prize - Winner - Fiction

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The Madonna of Excelsior

A Novel

Zakes Mda Picador

"A generous, patient, wry and intelligent voice...[that] suggests not just a writer who can seduce us through beautiful language and unfailing humor. We also...

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Hurston/Wright LEGACY Award - Finalist - Fiction
Hurston/Wright LEGACY Award - Nominee - Fiction

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Streets in Their Own Ink

Poems

Stuart Dybek Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

"Streets in Their Own Ink . . . has a gritty realism infused with a sense of the marvelous." --Edward Hirsch, The Washington Post In a city like that one...

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The Assassins' Gate

America in Iraq

George Packer Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

Named one of the Best Books of 2005 by The New York Times, The Washington Post Book World, The Boston Globe, The Chicago Tribune, The San Francisco Chronicle...

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Helen Bernstein Book Award - Excellence in Journalism

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The Pickup

Nadine Gordimer Farrar, Straus and Giroux

The Nobel Laureate's psychologically penetrating story of the love affair between a rich South African and the illegal alien she "picks up" on a whim Who...

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Being Dead

A Novel

Jim Crace Farrar, Straus and Giroux

A haunting new novel about love, death, and the afterlife, from the author of Quarantine Baritone Bay, mid-afternoon. A couple, naked, married almost thirty...

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National Book Critics Circle Awards - Winner - Criticism

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