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National Book Awards - Finalist

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W. E. B. Du Bois, 1919-1963

The Fight for Equality and the American Century

David Levering Lewis A John Macrae/Holt Paperbacks Book

This monumental biography--eight years in the research and writing--treats the early and middle phases of a long and intense career: a crucial fifty-year...

Black Caucus of the American Library Association Literary Award - Winner - Outstanding Contribution
National Book Awards - Finalist - Nonfiction
Pulitzer Prize - Winner - Biography

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A Man in Full

A Novel

Tom Wolfe Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Big men. Big money. Big games. Big libidos. Big trouble. A decade ago, The Bonfire of the Vanities defined an era--and established Tom Wolfe as our prime...

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National Book Awards - Finalist - Fiction

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Complications

A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science

Atul Gawande Picador

In gripping accounts of true cases, surgeon Atul Gawande explores the power and the limits of medicine, offering an unflinching view from the scalpel’s edge....

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ALA Notable Books - Winner - Nonfiction
National Book Awards - Finalist - Nonfiction
PEN Literary Award - Nominee - First Nonfiction

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102 Minutes

The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers

Jim Dwyer and Kevin Flynn Times Books

The dramatic and moving account of the struggle for life inside the World Trade Center on the morning of September 11, when every minute counted At 8:46 am...

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The Rest of Love

Poems

Carl Phillips Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

Striking new poems from a writer whose "lyric gift . . . outstrips all diversionary maneuvers." (Carol Moldaw, The Antioch Review) The light, for as far...

National Book Awards - Finalist - Poetry
Lambda Literary Award - Nominee - Gay Men's Poetry
Triangle Awards - Winner - Gay Poetry

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Life on the Outside

The Prison Odyssey of Elaine Bartlett

Jennifer Gonnerman Picador

Life on the Outside tells the story of Elaine Bartlett, who spent sixteen years in Bedford Hills prison for selling cocaine--a first offense--under New York's...

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Varieties of Disturbance

Stories

Lydia Davis Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

Lydia Davis has been called “one of the quiet giants in the world of American fiction” (Los Angeles Times), “an American virtuoso of the short story form”...

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Trance

A Novel

Christopher Sorrentino Picador

2005 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction A Los Angeles Times Book Review Favorite Book of the Year A Publishers Weekly Top Ten Novel of the Year ...

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Star Dust

Poems

Frank Bidart Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

In 2002, Frank Bidart published a sequence of poems, Music Like Dirt, the first chapbook ever to be a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. From the beginning, he...

National Book Awards - Finalist - Poetry
Triangle Awards - Nominee - Gay Men's Poetry

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Out of Eden

An Odyssey of Ecological Invasion

Alan Burdick Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

Now as never before, exotic animals and plants are crossing the globe, borne on the swelling tide of human traffic to places where nature never intended them...

National Book Awards - Finalist - Nonfiction
National Outdoor Book Awards - Winner - Natural History

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Capacity

Poems

James McMichael Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

Capacity, the extraordinary new collection from the award-winning poet James McMichael, deliberates an earth that supplies what people need to live. Land,...

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Averno

Poems

Louise Glück Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

Averno is a small crater lake in southern Italy, regarded by the ancient Romans as the entrance to the underworld. That place gives its name to Louise Glück’s...

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Fieldwork

A Novel

Mischa Berlinski Picador

When his girlfriend takes a job in Thailand, Mischa Berlinski goes along for the ride, planning to enjoy himself and work as little as possible. But one...

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W.E.B. Du Bois

A Biography

David Levering Lewis A John Macrae/Holt Paperbacks Book

The two-time Pulitzer Prize–winning biography of W. E. B. Du Bois from renowned scholar David Levering Lewis, now in one condensed and updated volume William...

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National Book Awards - Finalist
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Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution

Woody Holton Hill and Wang

Average Americans Were the True Framers of the Constitution Woody Holton upends what we think we know of the Constitution’s origins by telling the history...

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