The National Book Award Winners were announced today.
Fiction
Winner:
Shadow Country by Peter Matthiessen
Finalists:
The Lazarus Project by Aleksandar Hemon
Telex from Cuba by Rachel Kushner
Home by Marilynne Robinson
The End by Savatore Scibona
Non-Fiction
WINNER:
The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed
Finalists:
This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust
The Dark Side: The Inside [...]
The New York Times Bestseller List
November 16th, 2008
Hardcover Fiction
DIVINE JUSTICE, by David Baldacci. Members of Washington’s Camel Club rally to save their leader, who is hiding out in the town of Divine, Va.
SALVATION IN DEATH, by J. D. Robb. Lt. Eve Dallas investigates the murder of a priest who was not who he seemed; by [...]
Yesterday, my husband and I went to an incredible exhibit called Body Worlds. Have you heard of it? Basically, it’s a exhibit featuring real human bodies that are preserved using a method called plastination. Everything is preserved and you can see anything from the heart, brain, blood vessels, nerves, muscles, bones both in whole bodies [...]
The New York Times Bestseller List
November 9th, 2008
Hardcover Fiction
THE GATE HOUSE, by Nelson DeMille. In a sequel to “The Gold Coast” (1990) a tax attorney and his ex-wife explore a reconciliation.
EXTREME MEASURES, by Vince Flynn. Mitch Rapp teams up with a C.I.A. colleague to fight a terrorist cell — and the politicians who would rein [...]
Perhaps kid friendly Halloween books and this close up photo of my husband’s Joker make up don’t go together. But there you have it!
This Halloween has been one of the busiest I’ve ever experienced. I’m barely keeping my head above water. The kids and I have gone to no less than six Halloween themed storytimes [...]
