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Thursday, April 21, 2011

Pulitzer Winners @ EOL

The Pulitzer Prize winners were announced earlier this week, and we've got them at the library - check it out:


Fiction - A Visit From the Good Squad by Jennifer Egan

General Non-Fiction -The Emperor of All Maladies:A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee

Biography - Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow

History - The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery by Eric Foner

Poetry - The Best of It: New and Selected Poems by Kay Ryan


We also have many of the finalists including:

Fiction
The Privileges by Jonathan Dee
The Surrendered by Chang-rae Lee










Non-Fiction
Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History by S.C. Gwynne

The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brain by Nicholas Carr

History

Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South by Stephanie McCurry

Biography
The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century by Alan Brinkley

Mrs. Adams in Winter: A Journey in the Last Days of Napoleon by Michael O'Brien

Poetry
The Common Man by Maurice Manning

There's something here for everyone, stop by and check one out!
-katie m.
Posted by Emmet O'Neal Library at 9:38 AM

1 comment:

Amanda said...

I've been meaning to read that Jennifer Book! No better time than now.

Thursday, April 21, 2011 11:13:00 AM

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