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National Book Awards 2009

Since 1950, The National Book Awards have become the nation’s preeminent literary prizes, and The National Book Awards Ceremony and Dinner the most important event on our literary calendar. Today, the Awards are given to recognize achievements in four genres: Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Young People’s Literature.

If you’re looking for something to read, try these:

Colum McCann won the fiction prize for “Let the Great World Spin,” a novel about daring, luck and mortality in the pre-digital world of 1970s New York.

T.J. Stiles’ biography of Cornelius Vanderbilt, “The First Tycoon,” was the nonfiction winner.

Keith Waldrop’s “Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy” won for poetry.

The young people’s literature award went to Phillip Hoose’s “Claudette Colvin,” based on the true story of an early civil rights heroine.

It Happened in Italy

Author Elizabeth Bettina spoke to an enthralled audience on Wednesday, November 18, 2009.  She discussed her experience of discovering that many of her childhood village’s residents risked their lives to shelter and save hundreds of Jews during the Holocaust.

You can reserve Bettina’s book, It Happened in Italy, here.

Halloween highlights

Halloween is celebrated in style at the library!

What your neighbor recommends

From Lynne:

You say you don’t like mysteries?

Try Sue Grafton’s novels, from A to U (so far.)  Lighter than your typical heavy, explicit “CSI” story, Grafton will have you laughing while you try to figure out her plots.

Enjoy one, go ahead and read more, so far there are 21!

Would you like to do a display for the library?  Contact Rosemarie at the Reference desk – 421-4530.  We’d love to know what you’re reading!