National Book Award Winners
The National Book Awards were announced this past week. The winners are:
For Fiction, Shadow Country by Peter Matthiessen. A reworking of the author’s trilogy that chronicles the legacy of E.J. Watson, a notorious desperado gunned down by his neighbors along the lawless nineteenth-century frontier of the Florida
Everglades.
For Young People’s Literature, What I Saw and How I Lied by Judy Blundell. In 1947, with her jovial stepfather Joe back from the war and family life returning to normal, teenage Evie, smitten by the handsome young ex-GI who seems to have a secret hold on Joe, finds herself caught in a complicated web of lies whose devastating outcome change her life and that of her family forever.
Call your library to reserve a copy or place holds on copies of these books in LINKcat, the library’s online catalog.
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2 Comments Add your own
1. Kathy | November 25th, 2008 at 1:38 am
The ceiling of the Sequoya Library looks like it wasn’t finished. Like they ran out of materials or money or something wierd. No explanation is adequate to explain spoiling “the look” of the new library!
2. lauren Thompson | February 26th, 2009 at 3:18 pm
Hey i love the book what i saw and how i lied
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