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Book Award Winners
June 2025 |
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“One benefit of summer was that each day we had more light to read by.”
― Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle
Welcome to our newest issue of the Book Award Winners newsletter. This quarterly newsletter provides reading suggestions of celebrated titles both new and old. All titles are available in print through the Forsyth County library system, and some are available for immediate download in e-book or audiobook format on your phone or tablet. Download the Libby and Hoopla apps or ask a librarian about our NC Digital Library for more information. |
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Every Living Thing : the Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life
by Jason Roberts
The best-selling author of A Sense of the World tells the story of two scientific rivals and their mission to survey all life and the clash of ideas that had profound consequences for humanity.
2025 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award
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We Solve Murdersby Richard OsmanInvestigator Steve Wheeler comes out of retirement when his daughter-in-law, Amy, needs help finding out who left a dead body with a huge bag of money on a remote island.
2025 Libby Award for Best Mystery
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Good Girl
by Aria Aber
Nila, a nineteen-year-old German-Afghan, explores art, philosophy and freedom In Berlin's vibrant underground, but must confront rising racial tensions and her own identity after falling under the influence of a controlling American writer.
2025 Fiction Shortlist for Women's Prize
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Code Noir: Fictionsby Canisia LubrinCode Noir has fifty-nine linked fictions - vivid, unforgettable, multi-layer fragments filled with globe-wise characters who desire to live beyond the ruins of the past. Ranging in style from contemporary realism to dystopia, from futuristic fantasy to historical fiction, this inventive, shape-shifting braid of stories exists far beyond the enclosures of official decrees.
2025 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction
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Lot: Stories by Bryan WashingtonComing of age in his family's Houston restaurant, a mixed-heritage teen navigates bullying, his newly discovered sexual orientation and the ripple effects of a disadvantaged community impacted by an affair, a youth baseball season, and displaced hurricane survivors.
2019 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction
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The Authenticity Project
by Clare Pooley
When Julian Jessup, an eccentric, lonely artist who believes that most people aren’t really honest with each other, writes the truth about his own life in a green journal and leaves it behind, others start writing in their own truth, which leads to unexpected friendship and love.
2021 Debut Romantic Novel of the Year
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Mercury Pictures Presents
by Anthony Marra
After America's entry into WWII, Maria Lagana, an associate producer at Mercury Pictures, rises through a maze of conflicting politics, divided loyalties and jockeying positions until a man from her imprisoned father's past threatens her carefully constructed facade.
2022 David J Langum Sr. Prize for American Historical Fiction
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