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Book Award Winners
March 2025 |
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“One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years.
To read is to voyage through time.”
― Carl Sagan
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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Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice by Cristina Rivera GarzaIn the early hours of July 16, 1990, Liliana Rivera Garza was murdered by her abusive ex-boyfriend. A life full of promise and hope, cut tragically short, Liliana's story instead became subsumed into Mexico's dark and relentless history of domestic violence. With Liliana's case file abandoned by a corrupt criminal justice system, her family, including her older sister Cristina, was forced to process their grief and guilt in private, without any hope for justice.
2024 Pulitzer Prize Winner for a Memoir or Autobiography
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Soldiers and Kings : Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling
by Jason De Leâon
An internationally recognized anthropologist, who embedded himself within a group of smugglers moving migrants across Mexico over the course of seven years, presents this first-ever, character-driven look at human smuggling that revolves around the life and death of one coyote who falls in love and tries to leave smuggling behind.
2024 National Book Award Winner for Non-fiction
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Flags on the Bayou
by James Lee Burke
Accused of murder, an enslaved woman goes on the run with an abolitionist schoolteacher in the fall of 1863, dodging constables and slave catchers, in the new novel by the New York Times best-selling author of If I Disappear.
2024 Edgar Award Winner for Best Novel
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Thornhedge
by T. Kingfisher
On the day of her birth, kind hearted Toadling was stolen from her family by the fairies, but she grew up safe and loved in the warm waters of faerieland. Once an adult though, the fae ask a favor of Toadling: return to the human world and offer a blessing of protection to a newborn child. Centuries later, a knight approaches a towering wall of brambles, where the thorns are as thick as your arm and as sharp as swords. He's heard there's a curse here that needs breaking, but it's a curse Toadling will do anything to uphold…
2024 Hugo Award Winner for Best Novella
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Uprootedby Naomi NovikA tale inspired by the "Beauty and the Beast" story follows the experiences of Agnieszka, who becomes the latest girl chosen to serve an immortal wizard who protects their village from the malevolent forces of a nearby forest.
2015 Nebula Award Winner for Best Novel
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Killers of the Flower Moon : the Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
by David Grann
The best-selling author of The Lost City of Z presents a true account of the early 20th-century murders of dozens of wealthy Osage and law-enforcement officials, citing the contributions and missteps of a fledgling FBI that eventually uncovered one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history.
2018 Edgar Award Winner for Best Fact Crime
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Super Fly : the Unexpected Lives of the World's Most Successful Insects
by Jonathan P. Balcombe
A biologist puts a spotlight on lowly, annoying flies and describes the vital roles they actually play in every ecosystem as pollinators, waste-disposers and food source, highlighting unique types including the Petroleum Fly and the Chocolate Midge.
2021 National Outdoor Book Award Winner for Natural History
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My Sister, the Serial Killer
by Oyinkan Braithwaite
Realizing that her beautiful, beloved younger sister has murdered yet another boyfriend, an embittered Nigerian woman works to direct suspicion away from the family, until a handsome doctor she fancies asks for her sister's number.
2019 Anthony Award Winner for Best First Novel
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