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Book Award Winners
September 2025 |
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“It was a beautiful bright autumn day, with air like cider and a sky so blue you could drown in it.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Outlander
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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The Tainted Cup
by Robert Jackson Bennett
Investigating a seemingly impossible death, detective Ana Dolabra, whose brilliance is matched only by her eccentricities, and her new magically altered assistant, Din, who is trying to keep his own secrets safe from her piercing intellect, uncover a scheme that threatens the safety of the Empire itself.
2025 Hugo Award for Best Novel
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Native Nations : a Millennium in North America
by Kathleen DuVal
An award-winning historian tells the story of the Native nations, from the rise of ancient cities to the present, reframing North American history with Indigenous power and sovereignty at its center and showing how the influence of Native peoples remained a constant and will continue far into the future.
2025 Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in History
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Holy City
by Henry Wise
A deputy sheriff in rural Southern Virginia must weigh his personal guilt and his public duty when an innocent man is arrested in the brutal murder of an old friend and an unpredictable female detective is hired to assist him.
2025 Edgar Award for Best First Novel by an American Author
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Mapping the Interior
by Stephen Graham Jones
Times have been tough for twelve-year-old Junior, his mom, and especially for his younger brother Dino. When his dad makes a surprise visit late one night, Junior is desperate to make him part of their family again. The only problem is Dad drowned eight years ago. And bringing back the dead always comes at a cost…
2017 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Long Fiction
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Mosquito Supper Club: Cajun Recipes from a Disappearing Bayou
by Melissa Martin
An up-and-coming Cajun culinary master infuses local culinary customs and evocative stories into a collection of recipes from her rapidly disappearing homeland that utilize such regional staples as blackberries, shrimp, oysters and sugarcane.
2021 IACP American Cookbook Award Winner
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To Win a Prince
by Toni Shiloh
Fashion aficionado Iris Blakely dreams of using her talent to start a business to help citizens in impoverished areas, but when she discovers that Ekon Diallo will be her business consultant, the battle between her desires and reality begins. Can she keep her heart and business intact despite the challenges she faces?
2023 Christy Award for Contemporary Romance
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The Sun and Her Flowersby Rupi KaurFrom the #1 New York Times best-selling author of milk and honey comes a long-awaited second collection of poetry, a transcendent journey about growth and healing, ancestry and honoring one's roots and expatriation and rising up to find a home within yourself, augmented by the author's own illustrations.
2017 Goodreads Choice Award for Poetry
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