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Book Award Winners
December 2024 |
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“I’ve always thought that a good book should be either the entry point inward, to learn about yourself, or a door outward, to open you up to new worlds.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid
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 Third Gilmore Girl
by Bishop, Kelly
An award-winning and actress chronicles her six decades in show business, from Broadway to Hollywood with A Chorus Line, Dirty Dancing, Gilmore Girls and much more.
2024 Goodreads Readers' Favorite Memoir
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Orbitalby Harvey, SamanthaIn an elegy to our humanity, environment, and planet, six astronauts, selected for one of the last space station missions, leave their lives behind to travel at a speed of over 17,000 miles an hour to orbit Earth, witnessing the marks of civilization below.
2024 Booker Prize Winner
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James by Everett, PercivalDescribes the events of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn through the eyes of the enslaved Jim, who decides to hide on nearby Jackson Island after learning he is to be sold to a man in New Orleans.
2024 National Book Award for Fiction
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Challenger
by Higginbotham, Adam
Based on fascinating new archival research and deep reporting, this gripping and riveting narrative provides the definitive story of the 1986 Challenger disaster and how it led to America changing its view of itself.
2024 Kirkus Prize for Non-Fiction
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Bel Cantoby Patchett, AnnWhen terrorists seize hostages at an embassy party, an unlikely assortment of people are thrown together, including American opera star Roxane Coss and Mr. Hosokawa, a Japanese CEO and her biggest fan.
2002 Orange Prize for Fiction
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Kushiel's Dart
by Carey, Jacqueline
Born with a scarlet mote in her left eye, Phédre nó Delaunay is sold into indentured servitude as a child. When her bond is purchased by an enigmatic nobleman, she is trained in history, theology, politics, foreign languages, the arts of pleasure, and above all, the ability to observe, remember, and analyze. Exquisite courtesan, talented spy...and unlikely heroine. But when Phédre stumbles upon a plot that threatens her homeland, she has no choice but to act.
2002 Locus Award for Best First Novel
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Neuromancerby Gibson, WilliamHenry Dorsett Case was the sharpest data-thief in the business, until vengeful former employees crippled his nervous system. But now a new and very mysterious employer recruits him for a last-chance run. The target: an unthinkably powerful artificial intelligence orbiting Earth in service of the sinister Tessier-Ashpool business clan. With a dead man riding shotgun and Molly, mirror-eyed street-samurai, to watch his back, Case embarks on a dangerous adventure.
1985 Hugo Award for Best Novel
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The Cooking Gene by Twitty, MichaelA renowned culinary historian offers a fresh perspective on our most divisive cultural issue, race, in this illuminating memoir of Southern cuisine and food culture that traces his ancestry—both Black and white—through food, from Africa to America and slavery to freedom.
2018 James Beard Foundation Book of the Year
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