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by Mira Grant ,

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Nominated for a Shirley Jackson Award for best horror novel (2011)

Mira Grant weaves a nightmarish yet thrilling tale about a world that banished cancer and cured the common cold, but in doing so created something new, something terrible that no one could stop.... read more

The Autobiography of an Execution

by David R. Dow ,

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Winner of the Barnes & Noble Discover Award for non-fiction (2011)

It this spellbinding true crime narrative, Dow takes us inside of prisons, inside the complicated minds of judges, inside execution-administration chambers, into the lives of death row inmates... ... read more



Other Award Winners

  1. Cleopatra
    Cleopatra
    By Stacy Schiff ,
    Winner of the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography (2011).
  2. Columbine
    Columbine
    By Dave Cullen ,
    Winner of the Edgar Award Winner for Best Fact Crime (2010).
  3. Dave the Potter
    Dave the Potter
    By Laban Carrick Hill ,
    Recipient of the Caldecott Honor for the most distinguished American picture book (2011)
  4. Ship Breaker
    Ship Breaker
    By Paolo Bacigalupi ,
    Michael Printz Award Winner (2011) and a National Book Award finalist (2010).
  5. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
    Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
    By Grace Lin ,
    Newbery Honor (2010)
  6. Julie Andrews' Collection of Poems, Songs, and Lullabies
    Julie Andrews' Collection of Poems, Songs, and Lullabies
    By Julie Andrews ,
    Grammy Award Winner - Children's Best Spoken Word (2011)
  7. The Lion & the Mouse
    The Lion & the Mouse
    By Jerry Pinkney ,
    Caldecott Winner (2010)
  8. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
    Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
    By Grace Lin ,
    Newbery Honor (2010)

Historical Awards

Pulitzer Prize:

  • The Founding of New England by James Truslow Adams
  • The Supreme Court in United States History by Charles Warren
  • Icebound by Owen Davis
  • Barrett Wendell and His Letters by M.A. Dewolfe Howe 
  • The Thought and Character of William James by Ralph Barton Perry
  • The Road to Reunion: 1865-1900 by Paul Buck
  • The Late George Apley by J.P. Marquand
  • Pedlar's Progress: The Life of Bronson Alcott by Odell Shepard 
  • Admiral of the Ocean Sea by Samuel Eliot Morison
  • The Age of Jackson by Arthur Schelesinger Jr.
  • Scientists Against Time by James Phinney Baxter
  • Forgotten First Citizen: John Bigelow by Margaret Clapp
  • The Uprooted by Oscar Handlin
  • Selected Poems, 1928-1958 by Stanley Kunitz
  • John Paul Jones by Samuel Eliot Morison
  • The Edge of Sadness by Edwin O'Connor
  • Memoirs: 1925-1950 by George Kennan
  • Children of Crisis Volumes II and III by Robert Coles
  • Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam
  • George Washington, vol IV: Anguish and Farewell, 1793-1799 by James Thomas Flexner
  • O'Neill, Son and Artist by Louis Sheaffer
  • Jefferson and His Time, Vols I-IV by Dumas Malone
  • Beautiful Swimmers: Waterman, Crabs and the Chesapeake Bay by William R. Warner
  • The Prince of Our Disorder: The Life of  T.E. Lawrence by John E. Mack
  • Elbow Room by John Alan McPherson
  • The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer
  • The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder
  • American Primitive by Mary Oliver
  • Bloom Country: Loose Tails by Berke Breathed
  • Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe by David Herbert Donald
  • Betrayal: Crisis in the Catholic Church by the Investigative Staff of the Boston Globe
  • The Lion and the Throne by Catherine Drinker Bowen

National Book Award:

  • The Lion and the Throne: The Life and Times of Sir Edward Coke (1552-1634) By Catherine Drinker Bowen
  • Memoirs: 1925-1951 by George Kennan
  • An Unfinished Woman: A Memoir by Lillian Hellman
  • Cocteau: A Biography by Francis Steegmuller
  • Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam by Frances Fitzgerald
  • George Washington, vol IV: Anguish and Farewell, 1793-1800
  • Deeper into Movies by Pauline Kael
  • White House Years by Henry Kissinger
  • Walter Lippmann and the American Century by Ronald Steel
  • The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder
  • Victory Over Japan: A Book of Stories by Ellen Gilchrist
  • Memoirs 1925-1950 by George Kennan

Caldecott Medal:

  • Saint George and the Dragon, Illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman, retold by Margaret Hodges

Newbery Medal:

  • The Story of the Author of Little Women: Invincible Louisa by Cornelia Miegs
  • Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli

Grammy Award:

  • America: The Audiobook narrated by Jon Stewart
  • With Ossie and Ruby: In this Life Together by Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee

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