Library Awards

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  1. Book ImageThe Blind Side: Evolution of a Game

    Michael Lewis

    "Lewis has such a gift for storytelling...he writes as lucidly for sports fans as for those who read him for other reasons."—Janet Maslin, New York TimesMore

  2. Book ImageEarly Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest: Poems

    B. H. Fairchild

    Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award.More

  3. Book ImageEly Jacques Kahn, Architect

    Jewel Stern, John A. Stuart

    One of the fabled "three Napoleons" of New York (with Raymond Hood and Ralph Walker) yet almost unknown today, Ely Jacques Kahn had a nearly half-century career and some three dozen of his buildings still grace the New York cityscape.
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  4. Book ImageFelt: Poems

    Alice Fulton

    Winner of the Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry from the Library of Congress, chosen by the Los Angeles Times as one of the Best Books of 2001, and as a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award.More

  5. Book ImageThe Forgotten Waltz: A Novel

    Anne Enright

    2012 Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Award for Excellence in Literature

    "This stunning novel by a Booker Prize winner . . . Offers up its brilliance by way of astonishingly effective storytelling."—Booklist, starred reviewMore

  6. Book ImageGarbage: A Poem

    A. R. Ammons

    Winner of the National Book Award.More

  7. Book ImageThe Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family

    Annette Gordon-Reed

    Winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize: “[A] commanding and important book.”—Jill Lepore, The New YorkerMore

  8. Book ImageInner City Blues: A Charlotte Justice Novel

    Paula L. Woods

    This debut novel in a new series featuring black LAPD homicide detective Charlotte Justice will make mystery fans wanna holler — with delight.More

  9. Book ImageThe Mission: Waging War and Keeping Peace with America's Military

    Dana Priest

    Walk with America's generals, grunts, and Green Berets through the maze of unconventional wars and unsettled peace.More

  10. Book ImageNew York: An Illustrated History of the People

    Allon Schoener

    The definitive pictorial history of the diverse peoples of the world who have made New York their home.More

  11. Book ImageThe Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea

    Sebastian Junger

    A real-life thriller that leaves us with the taste of salt on our tongues and a terror of the deep.More

  12. Book ImageStiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

    Mary Roach

    "One of the funniest and most unusual books of the year....Gross, educational, and unexpectedly sidesplitting."—Entertainment WeeklyMore

  13. Book ImageStitches: A Memoir

    David Small

    The #1 New York Times bestseller and National Book Award finalist that "breaks new ground for graphic novels" (Francois Mouly, art editor, The New Yorker).More