Award Winners

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  1. Harold Varmus

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  2. photoDavid Foster Wallace

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  3. Book ImageWhere Mountains Are Nameless: Passion and Politics in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

    Jonathan Waterman

    The "compelling" (Seattle Times) story behind a most sacred piece of American wilderness.More

  4. Book ImageLast Days of the Dog-Men: Stories

    Brad Watson

    "His people and dogs—those wonderful dogs!—come alive with honest, thrumming energy." —The New York Times Book ReviewMore

  5. Book ImageGlue

    Irvine Welsh

    An epic novel about the bonds of friendship from the author of Trainspotting.More

  6. Book ImageRailroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America

    Richard White

    "A powerful book, crowded with telling details and shrewd observations."  —Michael Kazin, New York Times Book ReviewMore

  7. Book ImageThe Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln

    Sean Wilentz

    Winner of the Bancroft Award: "Monumental…a tour de force…awesome in its coverage of political events."—Gordon Wood, New York Times Book ReviewMore

  8. Book ImageBreasts: A Natural and Unnatural History

    Florence Williams

    An engaging narrative about an incredible, life-giving organ and its imperiled modern fate.More

  9. Book ImageMichelle Obama: The First Lady in Photographs

    Deborah Willis, Emily Bernard

    A stunning, visual biography of Michelle Obama that finally puts her phenomenal fame into a cultural and historical context we can all understand.More

  10. 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

  11. Book ImageThe Bear Comes Home: A Novel

    Rafi Zabor

    Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction: "A hilarious, richly imagined bear's eye view of love, music, alienation, manhood and humanity . . . that recalls Pynchon at his most controlled."—Publishers WeeklyMore

  12. Book ImageThe Post-American World

    Fareed Zakaria

    “Zakaria . . . may have more intellectual range and insights than any other public thinker in the West.” —Boston Sunday GlobeMore

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