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Book Award Winners March 2024
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"“When you read a book, you acquire knowledge. When you look at a flower, your imagination grows wild." — Michael Bassey Johnson 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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Being Henry : the Fonz . . . and Beyond
by Henry Winkler
Henry Winkler, launched into prominence as “The Fonz” in the beloved show Happy Days, has transcended the role that made him who he is. Brilliant, funny, and vulnerable, Henry shares the disheartening truth of his childhood, the difficulties of a life with severe dyslexia, the pressures of a role that takes on a life of its own, and the path forward once your wildest dream seems behind you.
Goodreads 2023 Choice Award Winner for Humor
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Prophet Songby Paul LynchOn a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother of four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find two officers from Ireland’s newly formed secret police on her step. They have arrived to interrogate her husband, a trade unionist. Ireland is falling apart, caught in the grip of a government turning towards tyranny. As the life she knows and the ones she loves disappear before her eyes, Eilish must contend with the dystopian logic of her new, unraveling country.
2023 Booker Prize Winner
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The Twyford Code
by Janice Hallett
Out of prison after a long stretch, Steven “Smithy” Smith investigates a mystery that has haunted him for forty years—the discovery of an unsolved code in the margins of a famous children's book by disgraced author Edith Twyford. The very same code that led to the disappearance of his remedial English teacher.
2023 Crime & Thriller British Book Award Book of the Year
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Children of Time
by Adrian Tchaikovsky
The inhabitants of a dying Earth set out to take refuge on a terraformed planet, but this planet's life progression has rendered it mankind's worst nightmare. Soon, the two civilizations find themselves on a collision course. As the fate of humanity hangs in the balance, who are the true heirs of this new Earth?
2023 Hugo Award Winner for Best Series
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Constructing a Nervous System
by Margo Jefferson
Award-winning critic and memoirist Margo Jefferson has lived in the thrall of a cast of others—her parents and maternal grandmother, jazz luminaries, writers, artists, athletes, and stars. In this new memoir, Jefferson brings these figures to life as she interrogates her own self as well as the act of writing memoir, and probes the fissures at the center of American cultural life. 2023 Winner of the Rathbones Folio Prize Book of the Year
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Sea of Poppies
by Amitav Ghosh
Preparing to fight China's nineteenth-century Opium Wars, a motley assortment of sailors and passengers, including a bankrupt rajah, a widowed tribeswoman, and a free-spirited French orphan, comes to experience family-like ties that eventually span continents, races, and generations.
2008 Crossword Book Award for Fiction
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How to Be Heard : Secrets for Powerful Speaking and Listening
by Julian Treasure
Renowned five time TED speaker and author Julian Treasure reveals how to speak so that people listen – and how to listen so that people feel heard. Author Julian Treasure offers an inspiring vision for a sonorous world of effective speaking, listening and understanding.
2019 Audie Award for a business and personal development audiobook
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Speak
by Laurie Halse Anderson
Melinda Sordino busted an end-of-summer party by calling the cops. Now her old friends won’t talk to her, and people she doesn’t even know hate her from a distance. The safest place to be is alone, inside her own head. But even that’s not safe. Because there’s something she’s trying not to think about, something about the night of the party that, if she let it in, would blow her carefully constructed disguise to smithereens. And then she would have to speak the truth.
1999 National Book Award Finalist
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