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Book Award Winners May 2018
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ALA Notable BooksWhile not exactly award winning books, the following books are found on the annual Notable Books List published by the American Library Association. The list began in 1944 and includes books that the committee feel are good or important reads. You can find the full 2018 list here. Previous lists can be found here.
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Solar Bones by Mike McCormackA man’s spirit ruminates on his life and all the entwined events and circumstances in the vast systems of time and history that lead him to that exact moment.
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Days Without End
by Sebastian Barry
Entering the U.S. army after fleeing the Great Famine in Ireland, seventeen-year-old Thomas McNulty and his brother-in-arms, John Cole, experience the harrowing realities of the Indian wars and the American Civil War between the Wyoming plains and Tennessee.
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The Radium Girls : the Dark Story of America's Shining Women
by Kate Moore
A full-length account of the struggles of hundreds of women who were exposed to dangerous levels of radium while working factory jobs during World War I describes how they were mislead by their employers and became embroiled in a groundbreaking battle for workers' rights.
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The Black Roseby Thomas B. CostainAfter he is forced to leave Oxford for participating in the riots of 1273, Walter of Gurnie travels to China with his friend Tristam.
1945
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The Spirit of St. Louis by Charles A. LindberghPresents Lindbergh's own account of his historic transatlantic solo flight in 1927.
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Resistance, Rebellion, and Deathby Albert CamusThe author's personal beliefs and his reactions to the major issues of his lifetime are reflected in these selected writings.
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Endless Love by Scott SpencerDavid Axelrod's memories take him back to his seventeenth year when one obsessive act--setting a "perfectly safe" fire to the home of the girl he loved and continues to love passionately and sacrificially--changed the shape of his life forever.
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Murrow : His Life and Timesby A. M. SperberA portrait of one of the preeminent journalists of the twentieth century traces Edward R. Murrow's beginnings in the South, follows him during the Depression, and chronicles his rise during World War II.
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The Other Side by Mary GordonA tale spanning two continents brings three generations of the McNamara clan together to help fulfill a sixty-year-old promise to Ellen, the family's dying matriarch.
1990
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Triangle : the Fire that Changed Americaby David Von DrehleDescribes the devastating 1911 fire that destroyed the Triangle Shirtwaist factory in New York's Greenwich Village, the deaths of 146 workers in the fire, the Jewish and Italian immigrants, mostly women, who made up the majority of the victims, and the implications of the catastrophe on twentieth-century politics and labor relations.
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