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Handpicked by Dorothy May 2020 |
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The Pulitzer Prize winners were announced today, and Colson Whitehead won for his second time. He's only the 4th author ever to win two Pulitzers in the fiction category. Click on the titles below to check out or place holds on the ebook editions of these award-winning titles.
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The nickel boys : a novel by Colson WhiteheadFollows the experiences of two African-American teenagers at an abusive reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida.
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The orphan master's son by Adam JohnsonThe son of an influential father who runs an orphan work camp, Pak Jun Do rises to prominence using instinctive talents and eventually becomes a professional kidnapper and romantic rival to Kim Jong Il.
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Olive Kitteridge
by Elizabeth Strout
The larger-than-life world of Olive Kitteridge, a retired school teacher and unofficial town crier in a small coastal town in Maine, is revealed in a series of luminous stories that explore her diverse roles in many lives, including a lounge singer haunted by a past love, a young man grieving over his lost mother, her stoic husband, and her own resentful son.
2009
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Empire falls
by Richard Russo
Miles Roby tries to hold his family together while working at the Empire Grill in the once-successful logging town of Empire Falls while dealing with the imperious Mrs. Whiting, the heir to a faded logging and textile legacy, in this evocative novel by the author of Nobody's Fool.
2002
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Interpreter of maladies : stories
by Jhumpa Lahiri
In nine stories imbued with the sensual details of Indian culture, Lahiri charts the emotional journeys of characters seeking love beyond the barriers of nations and generations.
2000
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The shipping news
by Annie Proulx
Surprising transformations take place when a newspaperman's elderly aunt and two daughters decide to move back to their family home on the coast of Newfoundland.
1994
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