National Book Award Winning Authors

Kill 'Em and Leave: Searching for James Brown and the American Soul James McBride

KILL 'EM AND LEAVE: SEARCHING FOR JAMES BROWN AND THE AMERICAN SOUL is the accurate and true understanding of the man who was one of the most influential voices on American music, and is written by the only man on earth who could have collected the complete story.   This title has been selected as a Booksmith...

Apeirogon Colum McCann

APEIROGON is a powerful novel about two men on the opposing sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict who each lose a daughter to the sectarian violence around them, but eventually come together and use their grief to try and break the conflict open. McCann actually based the men on the real life...

Absolution Alice McDermott

ABSOLUTION is a poignant tale of women and girls living on the periphery of the Vietnam War. Readers will feel the contradictions and moral ambiguities of the human heart. Absolution was named BOOK OF THE YEAR by several media outlets.

 

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Dad's Maybe Book Tim O'Brien

DAD'S MAYBE BOOK is a collection of essays and anecdotes written by National Book Award-winning author Tim O'Brien as a way to give his sons advice for the future, as well as a sense of who their father was as a man. Hilarious and tender, this is a touching and moving document of a father's love and his desire to give...

The Man Without a Shadow Joyce Carol Oates

THE MAN WITHOUT A SHADOW explores neuroscience through both a personal and a professional experience. A scientist is perplexed at where to draw the line when it comes to ethics, obsession and passion. 

 

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Let Us Descend Jesmyn Ward

LET US DESCEND is Jesmyn Ward's most magnificnet novel - and that's high praise. The prose is both beautiful and heart-wrenching as the spirit of an African warrior leads her grandaughter through an unimaginable journey.

 

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The Nickel Boys Colson Whitehead

THE NICKEL BOYS revolves around two young men sentenced to a juvenile reformatory in 1960s Jim Crow Florida where they and the other residents are subject to the cruel abuse of the staff, both physically and sexually. One, Elwood Curtis, keeps the words of Martin Luther King Jr. in his mind and heart, trying to live Dr...

Crook Manifesto Colson Whitehead

CROOK MANIFESTO looks at 1970s New York in all its seedy glory. It is a darkly funny tale of a city under siege.

 

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