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Coming Soon! The Booklist Reader
Cindy and Lynn: Changes are afoot at Bookends. Booklistonline is redesigning its bevy of blogs into a new one new blog presence called The Booklist Reader. Bookends will still exist but we will...
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2014 National Book Award Longlist for Young People’s Literature
On September 15th, the National Book Foundation released the longlist for their National Book Award for Young People’s Literature. Many of the longlisted authors are seasoned writers of young people’s...
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2014 National Book Award Longlist for Poetry
On September 16th the Longlist for the National Book Foundation’s book award for Poetry was announced. The list consists of ten critically acclaimed American poets whose work was chosen out of the 219...
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2014 National Book Award Longlist for Nonfiction
This morning, the National Book Foundation announced the longlist for the 2014 National Book Award for Nonfiction. While graphic novels have been finalists in the Young People’s Literature category,...
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2014 National Book Award Longlist for Fiction
This morning, the National Book Award foundation announced the longlist for the 2014 National Book Award for Fiction. The list is an interesting mix of novels and short story collections mostly...
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The Best Freebie Friday Ever: Thousands of Ebooks FOREVER
Teachers and librarians, rejoice! Here’s the best Freebie Friday EVER. Thousands of ebooks for your unlimited use, for free, with NO END DATE OR LIMIT! Currently available for the iPad, Epic! is a...
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2014 Dayton Literary Peace Prize Finalists
On September 4th, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize Foundation announced the finalists for the 2014 Dayton Literary Peace Prize in fiction and nonfiction. The award honors works of fiction and nonfiction...
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2014 Dayton Literary Peace Prize Winners
The winners of the 2014 Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and two runners-up, were announced this morning. Follow the links to read reviews of three of the four titles—both of the winners received the...
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News You Can Use: Audiobook Roundup
Lots of links of interest. First up: Cory Doctorow says “Amazon vs Hachette is nothing: just WAIT for the audiobook wars!” This BoingBoing blog post says what many in the audiobook world have been...
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2014 Kirkus Prize Nominees
The finalists were announced yesterday for the first annual Kirkus Prize. The prize will be awarded for fiction, nonfiction, and young readers’ literature; six authors were longlisted in each category....
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Still Ready for Some Football? N.F.L. Hits Just Keep on Coming
It’s hard to imagine Steve Almond’s Against Football: One Fan’s Reluctant Manifesto, published in September, could have been timed any more appropriately. The Ray Rice saga may have grabbed the most...
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Richard Flanagan Wins the 2014 Man Booker Prize
Today, Richard Flanagan was announced the winner of the 2014 Man Booker Prize. The Narrow Road to the Deep North is Flanagan’s sixth novel and centers on a surgeon, Dorrigo Evans, and his experiences...
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2014 National Book Award Finalists
This morning, on NPR’s Morning Edition, the 2014 National Book Award finalists were announced. Mitchell Kaplan, a winner in 2011, discussed the books being honored. Titles, author bios, and a recording...
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2014 Kirkus Prize Winners Announced
Congratulations to the winners of the Kirkus Prize, announced yesterday at a ceremony in Austin Texas. Fifty thousand dollars in prize money is annually bestowed on the three winners. Find our reviews...
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Audiobook News You Can Use: Free Stephen Colbert and Much More!
Hear Stephen Colbert read “The Veldt” by Ray Bradbury for free thanks to this post on the i09 website, which includes the Colbert segment from Symphony Space’s A Touch of Magic Selected Shorts (NPR,...
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