Wednesday, November 9, 2016

Video Staff Pick - Book of the Month!


Experimental new feature for the blog - video book recommendations. 

National Book Award Finalists List

The nominees for the National Book Award have been announced! If you haven't taken a look at the list yet, here's your chance to do so:

Fiction Nominees

The Throwback Special by Chris Bachelder
A night of football turns into a night of soul-searching for twenty-two American guys.

News of the World by Paulette Jiles
In post-Civil War America a newspaper reporter is charged with returning a young captive of Kiowa Indians to her family.
The Association of Small Bombs by Karan Mahajan
After a terrorist attack in India a young man finds his life changed by a local activist.

The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
An escaped slave makes her way across America.

Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson
Reunited friends find that their memories of childhood might be tinged by too much of a nostalgic haze.

Non-Fiction Nominees

Strangers in their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right by Arlie Russell Hochschild
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi

Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War by Viet Thanh Nguyen

The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America by Andrés Reséndez

Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy by Heather Ann Thompson

Poetry

The Performance of Becoming Human by Daniel Borzutsky

Collected Poems 1974 - 2004 by Rita Dove

Archeophonics by Peter Gizzi

The Abridged History of Rainfall by Jay Hopler

Look by Solmaz Sharif