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2009
Olive Kitteridge
by Strout, Elizabeth
Synopsis: A collection of 13 interwoven stories of life in a small Maine town. Olive Kitteridge is a schoolteacher, whose life is perceived and intertwined with the characters in each story. 2009 Pulitzer Prize winner for Fiction.
Award: Fiction
Copyright Date: 2008
Slavery By Another Name: The Re-enslavement Of Black Americans From The Civil War To World War II
by Blackmon, Douglas A.
Synopsis: In this groundbreaking historical expose, Douglas A. Blackmon brings to light one of the most shameful chapters in American history--an "Age of Neoslavery" that thrived from the aftermath of the Civil War through the dawn of World War II.
Award: Non-Fiction
Copyright Date: 2008
American Lion: Andrew Jackson In The White House
by Meacham, Jon
Synopsis: Biography of President Andrew Jackson. Beloved and hated, venerated and reviled, Jackson was an orphan who fought his way to the pinnacle of power, bending the nation to his will in the cause of democracy.
Award: Biography
Copyright Date: 2008
The Hemingses Of Monticello: An American Family
by Gordon-Reed, Annette
Synopsis: Not only a biography of Sally Hemings, who bore 7 children by Thomas Jefferson, this book details the extraordinary lives of her ancestors and descendants also. Winner of the National Book award, and the Pulitzer Prize for History.
Award: History
Copyright Date: 2008
2008
The Brief, Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao
by Díaz, Junot
Synopsis: Things have never been easy for Oscar, a sweet but disastrously overweight ghetto nerd, a New Jersey romantic who dreams of becoming the Dominican J. R. R. Tolkien and of finding love.
Award: Fiction
Copyright Date: 2007
The Years Of Extermination: Nazi Germany And The Jews, 1939-1945
by Friedlander, Saul
Synopsis: Saul Friedlander, the author, discusses and describes the Holocaust and World War II focusing his attention on the Jews.
Award: Non-Fiction
Copyright Date: 2007
Eden's Outcasts: The Story Of Louisa May Alcott And Her Father
by Matteson, John
Synopsis: Louisa May Alcott's name is known universally. Yet during her youth the famous Alcott was her father, Bronson -- an eminent teacher, lecturer and admired friend of Emerson and Thoreau.
Award: Biography
Copyright Date: 2007
What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation Of America, 1815-1848
by Howe, Daniel Walker
Synopsis: Howe illuminates the period from the battle of New Orleans to the end of the Mexican-American War, an era when the United States expanded to the Pacific and won control over the richest part of the North American continent.
Award: History
Copyright Date: 2007
2007
The Road
by Mccarthy, Cormac
Synopsis: A father and son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind.
Award: Fiction
Copyright Date: 2006
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda And The Road To 9/11
by Wright, Lawrence
Synopsis: A sweeping history of the events leading to 9/11, by interweaving the stories of 4 men, which broadens and deepens our understanding of the tragedy.
Award: Non-Fiction
Copyright Date: 2006
The Most Famous Man In America: The Biography Of Henry Ward Beecher
by Applegate, Debby
Synopsis: No one predicted success for Henry Ward Beecher at his birth in 1813. The blithe, boisterous son of the last great Puritan minister, he seemed destined to be overshadowed by his brilliant siblings--especially his sister, Harriet Beecher.
Award: Biography
Copyright Date: 2006
The Race Beat: The Press, The Civil Rights Struggle, And The Awakening Of A Nation
by Roberts, Gene and Klibanoff, Hank
Synopsis: This is the story of how the nation's press corps, after decades of ignoring the problem, came to recognize the importance of the civil rights struggle and turn it into the most significant domestic news event of the twentieth century.
Award: History
Copyright Date: 2006
2006
March
by Brooks, Geraldine
Synopsis: Geraldine Brooks' novel centers on Mr. March, the absent father of Louisa May Alcott's classic Little Women. From vibrant New England to the sensuous antebellum South, March adds adult resonance to Alcott's optimistic children's novel.
Award: Fiction
Copyright Date: 2005
Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story Of Britain's Gulag In Kenya
by Elkins, Caroline
Synopsis: As part of the Allied forces, thousands of Kenyans fought alongside the British in World War II.But just a few years after the defeat of Hitler, the British colonial government detained nearly the entire population of Kenya's largest ethnic minority, the Kikuyusome - one and a half million people.
Award: Non-Fiction
Copyright Date: 2005
American Prometheus: The Triumph And Tragedy Of J. Robert Oppenheimer
by Bird, Kai and Sherwin, Martin J.
Synopsis: A balanced story of his service to the Country.
Award: Biography
Copyright Date: 2005
Polio: An American Story
by Oshinsky, David M.
Synopsis: This is a history of the science and the cultural impact of polio on the American society.
Award: History
Copyright Date: 2005
2005
Gilead
by Robinson, Marilynne
Synopsis: John Ames is a preacher who has lived almost all of his life in Gilead, Iowa. He is writing a letter about his life to his almost seven-year-old son.
Award: Fiction
Copyright Date: 2004
Ghost Wars: The Secret History Of The CIA, Afghanistan, And Bin Laden From The Soviet Invasion To September 10, 2001
by Coll, Steve
Synopsis: The story of Bin Laden and the CIA to 2001.
Award: Non-Fiction
Copyright Date: 2004
De Kooning: An American Master
by Stevens, Mark and Swan, Annalyn
Synopsis: The young de Kooning overcame an unstable, impoverished, and often violent early family life to enter the Academic in Rotterdam, where he learned both classic art and guild techniques.
Award: Biography
Copyright Date: 2004
Washington's Crossing
by Fischer, David Hackett
Synopsis: Washington, and many other Americans, refused to let the Revolution die On Christmas night, as a howling nor'easter struck, he led his men across the river and attacked the exhausted Hessian garrison.
Award: History
Copyright Date: 2004
2004
The Known World
by Jones, Edward
Synopsis: Henry Townsend, a black farmer and former slave, runs his affairs with unusual discipline. But when death takes him unexpectedly, his widow can't uphold the estate's order.
Award: Fiction
Copyright Date: 2003
Khrushchev: The Man And His Era
by Taubman, William
Synopsis: Carefully done and extensive biography.`
Award: Biography
Copyright Date: 2003
A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles In The Rural South From Slavery To The Great Migration
by Hahn, Steven
Synopsis: This is the epic story of how African-Americans, in the six decades after their release from slavery, transformed themselves into a political people--an embryonic black nation.
Award: History
Copyright Date: 2003
2003
Middlesex
by Eugenides, Jeffrey
Synopsis: Pulitzer prize winning novel about an intersexed person and sex perception.
Award: Fiction
Copyright Date: 2002