September 20, 2007
2007 Quill Awards Announced
Don't forget to vote for your favorite book for the 2007 Quill Book of the Year! The Quill Award winners are chosen by a board of librarians and booksellers, but you, the reader, get to choose the Book of the Year. Voting closes on October 10th. Check out these great titles at your library:
Debut Author Of The Year
Diane Setterfield. The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel
A compelling emotional mystery about family secrets and the magic of books and storytelling. A dying writer bids a young bookshop assistant to write her biography.
General Fiction
Cormac McCarthy. The Road
America is a barren landscape of smoldering ashes, devoid of life except for those people still struggling to scratch out some type of existence. Amidst the destruction, a father and his young son walk, always toward the coast, but with no real understanding that circumstances will improve once they arrive. Still they persevere, and their relationship comes to represent goodness in a world that is utterly devastated.
Romance
Nora Roberts. Angels Fall
A woman witnesses a murder on a remote mountain, but only one man, and killer, believe her.
Audio
Harper Lee. To Kill a Mockingbird
Scout Finch, daughter of the town lawyer Atticus, has just started school; but her carefree days come to an end when a black man in town is accused of raping a white woman, and her father is the only man willing to defend him.
Religion/Spirituality
Stephen Prothero. Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know - And Doesn't
A religious primer serves as an argument for why the author believes that religion should become a mandatory subject in American public schools, contending that most Americans are not able to identify basic tenets of their faith.
Graphic Novel
Scott McCloud. Making Comics: Storytelling Secrets of Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels
In a voice that mixes dry humor and clear, concise instruction, McCloud's cartoon narrator shows readers how to master the human condition through word and image in a brilliantly minimalist way. Comic book devotees as well as the most uninitiated will marvel at this journey into a once-underappreciated art form.
Poetry
Kevin Young. For the Confederate Dead
For the Confederate Dead finds Young, more than ever before, in a poetic space that is at once public and personal. In this surprising book, the poet manages to do a bit of both, embracing the contradictions of our "Confederate" legacy and the troubled nation where that legacy still lingers.
Cooking
Irma S. Rombauer, Marion Rombauer Becker, and Ethan Becker. Joy of Cooking: 75th Anniversary Edition
"Best loved and brand new"--Cover.
"500 new recipes, 4000 of the most beloved Joy classics retested and updated, 4500 recipes for the way we cook now"--Cover.
Health/Self-Improvement
Jerome Groopman, M.D. How Doctors Think
A New Yorker staff writer, bestselling author, and professor at Harvard Medical School unravels the mystery of how doctors figure out the best treatments--or fail to do so. This book describes the warning signs of flawed medical thinking and offers intelligent questions patients can ask.
Biography/Memoir
Walter Isaacson. Einstein: His Life and Universe
A narrative portrait based on the complete body of Einstein's papers offers insight into his contributions to science, in an account that describes the influence of his discoveries on his personal views about morality, politics, and tolerance.
Sports
Michael Weinreb. The Kings of New York: A Year Among the Geeks, Oddballs, and Geniuses Who Make Up America's Top High School Chess Team
At Brooklyn's prestigious Edward R. Murrow High School, the closest thing to jocks are found on the powerhouse chess team. Weinreb follows the members of the team through an entire season, capturing their eclectic differences as they prepare for the national championship.
Humor
Amy Sedaris. I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence
Are you lacking direction in how to whip up a swanky soiree for lumberjacks? A dinner party for white-collar workers? A festive gathering for the grieving? Don't despair.Take a cue from entertaining expert Amy Sedaris and host an unforgettable fete that will have your guests raving. No matter the style or size of the gathering -- from the straightforward to the bizarre -- I LIKE YOU provides jackpot recipes and solid advice laced with Amy's blisteringly funny take on entertaining. You don't even need to be a host or hostess to benefit -- Amy offers tips for guests, too!
History/Current Events/Politics
Al Gore. The Assault on Reason
Al Gore explains politics and why the American people need to be more aware of what is happening in the government.
Business
Robert I. Sutton, PhD. The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn't
Sutton uses in-depth research and analysis to show how managers can eliminate mean-spirited and unproductive behavior (while positively channeling some of the virtues of problem employees) to generate a newly productive workplace.
Mystery/Suspense
Laura Lippman. What the Dead Know
A 30-year-old missing persons case becomes more mysterious when a woman, claiming to be one of a pair of missing sisters, suddenly reappears.
Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror
Patrick Rothfuss. The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day One)
This powerful debut novel follows the story of Kvothe, the magically gifted young man who grows to be the most notorious wizard his world has ever seen.
Children's Picture Books
David Wiesner. Flotsam
The story of what happens when a camera becomes a piece of flotsam.
Children's Chapter/Middle Grade
Brian Selznick. The Invention of Hugo Cabret
When twelve-year-old Hugo, an orphan living and repairing clocks within the walls of a Paris train station in 1931, meets a mysterious toyseller and his goddaughter, his undercover life and his biggest secret are jeopardized.
Young Adult/Teen
Patricia McCormick. Sold
Thirteen-year-old Lakshmi leaves her poor mountain home in Nepal thinking that she is to work in the city as a maid only to find that she has been sold into the sex slave trade in India and that there is no hope of escape.
Posted by Abby at September 20, 2007 09:14 AM
