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Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2019

Congratulations to Rebecca Makkai and Kiese Laymon, the 2019 winners of the Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction. Makkai won the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction for her novel, THE GREAT BELIEVERS, published by Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House. Laymon won the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction for his memoir, HEAVY, published by Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster.

Week of August 19, 2019

Paperback releases for the week of August 19th include BLOOD COMMUNION, a continuation of Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles, in which Prince Lestat tells the tale of his coming to rule the vampire world and the eternal struggle to find belonging, a place in the universe for the undead, and how he must battle the seemingly unstoppable force determined to thwart his vision and destroy the entire vampire netherworld; VIRGIL WANDER, the first novel in 10 years from award-winning, million-copy bestselling author Leif Enger, an enchanting and timeless all-American story that follows the inhabitants of a small Midwestern town in their quest to revive its flagging heart; and SMALL ANIMALS by Kim Brooks, a riveting examination of the ways our culture of competitive, anxious and judgmental parenting has profoundly altered the experiences of parents and children.