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The National Book Awards 2020

The winners of the 2020 National Book Award in Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature and Young People's Literature were announced on November 18th at the first-ever virtual 71st National Book Awards Ceremony. Two lifetime achievement awards also were presented as part of the evening’s ceremony: Walter Mosley was recognized with the National Book Foundation’s Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, presented by Edwidge Danticat, and Carolyn Reidy posthumously received the Foundation’s Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the American Literary Community.

Week of February 13, 2023

Paperback releases for the week of February 13th include PORTRAIT OF AN UNKNOWN WOMAN, the 22nd installment in Daniel Silva's spellbinding series starring Gabriel Allon, who undertakes a high-stakes search for the greatest art forger who ever lived; DIABLO MESA, a continuation of Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child's wildly popular series featuring archaeologist Nora Kelly and FBI Agent Corrie Swanson; the original, revealing and eye-opening CASTE, in which Isabel Wilkerson examines the unspoken caste system that has shaped America and shows how our lives today are still defined by a hierarchy of human divisions; THE YOUNGER WIFE, Sally Hepworth’s most recent novel of domestic suspense about the tangled vines of family secrets; and THE CAGE by Bonnie Kistler, a gripping thriller about two professional women who enter an elevator together...but only one is alive when they reach the ground floor.

January 2024

January's Books on Screen roundup includes the series premieres of "Fool Me Once" on Netflix, "Expats" on Prime Video, and "Masters of the Air" on Apple TV+; the season premiere of "All Creatures Great and Small" on PBS "Masterpiece"; the season finales of Prime Video's "Reacher," Disney+'s "Percy Jackson and the Olympians," and The CW's "Son of a Critch"; the films Origin, The End We Start From and Which Brings Me to You in theaters, along with Killers of the Flower Moon on Apple TV+ and Foe on Prime Video; and the DVD release of Eileen.

February 2024

February's Books on Screen roundup includes the series premieres of "Tracker" on CBS, "The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live" on AMC, and "One Day" on Netflix; the season two premiere of ABC's "Will Trent"; the conclusion of "Expats" on Prime Video; the films Argylle and Lisa Frankenstein in theaters; four Hallmark movies inspired by the life and work of Jane Austen (Paging Mr. Darcy, Love & Jane, An American in Austen and Sense and Sensibility); and the DVD releases of The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes, Wonka and Priscilla.

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