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The Nobel Prize in Literature 2018

The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2018 has been awarded to Olga Tokarczuk "for a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life." Tokarczuk is one of Poland’s most celebrated writers, translated into more than 30 languages. She is the author of 10 works of fiction, including FLIGHTS, which won the Man Booker International Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Award in Translation.

The 2018 prize had been postponed last year due to a scandal at the Swedish Academy, which is responsible for choosing the Nobel Laureates in Literature.

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Week of August 10, 2020

Paperback releases for the week of August 10th include THE OTHER MRS. by Mary Kubica, a psychological thriller about a couple, Sadie and Will Foust, whose tiny coastal island is rocked by the death of their neighbor, Morgan Baines --- and as the eyes of suspicion turn toward them, Sadie is drawn deeper into the mystery of what really happened to Morgan; CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR, Hallie Ephron's novel about a professional organizer with a deadly problem that she may not be able to clean up; THIS CHAIR ROCKS, Ashton Applewhite's rousing manifesto calling for an end to discrimination and prejudice on the basis of age; and BARNUM: An American Life, the first major biography of P.T. Barnum in a generation, in which Robert Wilson captures the full genius, infamy and allure of the ebullient showman, who, from birth to death, repeatedly reinvented himself.

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