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The National Book Awards 2022

The winners of the 2022 National Book Award in Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature and Young People's Literature were announced on November 16th at the 73rd National Book Awards Ceremony. Two lifetime achievement awards also were presented as part of the evening’s ceremony. Tracie D. Hall, the Executive Director of the American Library Association, received the National Book Foundation’s Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the American Literary Community. And Art Spiegelman, who is best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel, MAUS, was recognized with the Foundation’s Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.

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Week of November 21, 2022

Paperback releases for the week of November 21st include RECKLESS GIRLS by Rachel Hawkins, a deliciously wicked gothic suspense, set on an isolated Pacific island with a dark history; LOST & FOUND, a profound meditation on the families that make us and the families we make from Pulitzer Prize winner Kathryn Schulz, who writes with curiosity, tenderness and humor about the connections between joy and sorrow --- and between us all; Nicholas Meyer's THE RETURN OF THE PHARAOH, which marks the welcome return of Sherlock Holmes in an adventure that takes him to Egypt in search of a missing nobleman, a previously undiscovered pharaoh's tomb, and a conspiracy that threatens his very life; and the paperback original THE REBEL AND THE THIEF, a moving tale of forbidden love and extraordinary courage in the face of disaster from Jan-Philipp Sendker, the internationally bestselling author of THE ART OF HEARING HEARTBEATS.

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