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Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2016

Congratulations to Viet Thanh Nguyen and Sally Mann, the 2016 winners of the Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction. Viet Thanh Nguyen won the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction for his novel THE SYMPATHIZER, published by Grove Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic. Sally Mann won the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction for her book, HOLD STILL: A Memoir with Photographs, published by Little, Brown, and Company, an imprint of Hachette Book Group.

Week of May 2, 2016

Paperback releases for the week of May 2nd include Harper Lee's second novel, GO SET A WATCHMAN, which is set two decades after her beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece, TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD; IN THE UNLIKELY EVENT, Judy Blume's first novel for adults since the 1998 release of SUMMER SISTERS; BEACH TOWN by Mary Kay Andrews, which revolves around the attraction between a movie location scout and the mayor of a sleepy Florida panhandle town, a born-again environmentalist who is determined to keep his town from being commercialized; THE WRIGHT BROTHERS by David McCullough, the dramatic story-behind-the-story about the courageous brothers who taught the world how to fly; and Laura Dave's EIGHT HUNDRED GRAPES, a story about the messy realities of family, the strength (and weaknesses) of romantic love, and the importance of finding a place to call home.