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The Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2015

A BRIEF HISTORY OF SEVEN KILLINGS by Marlon James has been awarded the 2015 Man Booker Prize for Fiction. The 44-year-old James, now a resident in Minneapolis, is the first Jamaican author to win the prize in its 47-year history.

Week of July 4, 2016

Paperback releases for the week of July 4th include AFTER ALICE by Gregory Maguire, a magical new twist on ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND, which was published in hardcover last year to coincide with the 150th anniversary of Lewis Carroll’s beloved classic; SILVER LININGS, Debbie Macomber's fourth novel set in Cedar Cove’s charming Rose Harbor Inn, which finds innkeeper Jo Marie welcoming two new guests as they seek healing and comfort; THE JAPANESE LOVER by Isabel Allende, a love story and multigenerational epic that stretches from San Francisco in the present-day to Poland and the United States during World War II; and A WINDOW OPENS, Elisabeth Egan's debut novel in which a wife and mother of three leaps at the chance to fulfill her professional destiny --- only to learn that every opportunity comes at a price.