[Libs-Or] Announcing the 2013 National Book Award Finalists

[Katie Anderson]

For more information about the Finalists for the 2013 National Book Awards, our Lifetime Achievement Award Winners, and details about the Awards ceremony, please visit the National Book Foundation<http://www.nationalbook.org/index.html>.
Winners Announced November 20.
 Fiction

  *   Rachel Kushner, The Flamethrowers, Scribner/Simon & Schuster
  *   Jhumpa Lahiri, The Lowland, Alfred A. Knopf/Random House
  *   James McBride, The Good Lord Bird, Riverhead Books/Penguin Group (USA)
  *   Thomas Pynchon, Bleeding Edge, The Penguin Press/Penguin Group (USA)
  *   George Saunders, Tenth of December, Random House
Nonfiction

  *   Jill Lepore, The Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin, Alfred A. Knopf/Random House
  *   Wendy Lower, Hitler's Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  *   George Packer, The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
  *   Alan Taylor, The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832, W.W. Norton & Company
  *   Lawrence Wright, Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, & the Prison of Belief, Alfred A. Knopf/Random House
Poetry

  *   Frank Bidart, Metaphysical Dog, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
  *   Lucie Brock-Broido, Stay, Illusion, Alfred A. Knopf
  *   Adrian Matejka, The Big Smoke, Penguin Poets/Penguin Group USA
  *   Matt Rasmussen, Black Aperture, Louisiana State University Press
  *   Mary Szybist, Incarnadine: Poems, Graywolf Press
Young People's Literature

  *   Kathi Appelt, The True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp, Atheneum Books for Young Readers/Simon & Schuster
  *   Cynthia Kadohata, The Thing About Luck, Atheneum Books for Young Readers/ Simon & Schuster
  *   Tom McNeal, Far Far Away, Alfred A. Knopf/Random House
  *   Meg Rosoff, Picture Me Gone, G.P. Putnam's Sons/Penguin Group (USA)
  *   Gene Luen Yang, Boxers & Saints, First Second/Macmillan


Katie Anderson, Library Development Services
* Youth Services Consultant * Oregon Center for the Book Coordinator *
Oregon State Library, 250 Winter St. NE, Salem, OR 97301
katie.anderson at state.or.us<mailto:katie.anderson at state.or.us>, 503-378-2528


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Pick up your 2014 summer reading manual<http://www.oregon.gov/osl/LD/Pages/youthsvcs/oregon.srp.certificate.aspx#Summer_Reading_Manuals_> and get science programming training at
OLA's Children's Services Division's fall workshop<https://ola.memberclicks.net/index.php?option=com_mc&view=mc&mcid=form_149058>
Saturday, October 19, 2013 at Tigard Public Library



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