Tue, March 2nd, 2010
2010 Indies Choice Book Award Finalists Announced
Posted by: Courtney Jones
Yesterday the American Bookseller’s Association announced their 2010 Indies Choice Book Award finalists. It includes A. S. Byatt’s oft short-listed title The Children’s Book. View the complete list of finalists here.
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Tue, March 2nd, 2010
Wood Wins American History Book Prize
Posted by: Courtney Jones
The New York Times reports that Brown Professor Gordon S. Wood received the $50,000 American History Book prize for Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815. In addition to the cash he gets a nifty title: American Historian Laureate.
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Tue, March 2nd, 2010
Updates from the World of Youth
Posted by: Laura Tillotson
Lots of news in the last week, and I’m finally getting out from under some deadlines to write about it. First up, SLJ and LJ have been sold to Ohio-based Media Source, the company that recently bought The Horn Book and also owns Junior Library Guild. What does this mean for the world of library [...]
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