TxLA’s 2013 Lariat Short List

TxLA’s 2013 Lariat Short List

The Texas Library Association has announced the titles on their short list for the 2013 Lariat Adult Fiction Reading List!

Five of the titles on their list of 78 candidates are very proudly published by Macmillan:

GONE MISSING 
by Linda Castillo

MR. PENUMBRA'S 24-HOUR BOOKSTORE
by Robin Sloan

REDSHIRTS
by John Scalzi

THE SURVIVOR
by Gregg Hurwitz

HALF-BLOOD BLUES
by Esi Edugyan

See the full list of titles here (PDF).

Selections for the final list will be revealed this April at the Texas Library Association Annual Conference in Fort Worth. [...]

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The 2013 Longlist for the Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence

The 2013 Longlist for the Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence

 

The 2013 longlist for the second annual Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction has been announced!

The following titles published and distributed by Macmillan were in good company on this incredibly fine list of literature:

FICTION:

HALF-BLOOD BLUES by Esi Edugyan

BRING UP THE BODIES by Hilary Mantel

NONFICTION:

JAMES JOYCE: A New Biography by Gordon Bowker

LEONARDO AND THE LAST SUPPER by Ross King

See the full long list here: http://www.ala.org/awardsgrants/carnegieadult/longlists

According to the ALA website "The Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction were established in 2012 to recognize the best fiction and nonfiction books for adult readers published in the U.S. the previous year." Read more about this award in American Libraries Magazine.

The short list (only six titles) will be released in April and the two winners will be announced on June 30th at the ALA Annual Conference in Chicago. We can't wait!

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Half-Blood Blues Strikes Again!

Half-Blood Blues Strikes Again!

Well, well, well. It looks like HALF-BLOOD BLUES won YET ANOTHER award; this time it's the BC Book Prize’s Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize!

What's that you say? You're getting confused about all of the awards and honors that HALF-BLOOD BLUES has received?

Let's recap, shall we:

 

- Winner of the 2011 Scotiabank Giller Prize!

- Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Prize!

- Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize!

- Shortlisted for the Orange Prize (to be announced May 29)!

- Shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize (to be announced June 16)!

- Finalist for the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize!

- Finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award!

- A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice!

- An Amazon "Best of the Month" Pick for March 2012!

...to, you know, name a few.

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