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2007 Nobel Prize for Literature - Doris May Lessing
2007 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography
The Most Famous Man in America: The
Biography of Henry Ward Beecher, by Debby Applegate
Applegate brings the fascinating, flawed figure of Henry Ward
Beecher to deserved new life and places him at the center of the key
dramas of the American 19th century--including the advent of the
pulp novel and tabloid press.
2007 Pulitzer Prize for History The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation, by Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff
Drawing on private correspondence, notes from secret meetings, unpublished articles, and interviews, veteran journalists Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff go behind the headlines and datelines to show how a dedicated cadre of newsmen revealed to a nation its most shameful shortcomings and propelled its citizens to act.
The Cleft, by Doris May Lessing
In this fascinating and beguiling novel, Lessing envisions a mythical society free from sexual intrigue, jealousy, and petty rivalries – essentially, a society free from men. Lessing confronts the troublesome particulars of how gender affects every aspect of peoples existence.
This sweeping narrative history of 9/11 includes important new
information about the people, ideas, events, and intelligence
failures that culminated in the attacks, told for the first time
from both the American and Arab sides of the story.
At once brutal and tender, despairing and rashly hopeful, spare of language and profoundly moving, this work is a fierce and haunting meditation on the tenuous divide between civilization and savagery, and the essential, sometimes terrifying power of filial love.
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2007 Man Booker Award for Fiction The Gathering by Anne Enright
The Gathering is a daring, witty, and insightful family epic, clarified through Anne Enright's unblinking eye. It is a novel about love and disappointment, about how memories warp and secrets fester, and how fate is written in the body, not in the stars.
Various diaries, letters, and other manuscripts chronicle the experiences of Octavian, a young African American, from birth to age 16, as he is brought up as part of a science experiment in the years leading up to and during the Revolutionary War.
Strongman and circus owner Louis Cyr captured the world's imagination with his remarkable feats of strength and mammoth proportions. Set in Quebec at the turn of the 20th century, this visual biography features the celebrity in his old age, recalling his glory days for his young daughter. In vivid detail he recounts his adventures traveling through Europe performing feats of strength that astounded audiences and remain unsurpassed today. Nicholas Debon's vibrant illustrations and moving text bring the world of circuses and celebrities from long ago to life for young readers.
Laura
Vaccaro Seeger's highly praised concept books have introduced
children to colors, opposites, emotions, and the alphabet. Now she
guides children on the first steps to reading with three sweet,
funny stories about a stuffed bear and a frisky dachshund who happen
to be best friends. Simple, engaging texts and bright, colorful
pictures make this a perfect book for emergent readers to read by
themselves or to share with friends. And in Dog and Bear,
readers will discover two chaming characters, ready to take their
place on the shelves next to Henry and Mudge, Frog and Toad, and
George and Martha.
2007 Quill Awards Book of the Year
Angels Fall, by Nora Roberts
New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts explores the
wilds of the Grand Tetons – and the mysteries of love, murder, and
madness – in Angel Falls, her engrossing and passionate new
novel.
Four-time Hugo Award winner Vinge sets his newest science-fiction thriller in a place and time as exciting and strange as any far-future world: San Diego, California, 2025. In this new information age, the virtual and the real are a seamless continuum, layers of reality built on digital views seen by a single person or millions.
Tiptree burst onto the science fiction scene in the 1970s with a series of hard-edged, provocative short stories. Then the cover was blown: the author was actually a 61-year-old woman named Alice Sheldon – world traveler, debutante, chicken farmer, CIA agent, and experimental psychologist. This fascinating biography is based on full access to her papers.
Lucky, age ten, doesn't expect running away to be so complicated. A
large cast of magnanimous surprises awaits her when she plans to
hide from her guardian in the Mojave Desert. Illustrations by Matt
Phelan.
"All children mythologize their birth... "So begins the prologue of reclusive author Vida Winter's collection of stories, which are as famous for the mystery of the missing thirteenth tale as they are for the delight and enchantment of the 12 that do exist.
From the author of Jesus Son, a long-awaited tale of two American families swept up in the secrets and lies of the Vietnam war.
In this wordless masterpiece from a two-time Caldecott medalist, a bright, science-minded boy goes to the beach equipped to collect and examine flotsam--anything floating that has been washed ashore.
Covering the Central Intelligence Agency's less-than-stellar reputation over its 60-year existence, this work by Pulitzer Prize-winning author is based on more than 50,000 documents, primarily from the archives of the CIA itself, and hundreds of interviews with CIA veterans.
These poems are grounded in the beauty and energy of the physical world, and in the bafflement of the present moment in American culture.
Based on the author's own experiences, this first young adult novel by bestselling author, Alexie, features poignant drawings by acclaimed artist Ellen Forney that reflect the character's art as it chronicles the contemporary adolescence of one Native American boy attempting to break away from the life he was destined to live.
