Business Books of the Year

The Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Shortlist 2010...

The Art of Choosing by Sheena Iyengar (Twelve/Hachette)
The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company that is Connecting the World by David Kirkpatrick (S&S)
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis (Norton)
More Money than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite by Sebastian Mallaby (Penguin)
Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy by Raghuram Rajan (Princeton University Press)
Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System--and Themselves by Andrew Ross Sorkin (Viking/Penguin)

-Shelf Awareness 9/17/10

Mystery/Crime Novel of the Decade

The Barry Awards prize is given yearly, this prize honors the best novel in the genre for the decade. See if you agree...

Ken Bruen	The Guards
Michael Connelly	The Lincoln Lawyer
Stieg Larsson	The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Dennis Lehane	Mystic River
Louise Penny	Still Life
Carlos Ruiz Zafón	The Shadow of the Win

More Regional Book Prizes

2010 Regional Book Awards for the Mountains & Plains Booksellers Association are:

Adult Fiction: Below Zero: A Joe Pickett Novel by C.J. Box (Putnam)
Adult Nonfiction: The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt & the Fire That Saved America by Timothy Egan (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
The Arts: Tony Hillerman's Landscape: On the Road with Chee and Leaphorn by Anne Hillerman, photographs by Don Strel (Harper)
Poetry: Gingko Light by Arthur Sze (Copper Canyon Press)

Note: the undelined books are in stock, if you wish to have the library purchase the others, please email us.

Crime Thriller Awards Finalists

The Crime Writers' Association announced finalists in three categories of the Crime Thriller Awards. The finalists are:

CWA Gold Dagger
Blacklands by Belinda Bauer
Blood Harvest by S.J. Bolton
Shadowplay by Karen Campbell
The Way Home by George Pelecanos

CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger
A Loyal Spy by Simon Conway
Innocent by Scott Turow
The Dying Light by Henry Porter
The Gentlemen's Hour by Don Winslow

CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger
Acts of Violence by Ryan David Jahn
Rupture by Simon Lelic
The Holy Thief by William Ryan
The Pull of the Moon by Diane Janes

If you want to read any of these titles, contact us and we will obtain it for you.