Mystery Writer's of America EDGAR Award Winners

Best Novel
Down River by John Hart .
Best First Novel by an American Author
In the Woods by Tana French .
Best Paperback Original
Queenpin by Megan Abbott .
Best Fact Crime
Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy by Vincent Bugliosi .
Best Critical/Biographical
Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters by Jon Lellenberg, Daniel Stashower and Charles Foley .
Best Short Story
"The Golden Gopher" in Los Angeles Noir by Susan Straight .
Best Juvenile
The Night Tourist by Katherine Marsh .
Best Young Adult
Rat Life by Tedd Arnold .
Best TV Episode Teleplay
"Pilot" for Burn Notice, teleplay by Matt Nix .
Best Motion Picture Screenplay
Michael Clayton, screenplay by Tony Gilroy .

Thriller's Best book Nominees, 2008

The International Thriller's Writers have chosen nominees for their 2008 award. The nominees are...

Best Novel
No Time For Goodbye by Linwood Barclay (Bantam).
The Watchman by Robert Crais (Simon & Schuster).
The Ghost by Robert Harris (Simon & Schuster).
The Crime Writer by Gregg Hurwitz (Viking).
Trouble by Jesse Kellerman (Putnam).

Best First Novel
Interred With Their Bones by Jennifer Lee Carrell (Dutton).
Big City, Bad Blood by Sean Chercover (William Morrow).
From the Depths by Gerry Doyle (McBook Press).
Volk's Game by Brent Ghelfi (Henry Holt and Co.).
Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill (William Morrow).

Best Original Paperback
The Last Nightingale by Anthony Flacco (Ballantine).
A Thousand Bones by P.J. Parrish (Pocket).
The Midnight Road by Tom Piccirilli (Bantam).
The Queen of Bedlam by Robert McCammon (Pocket).
Shattered by Jay Bonansinga (Pinnacle).

Best Business books 2007

A business book web Site a=has named these titles as best for 2007 in their respective fields. Source: 800ceosreads.com

Made to Stick by Chip & Dan Heath.
Bill & Dave by Michael Malone.
No Man's Land by Doug Tatum.
The Dream Manager by Matthew Kelly.
A Demon of Our Own Design by Richard Bookstaber.
The Elephant and the Dragon by Robyn Meredith.
One Foot Out the Door by Judith Bardwick.
The Last Tycoons by William Cohan.
Group Genius by Keith Sawyer.
The Secret Language of Leadership by Stephen Denning.
In Spite of the Gods by Edward Luce.
Responsibility at Work by Howard Gardner.
The Ultimate Sales Machine by Chet Holmes.
The New Rules of Marketing and PR by David Scott.
The Point of the Deal by Danny Ertel and Mark Gordon.
Selling Sucks by Frank Rumbauskas.

Book Critic's Award Finalists

Autobiography
· Heart Like Water: Surviving Katrina and Life in Its Disaster Zone by Joshua Clark
· Brother, I'm Dying by Edwidge Danticat (Knopf)
· The Journals of Joyce Carol Oates, 1973–1982 by Joyce Carol Oates (Ecco)
· Writing in an Age of Silence by Sara Paretsky (Verso)
· Russian Diary: A Journalist's Final Account of Life, Corruption and Death in Putin's Russia by Anna Politkovskaya (Random House)
Nonfiction
· American Transcendentalism by Philip Gura (FSG)
· What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America 1815-1848 by Daniel Walker Howe (Oxford University Press)
· Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet Washington (Doubleday)
· Legacy of Ashes: A History of the CIA by Tim Weiner (Doubleday)
· The World Without Us by Alan Weisman (Thomas Dunne/St. Martin’s)
Fiction
· Sacred Games by Vikram Chandra (HarperCollins)
· The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (Riverhead)
· In the Country of Men by Hisham Matar (Dial)
· The Gravediggers Daughter by Joyce Carol Oates (HarperCollins)
· The Shadow Catcher by Marianne Wiggins (S&S)
Biography
· Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer by Tim Jeal (Yale University Press)
· Edith Wharton by Hermione Lee (Knopf)
· Ralph Ellison by Arnold Rampersad (Knopf)
· The Life of Picasso: The Triumphant Years, 1917-1932 by John Richardson (Knopf)
· Thomas Hardy by Claire Tomalin (Penguin)
Poetry
· Elegy by Mary Jo Bang (Graywolf)
· Modern Life by Matthea Harvey (Graywolf)
· Sleeping and Waking by Michael O'Brien (Flood)
· The Ballad of Jamie Allan by Tom Pickard (Flood)
· New Poems by Tadeusz Rozewicz (Archipelago)
Criticism
· Twenty-Eight Artists and Two Saints by Joan Acocella (Pantheon)
· Once Upon a Quniceanera by Julia lvarez (Viking)
· The Terror Dream by Susan Faludi (Metropolitan/Holt)
· Coltrane: The Story of a Sound by Ben Ratliff (FSG)
· The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century by Alex Ross (FSG)

Regional Book Award from the Northwest US

These books found favor in the Pacific Northwest. The local booksellers association that covers Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana and Alaska awarded these books their PNBA Book Award.

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie.
Returning to Earth by Jim Harrison.
Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson.
Dancing With Rose: Finding Life in the Land of Alzheimer's by Lauren Kessler.
The God of Animals by Aryn Kyle.
Bad Monkeys by Matt Ruff.

Awards for the Outdoorsy Books

Shelf Awareness, a national publishing e-newsletter reported that the the NOBA Foundation, Association of Outdoor Recreation and Education, and Idaho State University announced the National Outdoor Book Awards. If you are ourdoorsy as well or would like to read any of these titles, contact us (673-6791) and we will purchase the title for you.






Sky Time in Gray's River: Living for Keeps in a Forgotten Place by Robert Michael Pyle.

Condors in Canyon Country: The Return of the California Condor to the Grand Canyon Region by Sophie A. H. Osborn.

Yosemite in the Sixties by Glen Denny.



Arctic Wings: Birds of the Artic National Wildlife Refuge by Stephen Brown.



Peak by Roland Smith.



Guide to the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon by Tom Martin and Duwain Whitis.



The Complete Mountain Biking Manual by Tim Brink.



Birds of Northern South America: An Identification Guide by Robin Restall, Clemencia Rodner and Miguel Lentino.



A Natural History of North American Trees by Donald Culross Peattie.



Connecticut Walk Book: The Guide to the Blue-Blazed Hiking Trails of Western Connecticut by Ann T. Colson.

Midwest Booksellers' Choice Awards

Midwest Booksellers' Choice Awards

Fiction
Water For Elephants by Sara Gruen.
Copper River by William Kent Krueger. Buy This Book for Me.

Nonfiction
Truck: A Love Story by Michael Perry. Buy This Book for Me.
The Life & Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson.

Poetry
The Blizzard Voices: Poems by Ted Kooser. Buy This Book for Me.
To Sing Along the Way by Connie Wanek. Buy This Book for Me.

Children's Picture Book
A Good Day by Kevin Henkes.
A Woodland Counting Book by Claudia McGehee. Buy This Book for Me.

Children's Literature
Dairy Queen by Catherine Gilbert Murdock. Buy This Book for Me.
In Search of Mockingbird by Loretta Ellsworth. Buy This Book for Me.

New Zealand Book Award

The annual book award in New Zealand is named after Montana for some reason. I am sure it is explained on their page, maybe they are both close to geysers and have mountains? Their pick for this years is Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones. It has won a whole host of literary prizes this year. It was released in the States yesterday. Email the library is you wish us to obtain it for you. [flref (at) farmingtonlibct (dot) org]

International Thriller Awards 2007

The International Thriller Writers "prize is the world's most prestigious thriller book prize" according to the ITW web site.

Best Novel	Winner: Killer Instinct by Joseph Finder.	Finalists: False Impression by Jeffrey Archer. Cold Kill by Stephen Leather. The Messenger by Daniel Silva. Beautiful Lies by Lisa Unger.
Best First Novel	Winner: Mr. Clarinet by Nick Stone.	Finalists: Shadow of Death by Patricia Gussin. Switchback (British novel) by Matthew Klein. A Thousand Suns by Alex Scarrow. 18 Seconds by George D. Shuman.
Best Paperback Original	Winner: An Unquiet Grave by P.J. Parrish.	Finalists: Skeleton Coast by Clive Cussler with Jack DuBrul. The Deep Blue Alibi by Paul Levine. Headstone City by Tom Piccirilli. Mortal Faults by Michael Prescott.