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Indies Choice Book Awards
The Indies Choice Book Award (formerly known as Book Sense Book of the Year 2000-2008) is an American literary award that was inaugurated at BookExpo America 2000. The American Booksellers Association (ABA) rededicated the award (previously known as the ABBY) in recognition of a new era in bookselling, as well as the important role the Book Sense Picks List has played for independent booksellers in discovering and spreading the word about books of quality to all stores, and readers, nationwide. Throughout the year, Book Sense independent booksellers from across the country nominate for inclusion in the monthly Book Sense Picks the books that they most enjoyed hand-selling to their customers. The books on each list represent a combined national and local staff pick selection of booksellers' favorites from more than 1,200 independent bookstores with Book Sense. The award was renamed the Indies Choice Book Award in 2009. The winners are announced in conjunction with The E.B. Whit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Literary Award
A literary award or literary prize is an award presented in recognition of a particularly lauded literary piece or body of work. It is normally presented to an author. Organizations Most literary awards come with a corresponding award ceremony. Many awards are structured with one organization (usually a non-profit organization) as the presenter and public face of the award, and another organization as the financial sponsor or backer, who pays the prize remuneration and the cost of the ceremony and public relations, typically a corporate sponsor who may sometimes attach their name to the award (such as the Orange Prize). Types of awards There are awards for various writing formats including poetry and novels. Many awards are also dedicated to a certain genre of fiction or non-fiction writing (such as science fiction or politics). There are also awards dedicated to works in individual languages, such as the Miguel de Cervantes Prize ( Spanish), the Camões Prize ( Portuguese), t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Between The World And Me
''Between the World and Me'' is a 2015 nonfiction book written by American author Ta-Nehisi Coates and published by Spiegel & Grau. It is written as a letter to the author's teenage son about the feelings, symbolism, and realities associated with being Black in the United States. Coates recapitulates American history and explains to his son the "racist violence that has been woven into American culture." Coates draws from an abridged, autobiographical account of his youth in Baltimore, detailing the ways in which institutions like the school, the police, and even "the streets" discipline, endanger, and threaten to disembody black men and women. The work takes structural and thematic inspiration from James Baldwin's 1963 epistolary book '' The Fire Next Time''. Unlike Baldwin, Coates sees white supremacy as an indestructible force, one that Black Americans will never evade or erase, but will always struggle against. The novelist Toni Morrison wrote that Coates filled an intellec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Between You & Me (memoir)
Between You and Me may refer to: Music * Between You & Me (band) Albums * ''Between You and Me'' (album), a 2020 album by San Cisco * ''Between You and Me'', a 2007 album by Fabienne Delsol * ''Between You & Me'', a 2016 EP by Belmont * ''Starp tevi un mani'' (), a 2003 album by Z-Scars Songs * "Between You and Me" (DC Talk song), released in 1996 * "Between You and Me", a song by Graham Parker from the album '' Howlin' Wind'', 1976 * "Between You and Me", a song by Jean-Luc Ponty from the album ''Aurora'', 1976 * "Between You and Me", a song by Johnny Hates Jazz from the album '' Tall Stories'', 1991 * "Between You and Me", a song by the Ataris from the album ''Look Forward to Failure'', 1998 * "Between You and Me", a song by Marillion from the album ''Anoraknophobia'', 2001 * "Between You and Me", a song by Hilary Duff from the album ''Dignity'', 2007 * "Between You and Me", a 2010 song by the Raw Men Empire * "Between You and Me", a song by Suffrajett * "Between You & ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Novel''
A, or a, is the first letter and the first vowel of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''a'' (pronounced ), plural ''aes''. It is similar in shape to the Ancient Greek letter alpha, from which it derives. The uppercase version consists of the two slanting sides of a triangle, crossed in the middle by a horizontal bar. The lowercase version can be written in two forms: the double-storey a and single-storey ɑ. The latter is commonly used in handwriting and fonts based on it, especially fonts intended to be read by children, and is also found in italic type. In English grammar, " a", and its variant " an", are indefinite articles. History The earliest certain ancestor of "A" is aleph (also written 'aleph), the first letter of the Phoenician alphabet, which consisted entirely of consonants (for that reason, it is also called an abjad to distinguish it f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marie Mutsuki Mockett
Marie Mutsuki Mockett is an American novelist and memoirist. Life Mockett was born to a Japanese mother and an American father and grew up speaking English, German and Japanese. Her mother's family owns a Buddhist temple in Tohoku Japan, 25 miles from the Fukushima Daichi nuclear power reactor. Her father's family owns a wheat farm in Nebraska. Mockett graduated from the Robert Louis Stevenson School in Pebble Beach, California and Columbia University in 1992. Her novel, ''Picking Bones from Ash'', was published in 2009 and short listed for the Paterson Prize. Her memoir, ''Where the Dead Pause and the Japanese Say Goodbye'', was shortlisted for the PEN Open Award, the Northern California Book Award and was the Barnes a Noble Discover Pick. ''American Harvest'', her third book, follows her travels through the American heartland in the company of evangelical harvesters and examines the rural and urban divide and won the 2020 Northern California Book Award for General Nonf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Journey''
A, or a, is the first letter and the first vowel of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''a'' (pronounced ), plural ''aes''. It is similar in shape to the Ancient Greek letter alpha, from which it derives. The uppercase version consists of the two slanting sides of a triangle, crossed in the middle by a horizontal bar. The lowercase version can be written in two forms: the double-storey a and single-storey ɑ. The latter is commonly used in handwriting and fonts based on it, especially fonts intended to be read by children, and is also found in italic type. In English grammar, " a", and its variant " an", are indefinite articles. History The earliest certain ancestor of "A" is aleph (also written 'aleph), the first letter of the Phoenician alphabet, which consisted entirely of consonants (for that reason, it is also called an abjad to distinguish it fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sally Mann
Sally Mann HonFRPS (born Sally Turner Munger; May 1, 1951) is an American photographer who has made large format black and white photographs—at first of her young children, then later of landscapes suggesting decay and death. Early life and education Born in Lexington, Virginia, Mann was the third of three children. Her father, Robert S. Munger, was a general practitioner, and her mother, Elizabeth Evans Munger, ran the bookstore at Washington and Lee University in Lexington. Mann was raised by an atheist and compassionate father who allowed Mann to be "benignly neglected". Mann was introduced to photography by her father, who encouraged her interest in photography; his 5x7 camera became the basis of her use of large format cameras today. Mann began to photograph when she was sixteen. Most of her photographs and writings are tied to Lexington, Virginia. Mann graduated from The Putney School in 1969, and attended Bennington College and Friends World College. She earned a BA, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Memoir With Photographs''
A, or a, is the first letter and the first vowel of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''a'' (pronounced ), plural ''aes''. It is similar in shape to the Ancient Greek letter alpha, from which it derives. The uppercase version consists of the two slanting sides of a triangle, crossed in the middle by a horizontal bar. The lowercase version can be written in two forms: the double-storey a and single-storey ɑ. The latter is commonly used in handwriting and fonts based on it, especially fonts intended to be read by children, and is also found in italic type. In English grammar, " a", and its variant " an", are indefinite articles. History The earliest certain ancestor of "A" is aleph (also written 'aleph), the first letter of the Phoenician alphabet, which consisted entirely of consonants (for that reason, it is also called an abjad to distinguish it f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen Macdonald (writer)
Helen Macdonald (born 1970) is an English writer, naturalist, and an Affiliated Research Scholar at the University of Cambridge Department of History and Philosophy of Science. She is best known as the author of ''H is for Hawk'', which won the 2014 Samuel Johnson Prize and Costa Book Award.Anita SinghH is for Hawk wins Costa Book of the Year award, The Telegraph, 27 January 2015. In 2016, it also won the Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger in France. Early life Macdonald was born in 1970, the child of ''Daily Mirror'' photojournalist Alisdair Macdonald, and grew up in Surrey. Writing about her childhood for ''The Guardian'' in 2018, Macdonald said, "I grew up in Camberley, a Victorian town on the A30 in Surrey. It was made of pine forests, golf courses, elderly army officers with parade ground voices, Conservative clubs and tea dances. In 1975 my parents had bought a little white house in Tekels Park, a private estate near the town centre. It was owned by the Theosophical Soc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
H Is For Hawk
''H is for Hawk'' is a 2014 memoir by British author Helen Macdonald. It won the Samuel Johnson Prize and Costa Book of the Year award, among other honours. Content ''H is for Hawk'' tells Macdonald's story of the year she spent training a northern goshawk in the wake of her father's death. Her father, Alisdair Macdonald, was a respected photojournalist who died suddenly of a heart attack in 2007. Having been a falconer for many years, she purchased a young goshawk to help her through the grieving process. Reception The book reached ''The Sunday Times'' best-seller list within two weeks of being published in July 2014.Cambridge NewsInterview: Cambridge author Helen Macdonald on grief, goshawks, and her best-selling book, H is for Hawk, Cambridge News, 7 September 2014. In an interview with ''The Guardian'', Macdonald said, "While the backbone of the book is a memoir about that year when I lost my father and trained a hawk, there are also other things tangled up in that s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kristin Hersh
Kristin may refer to: * Kristin (name), a Scandinavian form of Christine * ''Kristin'' (TV series), a 2001 American sitcom * Kristin Peak, Antarctica * Kristin School Kristin School is a private co-educational composite school located in Albany, North Shore, New Zealand. Kristin is an IB World School with approximately students. The school was established in 1973 by a small group of parents, and is owned b ..., a school in New Zealand See also * Kristen (other) * {{disamb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don't Suck, Don't Die
Don't, Dont, or DONT may refer to: Films * ''Don't'' (1925 film), a 1925 silent comedy film * ''Don't'' (1974 film), a 1974 film about the monarch butterfly * ''Don't'', a fake trailer from the film '' Grindhouse'' (2007) Songs * "Don't" (Billy Currington song) * "Don't" (Bryson Tiller song) *"Don't", by Dinosaur Jr. from their album '' Bug'', 1988 * "Don't" (Ed Sheeran song) * "Don't" (Elvis Presley song) * " Don't!", a song by Shania Twain * "Don't", by M2M from their album ''The Big Room'' Other uses * ''Don't'' (game show), a 2020 American game show with Adam Scott and Ryan Reynolds * DONT, Disturb Opponents' Notrump, a bridge bidding convention * "-dont" (actually "-odont"), a suffix meaning "tooth", used in taxonomy * Jakob Dont, Austrian composer Related uses * Do not assemble (DNA), an abbreviation and term used in printed circuit board production. * Do not contact (DNC), an abbreviation and term used in person databasing * Do not equip (DNE), an abbreviation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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