
In the Garden of Beasts:
"Larson has meticulously researched the Dodds' intimate witness to Hitler's ascendancy and created an edifying narrative of this historical byway that has all the pleasures of a political thriller. . . . A fresh picture of these terrrible events." —The New York Times Book Review

The Passage of Power:
"The installments of Mr. Caro's monumental life of Johnson so far not only create a minutely detailed picture of an immensely complicated and conflicted individual, but they also form a revealing prism by which to view the better part of a century in American life and politics."
—The New York Times

I Am Forbidden:
Sweeping from the Central European countryside just before World War II to Paris to contemporary Williamsburg, Brooklyn, I Am Forbidden brings to life four generations of one Satmar family.

Home:
The latest novel from Nobel Prize–winning author Toni Morrison.
"[Home] tells the story of Korean War vet Frank Money, who returns from the battlefield plagued by visions of his friends' deaths and a disturbing episode that cuts at the roots of his sexual and moral identity."
—Tim McDonnell, Mother Jones

Dear Marcus:
An inspiring memoir written as a letter to the unknown man who shot the author in the back at age thirteen, rendering him a paraplegic, about the importance of optimism, forgiveness, and enjoying life to its fullest.
In The Shadow of the Sword:
"The life of Muhammad and the rise of Islam are boldly re-examined in this brilliantly provocative history.
. . . [An] ambitious and . . . important book. . . . Holland is a skilful and energetic narrator."
—Guardian Observer (London)

Karen Russell has been awarded the New York Public Library's Young Lions Award for her novel Swamplandia!. Congratulation, too, to Teju Cole, author of Open City, who had been named one of the five finalists. Now in its twelfth year, the Young Lions Award "recognizes the work of young authors and celebrates their accomplishments publicly, making a difference in their lives as they continue to build their careers" and comes with a $10,000 prize.
Last week the White House announced that Toni Morrison (author of Beloved and the recently published, Home) and Shimon Peres (Israeli president and author of the biography, Ben-Gurion) will be two of the thirteen people to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Presented to "individuals who have made especially meritorious contributions to the security or national interests of the United States, to world peace, or to cultural or other significant public or private endeavors," this is the nation's highest civilian honor. Presentations will be made to this year's recipients at the White House later this spring.
John A. Farrell's Clarence Darrow: Attorney for the Damned has been awarded the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for biography. Prizes were announced last Friday, April 20th at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. Drawing on untapped archives and full of fresh revelations, Farrell's book is the definitive biography of America's legendary defense attorney and progressive hero.
Karen Russell was named as one of three finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. In a surprising, but not unprecedented turn of events, the panel decided not to award the Pulitzer to any of this year's finalists. Russell's Swamplandia!, a lush and bravely imagined debut that follows thirteen-year-old Ava Bigtree and Swamplandia!, her family's island home and gator-wrestling theme park in the Florida Everglades, has been previously long-listed for the prestigious Orange Prize for Fiction.
Please join us in congratulating Julie Otsuka for her selection as the 2012 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction winner. Otsuka's The Buddha in the Attic was chosen from among 350 works published in the United States last year and she will be honored at an award ceremony held on May 5th, 2012 at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C. Please click here for a list of our previous PEN/Faulkner Award winners.

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