Random House, Inc. Titles Chosen as Part of Best Adult Books for High School Students List

We're pleased to announce that the following books have been selected as part of School Library Journal's annual Best Adult Books for High School Students list:

• Barefootin': Life Lessons on the Road to Freedom by Unita Blackwell and JoAnne Prichard Morris
• The Boy Who Fell Out of the Sky by Ken Dornstein
• Path of Destruction: A Novel of the Old Republic by Drew Karpyshyn
• Secondhand World by Katherine Min
• Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
• Fifty Degrees Below by Kim Stanley Robinson
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Pirate's Passage Wins 2006 Governor General's Literary Award

William Gilkerson's Pirate's Passage has won the 2006 Governor General's Literary Award for Children's Literature.

The Governor General's Literary Awards are given annually by the Canada Council of the Arts to the best English-language and the best French-language book in each of the seven categories of Fiction, Literary Nonfiction, Poetry, Drama, Children's Literature (text), Children's Literature (illustration) and Translation (from French to English).

• The only authorized edition of The Iraq Study Group Report, an important and timely examination of America's involvement in the Iraq War with key recommendations for moving forward, was published by Vintage Books on December 6, 2006. The Vintage edition book was released on the same day that the report is released to President George W. Bush and members of Congress. Besides Baker and Hamilton, the panel includes Lawrence S. Eagleburger, Vernon E. Jordan Jr., Edwin Meese III, Sandra Day O'Connor, Leon E. Panetta, William J. Perry, Charles S. Robb, and Alan K. Simpson.