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Written on: April 12th, 2010 in Blog Posts
The prizes were announced today:The First Tycoon wins the biography category, Paul Harding’s Tinkers takes the honors for fiction, and Lords of Finance: the Bankers who Broke the World wins in history.
The Philadelphia Daily News shared the investigative reporting citation. The full list of award-winners in all the categories is here
Written on: April 12th, 2010 in Blog Posts
The Bridge, David Remnick’s new biography of President Barack Obama leads off this Sunday’s Sunday Book Review section this week. This “exhaustively researched” book concludes with the new President’s inauguration, and provides fresh perspective on his rise to the nation’s highest office, with reinterpretation of his autobiographical writing and new details about how a strategy of “omnidirectional placation” enabled Obama to move into offices never held before by one of his race.
Harvard entomology professor and noted scholar of evolutionary theory Edmund Wilson detours into fiction in Anthill, the story of “a southern Alabama boy comes of age in the thrall of ants, nature and solitude, determined to save what he loves from destruction.”
Last Summer of the Death Warriors is a new Young-Adult title from Francisco X. Stork, an insightful story about “a boy struggling to find his way through a tangle of love, loss and retribution.”
Written on: April 12th, 2010 in Blog Posts
Carla Markell’s Letter to Delawareans
Organizations looking for volunteers for Week of Service projects, and individuals and groups looking for opportunities can find them on the Volunteer Delaware website. Carla Markell recently started a project of her own, with the assistance of some of Delaware’s Future Farmers of America, to assist the Food Bank of Delaware and other programs involved with feeding the needy and homeless- click here to see a slideshow from the recent planting of the new vegetable garden at Woodburn.
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