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2024 Finalist for History
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The Shochet
by Willem Marx
A historically insightful memoir, "The Shochet" trades between humorous and grave descriptions of rural Jewish life in nineteenth-century Ukraine. The engrossing memoir of a Hasidic Jew living under the yoke of Tsarist Russia, volume one...
2022 BRONZE Winner for Science Fiction
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Falcon Fire
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Rode
by Aimee Jodoin
"Rode" is a moving existential novel about personal identity and human connections. In J. Adams’s coming-of-age novel "Rode", a young man leaves the Southwest to explore his sexuality and to search for meaning. In the 1990s,...
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Falcon Fire
"Falcon Fire" is engrossing science fiction in which Venus’s class war comes to a head, showing that the dangers of misinformation span the whole of the solar system. In Erik A. Otto’s science fiction novel "Falcon Fire", a class war...
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Angela Davis
The third edition of Angela Y. Davis’s seminal autobiography reintroduces the activist and scholar to audiences old and new. Written during her late twenties, soon after she was acquitted of charges related to a courtroom shootout,...
2020 SILVER Winner for LGBTQ+
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Nottingham
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Simplicity
In the fantasy novel "Simplicity", a city tears itself apart as superheroes try to follow their moral codes. In Lucas Lamoreaux’s gritty superhero novel, "Simplicity", evil forces beset humanity, and flawed people with powers are the...