What We're Reading

NPR spotlights new books in this week's What We're Reading.

New York Times Best Sellers

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Book TV

Here are some of the highlights from this weekend's Book TV schedule:

We've Got Issues: Children and Parents in the Age of Medication by Judith Warner

Superfusion: How China and America Became One Economy and Why the World's Prosperity Depends on It by Zachary Karabell

The Madame Curie Complex: The Hidden History of Women in Science by Julie Des Jardins

Footnotes in Gaza by Joe Sacco

The Nuclear Express: A Political History of the Bomb and Its Proliferation by Thomas Reed

Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century by P.W. Singer

What We're Reading

NPR spotlights new books in this week's What We're Reading.

PEN/Faulkner Award

Sherman Alexie's novel War Dances was selected as the winner of the 2010 Pen/Faulker Award for Fiction. For more information about War Dances and Alexie's other works visit the author website.

Orange Prize Longlist

The Orange Prize longlist has been announced.  The Orange Prize for Fiction was established in 1996 and is awarded to the best full-length novel written in English by a female author. 

The longlist features several well-known, critically received titles, including:

The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
Black Water Rising by Attica Locke
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore
The Help by Kathryn Stockett


The shortlist will be announced on April 20 and the winner on June 9.

New York Times Best Sellers

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Indie Next List

Check out recommendations from independent booksellers in the March Indie Next List.

Book TV

Here are some of the highlights from this weekend's Book TV schedule:

The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice are Undermining Education by Diane Ravitch

My Dream of Stars: From Daughter of Iran to Space Pioneer by Anousheh Ansari

The Shadows of Youth: The Remarkable Journey of the Civil Rights Generation by Andrew Lewis

Working in the Shadows: A Year of Doing the Jobs (Most) American's Won't Do by Gabriel Thompson

Seeds of Terror: How Heroin is Bankrolling the Taliban and Al Qaeda by Gretchen Peters

March Science Releases

From Seed magazine, new releases in science books.

Highlights from the list include:

The Story of Stuff: How Our Obsession with Stuff is Trashing the Planet, Our Communities, and Our Health--and a Vision for Change by Annie Leonard

The Shaking Woman: A History of My Nerves by Siri Hustvedt

The Art of Choosing by Sheena Iyengar

What We're Reading

NPR spotlights new books in this week's What We're Reading.

National Book Critics Circle Award

The National Book Critics Circle Award winners were unveiled last week.

Fiction:

Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

Nonfiction:

The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard Holmes

Autobiography:

Somewhere Towards the End by Diana Athill

Biography:

Cheever: A Life by Blake Bailey

New York Times Best Sellers

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A New Kind of Book Club

From Yahoo! news, Book clubs for doctors show human side of medicine.

Book TV

Here are some of the highlights from this weekend's Book TV schedule:

Root and Branch: Charles Hamilton Houston, Thurgood Marshall, and the Struggle to End Segregation by Rawn James

The Strong Horse: Power, Politics, and the Clash of Arab Civilizations by Lee Smith

From Eternity to Here: The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time by Sean Carroll

Courage and Consequence: My Life as a Conservative in the Fight by Karl Rove

Asleep: The Forgotten Epidemic that Remains One of Medicine's Greatest Mysteries by Molly Caldwell Crosby

April Releases

Place your holds now on these upcoming titles:

The Executor Jesse Kellerman
The Walk by Richard Paul Evans
Changes by Jim Butcher
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith
The Lake Shore Limited by Sue Miller
The Aloha Quilt by Jennifer Chiaverini
Imperfect Birds by Anne Lamott
The Black Cat by Martha Grimes
Nowhere to Run by C.J. Box
Cat of the Century by Rita Mae Brown
Bloody Crimes by James Swanson
Lucid Intervals by Stuart Woods
Reckless by Andrew Gross
Edge of Apocalypse by Tim Lahaye and Craig Parshall
The 9th Judgment by James Patterson
Solar by Ian McEwan
Return to Sender by Fern Michaels
The Last Time I Saw You by Elizabeth Berg

New York Times Best Sellers

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Discover Awards

The Barnes and Noble 2009 Discover Awards were announced this week.  The Discover Awards honor the best new literary talent of the year.

First Place, Fiction:
Mathilda Savitch by Victor Lodato

First Place, Nonfiction:
Columbine by Dave Cullen

The awards are part of Barnes and Noble's Discover Great New Writers series.  Click here for the Spring 2010 Discover New Writers selections.

Book TV

Here are some of the highlight's from this weekend's Book TV schedule:

The Hidden Brain: How Our Unconscious Minds Elect Presidents, Control Markets, Wage Wars, and Save Our Lives by Shankar Vedantam

China's Megatrends: The 8 Pillars of a New Society by Doris & John Naisbitt

The Will of the People: How Public Opinion Has Influenced the Supreme Court and Shaped the Meaning of the Constitution by Barry Friedman

The Science of Liberty: Democracy, Reason, and the Laws of Nature by Timothy Ferris

What We're Reading

NPR spotlights new books in this week's What We're Reading.

New York Times Best Sellers

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