Pulitzer Prize Winning Authors

The Most They Ever Had Rick Bragg

THE MOST THEY EVER HAD is Rick Bragg's powerful collection of stories of the people of Appalachia who eked out their hard-scrabble living working in the mills and existing in the mill towns.

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Somebody Told Me: The Newspaper Stories of Rick Bragg Rick Bragg

SOMEBODY TOLD ME is a collection of Pulitzer Prize winner Rick Bragg's best stories. He looks where others don't and gets behind the headlines to the people standing there stunned and often, he finds them, voiceless.

 

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The Empire of Night Robert Olen Butler

THE EMPIRE OF NIGHT is another in the Christopher Marlow Cobb exciting adventures of  a newspaperman turned spy who this time is thrown together with another secret agent - his own mother. Kit Cobb and his mother risk all in Berlin during World War I.

 

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Perfume River Robert Olen Butler

PERFUME RIVER examines family ties with flashbacks from the Viet Nam War. The author's experience as an Army intelligence agent during that period gives him a great advantage in creating what many critics say is best novel yet by the Pulitzer Prize winner.  This title has been selected as a Booksmith Timeless...

Day Michael Cunningham

DAY is a portrait of compassion, tragedy and tenderness experienced by a family that takes place on April 5,2019 - April 5, 2020, and April 5, 2022, It is a story told masterfully by a master storyteller.

 

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The Bald Eagle: The Improbable Journey of America's Bird Jack E. Davis

BALD EAGLE: THE IMPROBABLE JOURNEY OF AMERICA'S BIRD is a fascinating double story of the history of an amazing creature along with the animal's relationship with our Founding Fathers and the very beginnings of our country. The brilliant manner in which the tale is told is full of humor and remarkable facts.
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Notorious: Portraits of Stars from Hollywood, Culture, Fashion, and Tech Maureen Dowd

NOTORIOUS is a great escape from the political malaise of the day.This gossipy romp from a legend in American journalism profiles with wit and fun a ton of elite including Jane Fonda, Tina Fey, Mel Brooks and Elon Musk.                      

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Manhattan Beach Jennifer Egan

MANHATTAN BEACH was one of the most anticipated books of the season. This dark story is set during World War Two when a woman's life was structured, and the protagonist becomes the only female diver at the Brooklyn Naval Yard. She also has her own ideas about sexual appetites, and becomes involved with a mob boss who...

King: A Life Jonathan Eig

KING: A LIFE is the first full biography to include recently declassified FBI files. This  revelatory new portrait of the man who shook the world views the reasons why he demanded peaceful protests but was never at peace with himself. We have the unique opportunity to follow this brilliant student from the classroom to...

Future Home of the Living God Louise Erdrich

FUTURE HOME OF THE LIVING GOD takes place in a dystopian version of the near future, where the process of evolution has irrevocably begun to work backwards across all species, with piling reports of women giving birth to primitive species of humans. An adopted woman who is four months pregnant seeks out her birth...