Alex Awards
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About the Alex Awards The Alex Awards are given to ten books written for adults that have special appeal to young adults, ages 12 through 18. The winning titles are selected from the previous year's publishing.
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2009 Selection(s)
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City of Thieves
by David Benioff, published by Viking Penguin, a member of Penguin Group , ISBN 9780670018703 Two teenage boys encounter cannibals, murderers, prostitutes, and assassins as they struggle to complete an impossible task during the freezing Siege of Leningrad in this funny, shocking, and briskly written tome. |
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The Dragons of Babel
by Michael Swanwick, a Tor Book published by Tom Doherty Associates , ISBN 9780765319500 In this original steampunk fantasy, young Will embarks on a quest that takes him to the dizzying heights and gritty depths of the postindustrial world of Babel. |
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Finding Nouf
by Zoë Ferraris published by Houghton Mifflin Company , ISBN 9780618873883 After a 16-year-old girl from a wealthy Saudi family is found dead in the middle of the desert, a devout Muslim guide and a young medical examiner seek to unravel the mystery while facing the sanctions of Middle Eastern society. |
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The Good Thief
by Hannah Tinti, published by Dial Press, a division of Random House , ISBN 9780385337458 In this suspenseful and unpredictable adventure, Ren, a one-handed eighteenth-century orphan, becomes apprenticed to a con man. Surprisingly, Ren seems born to it. |
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Just After Sunset: Stories
by Stephen King, published by Scribner, a division of Simon & Schuster , ISBN 9781416584087 Modern terrors abound—a porta-potty prison, class warfare on an apocalyptic afternoon—in this wickedly compelling collection of macabre, absurd, and gleefully vulgar stories. Scary, dirty fun. |
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Mudbound
by Hillary Jordan, published by Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill , ISBN 9781565125698 At the close of WW II, two soldiers return to their home in the South to find racial tensions as explosive as the battlefields of Europe. This beautifully written story casts a spell as inescapable as the mud fields of the Mississippi Delta. |
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Over and Under
by Todd Tucker, published by Thomas Dunne Books, an imprint of St. Martin’s Press , ISBN 9780312379902 Andy and Tom’s fourteenth summer is defined by adventures in the woods and caves near their home, a strike that polarizes their small town, and secrets that test their friendship. |
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The Oxford Project
by Stephen G. Bloom, photographed by Peter Feldstein, published by Welcome Books , ISBN 9781599620480 In this riveting sociological study, the residents of Oxford, Iowa were photographed in 1984 and then again in 2005. Their compelling life stories, vividly expressed in brief biographical sketches, show just how much someone can change in 21 years. |
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Sharp Teeth
by Toby Barlow, published by Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins , ISBN 9780061430220 A fast-paced ride through the brutality of L.A.’s wilderness of drugs, gangs, and the connections people make with one another. The fact that most of the characters in this bloody, sexy, free-verse tale are mostly lycanthropes is almost incidental. |
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Three Girls and Their Brother
by Theresa Rebeck, published by Shaye Areheart Books, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House , ISBN 9780307394149 This witty satire of show-biz politics, told from the perspective of four New York teenage siblings in the eye of a publicity tornado, provides a fascinating insider’s look at the world of the rich and famous. |
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