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Pulitzer Prize - Nonfiction
The Pulitzer Prize is awarded for distinguished nonfiction by an American author, typically dealing with American life.
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Greg Grandin
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Summary: Ever since this nation's founding, the idea of an open and ever-expanding frontier has been central to American identity. Symbolizing a future of endless promise, the frontier made possible the...
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Call #: 973 GRA
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Anne Boyer
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Summary: A week after her forty-first birthday, poet Anne Boyer was diagnosed with highly aggressive triple-negative breast cancer. For a single mother living paycheck to paycheck who had always been the...
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Call #: 616.99449 BOY
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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James Forman
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Summary: Critics of America's criminal justice system have assailed the rise of mass incarceration, emphasizing its disproportionate impact on people of color. As James Forman Jr. points out, however, the war...
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Call #: 365 FOR
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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James Forman
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Summary: Critics of America's criminal justice system have assailed the rise of mass incarceration, emphasizing its disproportionate impact on people of color. As James Forman Jr. points out, however, the war...
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Matthew Desmond
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Summary: Sociologist Matthew Desmond takes us into the poorest neighborhoods of Milwaukee to tell the story of eight families on the edge. Arleen is a single mother trying to raise her two sons on the 20...
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Call #: 339.46 DES
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Dan Fagin
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Summary: Recounts the decades-long saga of the New Jersey seaside town plagued by childhood cancers caused by air and water pollution due to the indiscriminate dumping of toxic chemicals. One of New Jersey's...
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Call #: 363.7384 FAG
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Joby Warrick
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Summary: "When he succeeded his father in 1999, King Abdullah of Jordan released a batch of political prisoners in the hopes of smoothing his transition to power. Little did he know that among those released...
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Call #: 956.91 WAR
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Elizabeth Kolbert
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Summary: Over the last half billion years , there have been five major mass extinctions, when the diversity of life on Earth suddenly and dramatically contracted. Scientists are currently monitoring the sixth...
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Call #: 576.8 KOL
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Gilbert King
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Summary: In 1949, Florida's orange industry was booming with cheap Jim Crow labor. When a white seventeen-year-old Groveland girl cried rape, vicious Sheriff McCall was fast on the trail of four young blacks...
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Call #: 305.896 KIN
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Richard Rhodes
Series:
Making Of The Nuclear Age
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Summary: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award TWENTY-FIVE YEARS after its initial publication, The Making of the Atomic Bomb remains the seminal...
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Call #: 623.4 RHO
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Stephen Greenblatt
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Summary: In this book the author transports readers to the dawn of the Renaissance and chronicles the life of an intrepid book lover who rescued the Roman philosophical text On the Nature of Things from...
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Call #: 940.21 GRE
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Siddhartha Mukherjee
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Summary: A magnificently written "biography" of cancer--from its origins to the epic battle to cure, control, and conquer it.
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Call #: 616.994 MUK
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Saul Friedländer
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Summary: The Years of Extermination, the completion of Saul Friedlander's major historical opus on Nazi Germany and the Jews, explores the convergence of the various aspects of this most systematic and...
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Call #: 940.5318 FRI
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Douglas A Blackmon
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Summary: In this groundbreaking historical expose, Douglas A. Blackmon brings to light one of the most shameful chapters in American history-an "Age of Neoslavery" that thrived from the aftermath of the Civil...
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Call #: 305.896 BLA
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Jared M Diamond
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Summary: Guns, Germs, and Steel is a brilliant work answering the question of why the peoples of certain continents succeeded in invading other continents and conquering or displacing their peoples. This...
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Call #: 303.4 DIA
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Anne Applebaum
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Summary: The Gulag-the vast array of Soviet concentration camps-was a system of repression and punishment whose rationalized evil and institutionalized inhumanity were rivaled only by the Holocaust. The Gulag...
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Call #: 365.45 APP
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Barbara Wertheim Tuchman
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Summary: In this landmark, Pulitzer Prize-winning account, renowned historian Barbara W. Tuchman re-creates the first month of World War I: thirty days in the summer of 1914 that determined the course of the...
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Call #: 940.421 TUC
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Susan Sheehan
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Summary: " A brilliantly documented chronicle of young woman's long struggle with schizophrenia."-- Willard Gaylin, The New Republic"Sylvia Frumkin," highly intelligent young girl, became...
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Call #: 616.8982 SHE
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