Month: December 2010

Notable and Award-Winning Books for 2010

December 13, 2010

In the News: Book review editors are sharing their lists of favorite titles for 2010 just in time for the holiday season. You’ll find a number of these at the FAU Libraries. Also, check out the National Book Award and Man Booker Prize-winning titles which were announced in November and October respectively.

Happy Holidays to our blog readers. In the News will return in January 2011.

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National Book Awards 2010
Man Booker Prize for Fiction
Financial Times Books of the Year
The New York Times 10 Best Lists
O, the Oprah Magazine: Favorite Reads

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD

FICTION WINNER

  • Lord of Misrule, by Jaimy Gordon (On Order)

FICTION FINALISTS

  • Great House, by Nicole Krauss. W. W. Norton & Co., 2010. Call Number: PS3611 .R38 G74 2010
  • I Hotel, by Karen Tei Yamashita. Coffee House Press, 2010 (On Order)
  • Parrot and Olivier in America, by Peter Carey. Alfred A. Knopf, 2010. Call Number: PR9619.3 .C36 P37 2010
  • So Much for That, by Lionel Shriver. Harper, 2010 (On Order)

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Wiki Leaks & the Pentagon Papers

December 6, 2010

Wiki Leaks and the Pentagon Papers

In the News: The recent release of confidential diplomatic cables and documents by the whistleblower WikiLeaks is slightly reminiscent of what took place almost forty years ago when Daniel Ellsberg, former American defense policy analyst, leaked the Pentagon Papers to The New York Times in 1971. Ellsberg will appear at Florida Atlantic University in February 2011 as part of the Alan B. Larkin Symposium on the American Presidency.

Anatomy of an Undeclared War: Congressional Conference on the Pentagon Papers
Edited by Patricia A. Krause. International Universities Press, 1972
Call Number: E183.8 .V5 A83

Blowing the Whistle: Dissent in the Public Interest
Written and Edited by Charles and Taylor Branch. Praeger Publishers, 1972
Call Number: JK271 .P44

Conscientious Actions: The Revelation of the Pentagon Papers
Edited by Peter A. French. Schenkman, 1974
Call Number: BJ1471 .F74

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