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Jerusalem: a Cookbook

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Authors Yotam Ottolenghi and Sami Tamimi explore the unique culinary culture of a diverse and complicated city in Jerusalem: a...»

03/27/13 |

United States of Pie: Regional Favorites from East to West and North to South

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United States of Pie: Regional Favorites from East to West and North to South is a nostalgic cookbook and a snapshot of American...»

03/25/13 | Nonfiction

Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

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Cheryl Strayed is the author of the New York Times Best Seller Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail but, in Tiny...»

03/18/13 | Nonfiction

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Nobel Prize

2012 Prize in Literature
Mo Yan

National Book Award

2012 Prize for Fiction
The Round House
by Louise Erdrich

2012 Prize for Nonfiction
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
by Katherine Boo

Newbery Medal
2013 award
The One and Only Ivan

by Katherine Applegate

Caldecott Medal
2013 award
This Is Not My Hat

by Jon Klassen

Printz Award

2013 award
In Darkness

by Nick Lake

New York Times Fiction Bestsellers (top 5 combined print & e-book sales)
Dead Ever After
, by Charlaine Harris
Silken Prey
, by John Sandford
The Hit
, by David BaldaccI
12th of Never
, by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro
Whiskey Beach
, by Nora Roberts

New York Times Nonfiction Bestsellers (top 5 combined print & e-book sales)
Happy, Happy, Happy
, by Phil Roberston with Mark Schlabach
Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls, by David Sedaris
Lean In, by Sheryl Sandberg with Nell Scovell
Control, by Glenn Beck and others
Proof of Heaven
, by Eben Alexander