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Author: Gin Phillips Book Cover Image. Title: Well and the Mine, Author: Gin Phillips Author: David Sheff Book Cover Image. Title: Beautiful Boy, Author: David SheffBook Cover Image. Title: Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey through His Son's Addiction, Author: David Sheff.

The 2008 Discover Awards

The 16th Annual Discover Award Winners in Fiction and Nonfiction

Find the best new literary talent from 2008! Our distinguished panel of jurists have voted -- this year's Discover Awards go to Gin Phillips for her evocative The Well and the Mine, and David Sheff for his absorbing Beautiful Boy.

Holiday 2009 Picks

The Season's Best New Literary Talents Shine

The Man Who Loved Books Too Muchby Allison Hoover Bartlett (Hardcover)

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Book Cover Image. Title: The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession, Author: by Allison Hoover Bartlett

This all-too-true tale of a modern-day book thief opens a window into the world of literary obsession.

The Fourth Part of the Worldby Toby Lester (Hardcover)

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Book Cover Image. Title: The Fourth Part of the World: The Race to the Ends of the Earth, and the Epic Story of the Map That Gave America Its Name, Author: by Toby Lester

This epic tale of a groundbreaking map of the New World offers an omnivorous view of world history and geography.

Mathilda Savitchby Victor Lodato (Hardcover)

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Book Cover Image. Title: Mathilda Savitch, Author: by Victor Lodato

In this haunting debut, a young girl, determined to solve the mystery of her older sister’s death, turns detective.

Cheerful Moneyby Tad Friend (Hardcover)

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Book Cover Image. Title: Cheerful Money: Me, My Family, and the Last Days of Wasp Splendor, Author: by Tad Friend
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A New Yorker writer dishes the dirt on his WASP family in this wry and entertaining memoir.

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Book Cover Image. Title: Blame, Author: by Michelle Huneven

Blameby Michelle Huneven (Hardcover)

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Book Cover Image. Title: This Is How, Author: by M. J. Hyland

This Is Howby M. J. Hyland (Paperback)

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Book Cover Image. Title: Her Fearful Symmetry, Author: by Audrey Niffenegger
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Her Fearful Symmetryby Audrey Niffenegger (Hardcover)

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