National Book Awards Finalists

The National Book Foundation has named the 2009 National Book Award finalists. Winners in each of these categories will be announced at a ceremony on November 18 in New York City. Also to be honored: Gore Vidal with the NBF's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters and Dave Eggers, the Literarian Award for Outstanding Contribution to the American Literary Community.
The NBA finalists in the categories of adult fiction and nonfiction currently owned by Harford County Public Library are:
Fiction:
* Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann (Find this book in our catalog)

* In Other Rooms, Other Wonders by Daniyal Mueenuddin (Find this book in our catalog)

* Lark and Termite by Jayne Anne Phillips (Find this book in our catalog)

* Far North by Marcel Theroux (Find this book in our catalog)

Nonfiction:

* Remarkable Creatures: Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origins of
Species by Sean B. Carroll (Find this book in our catalog)

* Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City by
Greg Grandin (Find this book in our catalog)

* The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt by T. J.
Stiles (Find this book in our catalog)