2009 Award Winners

Annotation:Divided into five parts, this novel is the tale of scholars in pursuit of a reclusive novelist, a professor and his daughter, a reporter sent on assignment, and a long list of unsolved murders, all set in a Mexican border town.

Annotation:Siblings Matt and Annie witness a murder in the woods outside a small town in Idaho. While fleeing, they are spotted by the killers: a group of crooked cops. The kids find refuge with a rancher named Jess who tries to help them elude the murderers.

Annotation:An 18 month old baby escapes an attack that killed the rest of his family and ends up in a graveyard. He is adopted by the graveyard's inhabitants, renamed "Nobody" and grows up under the watchful eyes of witches, the undead, ghosts and more.

Annotation:The romance of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn and all of the turmoil it created is told through the eyes of one of Henry's advisors, Thomas Cromwell.

Annotation:It is August 1974 in New York City, and Philippe Petit is the man on wire between the Twin Towers. He is a link between many characters, including mother/daughter prostitutes, a Jesuit priest, and a judge and his wife mourning their son.

Annotation:A Dutchman named Hans finds himself alone in post 9/11 New York after his wife and child flee. He begins playing cricket with a group of fellow expats and befriends a mysterious Trinidadian named Chuck.

Annotation:In the third of the cozy mystery series featuring Chief Inspector Armand Ganache, he and his team try to solve the case of a woman dying of fright after a séance in a small Quebec village.

Annotation:A companion piece to Robinson's Pulitzer Prize winning Gilead, and an exploration on what happens when a prodigal son returns home to help his sister care for their ailing father.

Annotation:The life of American icon Vanderbilt is explored in detail, from his humble beginnings to his personal life to his methodical creation of his vast business empire.

Annotation:Olive Kitteridge, a gruff former math teacher in coastal Maine, is the common thread in this series of connected stories.
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