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National Book Foundation finalists, for those interested. Looks like 9 pretty interesting books to me (and one about TSUN).

FICTION
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Bonnie Jo Campbell, American Salvage (Wayne State University Press)
Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin (Random House)
Daniyal Mueenuddin, In Other Rooms, Other Wonders (W. W. Norton & Co.)
Jayne Anne Phillips, Lark and Termite (Alfred A. Knopf)
Marcel Theroux, Far North (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
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FICTION JUDGES: Alan Cheuse, Junot D?az, Jennifer Egan,
Charles Johnson, Lydia Millet

NONFICTION
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David M. Carroll, Following the Water: A Hydromancer's Notebook
(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Sean B. Carroll, Remarkable Creatures: Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origins of Species (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Greg Grandin, Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City (Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt)
Adrienne Mayor, The Poison King: The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome's Deadliest Enemy (Princeton University Press)
T. J. Stiles, The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt
(Alfred A. Knopf)

NONFICTION JUDGES: David Blight, Amanda Foreman, Steve Olson,
Camille Paglia, John Phillip Santos
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'Joker One': A Marine's Memoir Of The War In Iraq


March 5, 2009

Listen to the Story Random House Donovan Campbell was awarded a Bronze Star with Valor for his time in Iraq.

Random House Donovan Campbell was awarded a Bronze Star with Valor for his time in Iraq.

March 5, 2009
Former Marine Donovan Campbell served three combat deployments, two in Iraq and one in Afghanistan. In Iraq, he commanded Joker One, a platoon of new Marines that he trained and transformed into a fighting unit. They were assigned to Ramadi, the capital of the Sunni-dominated Anbar province where they engaged in daily house-to-house combat with insurgents.
Campbell has written a memoir about his experiences with the platoon called Joker One: A Marine Platoon's Story of Courage, Leadership, and Brotherhood. Part of the proceeds from the book will go to various nonprofit organizations that help veterans, wounded soldiers and military families.
 
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"The Magicians" - Lev Grossman
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Like the reviews say, it's pretty much Harry Potter Goes to College, except he and his friends make it through 5 years of wizarding university all in one book, then go out into the real world (and other worlds) as graduate-magicians. The references to Harry Potter and Narnia and Tolkien are direct rather than allusive, as they are books the characters would have read in their own lives, though of them Narnia is the biggest influence on this story. The writing seemed a little showy at first, like it's written by someone who works for Time Magazine (which it is), but once the plot got going I wasn't groaning quite as often.
 
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