Christmas 2018 eBooks

Do you read eBooks? (If not, did you know it's a free service to members of Thrall/RCLS?)

We invite you to explore our RCLS/OverDrive eBook collection of Christmas titles.

You might also like to browse Christmas 2018 Fiction - in print - by following this link.

2018 National Book Awards

This year's winners and finalists have been announced by the National Book Foundation.

You can follow the links below to explore winning titles and authors in the Thrall/RCLS library catalog, where you can also check availability or reserve items:

Fiction

• Winner:
  • The Friend - Sigrid Nunez
• Finalists:
  • A Lucky Man - Jamel Brinkley
  • Florida - Lauren Groff
  • Where the Dead Sit Talking - Brandon Hobson
  • The Great Believers - Rebecca Makkai

Nonfiction

• Winner:
  • The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke - Jeffrey Stewart
• Finalists:
  • The Indian World of George Washington: The First President, the First Americans, and the Birth of the Nation - Colin Calloway
  • American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic - Victoria Johnson
  • Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth - Sarah Smarsh
  • We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights - Adam Winkler

Poetry

• Winner:
  • Indecency - Justin Phillip Reed
• Finalists:
  • Wobble - Rae Armantrout
  • American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin - Terrance Hayes
  • Ghost of - Diana Khoi Nguyen
  • Eye Level - Jenny Xie

Young People's Literature

• Winner:
  • The Poet X - Elizabeth Acevedo
• Finalists:
  • The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge - Eugene Yelchin, M. T. Anderson
  • The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle - Leslie Connor
  • The Journey of Little Charlie - Christopher Paul Curtis
  • Hey Kiddo - Jarrett J. Krosoczka

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You can also explore previous finalists and winners (by year) via this link.

For more about the National Book Awards, please follow this link.

December 2018 Titles

The following books are due out in December. Please use the links below to place your holds now.

Also check out our Christmas 2018 titles post below!

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Christmas 2018 Titles

Some titles to get you into the holiday spirit!



Also check out: our online collection of Christmas 2018 RCLS/OverDrive eBooks.

November 2018 Titles

The following books are due out in November. Please use the links below to place your holds now.

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October 2018 Titles

The following books are due out in October. Please use the links below to place your holds now.

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September 2018 Titles

The following books are due out in September. Please use the links below to place your holds now.

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August 2018 Titles

The following books are due out in August. Please use the links below to place your holds now.

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July 2018 Titles

The following books are due out in July. Please use the links below to place your holds now.

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June 2018 Titles

The following books are due out in June. Please use the links below to place your holds now.

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May 2018 Titles

The following books are due out in May. Please use the links below to place your holds now.

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2018 Pulitzer Prize Winners

The 2018 Pulitzer Prizes have been announced!

You can follow any of the title or author links below to explore this year's winners in the library system catalog:


Fiction

• Less by Andrew Sean Greer

History

• The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea by Jack E. Davis

Biography & Autobiographies

• Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Caroline Fraser

Poetry

• Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016 by Frank Bidart

General Nonfiction

• Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America by James Forman Jr.

Drama

• *Cost of Living by Martyna Majok
  (*title not currently available in the RCLS library system)

For more winning books and authors...

• View the complete official winners list for 2018 at Pulitzer.org
• Explore Puliter.org's current and past winners by category.
• Check out our "All the Best" lists for bestsellers, Nobel Prize for Literature winners, award-winning authors, and more.

April 2018 Titles

The following books are due out in April. Please use the links below to place your holds now.

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March 2018 Titles

The following books are due out in March. Please use the links below to place your holds now.

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February 2018 Titles

The following books are due out in February. Please use the links below to place your holds now.

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"Best Books" of 2017

The following titles have been selected as among the "best books" of 2017 by The New York Times, Publishers Weekly, and others.

You can follow each title or author link into the library catalog to check on availability or to reserve items.

Nonfiction

Fiction

For further exploration:

• Please follow this link to browse the New York Times, Publishers Weekly, NPR, and other "Best Book" lists in our Booklovers Web guide.

January 2018 Titles

The following books are due out in January. Please use the links below to place your holds now.

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December 2017 Titles

The following books are due out in December. Please use the links below to place your holds now.

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Christmas 2017 Titles

New Christmas titles!

November 2017 Titles

The following books are due out in November. Please use the links below to place your holds now.

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The 2017 Nobel Prize
in Literature

The 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to Kazuo Ishiguro, "who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world."

You can read the offical announcement by following this link.

For further exploration...

From NobelPrize.org:

• About the Nobel Prize in Literature
• Kazuo Ishiguro Biobibliography (biography + bibliography) (PDF)

News Coverage

• BBC: "Kazuo Ishiguro: Nobel Literature Prize Is a Magnificent Honour" (article + video)
• Google News: Kazuo Ishiguro (multiple news sources)
• National Public Radio (NPR): "Kazuo Ishiguro Wins Nobel Prize In Literature"
• The New York Times: "Kazuo Ishiguro Is Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature"

Library Items - Thrall + RCLS books, etc. by or about Kazuo Ishiguro:

• author search (by)
• subject search (about)

Databases Available at Thrall (also available to members of Thrall remotely - log in with your library card #):

• Gale Literary Sources - Autor interviews + literary criticism and analysis
  (learn more about this database)
• Literature for Students - In-depth literary criticism and analysis of The Remains of the Day and other works by this author
  (learn more about this database))
• Salem Literature - Critical Insights: Kazuo Ishiguro in Critical Survey of Long Fiction - "A biographical essay about Kazuo Ishiguro, with brief critical analysis of major works."
  (learn more about this database))

October 2017 Titles

The following books are due out in October. Please use the links below to place your holds now.

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September 2017 Titles

The following books are due out in September. Please use the links below to place your holds now.

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August 2017 Titles

The following books are due out in August. Please use the links below to place your holds now.

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July 2017 Titles

The following books are due out in July. Please use the links below to place your holds now.

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A New Poet Laureate

On June 14, 2017, the Librarian of Congress appointed Tracy K. Smith as the new Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry.

In 2012, Smith won the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for Life on Mars.

The Library of Congress has this to say about Smith's writings:



Please follow this link for official information from the Library of Congress.

For Further Exploration...

You can learn more about Tracy through the following links:

• From Gale Literary Sources (available free to members of Thrall - login with library card #):
  • Biography of Tracy K. Smith - from Contemporary Authors Online
  • Interview with Tracy K. Smith - from Atlanta Review
  • List of Works + Biographical Essay - from Twenty-First-Century American Poets
• Thrall / RCLS Library System Catalog - items by Tracy K. Smith

Related news coverage:

• Library of Congress Press Release: "Librarian of Congress Names Tracy K. Smith Poet Laureate" (June 14, 2017)
• National Public Radio (NPR): "Tracy K. Smith, New U.S. Poet Laureate, Calls Poems Her 'Anchor'" (June 14, 2017)
• The New York Times: "Tracy K. Smith Is the New Poet Laureate" (June 14, 2017)
• PBS NewsHour: "Watch New Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith Read Two of Her Poems" (June 14, 2017)

Other Websites:

• About the Position of Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry - official information from the Library of Congress
• The Academy of American Poets: Tracy K. Smith
• Past Poets Laureate (2011 - Present)
• The Poetry Foundation: Tracy K. Smith - biography + poems

June 2017 Titles

The following books are due out in June. Please use the links below to place your holds now.

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May 2017 Titles

The following books are due out in May. Please use the links below to place your holds now.

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2017 Pulitzer Prize Winners

The 2017 Pulitzer Prizes have been announced!

You can click any of the links below to explore this year's winners in the library system catalog:


Fiction

• The Underground Railroad - Colson Whitehead

History

• Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy - Heather Ann Thompson

Biography & Autobiographies

• The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between - Hisham Matar

Poetry

• Olio - Tyehimba Jess

General Nonfiction

• Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City - Matthew Desmond

Drama

• Sweat - Lynn Nottage

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For more winning books and authors...

• View the complete official winners list for 2017 at Pulitzer.org
• Explore Puliter.org's current and past winners by category.
• Check out our "All the Best" lists for bestsellers, Nobel Prize for Literature winners, award-winning authors, and more.

April 2017 Titles

The following books are due out in April. Please use the links below to place your holds now.

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March 2017 Titles

The following books are due out in March. Please use the links below to place your holds now.

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February 2017 Titles

The following books are due out in February. Please use the links below to place your holds now.

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January 2017 Titles

The following books are due out in January. Please use the links below to place your holds now.

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