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Everything Ravaged Everything Burned, The Lacuna, Raymond Carver - A Writer's Life, Dancing in the Dark... check out the New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2009. Great Gift Ideas!

Also, check out the Top 10 of your favorite book critic:
Michiko Kakutani, Janet Maslin and Dwight Garner.

For more holiday gift ideas: stop by at The Book Works! We look forward to helping you find the Perfect Book. Or that nifty gifty coin purse, those vintage earrings, moleskine notebook, philosophical candle...  
And cards! We have The Best Card Buyers in town.

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On Wednesday, the National Book Awards were presented at a
black-tie dinner at Cipriani Wall Street in Manhattan. The winners:

Fiction: Let the Great World Spin, by Colum McCann (Random House)
Nonfiction: The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt, by T. J. Stiles (Knopf)
Young people's literature: Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice, by Phillip Hoose (FSG)
Poetry: Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy by Keith Waldrop (University of California Press)

Read more in the NYTimes.