book
look
It’s that time of year
AUTUMN IS THE season for the best in
books as nominees are announced and awards
handed out.
National Book Awards
Finalists for the nation’s top literary prize
were announced in mid-October, with the
winners to be announced on November 15 at
a dinner in New York.
The finalists are:
Fiction
–Only Revolutions,
by Mark Z. Danielewski
–A Disorder Peculiar to the Country,
by Ken Kalfus
–The Echo Maker, by Richard Powers
–Eat the Document, by Dana Spiotta
–The Zero, by Jess Walter
Nonfiction
–At Canaan’s Edge: America in the King
Years, 1965– 68, by Taylor Branch
–Imperial Life in the Emerald City:
Inside Iraq’s Green Zone,
by Rajiv Chandrasekaran
–The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story
of Those Who Survived the Great
American Dust Bowl, by Timothy Egan
–Oracle Bones: A Journey Between
China’s Past and Present, by Peter Hessler
–The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the
Road to 9/11, by Lawrence Wright
Poetry
–Averno, by Louise Glück
–Chromatic, by H.L. Hix
–Angle of Yaw, by Ben Lerner
–Splay Anthem, by Nathaniel Mackey
–Capacity, by James McMichael
Young People’s Literature
–The Astonishing Life of Octavian
Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Vol. 1:
The Pox Party, by M. T. Anderson
–Keturah and Lord Death,
by Martine Leavitt
–Sold, by Patricia McCormick
–The Rules of Survival, by Nancy Werlin
–American Born Chinese,
by Gene Luen Yang
Christopher Moore
A Dirty Job
CHARLEE RODERS
Quill Book Awards
Now in their second year, the Quill Book
Awards give readers the chance to vote for
their favorite books.
Winners this year include:
Book of the Year: Don’t Make a Black
Woman Take Off Her Earrings: Madea’s
Uninhibited Commentaries on Love and Life,
by Tyler Perry
Debut Author of the Year: Julie and Julia:
365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment
Kitchen, by Julie Powell
Children’s Illustrated Book: If You Give
a Pig a Party, by Laura Joffe Numeroff’
illustrated by Felicia Bond
General Fiction: A Dirty Job,
by Christopher Moore
Romance: Blue Smoke, by Nora Roberts
Biography/Memoir: Marley & Me: Life
with the World’s Worst Dog, by John Grogan
Cooking: Rachael Ray 365: No Repeats—
A Year of Deliciously Different Dinners,
by Rachael Ray
For a complete listing of the winners, visit
www.thequills.org.
giveaways
Book giveaway
Costco has five copies of State of
Denial: Bush at War, Part III, by Bob
Woodward, and five signed copies of
Takedown, by Brad Thor, to give
away. To enter, print the name
of the book you’d like to win,
your name, membership number, address and daytime phone
number on a postcard or letter and
send it to: November Book Look
Giveaway, The Costco Connection,
P.O. Box 34088, Seattle, WA 98124-
1088, or fax it to (425) 313-6718.
U2 giveaway
Costco has 10 gift-packs to give
away to celebrate the release of the
book U2 By U2. Each pack includes a
copy of the book, a U2 T-shirt and a
copy of the DVD U2—Zoo TV Live at
Sydney. To enter, print your name, membership number, address and daytime
phone number on a postcard or letter
and se nd it to:
U2 Giveaway, The Costco
Connection, P.O. Box
34088, Seattle, WA
98124-1088, or fax it to
(425) 313-6718.
No purchase is necessary. Entries
must be received or postmarked by midnight, December 1, 2006. Void where prohibited. Employees of Costco and their
families are not eligible. Winners will be
notified by mail. One entry per household.
Send your feedback on this
month’s Buyer’s Pick to:
discussionquestions@costco.com
signings
Nicholas Sparks signs Dear John
on November 6, at noon, at the
Bloomfield, Michigan, Costco, 2343 S.
Telegraph Road.
Frank Stitt signs Frank Stitt’s
Southern Table on November 11, at
noon, at the Hoover, Alabama, Costco,
3650 Galleria Circle.
Doris I. Walker signs Orange County
Then and Now on November 11, at
1 p.m., at the Laguna Niguel
Marketplace, California, Costco,
27220 Heather Ridge.
Jimmy Carter signs Palestine: Peace
Not Apartheid on November 29, at a
time that has yet to be determined, at
the Glenview, Illinois, Costco,
2900 Patriot Blvd.
*All signings are subject to change or
cancellation.
(Click here for maps and
directions to Costco locations.)
The Costco Connection NOVEMBER 2006
