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Oregon Book Award Winners


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Native Speaker
Native Speaker
by Chang-Rae Lee
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The debut novel from critically-acclaimed and New York Times–bestselling author Chang-rae Lee. In Native Speaker, author Chang-rae Lee introduces readers to Henry Park. Park has spent his entire life trying to become a true American—a... (read more)

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Shards
Shards
by Ismet Prcic
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Ismet Prcic's brilliant, provocative, and propulsively energetic debut is about a young Bosnian, also named Ismet Prcic, who has fled his war-torn homeland and is now struggling to reconcile his past with his present life in California. He is advised... (read more)

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Lean on Pete (P.S.)
Lean on Pete (P.S.)
by Willy Vlautin
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From Willy Vlautin, one of the most natural storytellers ever to come out of the Northwest, comes a heartbreaking adventure starring 15-year-old Charley Thompson. It's like Tom Sawyer, but with more drunks, death, and weird strangers. Another engrossing... (read more)

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The Jump-Off Creek Signed Edition
The Jump-Off Creek Signed Edition
by Molly Gloss
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A reading group favorite, The Jump-Off Creek is the unforgettable story of widowed homesteader Lydia Sanderson and her struggles to settle in the mountains of Oregon in the 1890s. “Every gritty line of the story rings true” (Seattle Times) as... (read more)

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Fight Club (96 Edition)
Fight Club (96 Edition)
by Chuck Palahniuk
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A modern classic. I devoured Fight Club in one day several years ago and its impact hasn't been lessened in subsequent rereadings. Palahniuk's style is punchy, fast-paced, and often hilarious. It may be difficult to read the novel today without picturing... (read more)

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Storm Riders
Storm Riders
by Craig Lesley
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Winner of the Oregon Book Awards H.L. Davis Prize for Fiction Storm Riders examines the conflicted love of a single father struggling to raise his adopted Native American son, who was born with fetal alcohol syndrome. When a small girl mysteriously... (read more)

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How I Paid for College: A Novel of Sex, Theft, Friendship and Musical Theater
How I Paid for College: A Novel of Sex, Theft, Friendship and Musical Theater
by Marc Acito
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Former theatre geeks unite! I truly enjoyed this nostalgic romp through the life of Edward Zanni, a young thespian in suburban New Jersey. Edward's quest to attend Juilliard and the madness and mayhem that surround him turn the pages of this great story.... (read more)

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Bearing the Body
Bearing the Body
by Ehud Havazelet
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A New York Times Notable Book of the Year At the start of Bearing the Body, Nathan Mirsky learns that his older brother has died in San Francisco, apparently murdered after years of aimlessness. On the spur of the moment, Nathan leaves his job as a... (read more)

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The Necessary Grace to Fall (Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction)
The Necessary Grace to Fall (Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction)
by Gina Ochsner
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These eleven stories take us from the Czech Republic to Alaska, from Siberia to West Texas, as they stake out territories straddling the border between life and death. In the title story the usual thoroughness of an insurance claims investigator spirals... (read more)

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Like Never Before
Like Never Before
by Ehud Havazelet
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A stirring portrait exploring the intersections of three generations of an Othodox Jewish family. David Birnbaum is a middle-aged man at the crossroads — of youth and old age, of Othodox Judaism and assimilation, of the well-worn past and an... (read more)

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Arabian Jazz
Arabian Jazz
by Diana Abu-Jaber
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Balances are struck in this luminous first novel-between two radically distinct cultures, between obligation and self-will, between past and future, between hilarity and heartbreak-as the Jordanian family of Matussem Ramoud settles in a small, poor-white... (read more)

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The Greening of Ben Brown
The Greening of Ben Brown
by Michael Strelow
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MICHAEL STRELOW HAS GIVEN NORTHWEST READERS an amazing fable for our time and place featuring Ben Brown, a utility lineman who transforms into the Green Man following an industrial accident. Eco-Hero and prophet, the Green Man heads a cast of wonderful... (read more)

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The Best People in the World: A Novel
The Best People in the World: A Novel
by Justin Tussing
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In Paducah, Kentucky, high floodwalls confine the current of the mighty Ohio, and for seventeen-year-old Thomas, the small town he has known all his life is full of limits that have left him feeling as reined in as the river. Things only get worse when... (read more)

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How I Paid for College: A Novel of Sex, Theft, Friendship & Musical Theater
How I Paid for College: A Novel of Sex, Theft, Friendship & Musical Theater
by Marc Acito
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A deliciously funny romp of a novel about one overly theatrical (and sexually confused) New Jersey teenager's larcenous quest for his acting school tuition. It's 1983 in Wallingford, New Jersey, a sleepy bedroom community outside of Manhattan... (read more)

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The Jump-Off Creek
The Jump-Off Creek
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William Kittredge called The Jump-Off Creek "a truly beautiful piece of American storytelling." The struggles of a widowed homesteader braving the austere and unsparing Blue Mountains contain "enough valor to make an ordinary life seem heroic" (Los... (read more)

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Jump Off Creek
Jump Off Creek
by Molly Gloss
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William Kittredge called The Jump-Off Creek "a truly beautiful piece of American storytelling." The struggles of a widowed homesteader braving the austere and unsparing Blue Mountains contain "enough valor to make an ordinary life seem heroic" (Los... (read more)

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The Ugliest House in the World: Stories
The Ugliest House in the World: Stories
by Peter Ho Davies
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Davies's worldly stories, reflecting his Welsh and Chinese heritage, delight in odd--and memorable--juxtapositions and counterpoints. Elegant and original, they travel "with an offhand grace" (Elle) from Coventry to Kuala Lumpur, from the past to the... (read more)

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Dreams Like Thunder
Dreams Like Thunder
by Diane Simmons
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Ten-year-old Alberta lives in the sagebrush country of eastern Oregon. She longs to travel the world just like her "exotic" relatives who are due to visit the family ranch.... (read more)

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Resurrectionists
Resurrectionists
by Russell Working
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