Now through June 30, the Library of Virginia is accepting ballots for the best work of fiction and non-fiction by a Virginia author. Winners will be announced at the Library of Virginia Awards Celebration on October 17, 2009. Here are the chosen books for this year.
FICTION
Divine Justice by David Baldacci
People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
The Legal Limit by Martin Clark
The Fire by Katherine Neville
Tomato Girl by Jayne Pupek
NONFICTION
This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust.
The Hemingses of Monticello, an American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed.
A Voyage Long and Strange; Rediscovering the New World by Tony Horwitz.
The Place to Be; Washington, CBS and the Glory Days of Television News by Roger Mudd
Because the Cat Purrs: How We Relate to Other Species and Why it Matters by Janet Lembke (This title is still on order and we await it’s arrival)
Stop by and check these titles out and vote for your favorite!