2023 Award Winners | Tinley Park Public Library

1) Tomb of sand

Author

Shree, Geetanjali

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For folks who want a well written, leisurely paced, immersive novel, this International Booker Prize winner is perfect.

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"WINNER OF THE 2022 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE A playful, feminist, and utterly original epic about a family-especially its inimitable octogenarian matriarch-in northern India. An eighty-year-old woman, Ma, slips into a deep depression after the death of her husband. Despite her family's cajoling, she refuses to get up from bed. Her responsible eldest son, Bade, and dutiful, Reebok-sporting daughter-in-law, Bahu, flit around trying to attend to Ma's...

2) A lady's guide to fortune-hunting

Author

Irwin, Sophie

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Winner of the Alex Award, given to books written for adults that have "special appeal for young adults", this book is for all those Jane Austen fans or anyone who wants a fun historical rom-com.

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"A whip-smart debut that follows the adventures of an entirely unconventional heroine who throws herself into the London Season to find a wealthy husband. But the last thing she expects is to find love ... Kitty Talbot needs a fortune. Or rather, she needs a husband who has a fortune. Left with her father's massive debts, she has only twelve weeks to save her family from ruin. Kitty has never been one to back down from a challenge, so she leaves home...

3) The swimmers

Author

Otsuka, Julie

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If characters and their emotional interiors are your thing (and you don't mind heavy subjects), try the fiction winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal, given by the American Library Association.

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"A novel portraying a group of dedicated recreational swimmers and what happens when a crack appears at the bottom of their community pool. The swimmers are unknown to each other except through their private routines (slow lane, fast lane), and the solace each takes in their morning or afternoon laps. But when a crack appears at the bottom of the pool, they are cast out into an unforgiving world. One of these swimmers is Alice, who is slowly losing...

4) All my rage

Author

Tahir, Sabaa

Series

Thorndike Press youth large print

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Readers who love an emotional, intergenerational story should pick up this Printz Award, for excellence in young adult literature, winning title.

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"Lahore, Pakistan. Then. Misbah is a dreamer and storyteller, newly married to Toufiq in an arranged match. After their young life is shaken by tragedy, they come to the United States and open the Clouds' Rest Inn Motel, hoping for a new start. Juniper, California. Now. Salahudin and Noor are more than best friends; they are family. Growing up as outcasts in the small desert town of Juniper, California, they understand each other the way no one else...

5) Freewater

Author

Luqman-Dawson, Amina

Series

James Patterson presents

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A lyrical and beautifully told story of an actual historical place, this novel for kids, won the Newbery Medal.

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"Under the cover of night, twelve-year-old Homer flees Southerland Plantation with his little sister Ada, unwillingly leaving their beloved mother behind. Much as he adores her and fears for her life, Homer knows there's no turning back, not with the overseer on their trail. Through tangled vines, secret doorways, and over a sky bridge, the two find a secret community called Freewater, deep in the swamp. In this society created by formerly enslaved...

6) River of the gods: genius, courage, and betrayal in the search for the source of the Nile

Author

Millard, Candice

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Candice Millard writes fantastic narrative nonfiction that read like novels which also makes it perfect for listening. This made the Listen List for outstanding narration presented by the Reference and User Services Association.

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"From the New York Times bestselling author of RIVER OF DOUBT and DESTINY OF THE REPUBLIC, the stirring story of one of the great feats of exploration of all time, and its complicated legacy The Nile River is the longest in the world. Its fertile floodplain allowed for rise to the great civilization of ancient Egypt, but for millennia the location of its headwaters was shrouded in mystery. Pharaonic and Roman attempts to find it were stymied by a...

7) To the realization of perfect helplessness

Author

Lewis, Robin Coste

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This collection will challenge you to rethink what poetry is and what it can accomplish and won the PEN America award for poetry.

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"From the National-Book-Award-winning poet who changed the way we see the Black female figure, a continuation of that journey in a genre-bending coming together of poem and photography, toward a new definition of human migration. Twenty-five years ago, after her grandmother's death, Robin Coste Lewis discovered a stunning collection of photographs under her bed. The poetry that she marries to these vivid daily images of 20th-century Black joy and...