Pulitzer Prize for Letters

To Kill a Mockingbird - Audie

Submitted by admin on Mon, 03/25/2013 - 12:44pm
Award Year: 
2007
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Authors(s): 
Harper Lee
Reader: 
Sissy Spacek
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To Kill a Mockingbird
Audio Format: 
Unabridged CD
Description: 
"Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird". A lawyer's advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee's classic novel - a black man charged with the rape of a white girl.

The Swerve - Pulitzer

Submitted by admin on Thu, 01/03/2013 - 12:51pm
Award Year: 
2012
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Authors(s): 
Stephen Greenblatt
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The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
Description: 
Greenblatt transports listeners to the dawn of the Renaissance and chronicles the life of an intrepid book lover who rescued the Roman philosophical text On the Nature of Things from certain oblivion.

The Emperor of All Maladies

Submitted by admin on Thu, 01/03/2013 - 12:49pm
Award Year: 
2011
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Authors(s): 
Siddhartha Mukherjee
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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
Description: 
An elegant inquiry, at once clinical and personal, into the long history of an insidious disease that, despite treatment breakthroughs, still bedevils medical science.

The Dead Hand

Submitted by admin on Thu, 01/03/2013 - 12:46pm
Award Year: 
2010
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Authors(s): 
David E. Hoffman
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The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy
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A well documented narrative that examines the terrifying doomsday competition between two superpowers and how weapons of mass destruction still imperil humankind.

Hank Williams

Submitted by admin on Thu, 01/03/2013 - 12:38pm
Award Year: 
2010
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Hank Williams
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