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Indeed, all four had been losing finalists for the Fiction award in their hardcover editions (two 1979, two 1981). ^ a b Lewis Thomas, The Lives of a Cell, won both the Arts and Letters and the Sciences awards in 1975. ^ a b John Clive, Thomas Babington Macaulay, won both the History and Biography awards in 1974.
Book Lovers Day is celebrated on August 9 every year. This is an unofficial holiday observed to encourage bibliophiles to celebrate reading and literature. People are advised to put away their smartphones and every possible technological distraction and pick up a book to read.
The National Book Awards ( NBA) are a set of annual U.S. literary awards. [1] [2] At the final National Book Awards Ceremony every November, the National Book Foundation presents the National Book Awards and two lifetime achievement awards to authors. The National Book Awards were established in 1936 by the American Booksellers Association, [3 ...
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The Handmaid's Tale is a futuristic dystopian novel by Canadian author Margaret Atwood published in 1985. It is set in a near-future New England in a patriarchal, totalitarian theonomic state known as the Republic of Gilead, which has overthrown the United States government.
National Coloring Book Day. National Ice Cream Sandwich Day. August 3. Clean Your Floors Day. ... National Book Lovers Day. National Women’s Day. August 10. Ecuador Independence Day.
National Happiness Happens Day. Tuesday, Aug. 9. National Book Lovers Day. National Women's Day in South Africa. International Day of the World's Indigenous People. National Veep Day. Wednesday ...
This Book Is Gay: Juno Dawson: LGBTQIA+ content, provides sexual education 2014 53 — — This Day in June: Gayle E. Pitman, illustrated by Kristyna Litten: LGBT content 2013 42 — — This One Summer: Mariko Tamaki, illustrated by Jillian Tamaki: Includes LGBT characters, drug use and profanity, and considered sexually explicit with mature ...