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    Morris, Jan
    In my mind’s eye : a thought diary
    Summary:“Ranging widely from the idyllic confines of her North Wales home, Morris offers diverse sallies on her preffered form of exercises (walking briskly), her frustration at not recognizing a certain melody humming in her head (Beethoven’s Pathétique, incidentally), and her nostalgia for the erstwhile ‘essential niceness’ of small-town America.”–Inside dust jacket.

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    Morris, Jan
    The world : travels 1950-2000
    Summary:“The career of Jan Morris began auspiciously enough fifty years ago “with an imperial exploit” that burst like a salvo into newspapers throughout the world. Assigned by The Times of London to cover the first successful ascent of Mount Everest, “the supreme mountain of the world,” Morris was the only reporter allowed on Sir John Hunt’s expedition. Morris’s great “scoop,” published in London on June 2, 1953, the very morning of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, not only marked the beginning of a “new Elizabethan age,” but also established the twenty-six-year-old as the foremost travel essayist of the age.” “Fifty years later, we now have The World, which provides us with as complete an overview of Morris’s work as we will ever see. Dividing the volume into five decades, Morris presents history with an unparalleled dramatic flair, creating a riveting portrait of the twentieth century, from the political idealism of the postwar years to its more recent tensions and excesses.”–BOOK JACKET

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    Morris, Jan
    Contact! : a book of encounters
    Summary:The travel writer presents tales of the people she’s encountered in the places she’s visited over the years, including a Sherpa guide who scaled Mt. Everest, a lascivious Manhattan cabbie, and a spy wearing a raincoat.

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    Morris, Jan
    Fifty years of Europe : an album
    Summary:Is there really a new Europe? Have the extraordinary transformations of the last half century – the rise and fall of the Eastern Bloc, Germany’s reunification, ethnic warfare, even the ongoing creation of a common parliament and currency – rendered our culture not only unrecognizable but unimaginable? These are among the myriad questions posed by Jan Morris in Fifty Years of Europe. Morris, one of our era’s most engaging historians and celebrated travelers, revisits the continent she’s long known so well and tries to discover whether she now knows it at all. How she contrasts her European experiences today with those of two generations past makes for an insightful and highly personal study.

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    Morris, Jan
    A writer’s house in Wales
    Summary:“Journalist, historian, travel writer, novelist, Jan Morris has guided countless readers through faraway places with her keen eye and eloquent turns of phrase. In this intimate and fascinating memoir, she invites us into her own home in the magical heartland of Wales.” ‘Wales is a realm unto itself, ancient, unique, and unforgettable. In this craggy country lashed by the Atlantic dwell the last of the original Britons, a people with a colorful history and a language all their own. Long before English was spoken, Welshmen – cymry, in their native language – were composing epics in their lilting Celtic.’ “Morrises have inhabited this far western corner of Britain for centuries, and Trefan Morys – Jan Morris’s house between the sea and the mountains – is the eighteenth-century stable block of her former family home nearby. Morris regards this modest building not only as a reflection of herself and her life but also as epitomizing Wales, which has for centuries defiantly preserved its own identity.”–BOOK JACKET.

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    Morris, Jan
    Trieste and the meaning of nowhere
    Summary:One hundred years ago, Trieste was the chief seaport of the entire Austro-Hungarian empire, but today many people have no idea where it is. This fascinating Italian city on the Adriatic, bordering the former Yugoslavia, has always tantalized Jan Morris with its moodiness and melancholy. She has chosen it as the subject of this, her final work, because it was the first city she knew as an adult — initially as a young soldier at the end of World War II, and later as an elderly woman. This is not only her last book, but in many ways her most complex as well, for Trieste has come to represent her own life with all its hopes, disillusionments, loves and memories.

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    Morris, Jan
    Hav : comprising last letters from Hav of the Myrmidons
    Summary:“… part erudite travel memoir, part speculative fiction, part cautionary political tale… transports the reader to an extraordinary place that never was, but could well be”–From publisher description.

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    Morris, Jan
    Battleship Yamato : of war, beauty and irony
    Summary:“An extraordinary–and strikingly illustrated–reflection on the meaning of war from one of our greatest living writers. The battleship Yamato, of the Imperial Japanese Navy, was the most powerful warship of World War II and represented the climax, as it were, of the Japanese warrior traditions of the samurai–the ideals of honor, discipline, and self-sacrifice that had immemorially ennobled the Japanese national consciousness. Stoically poised for battle in the spring of 1945–when even Japan’s last desperate technique of arms, the kamikaze, was running short–Yamato arose as the last magnificent arrow in the imperial quiver of Emperor Hirohito. Here, Jan Morris not only tells the dramatic story of the magnificent ship itself–from secret wartime launch to futile sacrifice at Okinawa–but, more fundamentally, interprets the ship as an allegorical figure of war itself, in its splendor and its squalor, its heroism and its waste. Drawing on rich naval history and rhapsodic metaphors from international music and art, Battleship Yamato is a work of grand ironic elegy.”–Provided by publisher.

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    Morris, Jan
    Lincoln : a foreigner’s quest
    Summary:“With her iconoclasm and humor and marvelous sense of place, Morris seamlessly blends travel narrative, history and biography with transatlantic insights into the origins of the American Empire to reveal the real Lincoln – maverick, artist, oddball, natural aristocrat.”–BOOK JACKET.

First place

Simpson, Dana
Unicorn of many hats : another Phoebe and her unicorn advenures
Phoebe and her exceptional hooved pal are back in this all-new collection of comics! Laugh alongside the lovable duo as they question the idea of "coolness," gain a deeper appreciation for the power of friendship, and put off summer reading assignments for as long as physically possible.

Runners-up

Pilkey, Dav
Dog Man : lord of the fleas
When a new bunch of baddies bust up the town, Dog Man is called into action — and this time he isn’t alone. With a cute kitten and a remarkable robot by his side, our heroes must save the day by joining forces with an unlikely ally: Petey, the World’s Most Evil Cat. But can the villainous Petey avoid vengeance and venture into virtue?

Selznick, Brian
Baby Monkey, private eye
Baby Monkey, private eye, will investigate stolen jewels, missing pizzas, and other mysteries–if he can manage to figure out how to put his pants on.

Other nominee

Sell, Chad
The cardboard kingdom
Summary:Welcome to a neighborhood of kids who transform ordinary boxes into colorful costumes. and their ordinary block into cardboard kingdom. This is the summer when sixteen kids encounter knights and rogues, robots and monsters-and their own inner demons-on one last quest before school starts again. In the Cardboard Kingdom, you can be anything you want to be-imagine that–Provided by publisher.,Follows the adventures of a group of neighborhood children who make costumes from cardboard and use their imagination to create adventures with knights, robots, and monsters.

First place

Finn, A. J.
The woman in the window : a novel
It isn’t paranoia if it’s really happening . . . Anna Fox lives alone—a recluse in her New York City home, unable to venture outside. She spends her day drinking wine (maybe too much), watching old movies, recalling happier times . . . and spying on her neighbors. Then the Russells move into the house across the way: a father, a mother, their teenage son. The perfect family. But when Anna, gazing out her window one night, sees something she shouldn’t, her world begins to crumble—and its shocking secrets are laid bare. What is real? What is imagined? Who is in danger? Who is in control? In this diabolically gripping thriller, no one—and nothing—is what it seems.

Runners-up

Jones, Tayari
An American marriage
When her new husband is arrested and imprisoned for a crime she knows he did not commit, a rising artist takes comfort in a longtime friendship only to encounter unexpected challenges in resuming her life when her husband’s sentence is suddenly overturned.  An insightful look into the lives of people who are bound and separated by forces beyond their control. By the author of Silver Sparrow.

Miller, Madeline
Circe : a novel
A highly-anticipated follow-up to the award-winning The Song of Achilles follows Circe, the banished witch daughter of Helios, as she hones her powers and interacts with famous mythological beings before a conflict with one of the most vengeful Olympians forces her to choose between the worlds of the gods and mortals.  

Shortlist of nominated Adult Fiction

Adult Nonfiction

First place

Westover, Tara
Educated : a memoir
“Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches and sleeping with her “head-for-the-hills bag.” The family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure the children received an education, and no one to intervene when one of Tara’s older brothers became violent. As a way out, Tara began to educate herself, learning enough mathematics and grammar to be admitted to Brigham Young University. Her quest for knowledge would transform her, taking her over oceans and across continents, to Harvard and to Cambridge. Only then would she wonder if she’d traveled too far, if there was still a way home.

Runners-up

McNamara, Michelle.
I’ll be gone in the dark : one woman’s obsessive search for the Golden State Killer
For more than ten years, a mysterious and violent predator committed fifty sexual assaults in Northern California before moving south, where he perpetrated ten sadistic murders. Then he disappeared, eluding capture by multiple police forces and some of the best detectives in the area. Three decades later, Michelle McNamara, a true crime journalist who created the popular website TrueCrimeDiary.com, was determined to find the violent psychopath she called “the Golden State Killer.” She pored over police reports, interviewed victims, and embedded herself in the online communities that were as obsessed with the case as she was, and unfortunately the gifted journalist died tragically before completing this book, which was completed from her notes.

Sedaris, David
Calypso
A latest collection of personal essays by the best-selling author of Let’s Explore Diabetes With Owls and Me Talk Pretty One Day shares even more revealing and intimate memories from his upbringing and family life, as well as his adventures after buying a vacation house on the Carolina coast and his reflections on middle age and mortality. 

Shortlist of nominated Adult Nonfiction

Adult Graphic Novels

First place

Andersen, Sarah
Herding cats : a “Sarah’s scribbles” collection
“With characteristic wit and charm, Sarah Andersen’s third collection of comics and illustrated personal essays offers a survival guide for frantic modern life: from the importance of avoiding morning people, to Internet troll defense 101, to the not-so-life-changing futility of tidying up. But when all else fails and the world around you is collapsing, make a hot chocolate, count the days until Halloween, and snuggle up next to your furry beacon of hope”–Back cover.

Runners-up

Anne Frank’s diary : the graphic adaptation
“The only graphic biography of Anne Frank’s diary that has been authorized by the Anne Frank Foundation and that uses text from the diary–it will introduce a new generation of young readers to this classic of Holocaust literature. This adaptation of Anne Frank’s Diary of a Young Girl into a graphic version for a young readership, maintains the integrity and power of the original work. With stunning, expressive illustrations and ample direct quotation from the diary, this edition will expand the readership for this important and lasting work of history and literature”

McElroy, Clint
The adventure zone. Here there be gerblins
“Join Taako the elf wizard, Merle the dwarf cleric, and Magnus the human warrior for an adventure they are poorly equipped to handle AT BEST, guided (“guided”) by their snarky DM, in a graphic novel that, like the smash-hit podcast it’s based on, will tickle your funny bone, tug your heartstrings, and probably pants you if you give it half a chance.”

Shortlist of nominated Adult Graphic Novels

Young Adult Fiction

First place

Acevedo, Elizabeth
The poet X : a novel
When Xiomara Batista, who pours all her frustrations and passion into poetry, is invited to join the school slam poetry club, she struggles with her mother’s expectations and her need to be heard.

Runners-up

Adeyemi, Tomi
Children of blood and bone
Seventeen-year-old Zélie, her older brother Tzain, and rogue princess Amari fight to restore magic to the land and activate

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