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Tarcher/Penguin Takes Home One COVR and Seven Gold Nautilus Book Awards

Tarcher/Penguin won one categorical award and was a finalist for four others in the 2009 COVR Book Awards, the New Age industry's premier awards ceremony. In its twelfth consecutive year, The Coalition of Visionary Resources (COVR) selects winners from the best new items in the New Age industry.

The award-winner was Energy Medicine for Women by Donna Eden and the finalists included Dead Lucky by Lincoln Hall, Scalpel and the Soul by Allan Hamilton, Prayers to the Great Creator by Julia Cameron, and The Prosperity Bible, a collection of writings from beloved teachers including Ernest Holmes, Benjamin Franklin, and Napoleon Hill.

In addition, Tarcher/Penguin also won an astounding seven gold categorical awards in the 2009 Nautilus Book Awards (after having received a record-breaking 14 silver awards in the second tier of judging). The Nautilus Book Awards were conceived to recognize and reward world-changing books. The winners and finalists are carefully selected in a three-tier judging process by an experienced team of book reviewers, librarians, authors, editors, bookstore owners, and leaders in the publishing industry.

Fred Vargas' The Chalk Circle Man Wins the Crime Writer's Association International Dagger Award

Penguin author Fred Vargas and translator Sîan Reynolds have triumphed in the International Dagger for the third time in four years, winning the Crime Writer's Association International Dagger for The Chalk Circle Man, a Penguin mystery original, the first of her Commissaire Adamsberg series released in the U.S. The CWA Dagger Awards celebrate the very best in crime and thriller writing, and are the longest established literary awards in the UK. These premier awards in crime fiction are recognized internationally as a mark of excellence.

Fred Vargas's Commissaire Adamsberg's mysteries are #1 bestsellers in France, and they are quickly becoming an international sensation. Marilyn Stasio of The New York Times says "Vargas is such a dazzling stylist that her unorthodox plot and eccentric characters keep us enthralled," and Entertainment Weekly says "Anyone who enjoys kooky characters and intricate detail will happily follow Vargas along."

For more information on the CWA's Dagger awards, click here: http://www.thecwa.co.uk/daggers/2009/international.html

Explore The Chalk Circle Man reading group guide.

Julia Leigh's Disquiet Wins the Shirley Jackson Award for Novella

Winners of the 2008 Shirley Jackson Awards were announced at the Readercon 20, Conference on Imaginative Literature this past weekend and Disquiet, Julia Leigh's haunting and critically acclaimed novella published as a Penguin Paperback Original in 2008, received the Shirley Jackson Award for Novella. In recognition of the legacy of Shirley Jackson's writing, and with permission of the author's estate, the Shirley Jackson Awards have been established for outstanding achievement in the literature of psychological suspense, horror, and the dark fantastic.

Explore the Disquiet reading group guide.

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