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Finalists unveiled for this years national book awards npr. The winners were announced at a ceremony on wednesday, november 18. Added books from the posted list from the bottom up including young peoples literature, western, science, science fiction, religion and poetry and most of philosophy. About 1,500 books were submitted for the awards, which are restricted to works published between 1 december 2016 and 30 november 2017.
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