have recently paired up to create the Quill Awards, a new national book award that honors excellence in book publishing. On August 4th, five nominees were chosen in each of 19 categories by an extensive panel of booksellers and librarians. The winners will be announced in a televised ceremony on October 22, 2005, hosted by NBC Nightly The event will benefit the not-for-profit Quills Literacy Foundation.
As part of its mission, the foundation's Executive Council will Scheduled to air the Quills special, on Saturday, October 22nd are: CHRONICLES: VOLUME ONE (abridged - CD) by Bob Dylan, read by Sean Penn (Simon Schuster Audio) HIS EXCELLENCY: GEORGE WASHINGTON (Unabridged - CD) by Joseph J. Ellis (Recorded Books) WHEN WILL JESUS BRING THE PORK CHOPS? (Unabridged - CD) by George Carlin (Time Warner Audiobooks) EGYPTOLOGY: SEARCH FOR THE TOMB OF OSIRIS by Nick Harris, illustrated by Ian Andrew and Helen Ward (Candlewick Press) ZEN SHORTS by Jon J.
Muth (Scholastic Books) DRAGON RIDER by Cornelia Funke, translated by Anthea Bell (Chicken House/Scholastic Books) HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE by J.K.
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