Lazard History Wins Book Prize
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âThe Last Tycoonsâ is an insiderâs history of Lazard Freres & Company, where William D. Cohan worked for six years as an investment banker.
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The comprehensive and chilling account  of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, written by  the U.S. government's 9/11 Commission, was nominated for one of  America's top literary awards on Wednesday.
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The authors of a banned book that accuses Chinese communist officials of mistreating peasants have been awarded a 50,000 euro (US$61,500) journalism prize by a Germany-based group.
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The US commission report into the 11 September attacks is nominated for National Book Award.
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The Bush administration announced the winner of a competition to design the nationâs first new nuclear weapon in nearly two decades.
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Author JK Rowling receives an  outstanding achievement prize at the South Bank Show awards.
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Yiyun Li wins the Â£10,000 Guardian First Book Award for her book A Thousand Years of Good Prayers.
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The bloody memoir âA Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier,â by Ishmael Beah, has sold more than 62,000 copies in its first three weeks at Starbucks.
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Lazard Ltd  Chairman and Chief  Executive Bruce Wasserstein received restricted stock worth  $96.3 million as part of new five-year employment agreement,  the merger advisory firm said on Wednesday.
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"God's Crucible Â Islam and the Making of Europe, 570-1215" (W. W. Norton, 475 pages, $29.95), by David Levering Lewis: Though it all happened 1,300 years ago well Â some of it less than 600 years ago Â Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David Levering Lewis says a long military-religious campaign bore seeds of troubled 21st century history.
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A history professor from Ohio beat the collective efforts of 10 investigative commissioners and some 80 Washington wonks to win the National Book Award for nonfiction Wednesday night.
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Haitian-American Edwidge Danticat became the first winner of The Story Prize, a new annual book award honoring short story collections.
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"Small Island," Andrea Levy's saga of Jamaican immigrants in postwar Britain has won the Whitbread Book of the Year award.
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An exhibit featuring a film about US President George W. Bush's home town in Texas won the Turner Prize, pipping a digital recreation of Osama bin Laden's house.
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Scottish writer and standup comedian A.L. Kennedy has won Britain's Costa Book of the Year Award for her novel about a World War II veteran whose work as an extra on a war film forces him to confront his past.
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Key: F-Fiction; NF-Nonfiction; H-Hardcover; P-Paperback
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An exhibit featuring a film about US President George W. Bush's home town in Texas won the Turner Prize, Britain's most prestigious art award, pipping a digital recreation of Osama bin Laden's house.