Virginia Literary AwardsPeople's Choice (Nonfiction)

Given by Library of Virginia Foundation

Other Names: Whitney and Scott Cardozo Award for Children’s Literature (2007-2012), Library of Virginia Award, Library of Virginia Literary Award finalist, Library of Virginia Literary Award Nominee
20 Works 0 Books
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All, 2023 (1), 2022 (1), 2021 (1), 2020 (1), 2019 (1), 2018 (1), 2017 (1), 2016 (1), 2015 (1), 2014 (1), 2013 (1), 2012 (1), 2011 (1), 2010 (1), 2009 (1), 2008 (1), 2007 (1), 2006 (1), 2005 (1), 2004 (1)

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WorkYear
Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America's Empire by Jonathan M. Katz2023
The Girls Who Stepped Out of Line by Mari K. Eder2022
The Other Madisons: The Lost History Of A President's Black Family by Bettye Kearse2021
Mary Ball Washington: The Untold Story of George Washington’s Mother by Craig Shirley2020
Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America by Beth Macy2019
Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II by Liza Mundy2018
Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly2017
Something Must Be Done About Prince Edward County: A Family, a Virginia Town, a Civil Rights Battle by Kristen Green2016
Factory Man: How One Furniture Maker Battled Offshoring, Stayed Local - and Helped Save an American Town by Beth Macy2015
The Feud: The Hatfields and McCoys: The True Story by Dean King2014
Whispers of Rebellion: Narrating Gabriel's Conspiracy (Carter G. Woodson Institute Series) by Michael L. Nicholls2013
Lost Communities of Virginia by Terri Fisher2012
The Horse in Virginia: An Illustrated History by Julie A. Campbell2011
Haunted Plantations of Virginia by Beth Brown2010
The Place to Be: Washington, CBS, and the Glory Days of Television News by Roger Mudd2009
Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution by Woody Holton2008
Jamestown, the Buried Truth by William M. Kelso2007
Clapton's Guitar: Watching Wayne Henderson Build the Perfect Instrument by Allen St. John2006
Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival by Dean King2005
Southern Lady, Yankee Spy: The True Story of Elizabeth Van Lew, a Union Agent in the Heart of the Confederacy by Elizabeth R. Varon2004

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