Quill Book Awards to Air This Weekend

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The Quill Book Awards were presented on Monday, October 22, in a ceremony that will be broadcast on NBC Universal Stations on Saturday, October 27. The Quills Book of the Year, chosen by readers across the country, was awarded to Angels Fall by Nora Roberts (Putnam). The Debut Author of the Year Award was given to Diane Setterfield for The Thirteenth Tale (Atria).

The Winners of the 2007 Quill Book Awards

Book of the Year - presented by Al Roker and Hoda Kotb
Angels Fall by Nora Roberts (Putnam)

Audio - presented by Mary Higgins Clark and Steve Shirripa
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee; read by Sissy Spacek (Caedmon Audio/HarperCollins)

Biography/Memoir - presented by Tina Brown and Jonathan Groff
Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson (S&S)

Business - presented by Tina Brown and Jonathan Groff
The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn't by Robert I. Sutton, Ph.D. (Business Plus/Grand Central)

Children's Chapter/Middle Grade - presented by Sarah Ferguson and Rocco DiSpirito
The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick (Scholastic)

Children's Picture Books - presented by Jeff Dunham and Walter
Flotsam by David Wiesner (Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin)

Cooking - presented by Sarah Ferguson and Rocco DiSpirito
Joy of Cooking: 75th Anniversary Edition by Irma S. Rombauer, Marion Rombauer Becker, and Ethan Becker (Scribner)

Debut Author - presented by Dan Rather and Catherine Crier
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield (Atria)

General Fiction - presented by Lorraine Bracco and Gay Talese
The Road by Cormac McCarthy (Knopf)

Graphic Novel - presented by Jeff Dunham and Walter
Making Comics: Storytelling Secrets of Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels by Scott McCloud (Harper Paperbacks)

Health/Self-Improvement - presented by Brooke Shields and Tiki Barber
How Doctors Think by Jerome Groopman, M.D. (Houghton Mifflin)

History/Current Events/Politics - presented by Dan Rather and Catherine Crier
The Assault on Reason by Al Gore (Penguin Press)

Humor - presented by Stephen Colbert
I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence by Amy Sedaris (Warner Books)

Mystery/Suspense/Thriller - presented by Mary Higgins Clark and Steve Shirripa
What the Dead Know Laura Lippman (William Morrow)

Poetry - presented by Dan Rather and Catherine Crier
For the Confederate Dead by Kevin Young (Knopf)

Religion/Spirituality - presented by Mary Higgins Clark and Steve Shirripa
Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know -- And Doesn't by Stephen Prothero (Harper One)

Romance - presented by Brooke Shields and Tiki Barber
Angels Fall by Nora Roberts (Putnam)

Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror - presented by Lorraine Bracco and Gay Talese
The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day One) by Patrick Rothfuss (DAW)

Sports - presented by Brooke Shields and Tiki Barber
The Kings of New York: A Year Among the Geeks, Oddballs, and Geniuses Who Make Up America's Top High School Chess Team by Michael Weinreb (Gotham Books)

Young Adult/Teen - presented by Tina Brown and Jonathan Groff
Sold by Patricia McCormick (Hyperion Books for Children)

Variety Blockbuster Book to Film Award - presented by Joan Allen and Peter Bart
The Bourne Film Trilogy (Universal Pictures)

2007 Platinum Quill - presented by Lorraine Bracco and Gay Talese
David Halberstam

Corporate Literacy Quill - presented by Gerry Byrne
Time Warner Inc. /Time Warner Cable

Information on The Quills Literacy Foundation can be found at www.quillsliteracy.org.

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