We asked Penguin Group authors to tell us which books they are giving, and which books they’d most like to receive this holiday season.

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Songs for the Missing has been nominated for the 2010 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.  Nominated by Stadtbibliothek Bremen in Germany, the librarian writes:

This is an elegantly crafted, memorable book that resonates with sadness. O’Nan reminds of the eternal varieties such as love, compassion and honour.

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Novelist Stewart O’Nan, whose latest is “Songs For the Missing,” will read Wednesday at 7 p.m. at the Konover Auditorium in the Dodd Research Center, 405 Babbidge Road, University of Connecticut, Storrs. Information: creativewriting.uconn.edu or 860-486-2324.

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There are many other authors at the event who will enchant children and adults. Missouri Poet Laureate Walter Bargen will read, the Cake Doctor will talk about cooking, novelist Stewart O’Nan will talk about fiction. Even these three don’t do justice to the range of authors at the event. For the full schedule at http://www.bigread.net/schedule.htm.

Great Ficton Panel
3-4pm
with Curtis Sittenfeld