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• List: Alex Awards
• Genre: Nonfiction
• Award year: 2005

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  Candyfreak: A Journey through the Chocolate Underbelly of America

  By Steve Almond

  Almond's obsession with candy blends family memoir, reporting, and travelogue in a hilarious, unflinching examination of the world of sweets.

  • Nonfiction
  • Alex Awards 2005
  • ISBN: 9780156032933
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  Rats: Observations on the History and Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants

  By Robert Sullivan

  Sullivan spent a year observing the lives and deaths of New York City's rats in this surprising, graphic, and entertaining natural history.

  • Nonfiction
  • Alex Awards 2005
  • ISBN: 9781582344775
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  Swimming to Antarctica: Tales of a Long-Distance Swimmer

  By Lynne Cox

  A long-distance swimmer describes her record-setting swims in the icy waters of the Bering Strait and Antarctica. An inspiring story of personal achievement and determination.

  • Nonfiction
  • Alex Awards 2005
  • ISBN: 9780375415074
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  Truth & Beauty: A Friendship

  By Ann Patchett

  As young writers Patchett and Lucy Grealy began a once-in-a-lifetime friendship that lasted until Lucy's tragic death. With intimacy, grace, and humor, Patchett's memoir captures Lucy's rollercoaster life—her exuberance, partying and childlike affection and her struggle with a cruel disfigurement and insurmountable depression.

  • Nonfiction
  • Alex Awards 2005
  • ISBN: 9780060572143