Thomas was sentenced to life in prison for the slaying of Domingo Martinez, a Philadelphia businessman who was shot in 1990 while trying to cash $25,000 check, according to news reports covering the killing. Thomas had maintained that he was at a correctional center for youth offenders in connection
Date: May 24, 2017
Category: World
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National Book Award finalists announced; author Junot Diaz and local poet ...
45-1956; Katherine Boo, Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity; Robert A. Caro, The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Volume 4; Domingo Martinez, The Boy Kings of Texas; Anthony Shadid, House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East.
Date: Oct 12, 2012
Category: Entertainment
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National Book Awards: Anthony Shadid, Robert Caro, Junot Diaz Among Finalists
writer Katherine Boo, recognized for her account of life in the Indian slums in "Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity." Also nominated are Anne Applebaum's "Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1945-1956" and Domingo Martinez's "The Boy Kings of Texas.
Date: Oct 12, 2012
Category: Entertainment
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Strong Contenders for 2012 National Book Awards: Finalists Announced.
ehind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo, The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Volume 4 by Robert A. Caro, House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East by Anthony Shadid and The Boy Kings of Texas by Domingo Martinez.
baum; Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity, by former Washington Post writer Katherine Boo; The Passage of Power, the fourth volume of Robert Caros acclaimed biography of Lyndon Johnson; The Boy Kings of Texas, a memoir by Domingo Martinez; and House of St
Other non-fiction nominees include The Passage of Power, Robert Caros fourth book on Lyndon Johnson; Behind the Beautiful Forevers, Katherine Boos account of life in a Mumbai slum; The Boy Kings of Texas, by Domingo Martinez; and Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, Anne Applebaum
Non-fiction: Anne Applebaum's Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1945-1956 and Domingo Martinez's The Boy Kings of Texas, a debut memoirs about coming of age in Brownsville, on the border with Mexico.