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EVENTS

NEW BOOKS

'' The Accidental Tourist '' - Anne Tyler

'' The Adult Children Of Alcoholics Syndrome '' - Wayne Kritsberg

'' At The Going Down Of The Sun '' - Elizabeth Darrell

'' Blood Meridian '' - Cormac McCarthy

'' Blood Music '' - Greg Bear

'' Catskill Eagle '' - Robert B. Parker

'' The Cider House Rules '' - John Irving

'' Contact '' - Carl Sagan

'' The Damnation Game '' - Clive Barker

'' Elvis And Gladys '' - Elaine Dundy

'' Elvis And Me '' - Priscilla Beaulieu Presley

'' Eon '' - Greg Bear

'' The Handmaid's Tale '' - Margaret Atwood

'' If Tomorrow Comes '' - Sidney Sheldon

'' Lake Wobegon Days '' - Garrison Keillor

'' Less Than Zero '' - Bret Easton Ellis

'' Lonesome Dove '' - Larry McMurtry

'' The Mammoth Hunters '' - Jean M. Auel

'' The Nuclear Age '' - Tim O'Brien

'' Rebuilding Coventry '' - Sue Townsend

'' Robots And Empire '' - Isaac Asimov

'' The Secret Life Of Saeed '' - Imil Habibi

'' Secrets '' - Danielle Steel

'' Skeleton Crew '' - Stephen King

'' Texas '' - James A. Michener

'' Walking On Glass '' - Iain Banks

NEW DRAMA

David Hare & Howard Brenton - '' Pravda ''

Sam Shepard - '' A Lie Of The Mind ''

August Wilson - '' Fences ''

NON-FICTION

Roger Caron - '' Bingo! The Horrifying Eyewitness Account Of A Prison Riot ''

BIRTHS

DEATHS

July 16 - Heinrich Böll , German writer, Nobel laureate

August 30 - Taylor Caldwell

December 7 - Robert Graves

AWARDS

, ''The Bone People''

See 1985 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

, ''Ender's Game''

, ''The Hero and the Crown''

, ''Les Noces barbares''

, ''Naissance d'une passion''

, ''God Knows''

for book; Stephen Sondheim for music and lyrics, ''Sunday in the Park With George''

- ''Foreign Affairs''

: ''Yin''

, ''Elegies''