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American Book Award

[ uh-mer-i-kuhn book uh-wawrd ]

noun

  1. any of several awards given annually since 1980 to recognize outstanding contributions to American literature: administered by the Before Columbus Foundation, a nonprofit organization. : ABA, A.B.A.

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Paradise Alley won the 2003 James Fenimore Cooper Prize for Best Historical Fiction and the American Book Award.

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