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    Roxanna Asgarian's 'We Were Once a Family' and Amanda Peters' 'The Berry Pickers' win library medals

    by Hillel Italie Jan 20, 2024 3 minutes
    Source: ASSOCIATED PRESS

    In the childhood home of author Roxanna Asgarian, there were restrictions on how often the television could be on and which programs could be watched.

    Books were placed under a much looser set of rules.

    “Mom would take us to the library and gave us totally free reign,” says Asgarian, a native who is now a freelance journalist in . She is one of this year's winners of an Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence, presented by the .

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