NEW YORK (AP) � Anthony Doerr, Richard Powers and Lauren Groff are among this years nominees on the National Book Awards� fiction longlist, which also includes Honorée Fanonne Jeffers� debut novel “The Love Songs of W. E. B. Du Bois,� already an Oprah Winfrey selection and finalist for the Kirkus Prize. Doerr’s “Cloud Cuckoo Land�

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