2014 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest Winner
The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League
Jeff Hobbs
Traces a young man’s effort to escape the dangers of the streets and his own nature after graduating from Yale, describing his youth in violent 1980s Newark, efforts to navigate two fiercely insular worlds and life-ending drug deals. 75,000 first printing….
2014 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest Shortlist
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
Atul Gawande
Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them Free
Héctor Tobar
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
Bryan Stevenson
