1991 Awards Archives - Page 8 of 9

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1991 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Locus, Locus - SF Novel

1991 Locus – SF Novel Winner and Nominees

1991 Locus - SF Novel WinnerThe Fall of HyperionDan Simmons“State of the art science fiction . . . a landmark novel.”—Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine Now, in the stunning continuation of the epic adventure begun in Hyperion, Simmons returns us to a far future resplendent with drama and invention. On the wo...Amazon1991 Locus - SF Novel ShortlistEarthDavid BrinAmazonJurassic ParkMichael CrichtonAmazonPacific EdgeKim Stanley RobinsonAmazonPegasus in FlightAnne McCaffreyAmazonQueen of AngelsGreg BearAmazonRaising the StonesSheri S. TepperAmazonRedshift RendezvousJohn E. StithAmazonStranger in a Strange Land [Expanded Edition] (original uncut edition)Robert A. HeinleinAmazonThe Difference EngineWilliam Gibson & Bruce SterlingAmazonThe Hemingway HoaxJoe HaldemanAmazonThe Quiet PoolsMich...

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1991 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography

1991 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography Winner and Nominees

1991 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography WinnerRighteous Pilgrim: The Life and Times of Harold L. Ickes, 1874-1952Tom H. Watkins...Amazon1991 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography ShortlistA Life of Picasso: Volume 1. The Prodigy, 1881-1906John RichardsonAmazonBenedict Arnold: Patriot and TraitorWillard Sterne RandallAmazonO'Keeffe and Stieglitz: An American RomanceBenita EislerAmazonRoad Song: A MemoirNatalie KuszAmazon

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1991 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest

1991 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest Winner and Nominees

1991 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest WinnerWhy Americans Hate Politics: The Death of the Democratic ProcessE.J. DionneAnalyzes apathy in American politics, arguing that name-calling and rhetoric have clouded the issues...Amazon1991 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest ShortlistThe Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race In AmericaShelby SteeleAmazonThe Prize: The Epic Quest For Oil, Money & PowerDaniel YerginAmazonThe Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed AmericaNicholas LemannAmazonThe United States of Ambition: Politicians, Power, and the Pursuit of OfficeAlan EhrenhaltAmazon

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1991 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction

1991 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1991 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction WinnerWhite PeopleAllan GurganusA PEN/Faulkner Award Finalist A New York Times Notable Book In eleven glorious stories, Allan Gurganus, author of the highly acclaimed Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All, gives heart-breaking and hilarious voice to the fears, desires, and triumphs o...Amazon1991 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction ShortlistA Woman's StoryAnnie ErnauxAmazonAge of Iron: A NovelJ.M. CoetzeeAmazonThe AcaciaClaude SimonAmazonWoman Hollering Creek and Other StoriesSandra CisnerosAmazon

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1991 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History

1991 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – History Winner and Nominees

1991 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History WinnerThe Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed AmericaNicholas LemannA New York Times bestseller, the groundbreaking authoritative history of the migration of African-Americans from the rural South to the urban North. A definitive book on American history, The Promised Land is also essential reading for educators and policy...Amazon1991 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History ShortlistBehind the Mask of Innocence: Sex, Violence, Prejudice, Crime: Films of Social Conscience in the Silent EraKevin BrownlowAmazonSoulstealers: The Chinese Sorcery Scare of 1768Philip A. KuhnAmazonStalin in Power: The Revolution from Above, 1928-1941Robert C. TuckerAmazonThe Prize: The Epic Quest For Oil, Money & PowerDaniel YerginAmazon

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1991 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry

1991 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Poetry Winner and Nominees

1991 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry WinnerWhat Work Is: PoemsPhilip LevineWinner of the National Book Award in 1991 “This collection amounts to a hymn of praise for all the workers of America. These proletarian heroes, with names like Lonnie, Loo, Sweet Pea, and Packy, work the furnaces, forges, slag heaps, assembly lines, and l...Amazon1991 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry ShortlistRegion of UnlikenessJorie GrahamAmazonStar LedgerLynda HullAmazonSudden Dreams: New and Selected PoemsGeorge EvansAmazonThe World of the Ten Thousand Things: Poems 1980-1990Charles WrightAmazon

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1991 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology

1991 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Science & Technology Winner and Nominees

1991 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology WinnerThe Truth About ChernobylGrigori MedvedevThis is an account of the events leading up to the worst nuclear disaster in history. It also examines the subsequent cover-up at which both politicians and technicians connived....Amazon1991 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology ShortlistLonely Hearts of the Cosmos: The Story of the Scientific Quest for the Secret of the UniverseDennis OverbyeAmazonThe Ascent of Mind: Ice Age Climates and the Evolution of IntelligenceWilliam H. CalvinAmazonThe Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius RamanujanRobert KanigelAmazonWalking With the Great Apes: Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, Biruté GaldikasSy MontgomeryAmazon

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1991 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Costa Book Award, Costa Book Award - Novel

1991 Costa Book Award – Novel Winner and Nominees

1991 Costa Book Award - Novel WinnerThe Queen of the TambourineJane GardamEliza Peabody is one of those dangerously blameless women who believes she has God in her pocket. She is too enthusiastic; she talks too much. Her concern for the welfare of her wealthySouth London neighbours extends to ingenuous well-meaning notes of unso...Amazon

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1991 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, British Science Fiction Association, BSFA - Novel

1991 BSFA – Novel Winner and Nominees

1991 BSFA - Novel WinnerTake Back PlentyColin GreenlandA fast-moving space adventure featuring mysterious aliens, a journey to a de-populated planet, a mad run from space cops, a ship captain in trouble, and her AI (Artificially Intelligent) companion/ship's computer. It is carnival time on Mars, but Tabitha J...Amazon1991 BSFA - Novel ShortlistHyperionDan SimmonsAmazonRats and GargoylesMary GentleAmazonThe Difference EngineWilliam Gibson & Bruce SterlingAmazonUse of WeaponsIain M. BanksAmazon

21Mar

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1991 Awards, All Book Awards, August Derleth Award - Horror Novel, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, British Fantasy Awards

1991 British Fantasy Awards – August Derleth Award – Horror Novel Winner and Nominees

1991 British Fantasy Awards - August Derleth Award - Horror Novel WinnerMidnight SunRamsey CampbellFrom Publishers Weekly "Trees grow," wrote the dying Edward Sterling in the frozen earth of the forest in Stargrave, England, that became his burial ground. As his grandson Ben learns, in Campbell's beautifully poetic horror novel, the elder Sterling was a...Amazon