Saturday, November 23

2003 Awards

2003 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry

2003 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Poetry Winner and Nominees

2003 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry WinnerCollected Later PoemsAnthony HechtAnthony Hecht, now in his eightieth year, has earned a place alongside such poets as W. H. Auden, Robert Frost, and Elizabeth Bishop. Here under one cover are his three most recent collections–The Transparent Man, Flight Among the Tombs, and The Darkness a...Amazon2003 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry ShortlistDeparture: PoemsRosanna WarrenAmazonJelly Roll: A BluesKevin YoungAmazonMiddle Earth: PoemsHenri ColeAmazonThe Voice at 3:00 A.M.: Selected Late and New PoemsCharles SimicAmazon
2003 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology

2003 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Science & Technology Winner and Nominees

2003 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology WinnerProtecting America's Health: The FDA, Business, and One Hundred Years of RegulationPhilip J. HiltsEmerging out of Theodore Roosevelt's desire to civilize capitalism, the Food and Drug Administration was created to stop the trade in adulterated meats and quack drugs. This history of the agency takes readers back to its beginnings, and makes startlingly ...Amazon2003 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology ShortlistMerchants of Immortality: Chasing the Dream of Human Life ExtensionStephen S. HallAmazonThe Beast in the Garden: A Modern Parable of Man and NatureDavid BaronAmazonThe Emperor of Scent: A Story of Perfume, Obsession, and the Last Mystery of the SensesChandler BurrAmazonWings of Madness: Alberto Santos-Dumon...
2003 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Young Adult Fiction

2003 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Young Adult Fiction Winner and Nominees

2003 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Young Adult Fiction WinnerA Northern LightJennifer DonnellyIn 1906, sixteen-year-old Mattie, determined to attend college and be a writer against the wishes of her father and fiance, takes a job at a summer inn where she discovers the truth about the death of a guest. Based on a true story....Amazon2003 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Young Adult Fiction ShortlistAfterFrancine ProseAmazonOlive's OceanKevin HenkesAmazonThe River Between UsRichard PeckAmazonTrue Confessions of a Heartless GirlMartha BrooksAmazon
2003 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Illustrated Books

2003 Governor General’s Literary Award – Young People’s Literature — Illustrated Books Winner and Nominees

2003 Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Illustrated Books WinnerThe Song Within My HeartAllen SappListen to the beating drum It tells a hundred stories Of our people, of our homeland Some of birds and beasts and sweet grass. Close your eyes and listen You might come to hear a story That no one hears but you alone A story of your very own. Renowned Cree...Amazon2003 Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Illustrated Books ShortlistFour Pictures by Emily CarrNicolas DebonAmazonImagine a NightRob GonsalvesAmazonSindbad’s Secret: From the Tales of the Thousand and One NightsLudmila ZemanAmazonThe Subway MouseBarbara ReidAmazon
2003 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Drama

2003 Governor General’s Literary Award – Drama Winner and Nominees

2003 Governor General's Literary Award - Drama WinnerEinstein’s GiftVern ThiessenA scientist who enhances life with his work and knowledge but discovers too late that knowledge in the wrong hands brings death. The ideal of science to serve humanity is shown in sharp contrast against the reality of political will, nationalism, and war. ...Amazon2003 Governor General's Literary Award - Drama ShortlistBurning VisionMarie ClementsAmazonLast RomanticsMichael Lewis MacLennanAmazonProkBrian DraderAmazonRice BoySunil KuruvillaAmazon
2003 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction

2003 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction Winner and Nominees

2003 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction WinnerElleDouglas GloverA 16th-century belle turned Robinson Crusoe, a female Don Quixote with an Inuit Sancho Panza — this is the heroine of the novel that won the 2003 Governor Generals Award. Elle is a lusty, subversive riff on the discovery of the New World, the moment of fi...Amazon2003 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction ShortlistGarbo LaughsElizabeth HayAmazonOryx and CrakeMargaret AtwoodAmazonPrivate ViewJean McNeilAmazonTen Thousand LoversEdeet RavelAmazon
2003 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction

2003 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction Winner and Nominees

2003 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction WinnerParis 1919: Six Months that Changed the WorldMargaret MacMillanAfter the war to end all wars, men and women from all over the world converged on Paris for the Peace Conference. At its heart were the three great powers - Woodrow Wilson, Lloyd George and Clemenceau - but thousands of others came too, each with a differe...Amazon2003 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction ShortlistA Keen Soldier: The Execution of Second World War Private Harold PringleAndrew ClarkAmazonMichelangelo and the Pope’s CeilingRoss KingAmazonMissing Sarah: A Vancouver Woman Remembers Her Vanished SisterMaggie de VriesAmazonWhile Canada Slept: How We Lost Our Place in the WorldAndrew CohenAmazon
2003 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry

2003 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry Winner and Nominees

2003 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry WinnerKill-siteTim LilburnBy the winner of the Saskatchewan Book Award for Best Book of the Year To his virtuoso collection of new poems, Tim Lilburn brings a philosophers mind and the eyes and ears of a marsh hawk. This series of earthy meditations makes the strange familiar and ...Amazon2003 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry ShortlistLoopAnne SimpsonAmazonMy Father’s CupTom WaymanAmazonNothing Fell Today But RainEvan JonesAmazonThe Witness GhostTim BowlingAmazon
2003 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Translation

2003 Governor General’s Literary Award – Translation (French to English) Winner and Nominees

2003 Governor General's Literary Award - Translation (French to English) WinnerMemoirs of a Less Travelled Road: A Historian’s LifeJane BrierleyThis is the absorbing and candid story of Marcel Trudels journey from the small village of Saint-Narcisse-de-Champlain, where he was born in 1917, to become one of Canadas major historians. Trudel recreates his youth as the child of a poor family that br...Amazon2003 Governor General's Literary Award - Translation (French to English) ShortlistA Sunday at the Pool in KigaliPatricia ClaxtonAmazonNecessary BetrayalsSusan OuriouAmazonTales from Dog Island: St. Pierre et MiquelonJo-Anne ElderAmazonThe Heart Is an Involuntary MuscleDavid Homel and Fred A. ReedAmazon
2003 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Text

2003 Governor General’s Literary Award – Young People’s Literature — Text Winner and Nominees

2003 Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Text WinnerStitchesGlen HuserTravis has been waiting to get to junior high. When that time finally comes, things are both better, and worse, than he had hoped. On the plus side are two great new teachers. On the minus side theres Shon Docker, Traviss old tormenter from elementary sc...Amazon2003 Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Text ShortlistAnn and SeamusKevin MajorAmazonThe MaestroJudd PalmerAmazonThe Several Lives of Orphan JackSarah EllisAmazonTheories of RelativityBarbara Haworth-AttardAmazon