Sunday, November 24

2004 Awards

2004 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry

2004 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Poetry Winner and Nominees

2004 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry WinnerInner Voices: Selected Poems, 1963-2003Richard HowardRichard Howard is one of America's most original and innovative poets, and this volume is the first major selection of his work to be published in the UK. It is resplendant with fin de siecle Parisian opulence, brought magnificently to life with impressive...Amazon2004 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry ShortlistKeeping My NameCatherine TufarielloAmazonThe Clerk's Tale: PoemsSpencer ReeceAmazonThe OptimistJoshua MehiganAmazonThe OrchardBrigit Pegeen KellyAmazon
2004 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology

2004 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Science & Technology Winner and Nominees

2004 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology WinnerThe Whale and the Supercomputer: On the Northern Front of Climate ChangeCharles WohlforthIn The Whale and the Supercomputer, scientists and natives wrestle with our changing climate in the land where it has hit first--and hardest A traditional Eskimo whale-hunting party races to shore near Barrow, Alaska--their comrades trapped on a floe drift...Amazon2004 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology ShortlistHis Brother's Keeper: A Story from the Edge of MedicineJonathan WeinerAmazonOn the Wing: To the Edge of the Earth with the Peregrine FalconAlan TennantAmazonOpening Skinner's Box: Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth CenturyLauren SlaterAmazonThe Proteus Effect: Stem Cells and Their Promise for MedicineA...
2004 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Young Adult Fiction

2004 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Young Adult Fiction Winner and Nominees

2004 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Young Adult Fiction WinnerDoing ItMelvin BurgessDino's girlfriend won't give him what he wants. Jonathon is afraid of what his mates will think of the girl he likes. And Ben is having extra lessons from his sexy teacher. Three seventeen-year-old boys discover sex for the first time: but do they really k...Amazon2004 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Young Adult Fiction ShortlistHow I Live NowMeg RosoffAmazonPrivate PeacefulMichael MorpurgoAmazonSammy and Juliana in HollywoodBenjamin Alire SáenzAmazonUnder the Wolf, Under the DogAdam RappAmazon
2004 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

2004 Governor General’s Literary Award – Young People’s Literature — Illustrated Books Winner and Nominees

2004 Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Illustrated Books WinnerJabberwockyStéphane JorischIncludes 34 nonsense verses and parodies: "The Walrus and the Carpenter," "Father William," "My Fancy," "A Sea Dirge," "Hiawathas Photographing," "The Mad Gardeners Song," "Poeta Fit, non Nascitur," and many others....Amazon2004 Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Illustrated Books ShortlistA Very Unusual DogKim LaFaveAmazonDawn WatchNicolas DebonAmazonPeg and the YetiBarbara ReidAmazonStella, Princess of the SkyMarie-Louise GayAmazon
2004 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Drama

2004 Governor General’s Literary Award – Drama Winner and Nominees

2004 Governor General's Literary Award - Drama WinnerGirl in the Goldfish BowlMorris Panych...Amazon2004 Governor General's Literary Award - Drama ShortlistRobert Chafe: Two Plays. Butler’s Marsh, Tempting ProvidenceRobert ChafeAmazonRune ArlidgeMichael HealeyAmazonThe Pochsy PlaysKaren HinesAmazonThe Red Priest (Eight Ways to Say Goodbye)Mieko OuchiAmazon
2004 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction

2004 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction Winner and Nominees

2004 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction WinnerA Complicated KindnessMiriam ToewsMeet Nomi Nickel, the rebellious small town teenager and irresistible creation of award-winning novelist Miriam Toews....Amazon2004 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction ShortlistNatasha and Other StoriesDavid BezmozgisAmazonNorman Bray, In the Performance of His LifeTrevor ColeAmazonRunawayAlice MunroAmazonSome Great ThingColin McAdamAmazon
2004 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction

2004 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction Winner and Nominees

2004 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction WinnerShake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in RwandaLt.-Gen. Roméo DallaireOn the tenth anniversary of the date that UN peacekeepers landed in Rwanda, Random House Canada is proud to publish the unforgettable first-hand account of the genocide by the man who led the UN mission. Digging deep into shattering memories, General Dalla...Amazon2004 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction ShortlistAcquainted with the Night: Excursions through the World after DarkChristopher DewdneyAmazonDark Age AheadJane JacobsAmazonI’ll Tell You a Secret: A Memory of Seven SummersAnne ColemanAmazonWisdom & MetaphorJan ZwickyAmazon
2004 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry

2004 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry Winner and Nominees

2004 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry WinnerShort Journey Upriver Toward ŌishidaRoo BorsonIn Roo Borsons new watershed collection, it is as though language were being taught to increase its powers of concentration, to hearken simultaneously to the fully impinged-upon senses, the reflecting mind with its griefs and yearnings, the heart with its...Amazon2004 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry ShortlistDisarmamentJohn TerpstraAmazonRobinson’s CrossingJan ZwickyAmazonThe Burning EavesDavid ManicomAmazonThe Memory OrchardTim BowlingAmazon
2004 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Translation

2004 Governor General’s Literary Award – Translation (French to English) Winner and Nominees

2004 Governor General's Literary Award - Translation (French to English) WinnerMirabelJudith Cowan...Amazon2004 Governor General's Literary Award - Translation (French to English) ShortlistThe Alien HouseSheila FischmanAmazonThe IguanaLiedewy HawkeAmazon
2004 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

2004 Governor General’s Literary Award – Young People’s Literature — Text Winner and Nominees

2004 Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Text WinnerAirbornKenneth OppelSailing toward dawn, and I was perched atop the crows nest, being the ships eyes. We were two nights out of Sydney, and thered been no weather to speak of so far. I was keeping watch on a dark stack of nimbus clouds off to the northwest, but we were lea...Amazon2004 Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Text ShortlistEstherSharon E. McKayAmazonHeck SuperheroMartine LeavittAmazonRed Land, Yellow River: A Story from the Cultural RevolutionAnge ZhangAmazonThe Wolf KingJudd PalmerAmazon