2006 Awards Archives - Page 13 of 15

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2006 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, John W. Campbell, John W. Campbell - Novel

2006 John W. Campbell – Novel Winner and Nominees

2006 John W. Campbell - Novel WinnerMindscanRobert J. SawyerHugo Award-winning author Robert J. Sawyer is back with Mindscan, a pulse-pounding, mind-expanding standalone novel, rich with his signature philosophical and ethical speculations, all grounded in cutting-edge science. Jake Sullivan has cheated death: he's...Amazon2006 John W. Campbell - Novel ShortlistAccelerandoCharles StrossAmazonChild of EarthDavid GerroldAmazonCounting HeadsDavid MarusekAmazonLearning the WorldKen MacLeodAmazonMind's EyePaul McAuleyAmazonSeekerJack McDevittAmazonSpinRobert Charles WilsonAmazonThe MeqSteve CashAmazonThe Summer IslesIan R. MacLeodAmazonThe World BeforeKaren TravissAmazonTranscendentStephen BaxterAmazon

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2006 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Locus, Locus - Fantasy Novel

2006 Locus – Fantasy Novel Winner and Nominees

2006 Locus - Fantasy Novel WinnerAnansi BoysNeil GaimanA kaleidoscopic journey deep into myth from bestselling storytelling legend Neil Gaiman, bestselling author of American Gods and Norse Mythology....Amazon2006 Locus - Fantasy Novel ShortlistA Feast for CrowsGeorge R. R. MartinAmazonA Princess of RoumaniaPaul ParkAmazonFledglingOctavia E. ButlerAmazonGlass SoupJonathan CarrollAmazonLord Byron's Novel: The Evening LandJohn CrowleyAmazonOd MagicPatricia A. McKillipAmazonShaman's CrossingRobin HobbAmazonSnake AgentLiz WilliamsAmazonSomeone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves TownCory DoctorowAmazonThe Hallowed HuntLois McMaster BujoldAmazonThe Hidden FamilyCharles StrossAmazonThe House of StormsIan R. MacLeodAmazonThe Limits of EnchantmentGraham JoyceAmazonThud!Terry PratchettAmazon

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2006 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Locus, Locus - SF Novel

2006 Locus – SF Novel Winner and Nominees

2006 Locus - SF Novel WinnerAccelerandoCharles StrossHis most ambitious novel to date, ACCELERANDO is a multi-generational saga following a brilliant clan of 21st-century posthumans. The year is some time between 2010 and 2015. The recession has ended, but populations are ageing and the rate of tech change i...Amazon2006 Locus - SF Novel ShortlistFifty Degrees BelowKim Stanley RobinsonAmazonLady of MazesKarl SchroederAmazonLearning the WorldKen MacLeodAmazonMammothJohn VarleyAmazonNever Let Me GoKazuo IshiguroAmazonOld TwentiethJoe HaldemanAmazonOlymposDan SimmonsAmazonPushing IceAlastair ReynoldsAmazonSeekerJack McDevittAmazonShadow of the GiantOrson Scott CardAmazonSpinRobert Charles WilsonAmazonThe Carpet MakersAndreas EschbachAmazonThe World BeforeKaren TravissAmazonTranscendentStephen...

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2006 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography

2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography Winner and Nominees

2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography WinnerWalt Disney: The Triumph of the American ImaginationNeal GablerA portrait of the private life and public career of Walt Disney ranges from his deprived youth, to his contributions to the art of animation, to his visionary creation of the first synergistic entertainment empire, to his reclusive and lonely private worl...Amazon2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography ShortlistPrisoners: A Muslim and a Jew Across the Middle East DivideJeffrey GoldbergAmazonThe Librettist of Venice: The Remarkable Life of Lorenzo Da PonteRodney BoltAmazonThe Lost: A Search for Six of Six MillionDaniel MendelsohnAmazonThe Most Famous Man in Amerca: The Biography of Henry Ward BeecherDebby ApplegateAmazon

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2006 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest

2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest Winner and Nominees

2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest WinnerMurder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo Van Gogh and the Limits of ToleranceIan BurumaIt was an emblematic crime: on a November day in Amsterdam, an angry young Muslim man shot and killed the Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, iconic European provocateur, for making a movie with the anti-Islam politician Ayaan Hersi Ali. After shooting van Gogh...Amazon2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest ShortlistImperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green ZoneRajiv ChandrasekaranAmazonStrange Piece of ParadiseTerri JentzAmazonThe Beautiful Fall: Lagerfeld, Saint Laurent, and Glorious Excess in 1970s ParisAlicia DrakeAmazonThe Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf CoastDouglas BrinkleyAmazon

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2006 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction

2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction WinnerA Woman in JerusalemA.B. YehoshuaThis novel about the struggle to identify a nameless victim in the wake of a terrorist bombing in Israel is “a masterpiece” (Claire Messud, The New York Times Book Review). A woman in her forties is a victim of a suicide bombing at a Jerusalem market. Her ...Amazon2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction ShortlistA Million Nightingales: A NovelSusan StraightAmazonBlack Swan Green: A NovelDavid MitchellAmazonThe Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo: A NovelPeter OrnerAmazonWinter's Bone: A NovelDaniel WoodrellAmazon

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2006 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction

2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – First Fiction Winner and Nominees

2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction WinnerWhite Ghost GirlsAlice GreenwayA coming of age story of two American sisters in Hong Kong during the late 1960s. “A haunting novel written with the craft and grace of a master” (Isabel Allende). Summer 1967. The turmoil of the Maoist revolution is spilling over into Hong Kong and causin...Amazon2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction ShortlistGolden Country: A NovelJennifer GilmoreAmazonMary: A NovelJanis Cooke NewmanAmazonSkinner's Drift: A NovelLisa FugardAmazonWhiteman: A NovelTony D'SouzaAmazon

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2006 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History

2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – History Winner and Nominees

2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History WinnerThe Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11Lawrence WrightTHE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING BESTSELLER, NOW A MAJOR NEW TV SERIES This is the definitive account of the run-up to 9/11: from the man who lit the spark of radical Islam in 1948, to those who built up a terror network, and to the FBI agent whose warnings of '...Amazon2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History ShortlistAt Canaan's Edge: Volume 3 of America in the King Years, 1965-68Taylor BranchAmazonMayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and WarNathaniel PhilbrickAmazonThe Colony: The Harrowing True Story of the Exiles of MolokaiJohn TaymanAmazonThe War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the WestNiall FergusonAmazon

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2006 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Mystery/Thriller

2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Mystery/Thriller Winner and Nominees

2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Mystery/Thriller WinnerEcho Park: A Harry Bosch NovelMichael ConnellyBosch reopens the hunt for a psychotic killer who stalked the streets of Los Angeles years before. In 1993, Marie Gesto disappeared after walking out of a supermarket in Hollywood. Fearing the worst, the case was elevated by LAPD commanders from the missin...Amazon2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Mystery/Thriller ShortlistCity of Tiny LightsPatrick NeateAmazonThe Night Gardener: A NovelGeorge P. PelecanosAmazonThe Winter of Frankie Machine: A NovelDon WinslowAmazonThe Zero: A NovelJess WalterAmazon

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2006 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry

2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Poetry Winner and Nominees

2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry WinnerOoga-BoogaFrederick SeidelFrom the winner of the PEN/Voelker Award, poems of love, terror, rage, and desire. Here I am, not a practical man, But clear-eyed in my contact lenses, Following no doubt a slightly different line than the others, Seeking sexual pleasure above all else, De...Amazon2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry ShortlistBlack BoxErin BelieuAmazonBurning Wyclif: PoemsThom SatterleeAmazonDarling Vulgarity: PoemsMichael WatersAmazonLogorrhea: PoemsAdrian C. LouisAmazon