Wednesday, December 18

2007 Awards

2007 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Young Adult Fiction

2007 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Young Adult Fiction Winner and Nominees

2007 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Young Adult Fiction WinnerA Darkling Plain: The Hungry City Chronicles - Book 4Philip ReeveIn the distant future, when cities move about and consume smaller towns, a fifteen-year-old apprentice is pushed out of London by the man he most admires and must seek answers in the perilous Out-Country, aided by one girl and the memory of another....Amazon2007 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Young Adult Fiction ShortlistDarkwingKenneth OppelAmazonThe Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian: A NovelSherman Alexie, Ellen ForneyAmazonThe White DarknessGeraldine McCaughreanAmazonWhat They Found: Love on 145th StreetWalter Dean MyersAmazon
2007 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

2007 Governor General’s Literary Award – Young People’s Literature — Illustrated Books Winner and Nominees

2007 Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Illustrated Books WinnerThe Boy from the SunDuncan WellerThree unhappy children can only stare at their grey environment, until a boy from the sun comes down and shows them what a world with color is like....Amazon2007 Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Illustrated Books ShortlistMarja’s SkisJirina MartonAmazonMy New ShirtDušan PetričićAmazonThe Blue HippopotamusJoanne FitzgeraldAmazonThe Painted CircusWallace EdwardsAmazon
2007 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Drama

2007 Governor General’s Literary Award – Drama Winner and Nominees

2007 Governor General's Literary Award - Drama WinnerThe December Man (L’homme de décembre)Colleen MurphyDrama on courage, heroism, and despair exploring the long public shadow that private family violence casts....Amazon2007 Governor General's Literary Award - Drama ShortlistIn Gabriel’s KitchenSalvatore AntonioAmazonLeoRosa LabordeAmazonThe Bombay Plays: The Matka King and Bombay BlackAnosh IraniAmazonWhat Lies Before UsMorris PanychAmazon
2007 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction

2007 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction Winner and Nominees

2007 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction WinnerDivisaderoMichael OndaatjeIt is the 1970s in Northern California. A farmer and his teenage daughters, Anna and Claire, work the land with the help of Coop, the enigmatic young man who lives with them. Theirs is a makeshift family, until they are riven by an incident of violence - o...Amazon2007 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction ShortlistHelplessBarbara GowdyAmazonLullabies for Little CriminalsHeather O’NeillAmazonSoucouyantDavid ChariandyAmazonThe Assassin’s SongM.G. VassanjiAmazon
2007 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction

2007 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction Winner and Nominees

2007 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction WinnerI’ve Got a Home in Glory Land: A Lost Tale of the Underground RailroadKarolyn Smardz FrostTraces the story of former slaves Thornton and Lucie Blackburn, who launched a daring escape from their slave masters in 1831 and became the subjects of a legal dispute between Canada and the United States regarding the Underground Railroad....Amazon2007 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction Shortlist28: Stories of AIDS in AfricaStephanie NolenAmazonCitizen of the World: The Life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Volume One: 1919-1968John EnglishAmazonEnter the Babylon System: Unpacking Gun Culture from Samuel Colt to 50 CentRodrigo Bascuñán and Christian PearceAmazonSilence of the Songbirds:How We Are Losing the World’s Songbirds and What ...
2007 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry

2007 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry Winner and Nominees

2007 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry WinnerAll Our Wonder UnavengedDon DomanskiA poet of osmosis explores the implicit relationship between matter and spirit, the interconnectedness of the universe. In his first full-length collection since 1998s Parish of the Physic Moon, Don Domanski writes with clarity of vision. He is a poet of ...Amazon2007 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry ShortlistMuybridge’s Horse: A Poem in Three PhasesRob WingerAmazonNerve LanguageBrian HendersonAmazonThe Door: PoemsMargaret AtwoodAmazonYesno: PoemsDennis LeeAmazon
2007 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Translation

2007 Governor General’s Literary Award – Translation (French to English) Winner and Nominees

2007 Governor General's Literary Award - Translation (French to English) WinnerAugustino and the Choir of DestructionNigel SpencerIn Augustino and the Choir of Destruction literary legend and three-time winner of the Governor Generals Literary Award Marie-Claire Blais delivers the third volume in the prize-winning series (These Festive Nights, Thunder and Light, Augustino and the Ch...Amazon2007 Governor General's Literary Award - Translation (French to English) ShortlistCarole Fréchette: Two Plays: John and Beatrice; Helen’s NecklaceJohn MurrellAmazonMy Sister’s Blue EyesSheila FischmanAmazonNotebook of Roses and CivilizationRobert Majzels and Erín MoureAmazonThe Decline of the Hollywood EmpireRhonda MullinsAmazon
2007 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

2007 Governor General’s Literary Award – Young People’s Literature — Text Winner and Nominees

2007 Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Text WinnerGemini SummerIain LawrenceIn the quiet of Hogs Hollow, each member of the River family pursues a dream. Old Man River sets out to build a fallout shelter in case the war in Vietnam "brings the end of everything;" his wife Flo, who collects Gone with the Wind dolls, attempts to pen...Amazon2007 Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Text ShortlistCarnation, Lily, Lily, Rose: The Story of a PaintingHugh BrewsterAmazonElijah of BuxtonChristopher Paul CurtisAmazonKanadaEva WisemanAmazonThe Alchemist’s DreamJohn WilsonAmazon
2007 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, British Science Fiction Association, BSFA - Novel

2007 BSFA – Novel Winner and Nominees

2007 BSFA - Novel WinnerEnd of the World BluesJon Courtenay GrimwoodKit Nouveau didn't escape himself when he flew to Japan. He runs a bar in the Roppongi district of Tokyo and is having an affair with the wife of a High Yakusa ganglord. All things considered being held up at gunpoint isn't a complete shock. The pale girl ...Amazon2007 BSFA - Novel ShortlistDarklandLiz WilliamsAmazonIcarusRoger LevyAmazonNova SwingM. John HarrisonAmazonThe Last WitchfinderJames MorrowAmazon
2007 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Costa Book Award, Costa Book Award - Novel

2007 Costa Book Award – Novel Winner and Nominees

2007 Costa Book Award - Novel WinnerDayA. L. KennedyAlfred Day wanted his war. In its turmoil he found his proper purpose as the tail-gunner in a Lancaster bomber; he found the wild, dark fellowship of his crew, and - most extraordinary of all - he found Joyce, a woman to love. But that's all gone now - the...Amazon2007 Costa Book Award - Novel ShortlistDeath of a MurdererRupert ThomsonAmazonSkin LaneNeil BartlettAmazonThe Road HomeRose TremainAmazon