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2009 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Mystery/Thriller

2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Mystery/Thriller Winner and Nominees

2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Mystery/Thriller WinnerThe Ghosts of BelfastStuart Neville"Northern Ireland's troubles may be over, but peace has not erased the crimes of the past. Gerry Fegan, a former paramilitary contract killer, is haunted by the ghosts of the twelve people he slaughtered. ... In order to appease the ghosts, Fegan is going ...Amazon2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Mystery/Thriller ShortlistA Darker Domain: A NovelVal McDermidAmazonBlack Water Rising: A NovelAttica LockeAmazonBury Me Deep: A NovelMegan AbbottAmazonThe Hidden ManDavid EllisAmazon

25Mar

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2009 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry

2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Poetry Winner and Nominees

2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry WinnerPractical WaterBrenda HillmanWinner of the Los Angeles Times Book Award for Poetry (2009) Runner-up for the Northern California Book Award for Poetry (2009) Practical Water is, like Brenda Hillman’s previous two books, Cascadia and Pieces of Air in the Epic, both an elemental meditati...Amazon2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry Shortlist]Open Interval[Lyrae Van Clief-StefanonAmazonApocalyptic Swing: PoemsGabrielle CalvocoressiAmazonDearest CreatureAmy GerstlerAmazonWhat the Right Hand KnowsTom HealyAmazon

25Mar

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2009 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology

2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Science & Technology Winner and Nominees

2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology WinnerThe Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Quantum GeniusGraham FarmeloA monumental achievement - one of the great scientific biographies.' Michael Frayn The Strangest Man is the Costa Biography Award-winning account of Paul Dirac, the famous physicist sometimes called the British Einstein. He was one of the leading pioneers...Amazon2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology ShortlistCatching Fire: How Cooking Made Us HumanRichard WranghamAmazonCold: Adventures in the World's Frozen PlacesBill StreeverAmazonNaming Nature: The Clash Between Instinct and ScienceCarol Kaesuk YoonAmazonThe Day We Found the UniverseMarcia BartusiakAmazon

25Mar

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2009 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Young Adult Fiction

2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Young Adult Fiction Winner and Nominees

2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Young Adult Fiction WinnerMarching for Freedom: Walk Together Children and Don't You Grow WearyElizabeth PartridgeFocusing on the courageous children who faced terrifying violence in order to march alongside King, this is an inspiring look at their fight for the vote. Stunningly emotional black-and-white photos accompany the text....Amazon2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Young Adult Fiction ShortlistCharles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of FaithDeborah HeiligmanAmazonTales from Outer SuburbiaShaun TanAmazonThe Lost ConspiracyFrances HardingeAmazonThe Rise and Fall of Senator Joe McCarthyJames Cross GiblinAmazon

23Mar

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2009 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

2009 Governor General’s Literary Award – Young People’s Literature — Illustrated Books Winner and Nominees

2009 Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Illustrated Books WinnerBella’s TreeJirina MartonWith grandmother unable to pick the Christmas tree this year, Bella takes on the task with the help of her dog and some birds....Amazon2009 Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Illustrated Books ShortlistAlegoNingeokuluk TeeveeAmazonBradley McGogg, the Very Fine FrogRachel BermanAmazonMy Great Big MammaLuc MelansonAmazonThe Imaginary GardenIrene LuxbacherAmazon

23Mar

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2009 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Drama

2009 Governor General’s Literary Award – Drama Winner and Nominees

2009 Governor General's Literary Award - Drama WinnerWhere the Blood MixesKevin LoringWhere the Blood Mixes is meant to expose the shadows below the surface of the authors First Nations heritage, and to celebrate its survivors. Though torn down years ago, the memories of their Residential School still live deep inside the hearts of those w...Amazon2009 Governor General's Literary Award - Drama ShortlistAnother Home InvasionJoan MacLeodAmazonEast of BerlinHannah MoscovitchAmazonInnocence Lost: A Play about Steven TruscottBeverley CooperAmazonTalkMichael NathansonAmazon

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2009 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction

2009 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction Winner and Nominees

2009 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction WinnerThe Mistress of NothingKate PullingerThe American debut of an award-winning novel about a ladys maids awakening as she journeys from the confines of Victorian England to the uncharted far reaches of Egypts Nile Valley When Lady Duff Gordon, paragon of London society, departs for the hot, d...Amazon2009 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction ShortlistGaloreMichael CrummeyAmazonThe Golden MeanAnnabel LyonAmazonToo Much HappinessAlice MunroAmazonVanishing and Other StoriesDeborah WillisAmazon

23Mar

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2009 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction

2009 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction Winner and Nominees

2009 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction WinnerA Place Within: Rediscovering IndiaM.G. VassanjiA Globe and Mail Best Book It would take many lifetimes, it was said to me during my first visit, to see all of India. The desperation must have shown on my face to absorb and digest all I possibly could. This was not something I had articulated or resolve...Amazon2009 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction ShortlistAmerican Raj: Liberation or Domination?Eric S. MargolisAmazonFire and Fury: The Allied bombing of Germany, 1942-45Randall HansenAmazonGrass, Sky, Song: Promise and Peril in the World of Grassland BirdsTrevor HerriotAmazonThe Cello Suites: J.S. Bach, Pablo Casals, and the search for a Baroque masterpieceEric SiblinAmazon

23Mar

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2009 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry

2009 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry Winner and Nominees

2009 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry WinnerThe Fly in AutumnDavid Zieroth"The Fly in Autumn" is a nuanced work that constantly shifts between the inane and the macabre, between black humour and self-mockery. There is an absurdist, Kafkaesque twist to this collection in which the landscapes are sometimes recognizably our own but...Amazon2009 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry ShortlistBe Calm, HoneyDavid W. McFaddenAmazonExpresswaySina QueyrasAmazonLittle HungerPhilip Kevin PaulAmazonThis Way OutCarmine StarninoAmazon

23Mar

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2009 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

2009 Governor General’s Literary Award – Young People’s Literature — Text Winner and Nominees

2009 Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Text WinnerGreener Grass: The Famine YearsCaroline PignatFinding their life becoming more difficult everyday, the Byrne family is forced to leave their homeland to escape the Great Famine....Amazon2009 Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Text ShortlistA Thousand Shades of BlueRobin StevensonAmazonHome FreeSharon JenningsAmazonSister WifeShelley HrdlitschkaAmazonThe UninvitedTim Wynne-JonesAmazon