2012 Awards Archives - Page 17 of 18

25Mar

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2012 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology

2012 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Science & Technology Winner and Nominees

2012 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology WinnerBreasts: A Natural and Unnatural HistoryFlorence WilliamsIn this informative and highly entertaining account, intrepid science reporter Florence Williams sets out to uncover the latest scientific findings from the fields of anthropology, biology, and medicine....Amazon2012 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology ShortlistQuiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop TalkingSusan CainAmazonThe Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail—but Some Don'tNate SilverAmazonThe Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us HumanJonathan GottschallAmazonTuring's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital UniverseGeorge DysonAmazon

25Mar

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2012 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Young Adult Fiction

2012 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Young Adult Fiction Winner and Nominees

2012 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Young Adult Fiction WinnerAsk the Passengers: A NovelA.S. KingAstrid Jones desperately wants to confide in someone, but her mother's pushiness and her father's lack of interest tell her they're the last people she can trust. Instead, Astrid spends hours lying on the backyard picnic table watching airplanes fly overhe...Amazon2012 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Young Adult Fiction ShortlistBoy21: A NovelMatthew QuickAmazonCode Name VerityElizabeth WeinAmazonMy Book of Life by AngelMartine LeavittAmazonThe Drowned Cities: A NovelPaolo BacigalupiAmazon

23Mar

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2012 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

2012 Governor General’s Literary Award – Young People’s Literature — Illustrated Books Winner and Nominees

2012 Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Illustrated Books WinnerVirginia WolfIsabelle ArsenaultWhen Virginia wakes up feeling "wolfish," her sister, Vanessa, tries to cheer her up. After treats, funny faces and other efforts fail, Vanessa begins to paint a glorious mural depicting the world of the sisters’ imagination. Will it help lift Virginia fro...Amazon2012 Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Illustrated Books ShortlistBig City BeesRenné BenoitAmazonHouse Held Up by TreesJon KlassenAmazonIn the Bag! Margaret Knight Wraps it UpDavid ParkinsAmazonPicture a TreeBarbara ReidAmazon

23Mar

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2012 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Drama

2012 Governor General’s Literary Award – Drama Winner and Nominees

2012 Governor General's Literary Award - Drama WinnerIt is Solved by WalkingCatherine BanksWhen Margaret learns of the death of her former husband, she recalls their earliest days together as Ph.D. candidates, beginning a journey through her past. Told through the sensations of Wallace Stevenss poem Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird,â- t...Amazon2012 Governor General's Literary Award - Drama ShortlistBrothel #9Anusree RoyAmazonDrama: Pilot EpisodeKaren HinesAmazonLost: A MemoirCathy Ostlere and Dennis GarnhumAmazonThe Romeo InitiativeTrina DaviesAmazon

23Mar

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2012 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction

2012 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction Winner and Nominees

2012 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction WinnerThe PurchaseLinda SpaldingWinner of Canadas 2012 Governor Generals Award for Fiction In this provocative and starkly beautiful historical novel, a Quaker family moves from Pennsylvania to the Virginia frontier, where slaves are the only available workers and where the familys va...Amazon2012 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction ShortlistDr. Brinkley’s TowerRobert HoughAmazonSiege 13Tamas DobozyAmazonThe Headmaster’s WagerVincent LamAmazonThe Juliet StoriesCarrie SnyderAmazon

23Mar

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2012 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction

2012 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction Winner and Nominees

2012 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction WinnerLeonardo and the Last SupperRoss KingFor more than five centuries The Last Supper has been an artistic, religious and cultural icon. The art historian Kenneth Clark called it the keystone of European art, and for a century after its creation it was regarded as nothing less than a miraculous...Amazon2012 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction ShortlistA Thousand Farewells: A Reporter’s Journey from Refugee Camp to the Arab SpringNahlah AyedAmazonInto the Silence: The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of EverestWade DavisAmazonThe Pursuit of Perfection: A Life of Celia FrancaCarol Bishop-GwynAmazonWhat We Talk About When We Talk About WarNoah RichlerAmazon

23Mar

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2012 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry

2012 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry Winner and Nominees

2012 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry WinnerMonkey RanchJulie BruckComic and sober by turns, these poems ask us what is sufficient, what will suffice? ... a mandrill, a middle-aged woman, a shattered Baghdad neighbourhood, a long marriage, even a spoon, grapple with this unanswerable conundrum -- sometimes with rage, or p...Amazon2012 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry ShortlistAny Bright HorseLisa PasoldAmazonLi’l BastardDavid McGimpseyAmazonSailing to BabylonJames PollockAmazonThe New MeasuresA. F. MoritzAmazon

23Mar

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2012 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Translation

2012 Governor General’s Literary Award – Translation (French to English) Winner and Nominees

2012 Governor General's Literary Award - Translation (French to English) WinnerMai at the Predators’ BallNigel SpencerA group of imaginary beings perform every night at the Saloon, welcoming the outsiders of society and giving them a place to belong in this new novel from the award-winning and internationally renowned author of La Belle Bête (Mad Shadows). Original....Amazon2012 Governor General's Literary Award - Translation (French to English) ShortlistMafia Inc.: The Long, Bloody Reign of Canada’s Sicilian ClanMichael GilsonAmazonRuSheila FischmanAmazonThe ListShelley TeppermanAmazonThe Small Room at the Top of the Stairs & Thinking of YuJohn MurrellAmazon

23Mar

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2012 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

2012 Governor General’s Literary Award – Young People’s Literature — Text Winner and Nominees

2012 Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Text Shortlist Seraphina Rachel Hartman Amazon The Grave Robber’s Apprentice Allan Stratton Amazon The Reluctant Journal of Henry K. Larsen Susin Nielsen Amazon The Umbrella Judd Palmer Amazon

22Mar

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2012 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, British Science Fiction Association, BSFA - Novel

2012 BSFA – Novel Winner and Nominees

2012 BSFA - Novel WinnerThe IslandersChristopher PriestA stunning literary SF novel from the multiple award winning Christopher Priest. A tale of murder, artistic rivalry and literary trickery; a Chinese puzzle of a novel where nothing is quite what it seems; a narrator whose agenda is artful and subtle; a nar...Amazon2012 BSFA - Novel ShortlistBy Light AloneAdam RobertsAmazonCyber CircusKim Lakin-SmithAmazonEmbassytownChina MiévilleAmazonOsamaLavie TidharAmazon