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1998 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology

1998 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Science & Technology Winner and Nominees

1998 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology WinnerBlood: An Epic History of Medicine and CommerceDouglas StarrEssence and emblem of life--feared, revered, mythologized, and used in magic and medicine from earliest times--human blood is now the center of a huge, secretive, and often dangerous worldwide commerce. It is a commerce whose impact upon humanity rivals th...Amazon1998 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology ShortlistMendel's DwarfSimon MawerAmazonPhantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human MindV.S. Ramachandran, Sandra BlakesleeAmazonTaking Wing: Archaeopteryx and the Evolution of Bird FlightPat ShipmanAmazonThe Baltimore Case: A Trial of Politics, Science, and CharacterDaniel J. KevlesAmazon

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1998 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Young Adult Fiction

1998 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Young Adult Fiction Winner and Nominees

1998 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Young Adult Fiction WinnerRules of the RoadJoan BauerMeet Jenna Boller, star employee at Gladstone's Shoe Store in Chicago. Standing a gawky 5'11'' at 16 years old, Jenna is the kind of girl most likely to stand out in the crowd for all the wrong reasons. But that doesn't stop Madeline Gladstone, the preside...Amazon1998 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Young Adult Fiction ShortlistGo and Come BackJoan AbeloveAmazonHolesLouis SacharAmazonIn a Dark WoodMichael CadnumAmazonSoldier's Heart: Being the Story of the Enlistment and Due Service of the Boy Charley GoddardGary PaulsenAmazon

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1999 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, John W. Campbell, John W. Campbell - Novel

1999 John W. Campbell – Novel Winner and Nominees

1999 John W. Campbell - Novel WinnerBrute OrbitsGeorge Zebrowski“Like his previous tales of technocratically engineered futures (Macrolife; Stranger Suns; etc.), Zebrowski's latest evokes the pioneering SF of social philosopher Olaf Stapledon... In the 21st century, Earth incarcerates its undesirables in mined-out aste...Amazon1999 John W. Campbell - Novel ShortlistDistractionBruce SterlingAmazonStarfarersPoul AndersonAmazon

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1999 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Locus, Locus - Fantasy Novel

1999 Locus – Fantasy Novel Winner and Nominees

1999 Locus - Fantasy Novel WinnerA Clash of KingsGeorge R. R. Martin...Amazon1999 Locus - Fantasy Novel ShortlistChangerJane LindskoldAmazonDark Lord of DerkholmDiana Wynne JonesAmazonDragon's WinterElizabeth A. LynnAmazonFortress of EaglesC. J. CherryhAmazonHeartfireOrson Scott CardAmazonJuniper, Gentian, and RosemaryPamela DeanAmazonMockingbirdSean StewartAmazonNewton's CannonJ. Gregory KeyesAmazonPrince of DogsKate ElliottAmazonSong for the BasiliskPatricia A. McKillipAmazonStardustNeil GaimanAmazonThe One-Armed QueenJane YolenAmazontie): Sailing to SarantiumGuy Gavriel KayAmazontie): Someplace to Be FlyingCharles de LintAmazon

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1999 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Locus, Locus - SF Novel

1999 Locus – SF Novel Winner and Nominees

1999 Locus - SF Novel WinnerTo Say Nothing of the DogConnie WillisNed Henry is a time-travelling historian who specialises in the mid-20th century - currently engaged in researching the bombed-out Coventry Cathedral. He's also made so many drops into the past that he's suffering from a dangerously advanced case of 'time-...Amazon1999 Locus - SF Novel ShortlistChildren of GodMary Doria RussellAmazonCosmGregory BenfordAmazonDarwiniaRobert Charles WilsonAmazonDinosaur SummerGreg BearAmazonDistractionBruce SterlingAmazonKomarrLois McMaster BujoldAmazonMaximum LightNancy KressAmazonMoonseedStephen BaxterAmazonParable of the TalentsOctavia E. ButlerAmazonPorts of CallJack VanceAmazonSix Moon DanceSheri S. TepperAmazonStarfarersPoul AndersonAmazonThe Alien YearsRobert SilverbergAmazonThe Golden G...

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1999 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography

1999 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography Winner and Nominees

1999 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography WinnerSecrets of the Flesh: A Life of ColetteJudith ThurmanA scandalously talented stage performer, a practiced seductress of both men and women, and the flamboyant author of some of the greatest works of twentieth-century literature, Colette was our first true superstar. Now, in Judith Thurman's Secrets of the Fl...Amazon1999 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography ShortlistByron: Child of Passion, Fool of FameBenita EislerAmazonMy Grandfather's House: A Genealogy of Doubt and FaithRobert ClarkAmazonRembrandt's EyesSimon SchamaAmazonWalt Whitman: The Song of HimselfJerome LovingAmazon

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1999 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest

1999 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest Winner and Nominees

1999 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest WinnerSidewalkMitchell DuneierPresents the lives of poor African-American men who make their subsistence wages by selling used goods on the streets of Greenwich Village in New York; and discusses how they interact with passing pedestrians, police officers, and each other....Amazon1999 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest ShortlistA Border Passage: From Cairo to America—A Woman's JourneyLeila AhmedAmazonAn Affair of State: The Investigation, Impeachment, and Trial of President ClintonRichard A. PosnerAmazonBlack Hawk Down: A Story of Modern WarMark BowdenAmazonChosen By God: A Brother's JourneyJoshua HammerAmazon

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1999 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction

1999 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1999 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction WinnerFreedom Song: Three NovelsAmit ChaudhuriFreedom Song is vintage Amit Chaudhuri, playing with big ideas while evoking the smallest aspects of everyday life with acute tenderness and extraordinary beauty....Amazon1999 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction ShortlistClose Range: Wyoming StoriesAnnie ProulxAmazonHouse of Sand and FogAndre Dubus IIIAmazonPlainsongKent HarufAmazonWaitingHa JinAmazon

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1999 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction

1999 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – First Fiction Winner and Nominees

1999 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction WinnerAmy and IsabelleElizabeth StroutFrom the Man Booker Prize longlisted author of My Name is Lucy Barton ? Isabelle Goodrow has been living in self-imposed exile with her daughter Amy for fifteen years. Shamed by her past and her affair with Amy's father, she has submerged herself in the ro...Amazon1999 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction ShortlistBy the ShoreGalaxy CrazeAmazonFor the Relief of Unbearable Urges: StoriesNathan EnglanderAmazonInterpreter of MaladiesJhumpa LahiriAmazonLast ThingsJenny OffillAmazon

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1999 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History

1999 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – History Winner and Nominees

1999 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History WinnerEmbracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War IIJohn W. DowerWinner of the Pulitzer Prize, the 1999 National Book Award for Nonfiction, finalist for the Lionel Gelber Prize and the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize, Embracing Defeat is John W. Dower's brilliant examination of Japan in the immediate, shattering afterma...Amazon1999 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History ShortlistEmpire Express: Building the 1st Transcontinental RailroadDavid Haward BainAmazonFreedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945David M. KennedyAmazonThe First World WarJohn KeeganAmazonThe Holocaust in American LifePeter NovickAmazon