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2005 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History

2005 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – History Winner and Nominees

2005 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History WinnerBury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's SlavesAdam HochschildOffers an account of the first great human rights crusade, which originated in England in the 1780s and resulted in the freeing of hundreds of thousands of slaves around the world....Amazon2005 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History ShortlistForgotten Armies: The Fall of British Asia, 1941-1945Christopher Bayly, Tim HarperAmazonPostwar: A History of Europe Since 1945Tony JudtAmazonThe Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to LincolnSean WilentzAmazonThe Third Reich in Power: Volume 2 of The Third Reich SeriesRichard J. EvansAmazon

25Mar

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2005 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Mystery/Thriller

2005 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Mystery/Thriller Winner and Nominees

2005 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Mystery/Thriller WinnerLegends: A Novel of DissimulationRobert LittellNow a TNT series starring Sean Bean Robert Littell is the undisputed master of American spy fiction, hailed for his profound grasp of the world of international espionage. His previous novel, The Company, an international bestseller, was praised as "one of...Amazon2005 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Mystery/Thriller ShortlistAsh & Bone: A Frank Elder MysteryJohn HarveyAmazonStrange Affair: A Novel of SuspensePeter RobinsonAmazonThe Lincoln Lawyer: A NovelMichael ConnellyAmazonThe Right Madness: A NovelJames CrumleyAmazon

25Mar

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2005 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry

2005 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Poetry Winner and Nominees

2005 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry WinnerRefusing Heaven: PoemsJack GilbertMore than a decade after Jack Gilbert’s The Great Fires, this highly anticipated new collection shows the continued development of a poet who has remained fierce in his avoidance of the beaten path. In Refusing Heaven, Gilbert writes compellingly about the...Amazon2005 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry ShortlistLuck Is Luck: PoemsLucia PerilloAmazonPennyweight Windows: New & Selected PoemsDonald RevellAmazonThe Cachoeira Tales and Other PoemsMarilyn NelsonAmazonZeppo's First Wife: New and Selected PoemsGail MazurAmazon

25Mar

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2005 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology

2005 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Science & Technology Winner and Nominees

2005 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology WinnerBefore The Fallout: From Marie Curie to HiroshimaDiana PrestonSpanning fifty years, Before the Fall-Out tells the full story of how an exhilarating quest to unravel the secrets of the material world produced the knowledge of how to destroy it.And of how a scientific adventure shared openly between nuclear physicists ...Amazon2005 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology ShortlistDescent: The Heroic Discovery of the AbyssBrad MatsenAmazonEndless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo DevoSean B. CarrollAmazonIce: The Nature, the History, and the Uses of an Astonishing SubstanceMariana GosnellAmazonThe Republican War on ScienceChris MooneyAmazon

25Mar

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2005 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Young Adult Fiction

2005 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Young Adult Fiction Winner and Nominees

2005 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Young Adult Fiction WinnerYou & You & YouPer NilssonYoung Anon, who marches to the beat of a different drummer in galoshes to protect himself from radiation, touches the lives of all around him, resulting in disillusionment, loss, love, and more than a few surprises....Amazon2005 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Young Adult Fiction ShortlistBlack JuiceMargo LanaganAmazonI Am the MessengerMarkus ZusakAmazonLooking for AlaskaJohn GreenAmazonThe Center of the WorldAndreas SteinhöfelAmazon

25Mar

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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