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2007 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography

2007 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography Winner and Nominees

2007 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography WinnerYoung StalinSimon Sebag MontefioreWinner of the Costa Biography Award What makes a Stalin? Was he a Tsarist agent or Lenin's bandit? Was he to blame for his wife's death? When did the killing start? Based on revelatory research, here is the thrilling story of how a charismatic cobbler's so...Amazon2007 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography ShortlistBoone: A BiographyRobert MorganAmazonFallen Founder: The Life of Aaron BurrNancy IsenbergAmazonStanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest ExplorerTim JealAmazonVon Braun: Dreamer of Space, Engineer of WarMichael J. NeufeldAmazon

25Mar

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2007 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest

2007 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest Winner and Nominees

2007 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest WinnerSoldier's Heart: Reading Literature Through Peace and War at West PointElizabeth D. SametAt West Point, Elizabeth Samet reads classic and modern works of literature with America's future military elite, and in this stirring memoir she chronicles the ways in which war has transformed her relationship to the books she and her ......Amazon2007 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest ShortlistA Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy SoldierIshmael BeahAmazonThe Father of All Things: A Marine, His Son, and the Legacy of VietnamTom BissellAmazonThe Second Civil War: How Extreme Partisanship Has Paralyzed Washington and Polarized AmericaRonald BrownsteinAmazonThe Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster CapitalismNaomi KleinAmazon

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

2007 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

2007 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction WinnerBe Near Me: A NovelAndrew O'HaganWhen an English priest takes over a small Scottish parish, not everyone is ready to accept him. He makes friends with two local youths, Mark and Lisa, and clashes with a world he can barely understand. The town seems to grow darker each night. Fate comes c...Amazon2007 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction ShortlistLast Night at the Lobster: A NovelStewart O'NanAmazonOut Stealing HorsesPer PettersonAmazonThe Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao: A NovelJunot DíazAmazonThe Shadow Catcher: A NovelMarianne WigginsAmazon

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

2007 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – First Fiction Winner and Nominees

2007 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction WinnerThe Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears: A NovelDinaw MengestuSeventeen years after fleeing the Ethiopian revolution, Sepha Stephanos runs a grocery store in a poor African-American neighborhood in Washington, D.C., where he reflects on his past and the differences between his prospects and the life he imagined....Amazon2007 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction ShortlistSkylark Farm: A NovelAntonia Arslan, Geoffrey BrockAmazonThe Last Chicken in America: A NovelEllen LitmanAmazonThe UnderstoryPamela ErensAmazonTwenty Grand: And Other Tales of Love and MoneyRebecca CurtisAmazon

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2007 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History

2007 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – History Winner and Nominees

2007 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History WinnerLegacy of Ashes: The History of the CIATim WeinerWith shocking revelations that made headlines in papers across the country, Pulitzer-Prize-winner Tim Weiner gets at the truth behind the CIA and uncovers here why nearly every CIA Director has left the agency in worse shape than when he found it; and how ...Amazon2007 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History ShortlistNixon and Mao: The Week that Changed the WorldMargaret MacMillanAmazonThe First Total War: Napoleon’s Europe and the Birth of Warfare as We Know ItDavid A. BellAmazonThe Greatest Battle: Stalin, Hitler, and the Desperate Struggle for Moscow that Changed the Course of World War IIAndrew NagorskiAmazonTroublesome Young Men: The Rebels Who Brought Churchill to Power and Helped Save E...

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2007 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Mystery/Thriller

2007 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Mystery/Thriller Winner and Nominees

2007 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Mystery/Thriller WinnerThe Indian Bride: An Inspector Sejer MysteryKarin Fossum, Charlotte BarslundWhen perpetual bachelor Gunder Jomann goes to India for two weeks and comes home married, the town of Elvestad is stunned. On the day the Indian bride is supposed to arrive, the battered body of a woman is found in a meadow on the outskirts of town. None o...Amazon2007 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Mystery/Thriller ShortlistChristine Falls: A NovelBenjamin BlackAmazonFrozen Tracks: An Inspector Erik Winter NovelÅke EdwardsonAmazonIce Moon: A NovelJan Costin WagnerAmazonIn the WoodsTana FrenchAmazon

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2007 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry

2007 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Poetry Winner and Nominees

2007 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry WinnerOld Heart: PoemsStanley PlumlyStanley Plumly's masterful eighth collection--wherein he confronts and celebrates mortality--was a finalist for the National Book Award in Poetry. In this collection, Stanley Plumly confronts and celebrates mortality--in the detailed natural world, in the ...Amazon2007 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry ShortlistLittle BoatJean ValentineAmazonMars Being RedMarvin BellAmazonRipple Effect: New and Selected PoemsElaine EquiAmazonThe Kitchen Sink: New and Selected Poems, 1972-2007Albert GoldbarthAmazon

25Mar

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2007 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology

2007 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Science & Technology Winner and Nominees

2007 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology WinnerI Am a Strange LoopDouglas R. HofstadterCan thought arise out of matter? Can self, soul, consciousness, “I” arise out of mere matter? If it cannot, then how can you or I be here? I Am a Strange Loop argues that the key to understanding selves and consciousness is the “strange loop”—a special kin...Amazon2007 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology ShortlistAnimal Architects: Building and the Evolution of IntelligenceJames L. Gould, Carol Grant GouldAmazonFaust in Copenhagen: A Struggle for the Soul of PhysicsGino SegrèAmazonOn Deep History and the BrainDaniel Lord SmailAmazonThe First Word: The Search for the Origins of LanguageChristine KenneallyAmazon

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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

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2008 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, John W. Campbell, John W. Campbell - Novel

2008 John W. Campbell – Novel Winner and Nominees

2008 John W. Campbell - Novel WinnerIn War TimesKathleen Ann GoonanIn an alternate-universe depiction of World War II, Sam enlists for the military after his brother is killed at Pearl Harbor and receives plans for a mysterious device from one of his instructors that he spends the war constructing, with unexpected and biz...Amazon2008 John W. Campbell - Novel ShortlistAxisRobert Charles WilsonAmazonBad MonkeysMatt RuffAmazonBrasylIan McDonaldAmazonDeadstockJeffrey ThomasAmazonHARMBrian W. AldissAmazonMainspringJay LakeAmazonRollbackRobert J. SawyerAmazonThe Execution ChannelKen MacLeodAmazonThe MargaretsSheri S. TepperAmazonThe New Moon's ArmsNalo HopkinsonAmazonThe Yiddish Policemen's UnionMichael ChabonAmazonTime's ChildRebecca OreAmazonZig ZagJose Carlos SomozaAmazon