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2008 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Young Adult Fiction

2008 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Young Adult Fiction Winner and Nominees

2008 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Young Adult Fiction WinnerNationTerry PratchettWhen a giant wave destroys his village, Mau is the only one left. Daphne—a traveler from the other side of the globe—is the sole survivor of a shipwreck. Separated by language and customs, the two are united by catastrophe. Slowly, they are joined by other...Amazon2008 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Young Adult Fiction ShortlistDark Dude: A NovelOscar HijuelosAmazonSwallow Me WholeNate PowellAmazonThe Graveyard BookNeil Gaiman, Dave McKean, Chris RiddellAmazonThe Lincolns: A Scrapbook Look at Abraham and MaryCandace FlemingAmazon

25Mar

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2009 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, John W. Campbell, John W. Campbell - Novel

2009 John W. Campbell – Novel Winner and Nominees

2009 John W. Campbell - Novel WinnerLittle BrotherCory DoctorowThe ultimate tale of teen rebellion – one seventeen-year-old against the surveillance state....AmazonSong of TimeIan R. MacLeodWinner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award: A future world of unrelenting change, strangeness, and uncertainty, experienced through the passions and memories of one remarkable old woman Roushana Maitland has known great fa...Amazon2009 John W. Campbell - Novel ShortlistAnathemNeal StephensonAmazonCity at the End of TimeGreg BearAmazonThe Philosopher's ApprenticeJames MorrowAmazonValley of Day-GloNick Di CharioAmazon

25Mar

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2009 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Locus, Locus - Fantasy Novel

2009 Locus – Fantasy Novel Winner and Nominees

2009 Locus - Fantasy Novel WinnerLaviniaUrsula K. Le GuinAn exceptional combination of history and mythology - 'an intriguing, luxuriously realised novel' FINANCIAL TIMES 'Like Spartan Helen, I caused a war. She caused hers by letting men who wanted her take her. I caused mine because I wouldn't be given, wouldn...Amazon2009 Locus - Fantasy Novel ShortlistAn Autumn WarDaniel AbrahamAmazonAn Evil GuestGene WolfeAmazonMemoirs of a Master ForgerWilliam HeaneyAmazonShadowbridge/Lord TophetGregory FrostAmazonThe Alchemy of StoneEkaterina SediaAmazonThe Bell at Sealey HeadPatricia A. McKillipAmazonThe Dragons of BabelMichael SwanwickAmazonThe Enchantress of FlorenceSalman RushdieAmazonThe Engine's ChildHolly PhillipsAmazonThe Ghost in LoveJonathan CarrollAmazonThe Hidden WorldPaul ParkAmazonThe ...

25Mar

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2009 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Locus, Locus - SF Novel

2009 Locus – SF Novel Winner and Nominees

2009 Locus - SF Novel WinnerAnathemNeal StephensonThe latest magnificent creation from the award-winning author of Cryptonomicon and the Baroque Cycle trilogy. Erasmas, 'Raz', is a young avout living in the Concent, a sanctuary for mathematicians, scientists, and philosophers. Three times during history's...Amazon2009 Locus - SF Novel ShortlistCity at the End of TimeGreg BearAmazonEscapementJay LakeAmazonFloodStephen BaxterAmazonHalf a CrownJo WaltonAmazonHouse of SunsAlastair ReynoldsAmazonImplied SpacesWalter Jon WilliamsAmazonIncandescenceGreg EganAmazonMarsboundJoe HaldemanAmazonMatterIain M. BanksAmazonPirate SunKarl SchroederAmazonRolling ThunderJohn VarleyAmazonSaturn's ChildrenCharles StrossAmazonThe January DancerMichael FlynnAmazonThe Quiet WarPaul McAuleyAmazon

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 - Biography

2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography Winner and Nominees

2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography WinnerDorothea Lange: A Life Beyond LimitsLinda GordonWinner of the 2010 Bancroft Prize and finalist for the 2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Biography: The definitive biography of a heroic chronicler of America's Depression and one of the twentieth century's greatest photographers. We all know Dorothea L...Amazon2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography ShortlistKoestler: The Literary and Political Odyssey of a Twentieth-Century SkepticMichael ScammellAmazonLouis D. Brandeis: A LifeMelvin I. UrofskyAmazonThe Uncrowned King: The Sensational Rise of William Randolph HearstKenneth WhyteAmazonThe Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life of Frances Perkins, FDR's Secretary of Labor and His Moral ConscienceKirstin DowneyAmazon

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 - Current Interest

2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest Winner and Nominees

2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest WinnerZeitounDave EggersIn August, 2005, as Hurricane Katrina blew in, the city of New Orleans had been abandoned by most citizens. But resident Abdulrahman Zeitoun, though his wife and family had gone, refused to leave. For days he traversed an apocalyptic landscape of flooded s...Amazon2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest ShortlistColumbineDave CullenAmazonHalf the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women WorldwideNicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunnAmazonStrength in What Remains: A Journey of Remembrance and ForgivenessTracy KidderAmazonThe Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health CareT.R. ReidAmazon

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 - Fiction

2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction WinnerA Happy Marriage: A NovelRafael YglesiasA Happy Marriage is both intimate and expansive: It is the story of Enrique Sabas and his wife, Margaret, a novel that alternates between the romantic misadventures of the first weeks of their courtship and the final months of Margaret's life as she says g...Amazon2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction ShortlistA Short History of Women: A NovelKate WalbertAmazonBlame: A NovelMichelle HunevenAmazonHeroic Measures: A NovelJill CimentAmazonThe Man in the Wooden HatJane GardamAmazon

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 - First Fiction

2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – First Fiction Winner and Nominees

2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction WinnerAmerican Rust: A NovelPhilipp MeyerSet in a beautiful but dying Pennsylvania steel town, American Rustis a novel of the lost American dream and the desperation that arises from its loss.It is the story of two young men bound to the town by family, responsibility, inertia and the beauty arou...Amazon2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction ShortlistAn Elegy for EasterlyPetina GappahAmazonEverything Ravaged, Everything Burned: StoriesWells TowerAmazonIn Other Rooms, Other WondersDaniyal MueenuddinAmazonTinkersPaul HardingAmazon

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 - Graphic Novel/Comics

2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Graphic Novel/Comics Winner and Nominees

2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Graphic Novel/Comics WinnerAsterios PolypDavid MazzucchelliAsterios Polyp, its arrogant, prickly protagonist, is an award-winning architect who's never built an actual building, and a pedant in the midst of a spiritual crisis. After the structure of his own life falls apart, he runs away to try to rebuild it into ...Amazon2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Graphic Novel/Comics ShortlistFootnotes in GazaJoe SaccoAmazonGoGo MonsterTaiyo MatsumotoAmazonLubaGilbert HernandezAmazonScott Pilgrim, Vol. 5: Scott Pilgrim vs. the UniverseBryan Lee O’MalleyAmazon

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 - History

2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – History Winner and Nominees

2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History WinnerGolden Dreams: California in an Age of Abundance, 1950-1963Kevin StarrA narrative tour de force that combines wide-ranging scholarship with captivating prose, Kevin Starr's acclaimed multi-volume Americans and the California Dream is an unparalleled work of cultural history. In this volume, Starr covers the crucial postwar p...Amazon2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History ShortlistEmpire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815Gordon S. WoodAmazonLynching and Spectacle: Witnessing Racial Violence in America, 1890-1940Amy Louise WoodAmazonPassing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color LineMartha A. SandweissAmazonThe Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Sc...