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2014 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest

2014 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest Winner and Nominees

2014 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest WinnerThe Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy LeagueJeff HobbsTraces a young man's effort to escape the dangers of the streets and his own nature after graduating from Yale, describing his youth in violent 1980s Newark, efforts to navigate two fiercely insular worlds and life-ending drug deals. 75,000 first printing....Amazon2014 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest ShortlistBeing Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the EndAtul GawandeAmazonDeep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them FreeHéctor TobarAmazonJust Mercy: A Story of Justice and RedemptionBryan StevensonAmazonThe Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the...

25Mar

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2014 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction

2014 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

2014 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction WinnerThe Blazing WorldSiri HustvedtNamed one of the New York Times Book Review’s 100 Notable Books of the Year ** Publishers Weekly’s Best Fiction Books of 2014 ** NPR Best Books of 2014 ** Kirkus Reviews Best Literary Fiction Books of 2014 ** Washington Post Top 50 Fiction Books of 2014 **...Amazon2014 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction ShortlistBoy, Snow, BirdHelen OyeyemiAmazonDept. of SpeculationJenny OffillAmazonSilence Once BegunJesse BallAmazonThe Emerald Light in the Air: StoriesDonald AntrimAmazon

25Mar

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2014 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction

2014 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – First Fiction Winner and Nominees

2014 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction WinnerFaces in the CrowdValeria Luiselli (translated by Christina MacSweeney)Collapsing narratives and the perils of translation from "one of the most important new voices in Mexican writing." (Alma Guillermoprieto)...Amazon2014 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction ShortlistA Girl is a Half-Formed ThingEimear McBrideAmazonMan V. Nature: StoriesDiane CookAmazonThe Heaven of Animals: StoriesDavid James PoissantAmazonWolf in White VanJohn DarnielleAmazon

25Mar

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2014 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Graphic Novel/Comics

2014 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Graphic Novel/Comics Winner and Nominees

2014 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Graphic Novel/Comics WinnerThe Love BunglersJaime HernandezThe suppression of family history is the initial thread that ties together The Love Bunglers, featuring Hernandez's longtime Love and Rockets heroine Maggie. Because these secrets can't be dealt with openly, their lingering effect is even more powerful. Bu...Amazon2014 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Graphic Novel/Comics ShortlistAn Iranian MetamorphosisMana NeyestaniAmazonArséne SchrauwenOlivier SchrauwenAmazonCan’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? A MemoirRoz ChastAmazonThis One SummerMariko Tamaki and Jillian TamakiAmazonThis One SummerMariko Tamaki and Jillian TamakiAmazon

25Mar

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2014 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History

2014 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – History Winner and Nominees

2014 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History WinnerThe Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916-1931Adam Tooze"A searing and highly original analysis of the First World War and its anguished aftermath. In the depths of the Great War, with millions dead and no imaginable end to the conflict, societies around the world began to buckle. The heart of the financial sys...Amazon2014 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History ShortlistFive Came Back: A Story of Hollywood and the Second World WarMark HarrisAmazonThe Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital RevolutionWalter IsaacsonAmazonThe Victorian City: Everyday Life in Dickens’ LondonJudith FlandersAmazonThirteen Days in September: Carter, Begin, and Sadat at Camp DavidLawrence Wri...

25Mar

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2014 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Mystery/Thriller

2014 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Mystery/Thriller Winner and Nominees

2014 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Mystery/Thriller WinnerDry Bones in the ValleyTom BoumanWhen an elderly recluse discovers a corpse on his land, Officer Henry Farrell follows the investigation to strange places in the countryside, and into the depths of his own frayed soul. In Wild Thyme, Pennsylvania, secrets and feuds go back generations. As...Amazon2014 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Mystery/Thriller ShortlistAfter I’m GoneLaura LippmanAmazonSins of Our FathersShawn Lawrence OttoAmazonThe Girl With a Clock for a HeartPeter SwansonAmazonThe PainterPeter HellerAmazon

25Mar

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2014 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry

2014 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Poetry Winner and Nominees

2014 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry WinnerCitizen: An American LyricClaudia Rankine...Amazon2014 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry ShortlistBlood Lyrics: PoemKatie FordAmazonIn Defense of Nothing: Selected Poems, 1987-2011Peter GizziAmazonPeaceGillian ConoleyAmazonThe Feel TrioFred MotenAmazon

25Mar

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2014 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology

2014 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Science & Technology Winner and Nominees

2014 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology WinnerThe Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural HistoryElizabeth Kolbert"Over the last half billion years, there have been five major mass extinctions, when the diversity of life on Earth suddenly and dramatically contracted. Scientists are currently monitoring the sixth extinction, predicted to be the most devastating since t...Amazon2014 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology ShortlistCosmigraphics: Picturing Space Through TimeMichael BensonAmazonDataclysm: Who We Are (When We Think No One’s Looking)Christian RudderAmazonMD, Missing Microbes, How the overuse of antibiotics is fueling our modern plaguesMartin J. BlaserAmazonThis Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The ClimateNaomi KleinAmazon

25Mar

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2014 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Young Adult Fiction

2014 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Young Adult Fiction Winner and Nominees

2014 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Young Adult Fiction WinnerThe Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial RussiaCandace Fleming“[A] superb history.... In these thrilling, highly readable pages, we meet Rasputin, the shaggy, lecherous mystic...; we visit the gilded ballrooms of the doomed aristocracy; and we pause in the sickroom of little Alexei, the hemophiliac heir who, with his...Amazon2014 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Young Adult Fiction ShortlistBrown Girl DreamingJacqueline WoodsonAmazonEyes Wide Open: Going Behind the Environmental HeadlinesPaul FleischmanAmazonGrasshopper JungleAndrew SmithAmazonThe Story of Owen: Dragon Slayer of TrondheimE.K. JohnstonAmazon

25Mar

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2015 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, John W. Campbell, John W. Campbell - Novel

2015 John W. Campbell – Novel Winner and Nominees

2015 John W. Campbell - Novel WinnerThe First Fifteen Lives of Harry AugustClaire NorthWildly original, funny and moving, The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August is an extraordinary story of a life lived again and again from World Fantasy Award-winning author Claire North. Harry August is on his deathbed. Again. No matter what he does or the...Amazon2015 John W. Campbell - Novel ShortlistA Darkling SeaJames L. CambiasAmazonAfterpartyDaryl GregoryAmazonArea X (The Southern Reach Trilogy: Annihilation; Authority; Acceptance)Jeff VanderMeerAmazonBêteAdam RobertsAmazonDefendersWill McIntoshAmazonEchopraxiaPeter WattsAmazonEurope in AutumnDave HutchinsonAmazonLock InJohn ScalziAmazonStation ElevenEmily St. John MandelAmazonThe BeesLaline PaullAmazonThe MartianAndy WeirAmazonThe PeripheralWillia...