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1996 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography

1996 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography Winner and Nominees

1996 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography WinnerAngela's Ashes: A MemoirFrank McCourtA Pulitzer Prize–winning, #1 New York Times bestseller, Angela’s Ashes is Frank McCourt’s masterful memoir of his childhood in Ireland. “When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: th...Amazon1996 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography ShortlistA Life of Picasso: Volume 2. The Cubist Rebel, 1907-1916John RichardsonAmazonAn Uncommon Woman: The Empress FrederickHannah PakulaAmazonEdward Hopper: An Intimate BiographyGail LevinAmazonHellman and Hammett: The Legendary Passion of Lillian Hellman and Dashiell HammettJoan MellenAmazonOrson Welles: The Road to XanaduSimon CallowAmazonTom: The Unknown Tennessee WilliamsLyle LeverichAmazon...

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1996 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest

1996 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest Winner and Nominees

1996 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest WinnerLove Thy Neighbor: A Story of WarPeter MaassAn account of one journalist's experience from 1992-93 of the conflict in Bosnia, this work is an attempt to come to terms with the overwhelming questions that are provoked by witnessing the destruction of a nation....Amazon1996 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest ShortlistA Civil ActionJonathan HarrAmazonAll God's Children: The Bosket Family and the American Tradition of ViolenceFox ButterfieldAmazonAshes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip MorrisRichard KlugerAmazonMoving Violations: War Zones, Wheelchairs, and Declarations of IndependenceJohn HockenberryAmazonThe Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an A...

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1996 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction

1996 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1996 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction WinnerA Fine BalanceRohinton MistryWith a compassionate realism and narrative sweep that recall the work of Charles Dickens, this magnificent novel captures all the cruelty and corruption, dignity and heroism, of India. The time is 1975. The place is an unnamed city by the sea. The governme...Amazon1996 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction ShortlistAbout Schmidt: A NovelLouis BegleyAmazonEvery Man for HimselfBeryl BainbridgeAmazonOpen Heart: A NovelA.B. YehoshuaAmazonSanta EvitaTomás Eloy MartinézAmazonShip Fever and Other StoriesAndrea BarrettAmazonThe Ghost RoadPat BarkerAmazonTree of Heaven: A NovelR.C. BinstockAmazon

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1996 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction

1996 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – First Fiction Winner and Nominees

1996 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction WinnerThe Smell of Apples: A NovelMark BehrThe harsh realities of 1970s South African apartheid are witnessed by young narrator Marnus Erasmus, in a story of racial oppression, sexual abuse, lost innocence, and a society driven to the edge of dispair...Amazon1996 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction ShortlistI Never Came to You in WhiteJudith FarrAmazonI Was Amelia EarhartJane MendelsohnAmazonResurrection ManEoin McNameeAmazonSt. Burl's ObituaryDaniel AkstAmazonThe Debt to Pleasure: A NovelJohn LanchesterAmazonThe Secret of the BullsJosé Raúl BernardoAmazonThe Veracruz BluesMark WinegardnerAmazon

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1996 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History

1996 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – History Winner and Nominees

1996 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History WinnerBlack SeaNeal AschersonAn acclaimed, award-winning book on a fascinating subject, recently . and updated by the author. Black Sea is a homage to an ocean and its shores and a meditation on Eurasian history, from the earliest times to the present. It explores the culture, h...Amazon1996 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History ShortlistAshes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip MorrisRichard KlugerAmazonEndangered Dreams: The Great Depression in CaliforniaKevin StarrAmazonEurope: A HistoryNorman DaviesAmazonWar Before Civilization: The Myth of the Peaceful SavageLawrence H. KeeleyAmazonWilliam Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American RepublicAlan...

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1996 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry

1996 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Poetry Winner and Nominees

1996 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry WinnerMixed CompanyAlan ShapiroRespected poet, teacher, and critic Alan Shapiro continues his much-acclaimed explorations of childhood, family, and marriage in Mixed Company. Revealing a world troubled by difference while struggling toward commonality, and with equal attention to histor...Amazon1996 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry ShortlistDream of the Unified Field: Selected Poems 1974-1994Jorie GrahamAmazonMeadowlandsLouise GlückAmazonPassing Through: The Later Poems, New and SelectedStanley KunitzAmazonThe Figured Wheel: New and Collected Poems, 1966-1996Robert PinskyAmazonThe Terrible Stories: PoemsLucille CliftonAmazonThe World at Large: New and Selected Poems, 1971-1996James McMichaelAmazonThings That Happen Once: New PoemsRodney Jones...

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1996 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology

1996 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Science & Technology Winner and Nominees

1996 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology WinnerThe Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the DarkCarl SaganA prescient warning of a future we now inhabit, where fake news stories and Internet conspiracy theories play to a disaffected American populace “A glorious book . . . A spirited defense of science . . . From the first page to the last, this book is a mani...Amazon1996 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology ShortlistFermat's Last Theorem: Unlocking the Secret of an Ancient Mathematical ProblemAmir D. AczelAmazonFire in the Mind: Science, Faith, and the Search for OrderGeorge JohnsonAmazonHome from Nowhere: Remaking Our Everyday World for the 21st CenturyJames Howard KunstlerAmazonThe Dying of the TreesCharles E. LittleAmazonThe Forgotten PollinatorsS...

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1997 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography

1997 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography Winner and Nominees

1997 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography WinnerWhittaker Chambers: A BiographySam TanenhausWhittaker Chambers is the first biography of this complex and enigmatic figure. Drawing on dozens of interviews and on materials from forty archives in the United States and abroad--including still-classified KGB dossiers--Tanenhaus traces the remarkable j...Amazon1997 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography ShortlistBogartA.M. Sperber, Eric LaxAmazonBurning the Days: RecollectionJames SalterAmazonNapoleon Bonaparte: A LifeAlan SchomAmazonNazimova: A BiographyGavin LambertAmazon

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1997 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest

1997 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest Winner and Nominees

1997 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest WinnerThe Spirit Catches You and You Fall DownAnne FadimanA study in the collision between Western medicine and the beliefs of a traditional culture focuses on a hospitalized child of Laotian immigrants whose belief that illness is a spiritual matter comes into conflict with doctors' methods....Amazon1997 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest ShortlistInto Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest DisasterJon KrakauerAmazonOur Guys: The Glen Ridge Rape and the Secret Life of the Perfect SuburbBernard LefkowitzAmazonRace, Crime, and the LawRandall KennedyAmazonThe Rise and Fall of Gay CultureDaniel HarrisAmazon

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1997 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction

1997 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1997 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction WinnerIn the Rogue BloodJames Carlos BlakeHeading out to nineteenth-century Texas to recover from their sister's murder and their father's alcoholism, brothers Edward and John Little find themselves on opposing sides during the Mexican-American War. Winner of the 1997 Los Angeles Times Book Prize ...Amazon1997 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction ShortlistCalifornia's Over: A novelLouis B. JonesAmazonReading in the Dark: A NovelSeamus DeaneAmazonThe Ordinary SeamanFrancisco GoldmanAmazonThe Reader: A NovelBernhard Schlink, Carol Brown JanewayAmazon