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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 - First Fiction

1997 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – First Fiction Winner and Nominees

1997 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction WinnerDon't Erase Me: StoriesCarolyn FerrellPortrays the lives of Black teenagers in New York's South Bronx, where, in the title story, a woman recounts her life after learning she has AIDS...Amazon1997 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction ShortlistA Child Out of AlcatrazTara IsonAmazonA Crime in the NeighborhoodSuzanne BerneAmazonRound RockMichelle HunevenAmazonThe God of Small ThingsArundhati RoyAmazon

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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 - History

1997 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – History Winner and Nominees

1997 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History WinnerA People's Tragedy: A History of the Russian RevolutionOrlando FigesUnrivalled in scope and brimming with human drama, A People's Tragedy is the most vivid, moving and comprehensive history of the Russian Revolution available today. 'A modern masterpiece' Andrew Marr 'The most moving account of the Russian Revolution since...Amazon1997 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History ShortlistEchoes of a Native Land: Two Centuries of a Russian VillageSerge SchmemannAmazonFat History: Bodies and Beauty in the Modern WestPeter N. StearnsAmazonNazi Germany and the Jews: Volume 1. The Years of Persecution, 1933-1939Saul FriedländerAmazonSun Dancing: Life in a Medieval Irish Monastery and How Celtic Spirituality Influenced the WorldGeoffrey MoorhouseAmazo...

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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 - Poetry

1997 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Poetry Winner and Nominees

1997 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry WinnerBlack ZodiacCharles WrightWinner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award Black Zodiac offers poems suffused with spiritual longing—lyrical meditations on faith, religion, heritage, and morality. The poems also explore aging and mortality with restless grace...Amazon1997 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry ShortlistAn Octave Above Thunder: New and Selected PoemsCarol Muske-DukesAmazonNatal CommandPeter SacksAmazonResurrection Update: Collected Poems 1975-1997James GalvinAmazonThe Four Questions of Melancholy: New and Selected PoemsTomaz Salamun, Christopher MerrillAmazon

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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 - Science & Technology

1997 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Science & Technology Winner and Nominees

1997 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology WinnerHow the Mind WorksStephen Pinker"A model of scientific writing: erudite, witty, and clear." —New York Review of Books In this Pulitzer Prize finalist and national bestseller, one of the world's leading cognitive scientists tackles the workings of the human mind. What makes us rational—an...Amazon1997 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology ShortlistDeadly Feasts: Tracking the Secrets of a Terrifying New PlagueRichard RhodesAmazonThe Fabric of Reality: The Science of Parallel Universes and Its ImplicationsDavid DeutschAmazonThe Trouble With Testosterone And Other Essays On The Biology Of The Human PredicamentRobert M. SapolskyAmazonVenus Revealed: A New Look Below the Clouds of Our Mysterious Twin PlanetDavid Harry G...

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1998 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography

1998 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography Winner and Nominees

1998 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography WinnerLindberghA. Scott BergLindbergh was the first solo pilot to cross the Atlantic non-stop from New York to Paris, in 1927. This awe-inspiring fight made him the most celebrated men of his day-a romantic symbol of the new aviation age. However, tragedy struck in 1932, where his ba...Amazon1998 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography ShortlistA Traitor's Kiss: The Life of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, 1751-1816Fintan O'TooleAmazonOther Powers: The Age of Suffrage, Spiritualism, and the Scandalous Victoria WoodhullBarbara GoldsmithAmazonThe Unknown Matisse: Volume 1. The Early Years, 1869-1908Hilary SpurlingAmazonVictor Hugo: A BiographyGraham RobbAmazon

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1998 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest

1998 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest Winner and Nominees

1998 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest WinnerWe Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from RwandaPhilip GourevitchAn unforgettable firsthand account of a people's response to genocide and what it tells us about humanity. This remarkable debut book chronicles what has happened in Rwanda and neighboring states since 1994, when the Rwandan government called on everyone i...Amazon1998 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest ShortlistAmerican Beach: A Saga of Race, Wealth, and MemoryRuss RymerAmazonArticles of Faith: A Frontline History of the Abortion WarsCynthia GorneyAmazonCold New World: Growing Up in a Harder CountryWilliam FinneganAmazonOn the Outside Looking In: A Year in an Inner-City High SchoolCristina RathboneAmazon

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1998 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction

1998 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1998 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction WinnerThe Rings of SaturnW.G. Sebald, Michael Hulse"The book is like a dream you want to last forever" (Roberta Silman, The New York Times Book Review), now with a gorgeous new cover by the famed designer Peter Mendelsund The Rings of Saturn—with its curious archive of photographs—records a walking tour of...Amazon1998 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction ShortlistDeath in SummerWilliam TrevorAmazonEveningSusan MinotAmazonFreedomlandRichard PriceAmazonI Married a CommunistPhilip RothAmazon

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1998 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction

1998 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – First Fiction Winner and Nominees

1998 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction WinnerKalimantaanC.S. GodshalkKalimantaan' - the old name for Borneo - tells of the founding of a small empire by an extraordinary man and a handful of his followers. Within 10 years Gideon Barr conquers an area the size of England and Wales, but the personal cost is enormous....Amazon1998 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction ShortlistA Crowded HeartNicholas PapandreouAmazonBlue BossaBart SchneiderAmazonHunger: A Novella and StoriesLan Samantha ChangAmazonThe Undiscovered CountrySamantha GillisonAmazon

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1998 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History

1998 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – History Winner and Nominees

1998 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History WinnerThe Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of HumanityRoy PorterExplores the development of medicine against the backdrop of the religious, scientific, philosophical, and political beliefs of each age, and unearths a treasure trove of medicinal oddities...Amazon1998 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History ShortlistHope in a Jar: The Making of America's Beauty CultureKathy PeissAmazonMany Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North AmericaIra BerlinAmazonSlave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and LowcountryPhilip D. MorganAmazonThe Gospel of Germs: Men, Women, and the Microbe in American LifeNancy TomesAmazon

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1998 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry

1998 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Poetry Winner and Nominees

1998 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry WinnerMysteries of Small HousesAlice NotleyAlice Notley vividly reconstructs the mysteries, longings, and emotions of her past in this brilliant new collection of poems that charts her growth from young girl to young woman to accomplished artist. In this volume, memories of her childhood in the Cal...Amazon1998 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry ShortlistAmerican Rush: Selected PoemsMaureen OwenAmazonThe Folding Cliffs: A NarrativeWilliam S. MerwinAmazonThe Shape of the Journey: New and Collected PoemsJim HarrisonAmazonWithout: PoemsDonald HallAmazon