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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 - Science & Technology

1998 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Science & Technology Winner and Nominees

1998 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology WinnerBlood: An Epic History of Medicine and CommerceDouglas StarrEssence and emblem of life--feared, revered, mythologized, and used in magic and medicine from earliest times--human blood is now the center of a huge, secretive, and often dangerous worldwide commerce. It is a commerce whose impact upon humanity rivals th...Amazon1998 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology ShortlistMendel's DwarfSimon MawerAmazonPhantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human MindV.S. Ramachandran, Sandra BlakesleeAmazonTaking Wing: Archaeopteryx and the Evolution of Bird FlightPat ShipmanAmazonThe Baltimore Case: A Trial of Politics, Science, and CharacterDaniel J. KevlesAmazon

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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 - Young Adult Fiction

1998 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Young Adult Fiction Winner and Nominees

1998 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Young Adult Fiction WinnerRules of the RoadJoan BauerMeet Jenna Boller, star employee at Gladstone's Shoe Store in Chicago. Standing a gawky 5'11'' at 16 years old, Jenna is the kind of girl most likely to stand out in the crowd for all the wrong reasons. But that doesn't stop Madeline Gladstone, the preside...Amazon1998 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Young Adult Fiction ShortlistGo and Come BackJoan AbeloveAmazonHolesLouis SacharAmazonIn a Dark WoodMichael CadnumAmazonSoldier's Heart: Being the Story of the Enlistment and Due Service of the Boy Charley GoddardGary PaulsenAmazon

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1999 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography

1999 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography Winner and Nominees

1999 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography WinnerSecrets of the Flesh: A Life of ColetteJudith ThurmanA scandalously talented stage performer, a practiced seductress of both men and women, and the flamboyant author of some of the greatest works of twentieth-century literature, Colette was our first true superstar. Now, in Judith Thurman's Secrets of the Fl...Amazon1999 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography ShortlistByron: Child of Passion, Fool of FameBenita EislerAmazonMy Grandfather's House: A Genealogy of Doubt and FaithRobert ClarkAmazonRembrandt's EyesSimon SchamaAmazonWalt Whitman: The Song of HimselfJerome LovingAmazon

25Mar

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1999 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest

1999 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest Winner and Nominees

1999 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest WinnerSidewalkMitchell DuneierPresents the lives of poor African-American men who make their subsistence wages by selling used goods on the streets of Greenwich Village in New York; and discusses how they interact with passing pedestrians, police officers, and each other....Amazon1999 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest ShortlistA Border Passage: From Cairo to America—A Woman's JourneyLeila AhmedAmazonAn Affair of State: The Investigation, Impeachment, and Trial of President ClintonRichard A. PosnerAmazonBlack Hawk Down: A Story of Modern WarMark BowdenAmazonChosen By God: A Brother's JourneyJoshua HammerAmazon

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1999 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction

1999 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1999 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction WinnerFreedom Song: Three NovelsAmit ChaudhuriFreedom Song is vintage Amit Chaudhuri, playing with big ideas while evoking the smallest aspects of everyday life with acute tenderness and extraordinary beauty....Amazon1999 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction ShortlistClose Range: Wyoming StoriesAnnie ProulxAmazonHouse of Sand and FogAndre Dubus IIIAmazonPlainsongKent HarufAmazonWaitingHa JinAmazon

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1999 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction

1999 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – First Fiction Winner and Nominees

1999 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction WinnerAmy and IsabelleElizabeth StroutFrom the Man Booker Prize longlisted author of My Name is Lucy Barton ? Isabelle Goodrow has been living in self-imposed exile with her daughter Amy for fifteen years. Shamed by her past and her affair with Amy's father, she has submerged herself in the ro...Amazon1999 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction ShortlistBy the ShoreGalaxy CrazeAmazonFor the Relief of Unbearable Urges: StoriesNathan EnglanderAmazonInterpreter of MaladiesJhumpa LahiriAmazonLast ThingsJenny OffillAmazon

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1999 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History

1999 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – History Winner and Nominees

1999 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History WinnerEmbracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War IIJohn W. DowerWinner of the Pulitzer Prize, the 1999 National Book Award for Nonfiction, finalist for the Lionel Gelber Prize and the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize, Embracing Defeat is John W. Dower's brilliant examination of Japan in the immediate, shattering afterma...Amazon1999 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History ShortlistEmpire Express: Building the 1st Transcontinental RailroadDavid Haward BainAmazonFreedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945David M. KennedyAmazonThe First World WarJohn KeeganAmazonThe Holocaust in American LifePeter NovickAmazon

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1999 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry

1999 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Poetry Winner and Nominees

1999 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry WinnerRepair: PoemsC.K. WilliamsThe eighth book--and the most various yet--by a major American poet. With his two previous books, a generous Selected Poems and The Vigil, C. K. Williams received great acclaim, including the PEN/Voelcker Award and the prestigious Berlin Prize...Amazon1999 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry ShortlistThe DreamhouseTom SleighAmazonThe Father of the PredicamentsHeather McHughAmazonThe Oval Hour: PoemsKathleen PeirceAmazonThe Red Leaves of NightDavid St. JohnAmazon

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1999 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology

1999 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Science & Technology Winner and Nominees

1999 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology WinnerGalileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and LoveDava SobelFrom the international best-selling author of Longitude, Galileo’s Daughter is the fascinating story of the relationship between the great Italian scientist Galileo and his daughter, Virginia....Amazon1999 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology ShortlistLucy's Legacy: Sex and Intelligence in Human EvolutionAlison JollyAmazonMind of the Raven: Investigations and Adventures With Wolf-BirdsBernd HeinrichAmazonThe Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum CryptographySimon SinghAmazonThe River: A Journey to the Source of HIV and AIDSEdward HooperAmazon

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1999 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Young Adult Fiction

1999 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Young Adult Fiction Winner and Nominees

1999 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Young Adult Fiction WinnerFrenchtown SummerRobert CormierEugene is remembering the summer of 1938 in Frenchtown, a time when he began to wonder “what I was doing here on the planet Earth.” Here in vibrant, exquisite detail are his lovely mother, his aunts and uncles, cousins and friends, and especially his belov...Amazon1999 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Young Adult Fiction ShortlistMonsterWalter Dean MyersAmazonSkelligDavid AlmondAmazonSpeak: A NovelLaurie Halse AndersonAmazonStop Pretending: What Happened When My Big Sister Went CrazySonya SonesAmazon