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2005 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Mystery/Thriller

2005 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Mystery/Thriller Winner and Nominees

2005 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Mystery/Thriller WinnerLegends: A Novel of DissimulationRobert LittellNow a TNT series starring Sean Bean Robert Littell is the undisputed master of American spy fiction, hailed for his profound grasp of the world of international espionage. His previous novel, The Company, an international bestseller, was praised as "one of...Amazon2005 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Mystery/Thriller ShortlistAsh & Bone: A Frank Elder MysteryJohn HarveyAmazonStrange Affair: A Novel of SuspensePeter RobinsonAmazonThe Lincoln Lawyer: A NovelMichael ConnellyAmazonThe Right Madness: A NovelJames CrumleyAmazon

25Mar

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2005 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry

2005 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Poetry Winner and Nominees

2005 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry WinnerRefusing Heaven: PoemsJack GilbertMore than a decade after Jack Gilbert’s The Great Fires, this highly anticipated new collection shows the continued development of a poet who has remained fierce in his avoidance of the beaten path. In Refusing Heaven, Gilbert writes compellingly about the...Amazon2005 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry ShortlistLuck Is Luck: PoemsLucia PerilloAmazonPennyweight Windows: New & Selected PoemsDonald RevellAmazonThe Cachoeira Tales and Other PoemsMarilyn NelsonAmazonZeppo's First Wife: New and Selected PoemsGail MazurAmazon

25Mar

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2005 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology

2005 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Science & Technology Winner and Nominees

2005 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology WinnerBefore The Fallout: From Marie Curie to HiroshimaDiana PrestonSpanning fifty years, Before the Fall-Out tells the full story of how an exhilarating quest to unravel the secrets of the material world produced the knowledge of how to destroy it.And of how a scientific adventure shared openly between nuclear physicists ...Amazon2005 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology ShortlistDescent: The Heroic Discovery of the AbyssBrad MatsenAmazonEndless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo DevoSean B. CarrollAmazonIce: The Nature, the History, and the Uses of an Astonishing SubstanceMariana GosnellAmazonThe Republican War on ScienceChris MooneyAmazon

25Mar

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2005 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Young Adult Fiction

2005 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Young Adult Fiction Winner and Nominees

2005 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Young Adult Fiction WinnerYou & You & YouPer NilssonYoung Anon, who marches to the beat of a different drummer in galoshes to protect himself from radiation, touches the lives of all around him, resulting in disillusionment, loss, love, and more than a few surprises....Amazon2005 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Young Adult Fiction ShortlistBlack JuiceMargo LanaganAmazonI Am the MessengerMarkus ZusakAmazonLooking for AlaskaJohn GreenAmazonThe Center of the WorldAndreas SteinhöfelAmazon

25Mar

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2006 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography

2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography Winner and Nominees

2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography WinnerWalt Disney: The Triumph of the American ImaginationNeal GablerA portrait of the private life and public career of Walt Disney ranges from his deprived youth, to his contributions to the art of animation, to his visionary creation of the first synergistic entertainment empire, to his reclusive and lonely private worl...Amazon2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography ShortlistPrisoners: A Muslim and a Jew Across the Middle East DivideJeffrey GoldbergAmazonThe Librettist of Venice: The Remarkable Life of Lorenzo Da PonteRodney BoltAmazonThe Lost: A Search for Six of Six MillionDaniel MendelsohnAmazonThe Most Famous Man in Amerca: The Biography of Henry Ward BeecherDebby ApplegateAmazon

25Mar

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2006 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest

2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest Winner and Nominees

2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest WinnerMurder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo Van Gogh and the Limits of ToleranceIan BurumaIt was an emblematic crime: on a November day in Amsterdam, an angry young Muslim man shot and killed the Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, iconic European provocateur, for making a movie with the anti-Islam politician Ayaan Hersi Ali. After shooting van Gogh...Amazon2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest ShortlistImperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green ZoneRajiv ChandrasekaranAmazonStrange Piece of ParadiseTerri JentzAmazonThe Beautiful Fall: Lagerfeld, Saint Laurent, and Glorious Excess in 1970s ParisAlicia DrakeAmazonThe Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf CoastDouglas BrinkleyAmazon

25Mar

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2006 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction

2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction WinnerA Woman in JerusalemA.B. YehoshuaThis novel about the struggle to identify a nameless victim in the wake of a terrorist bombing in Israel is “a masterpiece” (Claire Messud, The New York Times Book Review). A woman in her forties is a victim of a suicide bombing at a Jerusalem market. Her ...Amazon2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction ShortlistA Million Nightingales: A NovelSusan StraightAmazonBlack Swan Green: A NovelDavid MitchellAmazonThe Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo: A NovelPeter OrnerAmazonWinter's Bone: A NovelDaniel WoodrellAmazon

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2006 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction

2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – First Fiction Winner and Nominees

2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction WinnerWhite Ghost GirlsAlice GreenwayA coming of age story of two American sisters in Hong Kong during the late 1960s. “A haunting novel written with the craft and grace of a master” (Isabel Allende). Summer 1967. The turmoil of the Maoist revolution is spilling over into Hong Kong and causin...Amazon2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction ShortlistGolden Country: A NovelJennifer GilmoreAmazonMary: A NovelJanis Cooke NewmanAmazonSkinner's Drift: A NovelLisa FugardAmazonWhiteman: A NovelTony D'SouzaAmazon

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2006 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History

2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – History Winner and Nominees

2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History WinnerThe Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11Lawrence WrightTHE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING BESTSELLER, NOW A MAJOR NEW TV SERIES This is the definitive account of the run-up to 9/11: from the man who lit the spark of radical Islam in 1948, to those who built up a terror network, and to the FBI agent whose warnings of '...Amazon2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History ShortlistAt Canaan's Edge: Volume 3 of America in the King Years, 1965-68Taylor BranchAmazonMayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and WarNathaniel PhilbrickAmazonThe Colony: The Harrowing True Story of the Exiles of MolokaiJohn TaymanAmazonThe War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the WestNiall FergusonAmazon

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2006 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Mystery/Thriller

2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Mystery/Thriller Winner and Nominees

2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Mystery/Thriller WinnerEcho Park: A Harry Bosch NovelMichael ConnellyBosch reopens the hunt for a psychotic killer who stalked the streets of Los Angeles years before. In 1993, Marie Gesto disappeared after walking out of a supermarket in Hollywood. Fearing the worst, the case was elevated by LAPD commanders from the missin...Amazon2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Mystery/Thriller ShortlistCity of Tiny LightsPatrick NeateAmazonThe Night Gardener: A NovelGeorge P. PelecanosAmazonThe Winter of Frankie Machine: A NovelDon WinslowAmazonThe Zero: A NovelJess WalterAmazon