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2008 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Young Adult Fiction

2008 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Young Adult Fiction Winner and Nominees

2008 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Young Adult Fiction WinnerNationTerry PratchettWhen a giant wave destroys his village, Mau is the only one left. Daphne—a traveler from the other side of the globe—is the sole survivor of a shipwreck. Separated by language and customs, the two are united by catastrophe. Slowly, they are joined by other...Amazon2008 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Young Adult Fiction ShortlistDark Dude: A NovelOscar HijuelosAmazonSwallow Me WholeNate PowellAmazonThe Graveyard BookNeil Gaiman, Dave McKean, Chris RiddellAmazonThe Lincolns: A Scrapbook Look at Abraham and MaryCandace FlemingAmazon

25Mar

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2009 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography

2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography Winner and Nominees

2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography WinnerDorothea Lange: A Life Beyond LimitsLinda GordonWinner of the 2010 Bancroft Prize and finalist for the 2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Biography: The definitive biography of a heroic chronicler of America's Depression and one of the twentieth century's greatest photographers. We all know Dorothea L...Amazon2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography ShortlistKoestler: The Literary and Political Odyssey of a Twentieth-Century SkepticMichael ScammellAmazonLouis D. Brandeis: A LifeMelvin I. UrofskyAmazonThe Uncrowned King: The Sensational Rise of William Randolph HearstKenneth WhyteAmazonThe Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life of Frances Perkins, FDR's Secretary of Labor and His Moral ConscienceKirstin DowneyAmazon

25Mar

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2009 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest

2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest Winner and Nominees

2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest WinnerZeitounDave EggersIn August, 2005, as Hurricane Katrina blew in, the city of New Orleans had been abandoned by most citizens. But resident Abdulrahman Zeitoun, though his wife and family had gone, refused to leave. For days he traversed an apocalyptic landscape of flooded s...Amazon2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest ShortlistColumbineDave CullenAmazonHalf the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women WorldwideNicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunnAmazonStrength in What Remains: A Journey of Remembrance and ForgivenessTracy KidderAmazonThe Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health CareT.R. ReidAmazon

25Mar

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2009 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction

2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction WinnerA Happy Marriage: A NovelRafael YglesiasA Happy Marriage is both intimate and expansive: It is the story of Enrique Sabas and his wife, Margaret, a novel that alternates between the romantic misadventures of the first weeks of their courtship and the final months of Margaret's life as she says g...Amazon2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction ShortlistA Short History of Women: A NovelKate WalbertAmazonBlame: A NovelMichelle HunevenAmazonHeroic Measures: A NovelJill CimentAmazonThe Man in the Wooden HatJane GardamAmazon

25Mar

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2009 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction

2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – First Fiction Winner and Nominees

2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction WinnerAmerican Rust: A NovelPhilipp MeyerSet in a beautiful but dying Pennsylvania steel town, American Rustis a novel of the lost American dream and the desperation that arises from its loss.It is the story of two young men bound to the town by family, responsibility, inertia and the beauty arou...Amazon2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction ShortlistAn Elegy for EasterlyPetina GappahAmazonEverything Ravaged, Everything Burned: StoriesWells TowerAmazonIn Other Rooms, Other WondersDaniyal MueenuddinAmazonTinkersPaul HardingAmazon

25Mar

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2009 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Graphic Novel/Comics

2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Graphic Novel/Comics Winner and Nominees

2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Graphic Novel/Comics WinnerAsterios PolypDavid MazzucchelliAsterios Polyp, its arrogant, prickly protagonist, is an award-winning architect who's never built an actual building, and a pedant in the midst of a spiritual crisis. After the structure of his own life falls apart, he runs away to try to rebuild it into ...Amazon2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Graphic Novel/Comics ShortlistFootnotes in GazaJoe SaccoAmazonGoGo MonsterTaiyo MatsumotoAmazonLubaGilbert HernandezAmazonScott Pilgrim, Vol. 5: Scott Pilgrim vs. the UniverseBryan Lee O’MalleyAmazon

25Mar

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2009 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History

2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – History Winner and Nominees

2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History WinnerGolden Dreams: California in an Age of Abundance, 1950-1963Kevin StarrA narrative tour de force that combines wide-ranging scholarship with captivating prose, Kevin Starr's acclaimed multi-volume Americans and the California Dream is an unparalleled work of cultural history. In this volume, Starr covers the crucial postwar p...Amazon2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History ShortlistEmpire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815Gordon S. WoodAmazonLynching and Spectacle: Witnessing Racial Violence in America, 1890-1940Amy Louise WoodAmazonPassing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color LineMartha A. SandweissAmazonThe Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Sc...

25Mar

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2009 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Mystery/Thriller

2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Mystery/Thriller Winner and Nominees

2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Mystery/Thriller WinnerThe Ghosts of BelfastStuart Neville"Northern Ireland's troubles may be over, but peace has not erased the crimes of the past. Gerry Fegan, a former paramilitary contract killer, is haunted by the ghosts of the twelve people he slaughtered. ... In order to appease the ghosts, Fegan is going ...Amazon2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Mystery/Thriller ShortlistA Darker Domain: A NovelVal McDermidAmazonBlack Water Rising: A NovelAttica LockeAmazonBury Me Deep: A NovelMegan AbbottAmazonThe Hidden ManDavid EllisAmazon

25Mar

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2009 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry

2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Poetry Winner and Nominees

2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry WinnerPractical WaterBrenda HillmanWinner of the Los Angeles Times Book Award for Poetry (2009) Runner-up for the Northern California Book Award for Poetry (2009) Practical Water is, like Brenda Hillman’s previous two books, Cascadia and Pieces of Air in the Epic, both an elemental meditati...Amazon2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry Shortlist]Open Interval[Lyrae Van Clief-StefanonAmazonApocalyptic Swing: PoemsGabrielle CalvocoressiAmazonDearest CreatureAmy GerstlerAmazonWhat the Right Hand KnowsTom HealyAmazon

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2009 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology

2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Science & Technology Winner and Nominees

2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology WinnerThe Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Quantum GeniusGraham FarmeloA monumental achievement - one of the great scientific biographies.' Michael Frayn The Strangest Man is the Costa Biography Award-winning account of Paul Dirac, the famous physicist sometimes called the British Einstein. He was one of the leading pioneers...Amazon2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology ShortlistCatching Fire: How Cooking Made Us HumanRichard WranghamAmazonCold: Adventures in the World's Frozen PlacesBill StreeverAmazonNaming Nature: The Clash Between Instinct and ScienceCarol Kaesuk YoonAmazonThe Day We Found the UniverseMarcia BartusiakAmazon