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2014 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Young Adult Fiction

2014 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Young Adult Fiction Winner and Nominees

2014 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Young Adult Fiction WinnerThe Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial RussiaCandace Fleming“[A] superb history.... In these thrilling, highly readable pages, we meet Rasputin, the shaggy, lecherous mystic...; we visit the gilded ballrooms of the doomed aristocracy; and we pause in the sickroom of little Alexei, the hemophiliac heir who, with his...Amazon2014 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Young Adult Fiction ShortlistBrown Girl DreamingJacqueline WoodsonAmazonEyes Wide Open: Going Behind the Environmental HeadlinesPaul FleischmanAmazonGrasshopper JungleAndrew SmithAmazonThe Story of Owen: Dragon Slayer of TrondheimE.K. JohnstonAmazon

25Mar

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2015 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography

2015 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography Winner and Nominees

2015 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography WinnerListening to Stone: The Art and Life of Isamu NoguchiHayden HerreraThroughout the twentieth century, Isamu Noguchi was a vital figure in modern art. From interlocking wooden sculptures to massive steel monuments to the elegant Akari lamps, Noguchi became a master of what he called the "sculpturing of space." But his const...Amazon2015 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography ShortlistFortune’s Fool: The Life of John Wilkes BoothTerry AlfordAmazonJonas Salk: A LifeCharlotte DeCroes JacobsAmazonMary McGrory The First Queen of JournalismJohn NorrisAmazonYoung Orson: The Years of Luck and Genius on the Path to Citizen KanePatrick McGilliganAmazon

25Mar

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2015 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest

2015 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest Winner and Nominees

2015 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest WinnerThieves of State: Why Corruption Threatens Global SecuritySarah ChayesWinner of the 2015 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current Interest. "I can’t imagine a more important book for our time." —Sebastian Junger The world is blowing up. Every day a new blaze seems to ignite: the bloody implosion of Iraq and Syria; the East-W...Amazon2015 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest ShortlistBlue: The LAPD and the Battle to Redeem American PolicingJoe DomanickAmazonChildren of the Stone: The Power of Music in a Hard LandSandy TolanAmazonDreamland: The True Tale of America’s Opiate EpidemicSam QuinonesAmazonHow Music Got Free: The End of an Industry, the Turn of the CenturyStephen WittAmazon

25Mar

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2015 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction

2015 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

2015 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction WinnerThe Story of My TeethValeria Luiselli, Translated by Christina MacSweeney...Amazon2015 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction ShortlistBeautiful BureaucratHelen PhillipsAmazonDelicious FoodsJames HannahamAmazonFortune SmilesAdam JohnsonAmazonThe Green RoadAnne EnrightAmazon

25Mar

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2015 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction

2015 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – First Fiction Winner and Nominees

2015 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction WinnerThe FishermenChigozie ObiomaA striking debut novel about an unforgettable childhood, by a Nigerian writer the New York Times has crowned "the heir to Chinua Achebe." Told by nine-year-old Benjamin, the youngest of four brothers, THE FISHERMEN is the Cain and Abel-esque story of a chi...Amazon2015 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction ShortlistAgainst the CountryBen MetcalfAmazonBinary StarSarah GerardAmazonGirl at WarSara NovicAmazonThe Miracle GirlAndrew RoeAmazon

25Mar

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2015 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Graphic Novel/Comics

2015 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Graphic Novel/Comics Winner and Nominees

2015 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Graphic Novel/Comics WinnerArab of the Future: A Childhood in the Middle East, 1978-1984: A Graphic MemoirRiad SattoufVOLUME 1 IN THE UNFORGETTABLE STORY OF AN EXTRAORDINARY CHILDHOOD A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2015/2016 | AN OBSERVER GRAPHIC BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016 | A NEW YORK TIMES CRITICS' TOP BOOKS OF 2016 'EXUBERANTLY HERETICAL' 'I tore through it... The most enjoyab...Amazon2015 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Graphic Novel/Comics ShortlistHonor Girl: A Graphic MemoirMaggie ThrashAmazonNew Construction: Two More StoriesSam AldenAmazonSoldier’s Heart: The Campaign to Understand My WWII Veteran Father: A Daughter’s Memoir (You’ll Never Know)Carol TylerAmazonTim GingerJulian HanshawAmazon

25Mar

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2015 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History

2015 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – History Winner and Nominees

2015 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History WinnerKilling a King: The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and the Remaking of IsraelDan EphronKilling a King relates parallel stories over the two years leading up to the assassination, as Rabin plotted political deals he hoped would lead to peace and Amir plotted murder....Amazon2015 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History ShortlistDark Places of the Earth: The Voyage of the Slave Ship AntelopeJonathan M. BryantAmazonOnce in a Great City: A Detroit StoryDavid MaranissAmazonSPQR: A History of Ancient RomeMary BeardAmazonThis Gulf of Fire: The Destruction of Lisbon, or Apocalypse in the Age of Science and ReasonMark MoleskyAmazon

25Mar

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2015 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Mystery/Thriller

2015 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Mystery/Thriller Winner and Nominees

2015 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Mystery/Thriller WinnerThe CartelDon WinslowA sequel to "The Power of the Dog" finds a drug lord's prison transfer to Mexico upsetting a precarious balance of peace and forcing a DEA agent to come out of retirement to stop the ensuing violence....Amazon2015 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Mystery/Thriller ShortlistBull MountainBrian PanowichAmazonThe Long and Faraway GoneLou BerneyAmazonThe SympathizerViet Thanh NguyenAmazonThe WhitesRichard PriceAmazon

25Mar

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2015 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry

2015 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Poetry Winner and Nominees

2015 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry WinnerFrom the New World: Poems 1976-2014Jorie GrahamFrom pulitzer prize winner Jorie Graham, an indispensable volume of poems selected from almost four decades of work Much awaited and long needed, From the New World—a sequence of poems from Jorie Graham’s prior eleven books—creates a startlingly fresh traj...Amazon2015 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry ShortlistChordRick BarotAmazonShirt in HeavenJean ValentineAmazonThe Ruined EleganceFiona Sze-LorrainAmazonVoyage of the Sable VenusRobin Coste LewisAmazon

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2015 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology

2015 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Science & Technology Winner and Nominees

2015 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology WinnerThe Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt’s New WorldAndrea WulfThe acclaimed author of Founding Gardeners reveals the forgotten life of Alexander von Humboldt, the visionary German naturalist whose ideas changed the way we see the natural world—and in the process created modern environmentalism. NATIONAL BEST SELLER O...Amazon2015 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology ShortlistHow to Clone a Mammoth: The Science of De-ExtinctionBeth ShapiroAmazonMachines of Loving Grace: The Quest for Common Ground Between Humans and RobotsJohn MarkoffAmazonRust: The Longest WarJonathan WaldmanAmazonThe Evil Hours: A Biography of Post-Traumatic Stress DisorderDavid J. MorrisAmazon