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1993 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest

1993 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest Winner and Nominees

1993 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest WinnerMexican Americans: The Ambivalent MinorityPeter Skerry"Some of us have been here for three hundred years, some for three days." This comment, often repeated by Mexican Americans, affirms their status as one of America's oldest ethnic groups, as well as one of its newest and fastest growing. Not surprisingly, ...Amazon1993 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest ShortlistAfrican Laughter: Four Visits to ZimbabweDoris May LessingAmazonConduct UnbecomingRandy ShiltsAmazonPreparing for the Twenty-First CenturyPaul KennedyAmazonThe Real Anita HillDavid BrockAmazon

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1993 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction

1993 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1993 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction WinnerPigs in HeavenBarbara KingsolverMother and adopted daughter, Taylor and Turtle Greer, are back in this spellbinding sequel about family, heartbreak and love. Six-year-old Turtle Greer witnesses a freak accident at the Hoover Dam during a tour of the Grand Canyon with her guardian, Taylor...Amazon1993 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction ShortlistFor LoveSue MillerAmazonRameau's NieceCathleen SchineAmazonThe Burning Glass: StoriesHelen NorrisAmazonWilliam Trevor: The Collected StoriesWilliam TrevorAmazon

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1993 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction

1993 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – First Fiction Winner and Nominees

1993 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction WinnerLove EnterPaul KafkaA romantic, computer-age love story set in Paris and New Orleans. Young Dan Shoenfeld, spending a year abroad after college, falls in love with Bou and Margot, two women who happen to be in love with each other. Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize f...Amazon1993 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction ShortlistCome to Me: StoriesAmy BloomAmazonLike Water for Chocolate: A Novel in Monthly Installments with Recipes, Romances, and Home RemediesLaura EsquivelAmazonMother Rocket: StoriesRita CiresiAmazonMourning Doves: StoriesJudy TroyAmazon

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1993 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History

1993 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – History Winner and Nominees

1993 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History WinnerNew Worlds, Ancient Texts: The Power of Tradition and the Shock of DiscoveryAnthony Grafton, April Shelford, Nancy SiraisiOn encountering what he called "the Indies", the Jesuit Jose de Acosta wrote, "Having read what poets and philosophers write of the Torrid Zone, I persuaded myself that when I came to the Equator, I would not be able to endure the violent heat, but it turn...Amazon1993 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History ShortlistRising in the West: The True Story of an "Okie" family in Search of the American DreamDan MorganAmazonThe Immobile EmpireAlain Peyrefitte, Jon RothschildAmazonThe Most Southern Place on Earth: The Mississippi Delta and the Roots of Regional IdentityJames C. CobbAmazonTragic Mountains: The Hmong, the Americans...

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1993 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry

1993 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Poetry Winner and Nominees

1993 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry WinnerMy Alexandria: PoemsMark DotyA book about mortality, the mortal weight of AIDS in particular....Amazon1993 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry ShortlistAfterworldChristine GarrenAmazonHotel Insomnia: A NovelCharles SimicAmazonLegends from Camp: PoemsLawson Fusao InadaAmazonNeon Vernacular: New and Selected PoemsYusef KomunyakaaAmazon

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1993 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology

1993 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Science & Technology Winner and Nominees

1993 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology WinnerFuzzy Logic: The Revolutionary Computer Technology That Is Changing Our WorldDaniel McneillExplains the concept of fuzzy logic, tells how it was developed in the United States, but only exploited in Japan so far, and describes products of the future that will feature fuzzy logic...Amazon1993 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology ShortlistAI: The Tumultuous History of the Search for Artificial IntelligenceDaniel CrevierAmazonBad Science: The Short Life and Weird Times of Cold FusionGary TaubesAmazonGenius: The Life and Science of Richard FeynmanJames GleickAmazonThe Diversity of LifeEdward O. WilsonAmazon

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1994 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography

1994 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography Winner and Nominees

1994 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography WinnerShot in the HeartMikal GilmoreShot in the Heart is the history of an American family inextricably tied up with violence, and the story of how the children of this family committed murder and murdered themselves in payment for a long lineage of ruin....Amazon1994 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography ShortlistAn Evil CradlingBrian KeenanAmazonHarriet Beecher Stowe: A LifeJoan D. HedrickAmazonLearned Hand: The Man and the JudgeGerald GuntherAmazonRodin: The Shape of GeniusRuth ButlerAmazon

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1994 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest

1994 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest Winner and Nominees

1994 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest WinnerDiplomacyHenry A. KissingerKissinger's absorbing book tackles head-on some of the toughest questions of our time . . . Its pages sparkle with insight' Simon Schama in the NEW YORKER Spanning more than three centuries, from Cardinal Richelieu to the fragility of the 'New World Order...Amazon1994 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest ShortlistOriginal Intent and the Framers of the Constitution: A Disputed QuestionHarry V. JaffaAmazonParallel Time: Growing Up in Black and WhiteBrent StaplesAmazonThe Moral SenseJames Q. WilsonAmazonThe Morning After: Sex, Fear, and FeminismKatie RoipheAmazon

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1994 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction

1994 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1994 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction WinnerRemembering BabylonDavid MaloufA searing and magnificent picture of Australia at the moment of its foundation, with early settlers staking out their small patch of land and terrified by the harsh and alien continent. Focussing on the hostility between the early British inhabitants and t...Amazon1994 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction ShortlistHolder of the World: A NovelBharati MukherjeeAmazonThe Rifles: Volume 6 of the Seven Dreams sequenceWilliam T. VollmannAmazonThe SoloistMark SalzmanAmazonWhile England SleepsDavid LeavittAmazon

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1994 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction

1994 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – First Fiction Winner and Nominees

1994 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction WinnerThe Year of the Frog: A NovelMartin M. Simecka, Peter PetroIn Czechoslovakia during the 1980s, young Milan comforts himself with long-distance running and a woman named Tania, when he is forbidden entrance into the university because of his father's political activities. Reprint. 15,000 first printing....Amazon1994 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction ShortlistA Place Where the Sea RemembersSandra BenitezAmazonIn Search of BernabéGraciela LimónAmazonOn LoveAlain de BottonAmazonThe Indian ChroniclesJose BarreiroAmazon