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1989 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History

1989 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – History Winner and Nominees

1989 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History WinnerAn Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented HollywoodNeal GablerA provocative, original, and richly entertaining group biography of the Jewish immigrants who were the moving forces behind the creation of America's motion picture industry. The names Harry Cohn, William Fox, Carl Laemmle, Louis B. Mayer, Jack and Harry W...Amazon
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1990 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, John W. Campbell, John W. Campbell - Novel

1990 John W. Campbell – Novel Winner and Nominees

1990 John W. Campbell - Novel WinnerThe Child GardenGeoff RymanIn a semi-tropical London, surrounded by paddy-fields, the people feed off the sun like plants, the young are raised in Child Gardens and educated by viruses, and the Consensus oversees the country, 'treating' non-conformism. Information, culture, law and ...Amazon1990 John W. Campbell - Novel ShortlistFarewell HorizontalK. W. JeterAmazonGood News from Outer SpaceJohn KesselAmazon
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1990 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Locus, Locus - Fantasy Novel

1990 Locus – Fantasy Novel Winner and Nominees

1990 Locus - Fantasy Novel WinnerPrentice AlvinOrson Scott CardThe Tales of Alvin Maker series continues in volume three, Prentice Alvin. Young Alvin returns to the town of his birth, and begins his apprenticeship with Makepeace Smith, committing seven years of his life in exchange for the skills and knowledge of a bl...Amazon1990 Locus - Fantasy Novel ShortlistA Child Across the SkyJonathan CarrollAmazonDream BabyBruce McAllisterAmazonGuards! Guards!Terry PratchettAmazonLyonesse: MadoucJack VanceAmazonRusalkaC. J. CherryhAmazonSnow White and Rose RedPatricia C. WredeAmazonSoldier of AreteGene WolfeAmazonSorceress of DarshivaDavid EddingsAmazonThe Fortress of the PearlMichael MoorcockAmazonThe Satanic VersesSalman RushdieAmazonThe Stone GiantJames P. BlaylockAmazonThe Stress of Her RegardT...
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1990 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Locus, Locus - SF Novel

1990 Locus – SF Novel Winner and Nominees

1990 Locus - SF Novel WinnerHyperionDan SimmonsOn the world called Hyperion, beyond the law of the Hegemony of Man, there waits the creature called the Shrike. There are those who worship it. There are those who fear it. And there are those who have vowed to destroy it. In the Valley of the Time Tombs,...Amazon1990 Locus - SF Novel ShortlistA Fire in the SunGeorge Alec EffingerAmazonA Talent for WarJack McDevittAmazonBuying Time (UK title: The Long Habit of Living)Joe HaldemanAmazonFalconEmma BullAmazonGood News from Outer SpaceJohn KesselAmazonGrassSheri S. TepperAmazonImagoOctavia E. ButlerAmazonPhases of GravityDan SimmonsAmazonRama IIArthur C. Clarke & Gentry LeeAmazonRimrunnersC. J. CherryhAmazonThe Boat of a Million YearsPoul AndersonAmazonThe City, Not Long AfterPat MurphyAmazonThe ...
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1990 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography

1990 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography Winner and Nominees

1990 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography WinnerA First-Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin RooseveltGeoffrey C. WardIn this classic of American biography, based upon thousands of original documents, many never previously published, the prize-winning historian Geoffrey C. Ward tells the dramatic story of Franklin Roosevelt’s unlikely rise from cloistered youth to the bri...Amazon1990 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography ShortlistMeans of Ascent: Volume 2 of The Years of Lyndon JohnsonRobert A. CaroAmazonSimone de Beauvoir: A BiographyDeirdre BairAmazonThe Five of Hearts: An Intimate Portrait of Henry Adams and His Friends, 1880-1918Patricia O'tooleAmazonThe Iron Lady: A Biography of Margaret ThatcherHugo YoungAmazon
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1990 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest

1990 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest Winner and Nominees

1990 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest WinnerDisappearing Through the Skylight: Culture and Technology in the Twentieth CenturyO.B. Hardison, Jr.Offers a discursive account of modern man's progressive separation from nature and its impact on science and technology, art, music, history, and language...Amazon1990 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest ShortlistDisturbing the Peace: A Conversation with Karel HuizdalaVaclav Havel, Paul WilsonAmazonMy Traitor's Heart: A South African Exile Returns to Face His Country, His Tribe, and His ConscienceRian MalanAmazonThe Long Gray Line: The American Journey of West Point's Class of 1966Rick AtkinsonAmazonThe Politics of Rich and Poor: Wealth and the American Electorate in the Reagan AftermathKevin PhillipsAmazon
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1990 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction

1990 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1990 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction WinnerLantern Slides: StoriesEdna O'BrienWinner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction “Superb...[Lantern Slides] continues the quest for origin and explanation that has preoccupied O’Brien...Her stories unearth the primeval feelings buried just below the surface of nostalgia, using memo...Amazon1990 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction ShortlistBaotownAnyi Wang, Martha AveryAmazonFriend of My YouthAlice MunroAmazonOrdinary Love and Good Will: Two NovellasJane SmileyAmazonReaching Tin RiverThea AstleyAmazon
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1990 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History

1990 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – History Winner and Nominees

1990 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History WinnerThe Quest For El CidRichard FletcherRodrigo Díaz, the legendary warrior-knight of eleventh-century Castile known as El Cid, is still honored in Spain as a national hero for liberating the fatherland from the occupying Moors. Yet, as this book reveals, there are many contradictions between el...Amazon1990 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History ShortlistA Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle EastDavid FromkinAmazonAwash in a Sea of Faith: Christianizing the American PeopleJon ButlerAmazonItaly and its MonarchyDenis Mack SmithAmazonThe Search for Modern ChinaJonathan D. SpenceAmazon
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