Friday, November 29

All Book Awards

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

1994 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Poetry Winner and Nominees

1994 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry WinnerThe Angel of HistoryCarolyn ForchéPlaced in the context of twentieth-century moral disaster--war, genocide, the Holocaust, the atomic bomb--Forche's ambitions and compelling third collection of poems is a meditation of memory, specifically how memory survives the unimaginable. The poems re...Amazon1994 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry ShortlistBag O' Diamonds: PoemsSusan WheelerAmazonLost CountryDan HowellAmazonMaterialism: PoemsJorie GrahamAmazonThe Blood of the Poet: Selected PoemsWilliam EversonAmazon
1994 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology

1994 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Science & Technology Winner and Nominees

1994 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology WinnerThe Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our TimeJonathan WeinerWinner of the Pulitzer Prize Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize On a desert island in the heart of the Galapagos archipelago, where Darwin received his first inklings of the theory of evolution, two scientists, Peter and Rosemary Grant, have spent ...Amazon1994 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology ShortlistSigns of Life: The Language and Meanings of DNARobert PollackAmazonThe End of EvolutionPeter WardAmazonUncommon Sense: The Heretical Nature of ScienceAlan CromerAmazonWhy Zebras Don't Get UlcersRobert M. SapolskyAmazon
1995 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, John W. Campbell, John W. Campbell - Novel

1995 John W. Campbell – Novel Winner and Nominees

1995 John W. Campbell - Novel WinnerPermutation CityGreg EganThe story of a man with a vision - immortality : for those who can afford it is found in cyberspace. Permutation city is the tale of a man with a vision - how to create immortality - and how that vision becomes something way beyond his control. Encompassin...Amazon1995 John W. Campbell - Novel ShortlistBrittle InningsMichael BishopAmazon
1995 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Locus, Locus - Fantasy Novel

1995 Locus – Fantasy Novel Winner and Nominees

1995 Locus - Fantasy Novel WinnerBrittle InningsMichael BishopThe semi-biographical story of Danny Boles, a major baseball league scout. It picks him up leaving his home in Oklahoma at the age of 17 to join a club in Georgia and being raped on the way, which leaves him with a permanent stutter....Amazon1995 Locus - Fantasy Novel ShortlistA College of MagicsCaroline StevermerAmazonFinderEmma BullAmazonFive Hundred Years AfterSteven BrustAmazonLarque on the WingNancy SpringerAmazonLord of ChaosRobert JordanAmazonLove & SleepJohn CrowleyAmazonMemory & DreamCharles de LintAmazonMerlin's WoodRobert HoldstockAmazonSlow FuneralRebecca OreAmazonStorm WarningMercedes LackeyAmazonSummer King, Winter FoolLisa GoldsteinAmazonThe Forest HouseMarion Zimmer BradleyAmazonThe Warrior's TaleAllan Cole & Chr...
1995 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Locus, Locus - SF Novel

1995 Locus – SF Novel Winner and Nominees

1995 Locus - SF Novel WinnerMirror DanceLois McMaster BujoldInjured in his mother's womb, Lord Miles Naismith Vorkosigan, born a dwarf with brittle bones, faces off against his brother, a cloned stranger created to murder Miles and replace him. 35,000 first printing....Amazon1995 Locus - SF Novel ShortlistBeggars and ChoosersNancy KressAmazonCaldé of the Long SunGene WolfeAmazonForeignerC. J. CherryhAmazonFurious GulfGregory BenfordAmazonHeavy WeatherBruce SterlingAmazonMother of StormsJohn BarnesAmazonParable of the SowerOctavia E. ButlerAmazonRama RevealedArthur C. Clarke & Gentry LeeAmazonShadow's EndSheri S. TepperAmazonSummer of LoveLisa MasonAmazonThe Dolphins of PernAnne McCaffreyAmazonThe Engines of GodJack McDevittAmazonThe Stars Are Also FirePoul AndersonAmazonWorldwar: In the Ba...
1995 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography

1995 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography Winner and Nominees

1995 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography WinnerUnder My Skin: Volume 1 of My Autobiography, to 1949Doris May LessingThe first volume of the autobiography of Doris Lessing, author of ‘The Grass is Singing’ and ‘The Golden Notebook’, and Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2007. Winner of the James Tait Black Prize 1994....Amazon1995 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography ShortlistD.H. Lawrence: The Story of a MarriageBrenda MaddoxAmazonDrinking the Rain: A MemoirAlix Kates ShulmanAmazonIn Pharaoh's Army: Memories of the Lost WarTobias WolffAmazonMarie Curie: A LifeSusan QuinnAmazon
1995 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest

1995 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest Winner and Nominees

1995 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest WinnerLife on the Color Line: The True Story of a White Boy Who Discovered He Was BlackGregory Howard WilliamsThe true story of a whote boy who discovered he was black....Amazon1995 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest ShortlistBeyond Individualism: How Social Demands of the New Identity Groups Challenge American Political andMichael J. PioreAmazonBlue Dreams: Korean Americans and the Los Angeles RiotsNancy Abelmann, John LieAmazonGrowing Up With a Single Parent: What Hurts, What HelpsSarah McLanahan, Gary SandefurAmazonWe, the Jury: The Jury System and the Ideal of DemocracyJeffrey AbramsonAmazon
1995 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction

1995 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1995 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction WinnerThe Blue AfternoonWilliam BoydWINNER OF THE SUNDAY EXPRESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 'Achingly memorable' The Times ________________________________ A quest for secrets in the blue afternoon . . . Los Angeles, 1936. Kay Fischer, a young and ambitious architect, is being followed by an old...Amazon1995 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction ShortlistAlbion's StoryKate GrenvilleAmazonFelicia's JourneyWilliam TrevorAmazonOpen Secrets: StoriesAlice MunroAmazonTrinity FieldsBradford MorrowAmazon
1995 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction

1995 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – First Fiction Winner and Nominees

1995 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction WinnerAmerican StudiesMark Merlis62-year-old Reeve lies in a hospital bed - the result of a vicious beating. As he convalesces, he recontructs his own history - not the history of his life and of his mentor, Tom Slater, but of 50 years of America and the gay experience. Merlis' award-winn...Amazon1995 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction ShortlistA Stone BoatAndrew SolomonAmazonLooking Through Glass: A NovelMukul KesavanAmazonThe Good NegressA.J. VerdelleAmazonThe Point and Other StoriesCharles D'AmbrosioAmazon
1995 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History

1995 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – History Winner and Nominees

1995 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History WinnerFables of Abundance: A Cultural History of Advertising in AmericaJackson LearsFables of Abundance ranges from the traveling peddlers of early modern Europe to the twentieth-century American corporation, exploring the ways that advertising collaborated with other cultural institutions to produce the dominant aspirations and anxieties...Amazon1995 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History ShortlistMarketing Modernism in Fin-de-Siècle EuropeRobert JensenAmazonRewriting the Soul: Multiple Personality and the Sciences of MemoryIan HackingAmazonSpeak Now Against the Day: The Generation Before the Civil Rights Movement in the SouthJohn EgertonAmazonStalin and the Bomb: The Soviet Union and Atomic Energy, 1939-1956David HollowayAmazon