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2006 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest

2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Current Interest Winner and Nominees

2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest WinnerMurder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo Van Gogh and the Limits of ToleranceIan BurumaIt was an emblematic crime: on a November day in Amsterdam, an angry young Muslim man shot and killed the Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, iconic European provocateur, for making a movie with the anti-Islam politician Ayaan Hersi Ali. After shooting van Gogh...Amazon2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Current Interest ShortlistImperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green ZoneRajiv ChandrasekaranAmazonStrange Piece of ParadiseTerri JentzAmazonThe Beautiful Fall: Lagerfeld, Saint Laurent, and Glorious Excess in 1970s ParisAlicia DrakeAmazonThe Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf CoastDouglas BrinkleyAmazon

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2006 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction

2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction WinnerA Woman in JerusalemA.B. YehoshuaThis novel about the struggle to identify a nameless victim in the wake of a terrorist bombing in Israel is “a masterpiece” (Claire Messud, The New York Times Book Review). A woman in her forties is a victim of a suicide bombing at a Jerusalem market. Her ...Amazon2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction ShortlistA Million Nightingales: A NovelSusan StraightAmazonBlack Swan Green: A NovelDavid MitchellAmazonThe Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo: A NovelPeter OrnerAmazonWinter's Bone: A NovelDaniel WoodrellAmazon

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2006 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction

2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – First Fiction Winner and Nominees

2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction WinnerWhite Ghost GirlsAlice GreenwayA coming of age story of two American sisters in Hong Kong during the late 1960s. “A haunting novel written with the craft and grace of a master” (Isabel Allende). Summer 1967. The turmoil of the Maoist revolution is spilling over into Hong Kong and causin...Amazon2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - First Fiction ShortlistGolden Country: A NovelJennifer GilmoreAmazonMary: A NovelJanis Cooke NewmanAmazonSkinner's Drift: A NovelLisa FugardAmazonWhiteman: A NovelTony D'SouzaAmazon

25Mar

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2006 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History

2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – History Winner and Nominees

2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History WinnerThe Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11Lawrence WrightTHE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING BESTSELLER, NOW A MAJOR NEW TV SERIES This is the definitive account of the run-up to 9/11: from the man who lit the spark of radical Islam in 1948, to those who built up a terror network, and to the FBI agent whose warnings of '...Amazon2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History ShortlistAt Canaan's Edge: Volume 3 of America in the King Years, 1965-68Taylor BranchAmazonMayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and WarNathaniel PhilbrickAmazonThe Colony: The Harrowing True Story of the Exiles of MolokaiJohn TaymanAmazonThe War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the WestNiall FergusonAmazon

25Mar

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2006 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Mystery/Thriller

2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Mystery/Thriller Winner and Nominees

2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Mystery/Thriller WinnerEcho Park: A Harry Bosch NovelMichael ConnellyBosch reopens the hunt for a psychotic killer who stalked the streets of Los Angeles years before. In 1993, Marie Gesto disappeared after walking out of a supermarket in Hollywood. Fearing the worst, the case was elevated by LAPD commanders from the missin...Amazon2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Mystery/Thriller ShortlistCity of Tiny LightsPatrick NeateAmazonThe Night Gardener: A NovelGeorge P. PelecanosAmazonThe Winter of Frankie Machine: A NovelDon WinslowAmazonThe Zero: A NovelJess WalterAmazon

25Mar

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2006 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry

2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Poetry Winner and Nominees

2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry WinnerOoga-BoogaFrederick SeidelFrom the winner of the PEN/Voelker Award, poems of love, terror, rage, and desire. Here I am, not a practical man, But clear-eyed in my contact lenses, Following no doubt a slightly different line than the others, Seeking sexual pleasure above all else, De...Amazon2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry ShortlistBlack BoxErin BelieuAmazonBurning Wyclif: PoemsThom SatterleeAmazonDarling Vulgarity: PoemsMichael WatersAmazonLogorrhea: PoemsAdrian C. LouisAmazon

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2006 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology

2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Science & Technology Winner and Nominees

2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology WinnerIn Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of MindEric R. Kandel...Amazon2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology ShortlistThe Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on EarthEdward O. WilsonAmazonThe First Human: The Race to Discover Our Earliest AncestorsAnn GibbonsAmazonThe First Scientific American: Benjamin Franklin and the Pursuit of GeniusJoyce ChaplinAmazonThis Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human ObsessionDaniel J. LevitinAmazon

25Mar

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2006 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Young Adult Fiction

2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Young Adult Fiction Winner and Nominees

2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Young Adult Fiction WinnerTyrellCoe BoothAn astonishing new voice in teen literature, writing what is sure to be one of the most talked-about debuts of the year. Tyrell is a young African-American teen who can't get a break. He's living (for now) with his spaced-out mother and little brother in a...Amazon2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Young Adult Fiction ShortlistAn Abundance of KatherinesJohn GreenAmazonJust in CaseMeg RosoffAmazonThe Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation: Volume 1. The Pox PartyM.T. AndersonAmazonThe Rules of Survival: A NovelNancy WerlinAmazon

25Mar

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2007 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, John W. Campbell, John W. Campbell - Novel

2007 John W. Campbell – Novel Winner and Nominees

2007 John W. Campbell - Novel WinnerTitanBen BovaTitan Alpha has landed; the most complex man-made object has reached Saturn's largest moon. But, almost immediately, Titan Alpha falls silent. Is there a basic design flaw that could threaten the life of everyone aboard? Or has someone decided to sabotage ...Amazon2007 John W. Campbell - Novel ShortlistA Small and Remarkable LifeNick DiCharioAmazonBlindsightPeter WattsAmazonDryBarbara SapergiaAmazonFarthingJo WaltonAmazonGlasshouseCharles StrossAmazonInfoquakeDavid Louis EdelmanAmazonLiving Next Door to the God of LoveJustina RobsonAmazonNova SwingM. John HarrisonAmazonOdysseyJack McDevittAmazonRainbows EndVernor VingeAmazonSun of SunsKarl SchroederAmazonThe Last WitchfinderJames MorrowAmazon

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2007 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Locus, Locus - Fantasy Novel

2007 Locus – Fantasy Novel Winner and Nominees

2007 Locus - Fantasy Novel WinnerThe Privilege of the SwordEllen KushnerWelcome to Riverside, where the aristocratic and the ambitious battle for power and prestige in the city's labyrinth of streets and ballrooms, theatres and brothels, boudoirs and salons. Into this alluring and alarming world walks a bright young woman read...Amazon2007 Locus - Fantasy Novel ShortlistForest MageRobin HobbAmazonLisey's StoryStephen KingAmazonShriek: An AfterwordJeff VanderMeerAmazonSoldier of SidonGene WolfeAmazonSolstice WoodPatricia A. McKillipAmazonThe Blood KnightGreg KeyesAmazonThe Brief History of the DeadKevin BrockmeierAmazonThe Jennifer MorgueCharles StrossAmazonThe Last WitchfinderJames MorrowAmazonThe Thousandfold ThoughtR. Scott Bakker (Penguin Canada; Overlook)AmazonThe TourmalinePaul Park (...