Monday, May 6

1995 Awards

1995 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry

1995 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry Winner and Nominees

1995 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry WinnerVoiceAnne SzumigalskiAnne Szumigalski, renowned for her breakout poetry collection Woman Reading in Bath, her Governor Generals Award winning collection Voice, and many other books in between, was one of Canadas most prominent poets. With her published works, as well as with...Amazon1995 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry ShortlistJerusalem, BelovedDi BrandtAmazonNight WalkRoo BorsonAmazonStations of the Left HandDon DomanskiAmazonThe Ecstasy of SkepticsSteven HeightonAmazon
1995 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Translation (French to English)

1995 Governor General’s Literary Award – Translation (French to English) Winner and Nominees

1995 Governor General's Literary Award - Translation (French to English) WinnerWhy Must a Black Writer Write About Sex?David HomelFollows the sexual exploits of two black men living in a run-down apartment in Montreal and their encounters with a variety of white women....Amazon1995 Governor General's Literary Award - Translation (French to English) ShortlistBlack SquirrelWayne GradyAmazonNo Song, But SilenceSheila FischmanAmazonThe Road to ChlifaSusan OuriouAmazonTrudeau and the End of a Canadian DreamPaul Leduc Browne and Michelle WeinrothAmazon
1995 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Illustrated Books

1995 Governor General’s Literary Award – Young People’s Literature — Illustrated Books Winner and Nominees

1995 Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Illustrated Books WinnerThe Last Quest of GilgameshLudmila ZemanFrightened by the thought of dying, Gilgamesh braves a series of dangers in an effort to learn the secret of eternal life, but although he meets the survivor of the great flood and is offered a chance at perpetual youth, he never achieves ......Amazon1995 Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Illustrated Books ShortlistAska's Sea CreaturesWarabé AskaAmazonJust Stay PutGary ClementAmazonThe Killick: A Newfoundland StoryGeoff ButlerAmazonWoodland ChristmasFrances TyrrellAmazon
1995 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Text

1995 Governor General’s Literary Award – Young People’s Literature — Text Winner and Nominees

1995 Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Text WinnerThe MaestroTim Wynne-JonesBurl Crow hasnt had many breaks in his young life. His father is a manipulative lout with a dangerous temper; his mother, worn down by years of abuse, now resorts to her little helpers to get her through the days. Then he meets Nathaniel Orlando Gow, the ...Amazon1995 Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Text ShortlistMission ImpossibleBeth GoobieAmazonOut of the DarkWelwyn Wilton KatzAmazonRanVan A Worthy OpponentDiana WielerAmazonTessHazel HutchinsAmazon
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
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