Friday, May 3

2014 Awards

2014 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry

2014 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Poetry Winner and Nominees

2014 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry WinnerCitizen: An American LyricClaudia Rankine...Amazon2014 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry ShortlistBlood Lyrics: PoemKatie FordAmazonIn Defense of Nothing: Selected Poems, 1987-2011Peter GizziAmazonPeaceGillian ConoleyAmazonThe Feel TrioFred MotenAmazon
2014 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology

2014 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Science & Technology Winner and Nominees

2014 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology WinnerThe Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural HistoryElizabeth Kolbert"Over the last half billion years, there have been five major mass extinctions, when the diversity of life on Earth suddenly and dramatically contracted. Scientists are currently monitoring the sixth extinction, predicted to be the most devastating since t...Amazon2014 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology ShortlistCosmigraphics: Picturing Space Through TimeMichael BensonAmazonDataclysm: Who We Are (When We Think No One’s Looking)Christian RudderAmazonMD, Missing Microbes, How the overuse of antibiotics is fueling our modern plaguesMartin J. BlaserAmazonThis Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The ClimateNaomi KleinAmazon
2014 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Young Adult Fiction

2014 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Young Adult Fiction Winner and Nominees

2014 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Young Adult Fiction WinnerThe Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial RussiaCandace Fleming“[A] superb history.... In these thrilling, highly readable pages, we meet Rasputin, the shaggy, lecherous mystic...; we visit the gilded ballrooms of the doomed aristocracy; and we pause in the sickroom of little Alexei, the hemophiliac heir who, with his...Amazon2014 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Young Adult Fiction ShortlistBrown Girl DreamingJacqueline WoodsonAmazonEyes Wide Open: Going Behind the Environmental HeadlinesPaul FleischmanAmazonGrasshopper JungleAndrew SmithAmazonThe Story of Owen: Dragon Slayer of TrondheimE.K. JohnstonAmazon
2014 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Drama

2014 Governor General’s Literary Award – Drama Winner and Nominees

2014 Governor General's Literary Award - Drama WinnerAge of Minority: Three Solo PlaysJordan TannahillBased on a true story, Get Yourself Home Skyler James follows the harrowing journey of a young lesbian who defects from the army when she is outed by fellow soldiers. Peter Fechter: 52 Minutes chronicles the last hour of Peter Fechter?s life, a teenager in...Amazon2014 Governor General's Literary Award - Drama ShortlistA God in Need of HelpSean DixonAmazonThat Elusive SparkJanet MunsilAmazonThe Secret MaskRick ChafeAmazon
2014 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction

2014 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction Winner and Nominees

2014 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction WinnerThe Back of the TurtleThomas KingWinner of the Governor Generals Literary Award for Fiction Winner of the Sunburst Award Winner of the Copper Cylinder Adult Award Finalist for the Trillium Book Award Finalist for the CBC Bookie Awards Longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Awar...Amazon2014 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction ShortlistJuliet Was a SurpriseBill GastonAmazonMy OctoberClaire Holden RothmanAmazonSweetlandMichael CrummeyAmazonThe Opening SkyJoan ThomasAmazon
2014 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction

2014 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction Winner and Nominees

2014 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction WinnerThe End of Absence: Reclaiming What We've Lost in a World of Constant ConnectionMichael HarrisOnly one generation in history (ours) will experience life both with and without the Internet. For everyone who follows us, online life will simply be the air they breathe. Today, we revel in ubiquitous information and constant connection, rarely stopping ...Amazon2014 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction ShortlistKnow the Night: A Memoir of Survival in the Small HoursMaria MutchAmazonThe Oil Man and the Sea: Navigating the Northern GatewayArno KopeckyAmazonUp Ghost River: A Chief's Journey through the Turbulent Waters of Native HistoryEdmund Metatawabin with Alexandra ShimoAmazon
2014 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry

2014 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry Winner and Nominees

2014 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry WinnerLake of Two MountainsArleen ParéA hymn to a beloved lake, a praise poem in forty-five parts, a contemplation of landscape and memory Lake of Two Mountains, Arleen Parés second poetry collection, is a portrait of a lake, of a relationship to a lake, of a network of relationships around a...Amazon2014 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry ShortlistLeaving Howe IslandSadiqa de MeijerAmazonLight LightJulie JoostenAmazonNight VisionChristopher LevensonAmazonPrologue for the Age of ConsequenceGarth MartensAmazon
2014 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Translation

2014 Governor General’s Literary Award – Translation (French to English) Winner and Nominees

2014 Governor General's Literary Award - Translation (French to English) WinnerPaul-Émile Borduas: A Critical BiographyPeter FeldsteinA biography of Canadian artist Paul-aEmile Borduas....Amazon2014 Governor General's Literary Award - Translation (French to English) ShortlistAnd Slowly BeautyMaureen LabontéAmazonChristina, The Girl KingLinda GaboriauAmazonGuyanaRhonda MullinsAmazonWonderSheila FischmanAmazon
2014 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

2014 Governor General’s Literary Award – Young People’s Literature — Illustrated Books Winner and Nominees

2014 Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Illustrated Books WinnerThis One SummerMariko Tamaki and Jillian TamakiRose and Windy are summer friends whose families have visited Awago Beach for as long as they can remember. But this year is different, and they soon find themselves tangled in teen love and family crisis. From the creators of Skim comes an investigation i...Amazon2014 Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Illustrated Books ShortlistAny Questions?Marie-Louise GayAmazonHana Hashimoto, Sixth ViolinQin LengAmazonJulia, ChildJulie MorstadAmazonOnce Upon a MemoryRenata LiwskaAmazon
2014 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, British Science Fiction Association, BSFA - Novel

2014 BSFA – Novel Winner and Nominees

2014 BSFA - Novel WinnerAck-Ack MacaqueGareth L. PowellIn 1944, as waves of German ninjas parachute into Kent, Britain’s best hopes for victory lie with a Spitfire pilot codenamed ‘Ack-Ack Macaque.’ The trouble is, Ack-Ack Macaque is a cynical, one-eyed, cigar-chomping monkey, and he’s starting to doubt everyt...Amazon2014 BSFA - Novel ShortlistAncillary JusticeAnn LeckieAmazonEvening's EmpiresPaul McAuleyAmazonGod's WarKameron HurleyAmazonThe AdjacentChristopher PriestAmazon