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2010 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography

2010 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Biography Winner and Nominees

2010 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography WinnerUnbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and RedemptionLaura HillenbrandRelates the story of a U.S. airman who survived when his bomber crashed into the sea during World War II, spent forty-seven days adrift in the ocean before being rescued by the Japanese Navy, and was held as a prisoner until the end of the war....Amazon2010 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Biography ShortlistColonel RooseveltEdmund MorrisAmazonGeorge, Nicholas and Wilhelm: Three Royal Cousins and the Road to World War IMiranda CarterAmazonHitch-22: A MemoirChristopher HitchensAmazonThe Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham: A BiographySelina HastingsAmazon

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2010 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Locus, Locus - SF Novel

2010 Locus – SF Novel Winner and Nominees

2010 Locus - SF Novel WinnerBoneshakerCherie PriestInventor Leviticus Blue creates a machine that accidentally decimates Seattle's banking district and uncovers a vein of Blight Gas that turns everyone who breathes it into the living dead. Sixteen years later Briar, Blue's widow, lives in the poor neighbor...Amazon2010 Locus - SF Novel ShortlistArkStephen BaxterAmazonChronic CityJonathan LethemAmazonGalileo's DreamKim Stanley RobinsonAmazonGardens of the SunPaul McAuleyAmazonJulian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century AmericaRobert Charles WilsonAmazonSteal Across the SkyNancy KressAmazonThe Devil's AlphabetDaryl GregoryAmazonThe Empress of MarsKage BakerAmazonThe Sunless CountriesKarl SchroederAmazonThe Walls of the UniversePaul MelkoAmazonThe Windup GirlPaolo BacigalupiAmazonThis Is Not a G...

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2010 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Locus, Locus - Fantasy Novel

2010 Locus – Fantasy Novel Winner and Nominees

2010 Locus - Fantasy Novel WinnerThe City & the CityChina MiévilleWith an introduction by novelist Kamila Shamsie When the body of a murdered woman is found in the extraordinary, decaying city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks like a routine case for Inspector Tyador Borlú of the Extreme Crime Squad. B...Amazon2010 Locus - Fantasy Novel ShortlistAvilionRobert HoldstockAmazonCanticleKen ScholesAmazonCloud & Ashes: Three Winter's TalesGreer GilmanAmazonDroodDan SimmonsAmazonFinchJeff VanderMeerAmazonGreenJay LakeAmazonLifelodeJo WaltonAmazonMadness of FlowersJay LakeAmazonPalimpsestCatherynne M. ValenteAmazonThe High CityCecelia HollandAmazonThe Price of SpringDaniel AbrahamAmazonThe Red TreeCaitlín R. KiernanAmazonThe Revolution BusinessCharles StrossAmazonUnseen Academic...

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2010 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, John W. Campbell, John W. Campbell - Novel

2010 John W. Campbell – Novel Winner and Nominees

2010 John W. Campbell - Novel WinnerThe Windup GirlPaolo BacigalupiWinner of the Hugo and Nebula awards for best novel, a new edition of the break-out science fiction debut featuring additional stories and a Q&A with the author. Anderson Lake is AgriGen's Calorie Man, sent to work undercover as a factory manager in Thaila...Amazon2010 John W. Campbell - Novel ShortlistGalileo's DreamKim Stanley RobinsonAmazonGardens of the SunPaul McAuleyAmazonJulian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century AmericaRobert Charles WilsonAmazonMakersCory DoctorowAmazonSteal Across the SkyNancy KressAmazonThe CaryatidsBruce SterlingAmazonThe City & the CityChina MiévilleAmazonThe Year of the FloodMargaret AtwoodAmazonTransitionIain M. BanksAmazonWWW: WakeRobert J. SawyerAmazonYellow Blue TibiaAdam RobertsAmazon

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2009 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Young Adult Fiction

2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Young Adult Fiction Winner and Nominees

2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Young Adult Fiction WinnerMarching for Freedom: Walk Together Children and Don't You Grow WearyElizabeth PartridgeFocusing on the courageous children who faced terrifying violence in order to march alongside King, this is an inspiring look at their fight for the vote. Stunningly emotional black-and-white photos accompany the text....Amazon2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Young Adult Fiction ShortlistCharles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of FaithDeborah HeiligmanAmazonTales from Outer SuburbiaShaun TanAmazonThe Lost ConspiracyFrances HardingeAmazonThe Rise and Fall of Senator Joe McCarthyJames Cross GiblinAmazon

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2009 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology

2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Science & Technology Winner and Nominees

2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology WinnerThe Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Quantum GeniusGraham FarmeloA monumental achievement - one of the great scientific biographies.' Michael Frayn The Strangest Man is the Costa Biography Award-winning account of Paul Dirac, the famous physicist sometimes called the British Einstein. He was one of the leading pioneers...Amazon2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Science & Technology ShortlistCatching Fire: How Cooking Made Us HumanRichard WranghamAmazonCold: Adventures in the World's Frozen PlacesBill StreeverAmazonNaming Nature: The Clash Between Instinct and ScienceCarol Kaesuk YoonAmazonThe Day We Found the UniverseMarcia BartusiakAmazon

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2009 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry

2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Poetry Winner and Nominees

2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry WinnerPractical WaterBrenda HillmanWinner of the Los Angeles Times Book Award for Poetry (2009) Runner-up for the Northern California Book Award for Poetry (2009) Practical Water is, like Brenda Hillman’s previous two books, Cascadia and Pieces of Air in the Epic, both an elemental meditati...Amazon2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Poetry Shortlist]Open Interval[Lyrae Van Clief-StefanonAmazonApocalyptic Swing: PoemsGabrielle CalvocoressiAmazonDearest CreatureAmy GerstlerAmazonWhat the Right Hand KnowsTom HealyAmazon

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2009 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Mystery/Thriller

2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Mystery/Thriller Winner and Nominees

2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Mystery/Thriller WinnerThe Ghosts of BelfastStuart Neville"Northern Ireland's troubles may be over, but peace has not erased the crimes of the past. Gerry Fegan, a former paramilitary contract killer, is haunted by the ghosts of the twelve people he slaughtered. ... In order to appease the ghosts, Fegan is going ...Amazon2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Mystery/Thriller ShortlistA Darker Domain: A NovelVal McDermidAmazonBlack Water Rising: A NovelAttica LockeAmazonBury Me Deep: A NovelMegan AbbottAmazonThe Hidden ManDavid EllisAmazon

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2009 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History

2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – History Winner and Nominees

2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History WinnerGolden Dreams: California in an Age of Abundance, 1950-1963Kevin StarrA narrative tour de force that combines wide-ranging scholarship with captivating prose, Kevin Starr's acclaimed multi-volume Americans and the California Dream is an unparalleled work of cultural history. In this volume, Starr covers the crucial postwar p...Amazon2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History ShortlistEmpire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815Gordon S. WoodAmazonLynching and Spectacle: Witnessing Racial Violence in America, 1890-1940Amy Louise WoodAmazonPassing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color LineMartha A. SandweissAmazonThe Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Sc...

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2009 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Graphic Novel/Comics

2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Graphic Novel/Comics Winner and Nominees

2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Graphic Novel/Comics WinnerAsterios PolypDavid MazzucchelliAsterios Polyp, its arrogant, prickly protagonist, is an award-winning architect who's never built an actual building, and a pedant in the midst of a spiritual crisis. After the structure of his own life falls apart, he runs away to try to rebuild it into ...Amazon2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Graphic Novel/Comics ShortlistFootnotes in GazaJoe SaccoAmazonGoGo MonsterTaiyo MatsumotoAmazonLubaGilbert HernandezAmazonScott Pilgrim, Vol. 5: Scott Pilgrim vs. the UniverseBryan Lee O’MalleyAmazon