{"id":4780,"date":"2013-04-22T07:39:51","date_gmt":"2013-04-22T12:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danversreads.wordpress.com\/?p=4780"},"modified":"2013-04-22T07:39:51","modified_gmt":"2013-04-22T12:39:51","slug":"book-award-news-la-times-book-prizes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/?p=4780","title":{"rendered":"Book Award News: LA Times Book Prizes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/evergreen.noblenet.org\/eg\/opac\/record\/3198920?locg=1\"><em>The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson<\/em><\/a> by Robert A. Caro<br \/>\n<strong>Current interest:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/evergreen.noblenet.org\/eg\/opac\/record\/3144943?locg=1\"><em>Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity<\/em><\/a> by Katherine Boo<br \/>\n<strong>Fiction:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/evergreen.noblenet.org\/eg\/opac\/record\/3187228?locg=1\"><em>Billy Lynn&#8217;s Long Halftime Walk<\/em><\/a> by Ben Fountain<br \/>\n<strong>First fiction:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/evergreen.noblenet.org\/eg\/opac\/record\/3184427?locg=1\"><em>Seating Arrangements<\/em><\/a> by Maggie Shipstead<br \/>\n<strong>Graphic novel:<\/strong> <em>Everything Together: Collected Stories<\/em> by Sammy Harkham<br \/>\n<strong>History:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/evergreen.noblenet.org\/eg\/opac\/record\/3187811?locg=1\"><em>America&#8217;s Great Debate: Henry Clay, Stephen A. Douglas and the Compromise That Preserved the Union<\/em><\/a> by Fergus M. Bordewich<br \/>\n<strong>Mystery\/thriller:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/evergreen.noblenet.org\/eg\/opac\/record\/3176416?locg=1\"><em>Broken Harbor<\/em><\/a> by Tana French<br \/>\n<strong>Poetry:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/evergreen.noblenet.org\/eg\/opac\/record\/3235127?locg=1\"><em>Poems 1962-2012<\/em><\/a> by Louise Gl\u00fcck<br \/>\n<strong>Science and technology:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/evergreen.noblenet.org\/eg\/opac\/record\/3184209?locg=1\"><em>Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History<\/em><\/a> by Florence Williams<br \/>\n<strong>Young adult literature:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/evergreen.noblenet.org\/eg\/opac\/record\/3217923?locg=1\"><em>Ask the Passengers<\/em><\/a> by A.S. King<br \/>\n<strong>Lifetime achievement:<\/strong> Kevin Starr<br \/>\n<strong>Innovator&#8217;s award:<\/strong> Margaret Atwood<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/events.latimes.com\/bookprizes\/\"><em>Click here for more info on The Los Angeles Times Book Prizes<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert A. Caro Current interest: Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo Fiction: Billy Lynn&#8217;s Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain First fiction: Seating Arrangements by Maggie Shipstead Graphic novel: Everything Together: Collected Stories by Sammy&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-awards"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6V6sR-1f6","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}