1995 Book Award Winners

Daisy Goodwill is born in 1905 on a kitchen floor in a Manitoba quarry town, to a mother so large she did not know she was pregnant and who dies...

The last months of 1918. Billy Prior, a working class officer with a scar where his accent used to be, is passed fit and sent back to France once...

Mickey Sabbath is sixty four, a former underground puppeteer with wrecked, arthritic hands, run out of his college teaching job by scandal,...

Dorothy Bliss is a widow in her early eighties living alone in a condominium tower overlooking Biscayne Bay, where she and her husband Ted retired...

In 1954, on San Piedro, a fictional island off the coast of Washington State, Kabuo Miyamoto, a fisherman of Japanese descent, goes on trial for...

Jonathan Weiner spends the book inside the fieldwork of biologists Peter and Rosemary Grant, who have returned nearly every year since the 1970s to...

No Ordinary Time follows Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt through the Second World War, from spring 1940, as the Phoney War in Europe ended and real...

Joan D. Hedrick's biography follows Harriet Beecher Stowe from a Litchfield, Connecticut childhood as the sixth of eleven children born to the...

When communism fell in 1989, the new democracies of Central Europe inherited a question no revolution escapes: what do you do with the people who...

Emsley's premise is that the public's chemical education is conducted almost entirely by scares, and his book is the antidote: a chemist walks...

Thirty three poems that move between elegy and prayer, written by a poet who spent his early adulthood in Detroit factories and never stopped...

My Alexandria is one of the essential books of the AIDS epidemic, and it was written inside the catastrophe rather than after it: Mark Doty's...

Mark is Miles Vorkosigan's clone, grown on another planet and surgically shaped to replace him in an assassination plot that failed. He is short,...

Peter Hobson is a biomedical engineer in Toronto who, as a student, watched an organ donor's heart being removed while the monitors suggested the...

Quentin P. is thirty one, on probation for a molestation charge his family has agreed to consider a misunderstanding, living in his grandmother's...

God is dead, and His body, two miles long, is floating in the Atlantic off the coast of Africa. Anthony Van Horne, a sea captain still haunted by...

Molly Cates writes true crime for a Texas magazine, and her first book has just been published: the definitive account of Louie Bronk, a drifter...

Thirteen year old Salamanca Tree Hiddle is riding cross country from Ohio toward Idaho with her grandparents, retracing the route her mother took...

A boy named Daniel and his mother watch fires and looting spread through their Los Angeles neighborhood, forcing them to leave their apartment...

Death of a Naturalist is Seamus Heaney's first collection, thirty four poems published when he was twenty seven, and it stays close to the County...