Northern California Book Awards

 

 

 The Northern California Book Awards celebrate books by northern California authors.

The Northern California Book Awards are presented and sponsored by Northern California Book Reviewers, Poetry Flash, Center for the Art of Translation, Red Room (redroom.com), PEN West, Mechanics' Institute, San Francisco Public Library, Friends of the San Francisco Public Library, and Readers Bookstore at the Main.


Fortune Smiles: Stories By Adam Johnson Cover Image
$27.00
Unavailable, Out of Stock, or Out of Print
ISBN: 9780812997477
Published: Random House - August 18th, 2015

2015 NCBA Awards Winner for Fiction


Pieces of My Mother: A Memoir By Melissa Cistaro Cover Image
$14.99
Unavailable, Out of Stock, or Out of Print
ISBN: 9781492623113
Published: Sourcebooks - February 2nd, 2016

2015 NCBA Awards Winner for Non-Fiction


Disorder (Phoenix Poets) By Vanesha Pravin Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780226235363
Published: University of Chicago Press - October 9th, 2015

2015 NCBA Awards Winner for Poetry


The Mission Chinese Food Cookbook By Danny Bowien, Chris Ying Cover Image
$39.99
Unavailable, Out of Stock, or Out of Print
ISBN: 9780062243416
Published: Anthony Bourdain/Ecco - November 10th, 2015

2015 NCBA Awards Winner for Food


California's Wild Edge: The Coast in Prints, Poetry, and History By Tom Killion Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781597142991
Availability: Out of Print
Published: Heyday Books - September 1st, 2015

2015 NCBA Awards Winner for Regional Interest


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An Ember in the Ashes By Sabaa Tahir Cover Image
$12.99
ISBN: 9781595148049
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Published: Razorbill - February 9th, 2016

2015 NCBA Awards Winner for Children's Literature - Young Adult


Crenshaw By Katherine Applegate Cover Image
$18.99
ISBN: 9781250043238
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Published: Feiwel & Friends - September 22nd, 2015

2015 NCBA Awards Winner for Children's Literature - Middle Grade 


Rad American Women A-Z: Rebels, Trailblazers, and Visionaries Who Shaped Our History . . . and Our Future! (City Lights/Sister Spit) By Kate Schatz, Miriam Klein Stahl (Illustrator) Cover Image
By Kate Schatz, Miriam Klein Stahl (Illustrator)
$16.95
ISBN: 9780872866836
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Published: City Lights Books - April 7th, 2015

2015 NCBA Awards Winner for Children's Literature - Picture Book


Orfeo: A Novel By Richard Powers Cover Image
$16.95
ISBN: 9780393349849
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - September 2nd, 2014

2014 NCBA Awards Winner for Fiction


Nothing More to Lose (NYRB Poets) By Najwan Darwish, Kareem James Abu-Zeid (Translated by) Cover Image
$16.00
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ISBN: 9781590177303
Published: NYRB Poets - April 29th, 2014

2014 NCBA Awards Winner for Poetry


Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt By Michael Lewis Cover Image
$16.95
ISBN: 9780393351590
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - March 23rd, 2015

2014 NCBA Awards Winner for General Nonfiction


The Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness By Rebecca Solnit Cover Image
$17.95
ISBN: 9781595347534
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Published: Trinity University Press - November 3rd, 2015

2014 NCBA Awards Winner for Creative Nonfiction


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I'll Give You the Sun By Jandy Nelson Cover Image
$12.99
ISBN: 9780142425763
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Published: Dial Books - October 27th, 2015

2014 NCBA Awards Winner for Children's Literature - Middle Grade / Young Adult


Ivan: The Remarkable True Story of the Shopping Mall Gorilla By Katherine Applegate, G. Brian Karas (Illustrator) Cover Image
$19.99
ISBN: 9780544252301
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Published: Clarion Books - October 7th, 2014

2014 NCBA Awards Winner for Children's Literature - Younger Readers


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At Night We Walk in Circles: A Novel By Daniel Alarcón Cover Image
$18.00
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ISBN: 9781594632839
Published: Riverhead Books - September 2nd, 2014

2013 NCBA Awards Winner for Fiction


Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire (Wesleyan Poetry) By Brenda Hillman Cover Image
$15.95
ISBN: 9780819575227
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Published: Wesleyan University Press - September 9th, 2014

2013 NCBA Awards Winner for Poetry


Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety By Eric Schlosser Cover Image
$20.00
ISBN: 9780143125785
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Published: Penguin Books - August 26th, 2014

2013 NCBA Awards Winner for General Nonfiction


Cool Gray City of Love: 49 Views of San Francisco By Gary Kamiya Cover Image
$18.99
ISBN: 9781620401262
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Published: Bloomsbury USA - October 14th, 2014

2013 NCBA Awards Winner for Creative Nonfiction


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Battle Bunny By Jon Scieszka, Mac Barnett, Matt Myers (Illustrator) Cover Image
By Jon Scieszka, Mac Barnett, Matt Myers (Illustrator)
$17.99
ISBN: 9781442446731
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Published: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers - October 22nd, 2013

2013 NCBA Awards Winner for Children's Literature - Younger Readers


A Partial History of Lost Causes: A Novel By Jennifer duBois Cover Image
$16.00
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ISBN: 9780812982176
Published: Dial Press Trade Paperback - August 21st, 2012

2012 NCBA Awards Winner for Fiction


Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys: Poems By D. A. Powell Cover Image
$22.00
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ISBN: 9781555976057
Published: Graywolf Press - February 14th, 2012

2012 NCBA Awards Winner for Poetry


Green Illusions: The Dirty Secrets of Clean Energy and the Future of Environmentalism (Our Sustainable Future) By Ozzie Zehner Cover Image
$32.95
ISBN: 9780803237759
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Published: University of Nebraska Press - June 1st, 2012

2012 NCBA Awards Winner for General Nonfiction


God's Hotel: A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine By Victoria Sweet Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9781594486548
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Published: Riverhead Books - April 2nd, 2013

2012 NCBA Awards Winner for Creative Nonfiction


By Lemony Snicket, Seth (Illustrator)
$15.99
ISBN: 9780316123082
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Published: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers - October 23rd, 2012

 

2012 NCBA Awards Winner for Children's Literature - Middle Grade / Young Adult

 


Baby Bear Sees Blue By Ashley Wolff, Ashley Wolff (Illustrator) Cover Image
By Ashley Wolff, Ashley Wolff (Illustrator)
$18.99
Unavailable, Out of Stock, or Out of Print
ISBN: 9781442413061
Published: Beach Lane Books - February 7th, 2012

 

2012 NCBA Awards Winner for Children's Literature - Younger Readers

 


Ivan and Misha: Stories By Michael Alenyikov Cover Image
$18.95
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ISBN: 9780810127180
Published: TriQuarterly - October 30th, 2010

2011 NCBA Awards Winner for Fiction


Suck on the Marrow By CAMILLE DUNGY Cover Image
$18.95
ISBN: 9781597094689
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Published: Red Hen Press - January 15th, 2010

2011 NCBA Awards Winner for Poetry


Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer--and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class By Jacob S. Hacker, Paul Pierson Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9781416588702
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Published: Simon & Schuster - March 15th, 2011

2011 NCBA Awards Winner for General Non-Fiction


Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas By Rebecca Solnit Cover Image
$29.95
ISBN: 9780520262508
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Published: University of California Press - November 29th, 2010

2011 NCBA Awards Winner for Creative Non-fiction


The Mechanics of Falling and Other Stories (West Word Fiction) By Catherine Brady Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780874177633
Availability: Out of Print
Published: University of Nevada Press - February 28th, 2009

Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes By Tamim Ansary Cover Image
$21.99
ISBN: 9781586488130
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Published: PublicAffairs - April 27th, 2010

2010 NCBA Awards Winner for General Nonfiction


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Zeitoun By Dave Eggers Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9780307387943
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Published: Vintage - June 15th, 2010

2010 NCBA Awards Winner for Creative Nonfiction


Hold Still By Nina LaCour Cover Image
$10.99
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ISBN: 9780142416945
Published: Speak - October 5th, 2010

2010 NCBA Awards Winner for Children's Literature