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WNET and the influence of David KochThe Southern California Booksellers Association gives its 2004 awards to Jamesland by Michelle Huneven for fiction, The King of California: J. G. Boswell and the Making of the Secret American Empire by Mark Arax and Rick Wartzman for non-fiction, While I Disappear: A John Ray Horn Novel by Edward Wright for mystery and The Golden Hour by Maiya Williams in children's lit. The full list of nominees included books by Miles Corwin, Denise Hamilton, Mark Salzman, Terril Lee Lankford, Paula Woods, Alan Rifkin and Steve Martin. Also on the list: Nudie — The Rodeo Tailor by Jamie Lee Nudie and Mary Lynn Cabrall, the story of the late rhinestone cowboy of Lankershim Boulevard.
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