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• http://www.thefriends.org/events/mnba/winners-and-finalists/past-winners-and-finalists/

• It's a Tiger! by David LaRochelle (Illustrated by Jeremy Tankard) - NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT

• A Leaf Can Be by Laura Purdie Salas (Illustrated by Violeta Dabija) - NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT
• Tell Me About Your Day Today by Mem Fox (Illustrated by Lauren Stringer) - NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT
• Waking Dragons by Jane Yolen (Illustrated by Derek Anderson) - NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT

• Rez Life: An Indian an Indian's Journey Through Reservation Life by David Treuer - Available Formats: DB 74432

• Debating the End of History: The Marketplace, Utopia, and the Fragmentation of Intellectual Life by David W. Noble - NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT
• Forward: The First American Unsupported Expedition to the North Pole by John Huston and Tyler Fish - NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT
• Holding Our World Together: Ojibwe Women and the Survival of Community by Brenda J. Child - NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT

• Curse the Jade Lily by David Housewright - NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT

• The Devil and the Diva by David Housewright and Renee Valois - NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT
• Ruth 3:5 by Michael Fridgen - NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT
• The Tutor's Daughter by Julie Klassen - Available Formats: DB 76584

• Turn Here Sweet Corn: Organic Farming Works by Atina Diffley - NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT

• Letters to a Young Madman by Paul Gruchow - NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT
• Life on Ice: 25 Years of Arctic Exploration by Lonnie Dupre - NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT
• My Mother Is Now Earth by Mark Anthony Rolo - NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT

• Mni Sota Makoce: The Land of the Dakota by Gwen Westerman and Bruce White - NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT

• Every Man Did His Duty: Pictures & Stories of the Men of the First Minnesota by Wayne D. Jorgenson - NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT
• Lost Duluth: Landmarks, Industries, Buildings, Homes, and the Neighborhoods in Which They Stood by Tony Dierckins and Maryanne C. Norton - NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT
• The Minnesota Book of Skills: Your Guide to Smoking Whitefish, Sauna Etiquette, Tick Extraction, and More by Chris Niskanen - NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT

• The Round House by Louis Erdrich - Available Formats: DB 75641

• The Healing by Jonathan Odell - NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT
• It Takes You Over by Nick Healy - NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT
• Vladimir's Mustache and Other Stories by Stephan Eirik Clark - NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT

• Odessa by Patricia Kirkpatrick - NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT

• The First Day of Spring in Northern Minnesota by Jim Johnson - NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT
• Pitch by Todd Boss - NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT
• Salt Pier by Dore Kiesselbach - NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT

• Nothing Special by Geoff Herbach - NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT

• Goblin Secrets by William Alexander - Available Formats: DB 75781 | BR 19663
• Shadow on the Mountain by Margi Preus - NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT
• Silhouette of a Sparrow by Molly Beth Griffin - NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT

• The House in the Night by Susan Marie Swanson (Illustrated by Beth Krommes) - Available Formats: BR 18041

• Henry's Amazing Imagination by Nancy Carlson - NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT
• Monkey with a Tool Belt by Chris Monroe - NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT
• My Friend, the Starfinder by George Ella Lyon (Illustrated by Stephen Gammel) - NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT

• The Compassionate Carnivore: Or, How to Keep Animals Happy, Save Old MacDonald’s Farm, Reduce Your Hoofprint, and Still Eat Meat by Catherine Friend - NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT

• A Hard-Water World: Ice Fishing and Why We Do It by Greg Breining (Photography by Layne Kennedy) - NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT
• Potluck Paradise: Favorite Fare from Church and Community Cookbooks by Rae Katherine Eighmey and Debbie Miller - NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT
• You Have Been Kind Enough to Assist Me: Herman Stern and the Jewish Refugee Crisis by Terry Shoptaugh - NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT

• Stalking Susan by Julie Kramer - Available Formats: DB 67775

• A Carrion Death by Michael Stanley - NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT
• Phantom Prey by John Sandford - Available Formats: DB 66825 | BR 17791
• Red Knife by William Kent Krueger - Available Formats: MDB01943 (Non-NLS; Minnesota DB recording)

• The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir by Kao Kalia Yang - NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT

• Madness: A Bipolar Life by Marya Hornbacher - NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT
• Renaming the Earth: Personal Essays by Ray Gonzalez - NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT
• Swallow the Ocean by Laura M. Flynn - NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT

• Hard Work and a Good Deal: The Civilian Conservation Corps in Minnesota by Barbara W. Sommer - NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT

• Crossing the Canal: An Illustrated History of Duluth's Aerial Bridge by Tony Dierckins - NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT
• Landscapes of Minnesota: A Geography by John Fraser Hart and Susy Svatek Ziegler - NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT
• Minnesota on the Map: A Historical Atlas by David A. Lanegran with Carol Urness - NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT

• The Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich - Available Formats: DB 66886

• Famous Suicides of the Japanese Empire by David Mura - NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT
• Shelter Half by Carol Bly - NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT
• The Soul Thief by Charles Baxter - NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT

• National Monuments by Heid E. Erdrich - NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT

• Milk and Tides by Margaret Hasse - NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT
• The Sound of It by Tim Nolan - NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT
• Yellowrocket by Todd Boss - NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT

//Selected by online voters from across the state.//

• The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir by Kao Kalia Yang - NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT

• Twelve Long Months by Brian Malloy - NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT

• Black Box by Julie Schumacher - NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT
• Julia Gillian (and the Art of Knowing) by Alison McGhee - Available Formats: BR 18206
• Saturday Night Dirt: A Motor Novel by Will Weaver - Available Formats: DB 67940 | BR 18211

• Emmy and the Incredible Shrinking Rat by Lynne Jonell - NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT

• The Perfect Nest by Catherine Friend - NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT
• Farmer Cap by Jill Kalz - NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT
• Guess What Is Growing Inside This Egg by Mia Posada - NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT

• The Art of Subtext: Beyond Plot by Charles Baxter - NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT

• That the World May Know: Bearing Witness to Atrocity by James Dawes - NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT
• Looking for Asian America: An Ethnocentric Tour by Wing Young Huie - NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT
• The Replacements: All Over But the Shouting – An Oral History by Jim Walsh - NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT

• Thunder Bay by William Kent Krueger - Available Formats: MDB01944 (Non-NLS; Minnesota DB recording)

• Code Black by Philip Donlay - NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT
• Maiden Rock by Mary Logue - NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT
• Protect and Defend by Vince Flynn - Available Formats: DB 65530

• The Florist's Daughter by Patricia Hampl - NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT

• The Dog Says How by Kevin Kling - Available Formats: DB 71552 | BR 19072
• Home on the Road: Further Dispatches from the Ends of the Earth by Catherine Watson - NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT
• The Wet Collection by Joni Tevis - NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT

• Land of Amber Waters: The History of Brewing in Minnesota by Doug Hoverson - NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT

• Creating Minnesota: A History from the Inside Out by Annette Atkins - NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT
• Mike Lynch's Minnesota Weatherwatch: A Complete Guide for Weather-Obsessed Minnesotans by Mike Lynch - NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT
• We Are at Home: Pictures of the Ojibwe People by Bruce White - NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT

• The Last Communist Virgin by Wang Ping - NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT

• Pontoon by Garrison Keillor - Available Formats: DB 65397 | BR 17350
• Pretty Little Mistakes by Heather McElhatton - NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT
• The View from Mount Joy by Lorna Landvik - Available Formats: DB 64974

• Willow Room, Green Door by Deborah Keenan - NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT

• Music for Landing Planes By by Éireann Lorsung - NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT
• The Resurrection Trade by Leslie Adrienne Miller - NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT
• This Brightness by William Reichard - NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT

//Selected by online voters from across the state.//

• Farmer Cap by Jill Kalz - NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT

• Defect by Will Weaver - NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT

• Billie Standish Was Here by Nancy Crocker - NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT
• Chasing Tail Lights by Patrick Jones - NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT
• Falling Boy by Alison McGhee - NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT

• Spirit Car: Journey to a Dakota Past by Diane Wilson - NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT

• Answering 911: Life in the Hot Seat by Caroline Burau - NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT
• The Love of Impermanent Things: A Threshold Ecology by Mary Rose O'Reilley - NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT
• Waking: A Memoir of Trauma and Transcendence by Matthew Sanford - Available Formats: DB 72233

• Tomorrow, the River by Dianne E. Gray - NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT

• Butterfly Eyes and Other Secrets of the Meadow by Joyce Sidman - NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT
• Meow Ruff: A Story in Concrete Poetry by Joyce Sidman - NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT
• Winter Is the Warmest Season by Lauren Stringer - NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT
• The Cronus Chronicles, Book One: The Shadow Thieves by Anne Ursu - NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT

• What It's Like Here by Jim Moore, Regula Russelle and CB Sherlock - NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT

• The Grammarian's Five Daughters by Eleanor Arnason - NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT
• Promises Vague yet Certain by Donald Dass and Cecilia Lieder - NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT

• A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility by Taner Akçam - Available Formats: DB 64787

• West Bank Boogie: Forty Years of Music, Mayhem and Memories by Cyn Collins - NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT
• Minnesota on Paper: Collecting Our Printed History by Moira F. Harris and Leo J. Harris - NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT
• Baking with the St. Paul Bread Club: Recipes, Tips and Stories by Kim Ode - NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT
• Dial M: The Murder of Carol Thompson by William Swanson - NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT

• Copper River by William Kent Krueger - Available Formats: MDB01905 (Non-NLS; Minnesota DB recording)

• Stripped by Brian Freeman - Available Formats: DB 64161
• The St. Paul Conspiracy by Roger Stelljes - NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT

• When Charlotte Comes Home by Maureen Millea Smith - NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT

• Lives of Mapmakers by Alicia L. Conroy - NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT
• Cirkus by Patti Frazee - NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT

• The Curator of Silence by Jude Nutter - NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT

• Coven by Susan Deborah King - NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT
• Response: Poetry and Prints from the Lake Superior Writers and the Northern Printmakers Alliance by Cecilia Lieder - NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT
• Yahweh's Other Shoe by Kilian McDonnell - NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT
• Trust the Wild Heart by Nancy Paddock - NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT

//Selected by online voters from across the state.//

• Waking: A Memoir of Trauma and Transcendence by Matthew Sanford - Available Formats: DB 72233

• The Book of One Hundred Truths by Julie Schumacher - NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT

• El Lector by William Durbin - NOT AVAILABLE IN ANY FORMAT
• Rash by Pete Hautman - Available Formats: DB 65447 | BR 16729