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Minnesota Book Awards
2013
Children's Literature
Winner
Finalists
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
General Nonfiction
Winner
Rez Life: An Indian an Indian's Journey Through Reservation Life by
David Treuer - Available Formats:
DB 74432
Finalists
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
Genre Fiction
Winner
Finalists
Memoir & Creative Nonfiction
Winner
Finalists
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
Minnesota
Winner
Finalists
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
Novel & Short Story
Winner
The Round House by
Louis Erdrich - Available Formats:
DB 75641
Finalists
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
Poetry
Winner
Finalists
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
Young People's Literature
Winner
Finalists
2012
Children's Literature
Winner
Finalists
General Nonfiction
Winner
Finalists
Genre Fiction
Winner
Finalists
Memoir & Creative Nonfiction
Winner
Finalists
Minnesota
Winner
Finalists
Novel & Short Story
Winner
Finalists
Poetry
Winner
Finalists
Young People's Literature
Winner
Finalists
2011
Children's Literature
Winner
Finalists
General Nonfiction
Winner
Finalists
Genre Fiction
Winner
Finalists
Memoir & Creative Nonfiction
Winner
Finalists
Minnesota
Winner
Finalists
Novel & Short Story
Winner
Finalists
Poetry
Winner
Finalists
Young People's Literature
Winner
Finalists
2010
Children's Literature
Winner
Finalists
General Nonfiction
Winner
Finalists
Genre Fiction
Winner
Finalists
Memoir & Creative Nonfiction
Winner
Finalists
Minnesota
Winner
Finalists
Novel & Short Story
Winner
Finalists
Poetry
Winner
Finalists
Young People's Literature
Winner
Finalists
2009
Children's Literature
Winner
Finalists
General Nonfiction
Winner
Finalists
Genre Fiction
Winner
Finalists
Memoir & Creative Nonfiction
Winner
Finalists
Minnesota
Winner
Finalists
Novel & Short Story
Winner
Finalists
Poetry
Winner
Finalists
Young People's Literature
Winner
Finalists
2008
Children's Literature
Winner
Finalists
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
General Nonfiction
Winner
Finalists
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
Genre Fiction
Winner
Finalists
Memoir & Creative Nonfiction
Winner
Finalists
Minnesota
Winner
Finalists
Novel & Short Story
Winner
Finalists
Poetry
Winner
Finalists
Young People's Literature
Winner
Finalists
2007
Autobiography, Memoir & Creative Nonfiction
Winner
Finalists
Children's Literature
Winner
Finalists
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
Fine Press
Winner
Finalists
General Nonfiction
Winner
A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility by
Taner Akçam - Available Formats:
DB 64787
Finalists
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
Genre Fiction
Winner
Finalists
Novel & Short Story
Winner
Finalists
Poetry
Winner
Finalists
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
Readers' Choice Award
//Selected by online voters from across the state.//
Winner
Waking: A Memoir of Trauma and Transcendence by
Matthew Sanford - Available Formats:
DB 72233
Young People's Literature
Winner
Finalists