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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 Adult 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 Adult 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 Adult 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 Adult Literature
Winner
Finalists
2009
Children's Literature
Winner
-  The House in the Night-  by  Susan Marie Swanson-  (Illustrated by Beth Krommes) - Available Formats:  BR 18041
 
 
Finalists
-  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 
 
General Nonfiction
Winner
-  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 
 
Finalists
-  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 
 
Genre Fiction
Winner
-  Stalking Susan-  by  Julie Kramer-  - Available Formats:  DB 67775
 
 
Finalists
Memoir & Creative Nonfiction
Winner
Finalists
-  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 
 
Minnesota
Winner
Finalists
-  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 
 
Novel & Short Story
Winner
-  The Plague of Doves-  by  Louise Erdrich-  - Available Formats:  DB 66886
 
 
Finalists
-  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 
 
Poetry
Winner
Finalists
-  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 
 
Readers' Choice Award
//Selected by online voters from across the state.//
 
Winner
Young Adult 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
-  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 
 
Novel & Short Story
Winner
Finalists
Poetry
Winner
Finalists
-  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 
 
Readers' Choice Award
//Selected by online voters from across the state.//
 
Winner
Young Adult Literature
Winner
Finalists
-  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 
 
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 Adult Literature
Winner
Finalists