MN Book Awards: this year’s finalists are…
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The 25th annual Minnesota Book Awards take place on April 13, 2013. Here's who's in the running:
Children's Literature:
-A Leaf Can Be by Laura Purdie Salas, illustrated by Violeta Dabija (Millbrook Press/Lerner Publishing Group, Inc.)
-It's a Tiger! by David LaRochelle, illustrated by Jeremy Tankard (Chronicle Books)
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-Tell Me About Your Day Today by Mem Fox, illustrated by Lauren Stringer (Beach Lane Books/Simon & Schuster, Inc.)
-Waking Dragons by Jane Yolen, illustrated by Derek Anderson (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers/Simon & Schuster, Inc.)
General Nonfiction:
-Debating the End of History: The Marketplace, Utopia, and the Fragmentation of Intellectual Life by David W. Noble (University of Minnesota Press)
-Forward: The First American Unsupported Expedition to the North Pole by John Huston and Tyler Fish (Octane Press)
-Holding Our World Together: Ojibwe Women and the Survival of Community by Brenda J. Child (Viking/Penguin Group)
-Rez Life: An Indian's Journey Through Reservation Life by David Treuer (Atlantic Monthly Press/Grove/Atlantic, Inc.)
Genre Fiction:
-Curse of the Jade Lily by David Housewright (Minotaur Books/St. Martin's Press)
-The Devil and the Diva by David Housewright and Renee Valois (Down and Out Books)
-Ruth3:5 by Michael Fridgen
-The Tutor's Daughter by Julie Klassen (Bethany House/Baker Publishing Group)
Memoir & Creative Nonfiction:
-Letters to a Young Madman by Paul Gruchow (Levins Publishing)
-Life on Ice: 25 Years of Arctic Exploration by Lonnie Dupre (Keen Editions)
-My Mother Is Now Earth by Mark Anthony Rolo (Borealis Books/Minnesota Historical Society Press)
-Turn Here Sweet Corn: Organic Farming Works by Atina Diffley (University of Minnesota Press)
Minnesota:
-Every Man Did His Duty: Pictures & Stories of the Men of the First Minnesota by Wayne D. Jorgenson (Tasora Books)
-Lost Duluth: Landmarks, Industries, Buildings, Homes, and the Neighborhoods in Which They Stood by Tony Dierckins and Maryanne C. Norton (Zenith City Press/X-Communication)
-The Minnesota Book of Skills: Your Guide to Smoking Whitefish, Sauna Etiquette, Tick Extraction, and More by Chris Niskanen (Minnesota Historical Society Press)
-Mni Sota Makoce: The Land of the Dakota by Gwen Westerman and Bruce White (Minnesota Historical Society Press)
Novel & Short Story:
-The Healing by Jonathan Odell (Nan A. Talese/Random House, Inc.)
-It Takes You Over by Nick Healy (New Rivers Press)
-The Round House by Louise Erdrich (Harper/HarperCollins Publishers)
-Vladimir's Mustache and Other Stories by Stephan Eirik Clark (Russian Life Books)
Poetry:
-The First Day of Spring in Northern Minnesota by Jim Johnson (Red Dragonfly Press)
-Odessa by Patricia Kirkpatrick (Milkweed Editions)
-Pitch by Todd Boss (W. W. Norton & Company)
-Salt Pier by Dore Kiesselbach (University of Pittsburgh Press)
Young People's Literature:
-Goblin Secrets by William Alexander (Margaret K. McElderry Books/Simon & Schuster, Inc.)
-Nothing Special by Geoff Herbach (Sourcebooks Fire/Sourcebooks, Inc.)
-Shadow on the Mountain by Margi Preus (Amulet Books/Abrams)
-Silhouette of a Sparrow by Molly Beth Griffin (Milkweed Editions)