Minnesota Book Awards
2012 Winners:
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Children's Literature: BookSpeak! Poems About Books by Laura Purdie Salas, ill. by Josée
Bisaillon |
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General Nonfiction: Fool Me Twice: Fighting the Assault on
Science in America by
Shawn Lawrence Otto |
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Genre Fiction: Big Wheat: A Tale of Bindlestiffs and
Blood by Richard A. Thompson |
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Memoir and Creative Nonfiction: A SONG AT TWILIGHT: OF ALZHEIMER'S AND LOVE by Nancy Paddock |
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Minnesota: PIONEER MODERNISTS: MINNESOTA'S FIRST GENERQATION OF WOMEN ARTISTS by Julie L’Enfant |
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Novel and Short Story: The Law of Miracles: And Other Stories by Gregory Blake Smith |
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Poetry: WHORLED by Ed Bok Lee |
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Young People's Literature: With or Without You by Brian Farrey |
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Readers' Choice The Tanglewood Terror by Kurtis Scaletta |
Previous
Winners:
2011:
My
Heart is Like a Zoo by Michael Hall
( j Hall) [Children's
Literature]
The
Opposite of Cold: The Northwoods Finnish Sauna Tradition by
Michael Nordskog; Aaron W. Hautala, photography (613.41 N759o)
[General Nonfiction]
The
Tale of Halcyon Crane by Wendy Webb (Fic Webb) [Genre
Fiction]
Carrier:
Untangling the Danger in My DNA by Bonnie J. Rough (362.198
R755c) [Memoir and Creative Nonfiction]
North
Country: The Making of Minnesota by Mary Lethert Wingerd (977.6
W726n) [Minnesota]
Vestments
by John Reimringer (Fic Reimringer) [Novel and Short Story]
FIND THE GIRL by Lightsey Darst [Poetry]
Blank
Confession by Pete Hautman (YA Fic Hautman) [Young People's
Literature]
News
to Me: Adventures of an Accidental Journalist by Laurie Hertzel
(070.92 H444AAn) [Reader's Choice]
2010:
Red
Sings from Treetops: A Year in Colors by Joyce Sidman (Children's
Literature)
I
Go to America: Swedish American Women and the Life of Mina Anderson
by Joy K. Lintelman (General Nonfiction)
Jelly’s
Gold by David Housewright (Genre Fiction)
The
Wolf at Twilight: An Indian Elder’s Journey through a Land
of Ghosts and Shadows by Kent Nerburn (Memoir & Creative
Nonfiction)
Opening
Goliath: Danger and Discovery in Caving by Cary J. Griffith
(Minnesota)
The
Book of Night Women by Marlon James (Novel & Short Story)
I WISH I HAD A HEART LIKE YOURS, WALT WHITMAN by Jude Nutter (Poetry)
The
Magician’s Elephant by Kate DiCamillo (Young People's
Literature)
HONOR BRIGHT: A CENTURY OF SCOUTING IN NORTHERN STAR COUNCIL by
Dave Kenney (Readers' Choice)
2009:
The
House in the Night by Susan Marie Swanson (Children's Literature)
The
Compassionate Carnivore: Or, How to Keep Animals Happy, Save Old
MacDonald’s Farm, Reduce Your Hoofprint, and Still Eat Meat
by Catherine Friend (General Nonfiction)
Stalking
Susan by Julie Kramer (Genre Fiction)
The
Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir by Kao Kalia Yang (Memoir
& Creative Nonfiction; Readers' Choice)
Hard
Work and a Good Deal: The Civilian Conservation Corps in Minnesota
by Barbara W. Sommer (Minnesota)
The
Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich (Novel & Short Story)
National
Monuments by Heid E. Erdrich (Poetry)
Twelve
Long Months by Brian Malloy (Young People's Literature)
2008:
Emmy
and the Incredible Shrinking Rat by Lynne Jonell (Children's
Literature)
THE ART OF SUBTEXT: BEYOND PLOT by Charles Baxter (General Nonfiction)
Land
of Amber Waters: The History of Brewing in Minnesota by Doug
Hoverson (Minnesota)
Defect
by Will Weaver (Young Adult Literature)
Willow
Room, Green Door by Deborah Keenan (Poetry)
The
Florist’s Daughter by Patricia Hampl (Memoir & Creative
Nonfiction)
The
Last Communist Virgin by Wang Ping (Novel & Short Story)
Thunder
Bay by William Kent Krueger (Genre Fiction)
Farmer
Cap by Jill Kalz (Readers' Choice)
2007:
Spirit
Car: Journey to a Dakota Past by Diane Wilson (Autobiography,
Memoir & Creative Nonfiction)
Tomorrow,
the River by Dianne E. Gray (Children's Literature)
WHAT IT'S LIKE HERE by Jim Moore, Regula Russelle and CB Sherlock
(Fine Press)
A
Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish
Responsibility by Taner Akçam (General Nonfiction)
Copper
River by William Kent Krueger (Genre Fiction)
WHEN CHARLOTTE COMES HOME by Maureen Millea Smith (Novel &
Short Story)
THE CURATOR OF SILENCE by Jude Nutter (Poetry)
The
Book of One Hundred Truths by Julie Schumacher (Young Adult
Literature)
Waking:
A Memoir of Trauma and Transcendence by Matthew Sanford (Readers'
Choice)
2006:
VOICES OF RONDO: ORAL HISTORIES OF SAINT PAUL'S HISTORIC BLACK
COMMUNITY, Kate Cavett, editor (Anthology & Collection)
LEFT FOR DEAD: A SECOND LIFE AFTER VIETNAM by Jon Hovde (Autobiography
& Memoir)
Fold
Me a Poem by Kristine O'Connell George (Children's Picture
Book)
Wanda
Gág: Storybook Artist by Gwenyth Swain (Children's
& Young Adult Nonfiction)
The
Counterfeit Princess by Jane Resh Thomas (Children's Fiction)
GHOST POEMS FOR THE LIVING: 13 SONNETS BY SHAKESPEARE WITH DISTILLATIONS
by Paulette Myers-Rich (Fine Press)
Recovering
the Sacred: The Power of Naming and Claiming by Winona LaDuke
(General Nonfiction)
THE LOBOTOMIST: A MAVERICK MEDICAL GENIUS AND HIS TRAGIC QUEST
TO RID THE WORLD OF MENTAL ILLNESS by Jack El-Hai (History &
Biography)
The
Painted Drum by Louise Erdrich (Novel & Short Story)
Lightning
at Dinner by Jim Moore (Poetry)
The
Iron Girl by Ellen Hart (Popular Fiction)
A
Northern Front: New and Selected Essays by John Hildebrand
(Science & Nature)
All
Rivers Flow to the Sea by Alison McGhee (Young Adult Fiction)
2005:
OLD GLORY: AMERICAN WAR
POEMS FROM THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR TO THE WAR ON TERRORISM, Robert
Hedin, editor (Anthology & Collections)
Flim-Flam
Man: A True Family History by Jennifer Vogel (Autobiography,
Memoir & Creative Nonfiction)
The
Darkest Evening by William Durbin (Children's Fiction &
Poetry)
The
Hidden Folk: Stories of Fairies, Dwarves, Selkies, and Other Secret
Beings by Lise Lunge-Larsen (Children's & Young Adult
Nonfiction)
The
Best Pet of All by David LaRochelle (Children's Picture Books)
Distance
from the Sun: Thirty Prose Poems from Thirty Years by Louis
Jenkins (Fine Press)
Why
Do They Act That Way?: A Survival Guide to the Adolescent Brain
for You and Your Teen by David Walsh (General Nonfiction)
Genghis
Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford
(History & Biography)
Minnesota
Treasures: Stories behind the State's Historic Places by Denis
P. Gardner (Nature & Minnesota)
The
Work of Wolves by Kent Meyers (Novel & Short Story)
NAMING THE STARS by Joyce Sutphen (Poetry)
ALONE AT NIGHT by KJ Erickson (Popular Fiction)
Godless
by Pete Hautman (Young Adult Fiction & Poetry)
2004:
A
Place Called Home: Writings on the Midwestern Small Town,
Richard Davies, Joseph Amato and David Pichaske, editors (Anthology
& Collections)
The
Language of Blood: A Memoir by Jane Jeong Trenka (Autobiography
& Memoir)
Hey
Pancakes! by Tamson Weston (Children's Literature)
Our
Family Tree: An Evolution Story by Lisa Westberg Peters -
(Children's Nonfiction)
POETRY OF CHANCE ENCOUNTERS by Harriet Bart (Fine Press)
Mill
City: A Visual History of the Minneapolis Mill District, Shannon
Pennefeather, editor
Looking
for the Summer: A 94 Day Journey by Jim Brandenburg (Nature
& Minnesota)
WHERE NO GODS CAME by Sheila O'Connor (Novel & Short Story)
Coming
Late to Rachmaninoff by Richard Terrill (Poetry)
Monkeewrench
by P.J. Tracy (Popular Fiction)
Sweetblood
by Pete Hautman (Young Adult Literature)
Northern
Lights: The Stories of Minnesota's Past by Dave Kenney (Young
Adult Nonfiction)
2003:
KEYS TO THE INTERIOR,
Robert Hedin and Richard Broderick, editors (Anthology or Collection
of Short Stories by Multiple Authors)
Cap
Wigington: An Architectual Legacy in Ice and Stone by David
V. Taylor and Paul C. Larson (Architecture)
The
Gág Family: German-Bohemian Artists in America by Julie
L’Enfant (Art & Music)
Back
to Mississippi: A Personal Journey Through the Events that Changed
America in 1964 by Mary V. Winstead (Autobiography, Biography,
Memoir)
DAISY AIR RIFLES & BB GUNES: THE FIRST 100 YEARS by Neal Punchard
(Book Cover Design)
Countdown
to Kindergarten by Alison McGhee (Children's Fiction)
The
Sky's the Limit: Stories of Discovery by Women and Girls by
Catherine Thimmesh (Children's Nonfiction)
Ojibwe:
Waasa Inaabidaa (We Look in all Directions) by Thomas M. Peacock
and Marlene Wisuri (Education, Teaching, Academic)
Miniatures
by Norah Labiner (Novel or Collection of Short Stories by a Single
Author)
NEW YORK REVISITED by Ken Auchincloss (Fine Press)
Voices
for the Land: Minnesotans Write About the Places They Love,
Brian Peterson, photographer (Gardening, Nature, Environmental)
Mortal
Prey by John Sandford (Genre)
Pale
Horse at Plum Run: The First Minnesota at Gettysburg by Brian
Leehan (History, Politics & Culture)
IMPRESSIONS by Roger Cooper (Interior Book Design)
Voices
for the Land: Minnesotans Write About the Places They Love,
Brian Peterson, photographer (Minnesota)
Overcoming:
The Autobiography of W. Harry Davis by W. Harry Davis (Multicultural)
PATHWAYS TO SPIRITUALITY AND HEALING by Alexa Umbreit and Mark
Umbreit (New Age, Metaphysics & Spirituality)
Spilling
Clarence by Anne Ursu (New Voice - First Time Author)
Voices
for the Land: Minnesotans Write About the Places They Love,
Brian Peterson, photographer (Photography)
The
Hawk Temple at Tierra Grande by Ray Gonzalez (Poetry)
Firestorm
by Jan Neubert Schultz (Young Adult Fiction)
The
Good Path: Ojibwe Learning and Activity Book for Kids by Thomas
M. Peacock and Marlene Wisuri (Young Adult Nonfiction)
2002:
The
Cancer Poetry Project, Karin Miller, editor (Anthology &
Collections)
While
the Locust Slept by Peter Razor (Autobiography & Memoir)
The
Race of the Birkebeiners by Lise Lunge-Larsen (Children)
GARMENT REGISTER by Harriet Bart (Fine Press)
VIEWS ON THE MISSISSIPPI: THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF HENRY PETER BOSSE
by Mark Neuzil (History & Biography)
In
Search of Lake Wobegon by Garrison Keillor (Nature & Minnesota)
The
Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse by Louise Erdrich
(Novel & Short Story)
The
Night Abraham Called to the Stars by Robert Bly (Poetry)
Purgatory
Ridge: A Cork O'Conner Mystery by William Kent Krueger (Popular
Fiction)
Zazoo
by Richard Mosher (Youth Literature)
2001:
A
Man's Reach by Gov. Elmer L. Andersen, Lori Sturdevant, editor
(Honor Award)
VISITING EMILY: POEMS INSPIRED BY THE LIFE AND WORK OF EMILY DICKINSON,
Sheila Coghill and Thom Tammaro, editors (Anthology & Collections)
Packinghouse
Daughter: A Memoir by Cheri Register (Autobiography &
Memoir)
The
Hunter: A Chinese Folktale by Mary Casanova (Children)
THE SUMMER HOUSE by Patricia Hampl (Fine Press)
The
Haymakers: A Chronicle of Five Farm Families by Steven R.
Hoffbeck (History & Biography)
WILD RICE COOKING: HISTORY, NATURAL HISTORY, HARVESTING AND LORE
by Susan Carol Hauser (Nature & Minnesota)
Shadow
Baby by Alison McGhee (Novel & Short Story)
TURTLE PICTURES by Ray Gonzalez (Poetry)
Dark
Coulee by Mary Logue (Popular Fiction)
Curse
of a Winter Moon by Mary Casanova (Young Adult)
2000:
Telling:
A Memoir of Rape and Recovery by Patricia Weaver Francisco
(Biography & Memoir)
The
Troll with No Heart in His Body and Other Tales of Trolls from
Norway by Lise Lunge-Larsen (Children)
BRODER by Anna Reckin (Fine Press)
Minnesota's
Twentieth Century: Stories of Extraordinary Everyday People
by D.J. Tice (History)
Worlds
within a World by Paul Gruchow (Nature & Minnesota)
THE MULTICULTIBOHO SIDESHOW VOL. 1 by Alexs D. Pate (Novel)
TUG by G.E. Patterson (Poetry)
Mrs.
Million by Pete Hautman (Popular Fiction)
DATING MISS UNIVERSE by Steven Polansky (Short Story)
Dove
Song by Kristine L. Franklin (Young Adult)
1999:
Out
of the Ocean by Debra Frasier (Picture Books - Illustrator)
Elizabeti's
Doll by Stephanie Stuve-Bodeen (Picture Books - Author)
Behind
the Mask: The Life of Queen Elizabeth I by Jane Resh Thomas
(Children's Nonfiction)
Soldier's
Heart by - Gary Paulsen (Young People's Fiction)
Hiking
Minnesota by John Pukite (Information)
RAISING NONVIOLENT CHILDREN IN A VIOLENT WORLD by Michael Obsatz
(Help & Guidance)
The
Not So Big House: A Blueprint for the Way We Really Live by
Sarah Susanka (Nonfiction)
Cold
Comfort: Life at the Top of the Map by Barton Sutter (Creative
Nonfiction)
Valley
of Grass: Tallgrass Prairie and Parkland of the Red River Region
by Kim Alan Chapman (Nature)
Chased
by the Light: A 90-Day Journey by Jim Brandenburg (Illustrated
Book)
Building
Community, Keeping the Faith: German Catholic Vernacular Architecture
in a Rural Minnesota Parish by Fred W. Peterson (History)
A
Lake Superior Lawyer: A Biography of Chester Adgate Congdon
by Roy O. Hoover (Biography)
The
Talking of Hands: Unpublished Writing by New Rivers Press
Authors (Collected Works)
KOMARR: A MILES VORKOSIGAN ADVENTURE by Lois McMaster Bujold (Fantasy
& Science Fiction)
The
Witness of Combines by Kent Meyers (Memoir)
Iron
Lake by William Kent Krueger (Mystery)
Rainlight
by Alison McGhee (Novels & Short Stories)
THE GREEN TUXEDO by Janet A. Holmes (Poetry)
ROAR SHOCKS by David Rathman (Fine Press)
1998:
John
Quincy Adams: A Public Life, A Private Life by Paul C. Nagel
(Autobiography & Biography)
STOLEN DREAMS: PORTRAITS OF WORKING CHILDREN by David L. Parker
(Children's Nonfiction)
TANZANIA ON TUESDAY: WRITING BY AMERICAN WOMEN ABROAD, Kathleen
Coskran and C.W. Truesdale, editors (Collected Works)
NORTH ENOUGH: AIDS AND OTHER CLEAR-CUTS by Jan Zita Grover (Creative
Nonfiction)
FROM THE END OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY by John M. Ford (Fantasy
& Science Fiction)
Growing
Up Lutheran: What Does This Mean? by Janet Letnes Martin (Fun
& Humor)
TAKING CHARGE OF MY MIND AND BODY: A GIRL'S GUIDE TO OUTSMARTING
ALCOHOL, DRUGS, SMOKING AND EATING PROBLEMS by Gladys Folkers
(Help & Guidance)
Icy
Pleasures: Minnesota Celebrates Winter by Paul Clifford Larson
(History)
Connections
& Reflections: Mothers & Daughters in Their Own Light,
in Their Own Words by Catherine Koemptgen (Illustrated Books)
MINNESOTA BUSINESS ALMANAC: MINNESOTA'S GUIDE TO BUSINESS, 1997-1998
edition, by Greg Breining (Information)
Practice
to Deceive by David Housewright (Mystery & Detective)
A
Wild Neighborhood by John Henricksson (Nature)
CLEANING UP: THE STORY BEHIND THE BIGGEST LEGAL BONANZA OF OUR
TIME by David Lebedoff (Nonfiction)
FLOATING KINGDOM by George Rabasa (Novel)
THE FAR ISLANDS AND OTHER COLD PLACES: TRAVEL ESSAYS OF A VICTORIAN
LADY by Elizabeth Taylor (Personal Papers)
If
You Were Born a Kitten by Marion Dane Bauer (Picture Books)
Selected
Poems, 1965-1995 by Michael Dennis Browne (Poetry)
SMALL INVASIONS: STORIES by Beth Weatherby (Short Stories)
The
Broken Blade by William Durbin (Young Adult Fiction)
1997:
Aldo
Leopold: A Fierce Green Fire by Marybeth Lorbiecki (Biography
& History)
Snapshot:
America Discovers the Camera by Kenneth P. Czech (Children's
Nonfiction)
Changing
the Bully that Rules the World: Reading and Thinking About Ethics,
Carol Bly, editor (Collected Works)
The
Manipulative Child: How to Gain Control and Raise Resilient, Resourceful,
and Independent Kids by E. W. Swihart (Help & Guidance)
MINNESOTA'S ARCHITECT: THE LIFE AND WORK OF CLARENCE H. JOHNSTON
by Paul Clifford Larson (Illustrated Books)
Canoe
Country Flora: Plants and Trees of the North Woods and Boundary
Waters by Mark Stensaas (Information)
Patty's
Journey: From Orphanage to Adoption and Reunion by Donna Scott
Norling (Memoirs)
Tales
of the Old North Shore: Paintings and Companion Stories by
Howard Sivertson (Minnesota Places)
Silent
Words by Joan M. Drury (Mystery & Detective)
Far
From Tame: Reflections From the Heart of a Continent by Laurie
Allmann (Nature)
THE GARDEN OF EATING: FOOD, SEX AND THE HUNGER FOR MEANING by
Jeremy Iggers (Nonfiction)
Tales
of Burning Love by Louise Erdrich (Novels)
The
Heart Can Be Filled Anywhere on Earth: Minneota, Minnesota
by Bill Holm (Personal Voices)
Aunt
Nancy & Old Man Trouble by Phyllis Root (Picture Books
- author)
Mud
by Mary Lyn Ray (Picture Books - illustrator)
WAR BABY EXPRESS by Roseann Lloyd (Poetry)
GLASS HOUSES: STORIES by George Rabasa (Short Stories)
Sees
Behind Trees by Michael Dorris (Young Adult Fiction)
1996:
Jack
and Rochelle: A Holocaust Story of Love and Resistance by
Jack Sutin (Biography)
Bookworks:
Making Books by Hand by Gwenyth Swain (Children's Nonfiction)
Imagining
Home: Writing from the Midwest, Mark Vinz and Thom Tammaro,
editors (Collected Works)
EAGAN THE UNNATURAL by David Prill (Fantasy & Science Fiction)
Realistic
Oil Painting Techniques by Kurt Anderson (Help & Guidance)
Professor
Wellstone Goes to Washington by Dennis J. McGrath (History)
The
Architecture of Edwin Lundie by Dale Mulfinger (Illustrated
Book)
A
Concise Dictionary of Minnesota Ojibwe by Earl Nyholm (Information)
Minnesota
Gardens: An Illustrated History by Susan Davis Price (Minnesota)
Faint
Praise: A Jane Lawless Mystery by Ellen Hart (Mystery &
Detective)
Minnesota's
Natural Heritage: An Ecological Perspective by John R. Tester
(Nature)
Grass
Roots: The Universe of Home by Paul Gruchow (Nonfiction)
REVEALING THE UNKNOWN TO A PAIR OF LOVERS: STORIES by Ann Lundberg
Grunke (Novel & Short Stories)
Shepherdess:
Notes from the Field by Joan Jarvis Ellison (Personal Voices)
THE LONG EXPERIENCE OF LOVE by Jim Moore (Poetry)
Hometown
by Marsha Qualey (Young Adult Fiction)
Daddy
Played Music for the Cows by Maryann N. Weidt (Younger Children
- author)
Ellis
Island: Doorway to Freedom by Steven Kroll (Younger Children
- illustrator)
1995:
Eggs
in the Coffee, Sheep in the Corn: My 17 Years as a Farm Wife
by Marjorie Myers Douglas (Biography)
Sovietrek:
A Journey by Bicycle Across Russia by Dan Buettner (Children's
Nonfiction)
A COLLEGE OF MAGICS by Caroline Stevermer (Fantasy & Science
Fiction)
SEVENTEEN GRAMS OF SOUL by Emilio DeGrazia (Fiction)
SUICIDE: WHY? 85 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT SUICIDE by Adina
Wrobleski (Help & Guidance)
As
Seen on TV: The Visual Culture of Everyday Life in the 1950s
by Karal Ann Marling (History)
The
Shape of Things: The Art of Francis Lee Jaques by Patricia
Condon Johnston (Illustrated Book)
MINNESOTA JOB SEEKER'S SOURCEBOOK: THE COMPLETE STATEWIDE GUIDE
TO JOB-SEEKING SUPPORT SERVICES, Pati Gelfman, editor (Information)
A
Small Sacrifice: A Jane Lawless Mystery by Ellen Hart (Mystery
& Detective)
Amphibians
and Reptiles Native to Minnesota by Barney Oldfield (Nature)
Mother
Journeys: Feminists Write About Mothering, Martha Roth, editor
(Nonfiction)
Am
I Blue: Coming Out from the Silence, Marion Dane Bauer, editor
(Older Children)
Neither
Wolf Nor Dog: On Forgotten Roads with an Indian Elder by Kent
Nerburn (Personal Voices)
Nice
Fish: New and Selected Prose Poems by Louis Jenkins (Poetry)
IMANI IN THE BELLY by Deborah M. Newton Chocolate (Younger Children
[author & illustrator])
1994:
Minnesota Community of
the Book Special Award Honorees:
A
Guide to Minnesota Writers by Ron Barron
Minnesota's
Literary Visitors by John Theodore Flanagan
Discover
Minnesota: An Annotated Bibliography of Books for Children in
Grades K-9 by Marianne Miller Hudec
Inheriting
the Land: Contemporary Voices from the Midwest, Mark Vinz,
editor (Collected Works)
RING OF SWORDS by Eleanor Arnason (Fantasy & Science Fiction)
A
Place Where the Sea Remembers by Sandra Benitez (Fiction)
THE HIKE INTO THE SUN: MEMOIR OF AN AMERICAN SOLDIER CAPTURED
ON BATAAN IN 1942 AND IMPRISONED BY THE JAPANESE UNTIL 1945 by
Bernard T. FitzPatrick (History)
The
Lake Superior Images by Craig Blacklock (Illustrated Book)
WRITING FOR BUSINESS: HELPFUL, EASY-TO-APPLY ADVICE FOR EVERYONE
WHO WRITES ON THE JOB by Stephen Wilbers (Information)
BASIC NEEDS: A YEAR WITH STREET KIDS IN A CITY SCHOOL by Julie
Landsman (Minnesota)
BLACK DREAMS by Kate Green (Mystery & Detective)
News
From the Border: A Memoir by Jane Taylor McDonnell (Nonfiction)
Revolutions
of the Heart by Marsha Qualey (Older Children's Fiction)
To
the Top of the World: Adventures with Arctic Wolves by Jim
Brandenburg (Older Children's Nonfiction)
Walking
the Rez Road by Jim Northrup (Personal Voices)
The
Book of Names by Barton Sutter (Poetry)
Tracks
in the Wild by Betsy Bowen (Younger Children)
Sungura
& Leopard: Swahili Trickster Tale by Barbara Knutson (Younger
Children)
1993:
THE BEACON BOOK OF QUOTATIONS BY WOMEN, Rosalie Maggio, editor
(Collections)
Scandinavian
Feasts by Beatrice A. Ojankangas (Cuisine)
Winter
Roads, Summer Fields: Stories by Marjorie Dorner (Fiction)
The
Wild Gardener: The Life and Selected Writings of Eloise Butler
by Martha E. Hellander (Information)
The
Man Who Was Taller Than God by Harold Adams (Mystery &
Detective)
DRAGON WITHIN THE GATES: THE ONCE AND FUTURE AIDS EPIDEMIC by
Stephen C. Joseph (Nonfiction)
What's
Your Story? A Young Person's Guide to Writing Fiction by Marion
Dane Bauer (Older Children)
THE JOURNEY GOES ON by David Nimmer (Personal Narrative)
You
Won't Remember This: Poems by Michael Dennis Browne (Poetry)
Old
Black Fly by Jim Aylsworth (Younger Children)
1992:
THE GRAYWOLF ANTHOLOGY
EIGHT: THE NEW FAMILY, Scott Walker, editor (Anthologies)
Matriarch
of Conspiracy: Ruth von Kleist, 1867-1945 by Jane Pejsa (Biography)
Elsewhere
by Will Shetterly (Fantasy & Science Fiction)
My
Father's War and Other Stories by Barton Sutter (Fiction)
Walking
Minnesota by Mary Jo Malach (Information)
Native
Roots: How the Indians Enriched America by Jack Weatherford
(Nonfiction)
FACE TO FACE by Marion Dane Bauer (Older Children)
LONE DOG'S WINTER COUNT by Diane Glancy (Poetry)
The
Salamander Room by Anne Mazer (Younger Children)
1991:
Coming
Home Crazy: An Alphabet of China Essays by Bill Holm (Biography)
Dealing
with Dragons: The Enchanted Forest Chronicles, book 1 by Patricia
C. Wrede (Fantasy & Science Fiction)
The
Stone Canoe and Other Stories by John L. Peyton (Fiction)
HOW TO SAY IT: CHOICE WORDS, PHRASES, SENTENCES & PARAGRAPHS
FOR EVERY SITUATION by Rosalie Maggio (Information)
Freeze
Frame by Marjorie Dorner (Mystery)
The
Bear Guardian: Northwoods Tales and Meditations by Peter M.
Leschak (Nature)
The
Passionate, Accurate Story: Making Your Heart's Truth into Literature
by Carol Bly (Nonfiction)
Woodsong
by Gary Paulsen (Older Children)
The
Color of Mesabi Bones: Poems and Prose Poems by John Caddy
(Poetry)
How
the Guinea Fowl Got Its Spots: A Swahili Tale of Friendship
by Barbara Knutson (Younger Children)
Is
This a House for Hermit Crab? by Megan McDonald (Younger Children;
International Children's Book Award)
1990: no awards given
1989:
THE ARCTIC WOLF: LIVING WITH THE PACK by L. David Mech (Book Design
& Execution)
Going
the Moose Way Home by Jim Latimer (Children's)
A
Gravestone Made of Wheat: And Other Stories by Will Weaver
(Fiction)
Morning
Glory by LaVyrle Spencer (Genres)
Meant
to Be Read Out Loud by Susan Hauser (Minnesota)
Indian
Givers: How the Indians of the Americas Transformed the World
by Jack Weatherford (Nonfiction)
FREEDOM OF HISTORY: POEMS by James Moore (Poetry)
The
Sun, the Wind and the Rain by Lisa Westberg Peters (Younger
Children)
1988:
THE HIGH PRICE OF EVERYTHING: STORIES by Kathleen Coskran
The
Star Maiden: An Ojibway Tale Retold by Barbara Juster Esbensen
-
Spillville
by Patricia Hampl
Leaving
Home by Garrison Keillor
SELECTED POEMS, 1938-1988 by Thomas McGrath
Hatchet
by Gary Paulsen
Border
Country: The Quetico-Superior Wilderness by Craig Blacklock
(Book Design & Execution)
