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The Minnesota Book Awards is a year-long program that connects readers and writers throughout Minnesota with the stories of our neighbors.
The process begins in the fall with book submissions and continues through winter with two rounds of judging. Winners are announced at the annual Minnesota Book Awards Ceremony each spring. Woven throughout the season are various activities and events that promote the authors and connect the world of Minnesota books – writers, artists, illustrators, publishers, editors, and more – to readers throughout the state.
A full list of winners and nominees can be found here: https://thefriends.org/minnesota-book-awards/minnesota-book-awards-winners/
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Children's Literature
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Big Papa and the Time Machine
Daniel Bernstrom - HarperCollins
Format: Hardcover
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Discover the true meaning of being brave in this tender and whimsical picture book from Daniel Bernstrom (One Day in the Eucalytus, Eucalyptus Tree) and Shane Evans (Chocolate Me!) that follows a grandfather and grandson who travel through time in a beloved 1952 Ford.A little boy who lives... |
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General Nonfiction
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Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World's Largest Owl
Jonathan C. Slaght - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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A field scientist and conservationist tracks the elusive Blakiston's Fish Owl in the forbidding reaches of eastern RussiaI saw my first Blakiston's fish owl in the Russian province of Primorye, a coastal talon of land hooking south into the belly of Northeast Asia . . . No scientist... |
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Genre Fiction
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The Deep, Deep Snow
Brian Freeman - Blackstone Publishing
Format: Paperback
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In an intense, emotional mystery that spans a decade in the life of a small town, bestselling author Brian Freeman brings us an unforgettable heroine who discovers that the dead may sometimes be easier to rescue than the living. Deputy Shelby Lake was abandoned as a baby, saved by a stranger... |
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Memoir & Creative Nonfiction
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Tell Me Your Names and I Will Testify: Essays
Carolyn Holbrook
Format: Paperback
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Carolyn Holbrook's life is peopled with ghosts - of the girl she was, the selves she shed and those who have caught up to her, the wounded and kind and malevolent spirits she's encountered, and also the beloved souls she's lost and those she never knew who beg to have their... |
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Middle Grade Literature
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What If a Fish
Anika Fajardo - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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A whimsical and unflinchingly honest generational story of family and identity where hats turn into leeches, ghosts blow kisses from lemon trees, and the things you find at the end of your fishing line might not be a fish at all.Half-Colombian Eddie Aguado has never really felt Colombian.... |
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Minnesota Nonfiction
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Minnesotas Geologist: The Life of Newton Horace Winchell
Sue Leaf - Univ Of Minnesota Press
Format: Hardcover
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Winner of the 2021 Minnesota Book Award for Minnesota Nonfiction. The story of the scientist who first mapped Minnesotas geology, set against the backdrop of early scientific inquiry in the state. At twenty, Newton Horace Winchell declared, "I know nothing about rocks." At twenty-five,... |
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Novel & Short Story
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Sharks in the Time of Saviors: A Novel
Kawai Strong Washburn - MCD
Format: Hardcover
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"Sharks in the Time of Saviors is the story of a family, a people, and a legend, all wrapped in one. Faith and grief, rage and love, this book pulses with all of it. Kawai Strong Washburn makes his debut with a wealth of talent and a true artist's eye." -- Victor LaValle,... |
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Poetry
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Homie: Poems
Danez Smith - Graywolf Press
Format: Paperback
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FINALIST FOR THE 2020 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR POETRYFINALIST FOR THE 2021 NAACP IMAGE AWARD FOR POETRY. Danez Smith is our president. Homie is Danez Smiths magnificent anthem about the saving grace of friendship. Rooted in the loss of one of Smiths close friends, this book... |
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Young Adult Literature
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My Eyes Are Up Here
Laura Zimmermann - Dutton Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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Insightful, frank, and funny, My Eyes Are Up Here is a razor-sharp debut about a teenage girl struggling to rediscover her sense of self in the year after her body decided to change all the rules.A "monomial" is a simple algebraic expression consisting of a single term. 30H, for example.... |
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