The Friends of St Paul Public Library has just published this list of finalists for this year’s Minnesota Book Awards
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CHILDREN’S LITERATURE Sponsored by Books for Africa
A Different Pond by Bao Phi, illustrated by Thi Bui
(Capstone Young Readers/Capstone*)
— Mighty Moby by Ed Young, text by Barbara DaCosta
(Little, Brown Books for Young Readers/Hachette Book Group)
— Round by Joyce Sidman, illustrated by Taeeun Yoo
(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
— The Shape of the World: A Portrait of Frank Lloyd Wright
by K. L. Going, illustrated by Lauren Stringer
(Beach Lane Books/Simon & Schuster)
GENERAL NONFICTION Sponsored by College of Saint Benedict/
Saint John’s University
Alice in France:The World War I Letters of Alice M. O’Brien
by Nancy O’Brien Wagner
(Minnesota Historical Society Press*)
— The First and Only Book of Sack: 36 Years of Cartoons for the Star Tribune by Steve Sack
(Star Tribune Media Co.*)
— Fortress America: How We Embraced Fear and Abandoned Democracy by Elaine Tyler May
(Basic Books/Hachette Book Group)
— Mountain Ranch by Michael Crouser
(University of Texas Press)
GENRE FICTION Sponsored by Macalester College
The Dark Net by Benjamin Percy
(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
— The End of Temperance Dare by Wendy Webb
(Lake Union Publishing)
— Nothing Stays Buried by P. J. Tracy
(G. P. Putnam’s Sons/Penguin Random House)
— Sulfur Springs by William Kent Krueger
(Atria Books/Simon & Schuster)
MEMOIR & CREATIVE NONFICTION Sponsored by Faegre Baker Daniels
Give a Girl a Knife by Amy Thielen
(Clarkson Potter/Crown Publishing)
— It Won’t Be Easy: An Exceedingly Honest (and Slightly Unprofessional) Love Letter to Teaching by Tom Rademacher
(University of Minnesota Press*)
— Marcel’s Letters: A Font and the Search for One Man’s Fate
by Carolyn Porter
(Skyhorse Publishing)
— Onigamiising: Seasons of an Ojibwe Year by Linda LeGarde Grover
(University of Minnesota Press*)
MIDDLE GRADE LITERATURE Sponsored by Education Minnesota
A Crack in the Sea by H. M. Bouwman
(G. P. Putnam’s Sons/Penguin Random House)
— The End of the Wild by Nicole Helget
(Little, Brown and Company/Hachette Book Group)
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Isaac the Alchemist: Secrets of Isaac Newton, Reveal’d
by Mary Losure
(Candlewick Press)
— Rooting for Rafael Rosales by Kurtis Scaletta
(Albert Whitman & Company)
MINNESOTA NONFICTION Sponsored by Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota
A Bag Worth a Pony: The Art of the Ojibwe Bandolier Bag
by Marcia G. Anderson
(Minnesota Historical Society Press*)
— Got to Be Something Here: The Rise of the Minneapolis Sound
by Andrea Swensson
(University of Minnesota Press*)
— Miles Lord: The Maverick Judge Who Brought Corporate America to Justice by Roberta Walburn
(University of Minnesota Press*)
— Sights, Sounds, Soul: The Twin Cities Through the Lens of Charles Chamblis by Davu Seru, photography by Charles Chamblis
(Minnesota Historical Society Press*)
NOVEL & SHORT STORY Sponsored by Fitzgerald in Saint Paul
Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich
(HarperCollins Publishers)
— Stories for a Lost Child by Carter Meland
(Michigan State University Press)
— The Through by A. Rafael Johnson
(Jaded Ibis Press)
— What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky
by Lesley Nneka Arimah
(Riverhead Books/Penguin Random House)
POETRY Sponsored by Wellington Management, Inc.
Autopsy
by Donte Collins (Button Poetry*)
— Curator of Ephemera at the New Museum
for Archaic Media by Heid E. Erdrich
(Michigan State University Press)
— Solve for Desire by Caitlin Bailey
(Milkweed Editions*)
— Thousand Star Hotel by Bao Phi
(Coffee House Press*)
YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE Sponsored by Brainfuse
The Exo Project by Andrew DeYoung
(Boyds Mills Press/Highlights)
— The Last Thing You Said by Sara Biren
(Amulet Books/Abrams)
— Thief’s Cunning by Sarah Ahiers
(HarperTeen/HarperCollins Publishers)
— Things I’m Seeing Without You by Peter Bognanni