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| The Minnesota Book Award winners |
We are excited to share the winners of the Minnesota Book Awards.
Children's Literature: "The Rabbit Listened" by Cori Doerrfeld
"The Rabbit Listened" tells the story of Taylor, who doesn't know where to turn after a terrible loss. Many animals try to tell Taylor how to process this loss, but they fail. Then the rabbit arrives — and just listens, which is exactly what Taylor needs.
Middle Grade Literature: "The Key to Every Thing" by Pat Schmatz
"The Key to Every Thing" tells the story of Tash, who returns home from camp to find that one of the only people she has ever counted on, Cap'n Jackie, is gone. Tash needs her — and the key that Cap'n Jackie insists has magic in it. Is that true? And can Tash use it to get her back?
Young Adult Literature: "Dream Country" by Shannon Gibney
"Dream Country" shares the story of five generations of young people from one Liberian-American family as they struggle to create lives for themselves on two continents, chasing an elusive dream across centuries.
Genre Fiction: "The Voice Inside" by Brian Freeman
In "The Voice Inside," homicide inspector Frost Easton discovers a terrible lie: his closest friend planted false evidence to put a serial killer behind bars. With his sister's killer back on the streets, Frost has to stay ahead of a killer who's determined to strike again.
General Nonfiction: "Doing Harm" by Maya Dusenbery
Dusenbery provides a comprehensive, accessible look at how sexism in medicine harms women today, bringing together scientific and sociological research, interviews with doctors and researchers, and personal stories from women across the country.
Memoir and Creative Nonfiction: "Chinese-Ness" by Wing Young Huie
Is Chinese identity personal, national, cultural, political? Using documentary and conceptual photographic strategies, Huie explores the meaning of Chinese-ness in his home state of Minnesota, throughout the U.S., and in China. Part meta-memoir and part actual memoir, "Chinese-ness" reframes today's conversations about race and identity.
Minnesota Nonfiction""The Crusade for Forgotten Souls: Reforming Minnesota's Mental Institutions, 1946-1954" by Susan Bartlett Foote
Foote recounts Minnesota's reform movement that broke the stigma surrounding mental illness, publicized the painful truth about the state's asylums, and resulted in the first legislative steps toward a modern mental health system.
Poetry: "GeNtry!fication: or the scene of the crime" by Chaun Webster
Webster investigates race and engages the question of absence, and how to archive what is missing from the landscape — particularly as communities watch as neighborhoods once populated with familiar presences dissolve amid redevelopment and its linked colonial logic.
Novel and Short Story: "Laurentian Divide" by Sarah Stonich
"Laurentian Divide" returns to the northern Minnesota town of Hatchet Inlet and picks up where Stonich's previous novel "Vacationland" left off, providing a poignant portrayal of life on the edge in border country. |
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Amanda Kolson Hurley is well-acquainted with suburbia's many negative stereotypes. But in a new book, she asks us to take a look at what is possible in this realm when the human spirit is at its best.
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 | | 3 young adult novels to help you out of hibernation | "Descendant of the Crane" by Joan He
"Wicked Saints" by Emily A. Duncan
"White Rose" by Kip Wilson |
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It's getting too nice to stay inside, but when you venture out into the sunshine, be sure to take a good book with you. And if young adult fiction is your favorite, we've got three great spring reads.
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 | | Court life is murder in 'The Poison Bed' | "The Poison Bed" a novel by Elizabeth Fremantle |
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Elizabeth Fremantle's twisty, deceptive new novel is based on the real-life story of the Earl and Countess of Somerset, who were convicted in the murder of a friend-turned-enemy in 1616.
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