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2009 Oklahoma Book Award Finalists
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Children/Young Adults
Chosen—P.C. and Kristin Cast—St. Martin’s Press
On a Road in Africa—Kim Doner—Tricycle Press
It Wasn’t Much: Ten True Tales of Oklahoma Heroes—Jana Hausburg—Forty-Sixth Star Press
The Trial of Standing Bear—Frank Keating—Oklahoma Heritage Association
Spy—Anna Myers—Walker and Company
The Spectacular Now—Tim Tharp—Random House
Poetry
Lessons From An Oklahoma Girlhood—Dorothy Alexander—Village Books Press
Two Tables Over—Nathan Brown—
Antidotes & Home Remedies—Jim Chastain—Village Books Press
Shots On—Carol Hamilton—Finishing Line Press
Rounding the Human Corners—Linda Hogan—Coffee House Press
Non-fiction
Oklahoma: A History—W. David Baird and Danney Goble—University of Oklahoma Press
A Letter to America—David Boren—University of Oklahoma Press
Only in Oklahoma—Gene Curtis—World Publishing Company
The Road to Monticello: The Life and Mind of Thomas Jefferson—Kevin J. Hayes—Oxford University Press
The Chouteaus—Stan Hoig—University of New Mexico Press
Grappling with Demon Rum: The Cultural Struggle Over Liquor in Early Oklahoma—James E. Klein—University of Oklahoma Press
In Reckless Hands: Skinner v. Oklahoma and the Near Triumph of American Eugenics—Victoria F. Nourse—W.W. Norton
Full Court Quest: The Girls from Shaw Indian School, Basketball Champions of the World—Linda Peavy and Ursula Smith—University of Oklahoma Press
The Nez Perces in Indian Territory—J. Diane Pearson—University of Oklahoma Press
Hunting the American West—Richard C. Rattenbury—Boone and Crockett Club
Design and Illustration
Juxtapositions: Brunel Faris and the Visual Arts in Oklahoma City—Carl Brune—Full Circle Press
On a Road in Africa—Kim Doner—Tricycle Press
Charles Faudree Interiors—Debra McQuiston—Gibbs Smith
They Know Who They Are—Mike and Martha Larsen—Chickasaw Press
How We Lived: A Pictorial History of the Places Oklahomans Have Called Home—Holley Mangham—Oklahoma Housing Finance Agency
What Dogs Want for Christmas—Kandy Radzinski—Sleeping Bear Press
Placing Memory: A Photographic Exploration of Japanese American Internment—Todd Stewart—University of Oklahoma Press
The Trial of Standing Bear—Mike Wimmer—Oklahoma Heritage Association
Fiction
People of the Whale—Linda Hogan—W.W. Norton
Made in the USA—Billie Letts—Grand Central Publishing
Trudy’s Promise—Marcia Preston—Mira Books
To Honor the Dead—Joseph Shaw—University of New Mexico Press
The Black Hand—Will Thomas—Simon & Schuster
Sweeping Up Glass—Carolyn Wall—Poisoned Pen Press
The Oklahoma Center for the Book, sponsor of the Oklahoma Book Award competition, is a non-profit, 501-c-3 organization located in the Oklahoma Department of Libraries. Established in 1986 as an outreach program of the Library of Congress, the Oklahoma Center was the fourth such state center formed. It is governed by a volunteer board of directors from across the state.
The mission of the Oklahoma Center for
the Book is
to
promote the work of Oklahoma authors,
to promote the
literary heritage of the state, and
to encourage reading
for pleasure by Oklahomans of all ages.
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