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Minnesota Book Awards
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A selection of the winners in fiction categories from the past ten years. For more information, go to Minnesota Book Awards.
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2012 Thompson, Richard A. Big Wheat : a Tale of Bindlestiffs and Blood Award for Genre Fiction After he comes across a stranger digging a grave in an open field during the time of harvest in 1919, Charlie Krueger must find some way to live long enough to stop a heartless killer called the Windmill Man from killing again. 2011 Adult Fiction Book | |
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2012 Smith, Gregory Blake The Law of Miracles : and other Stories Award for Novel & Short Story Writing with a remarkable range of invention, Gregory Blake Smith has created a world in which his characters navigate between the everyday and the extraordinary: an aged Russian woman who lives simultaneously in the St. Petersburg of iPods and BMWs and in the starving Leningrad of the Siege; a Venetian art conservator who loves the women of the Renaissance paintings he restores but cannot bear the touch of the woman at his side; a down-and-out slot-machine technician who calculates the probability of his wife's dying. 2011 Adult Fiction Book | |
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2011 Webb, Wendy The Tale of Halcyon Crane : a Novel Award for Genre Fiction A young woman travels alone to a remote island to uncover a past she never knew was hers in this thrilling modern ghost story. 2010 Adult Fiction Book | |
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2011 Reimringer, John Vestments Award for Novel & Short Story Just a few years after his ordination as a priest in the Catholic Church, James Dressler finds himself attracted again to his first love, Betty Garcia, and is torn by his opposing desires for the Church and for Betty. 2010 Adult Fiction Book | |
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2010 James, Marlon The Book of Night Women Award for Novel & Short Story Lilith was born into slavery on a Jamaican sugar plantation at the end of the eighteenth century. Even at her birth, the slave women around her recognize a dark power that they--and she--will come to both revere and fear. The Night Women, as they call themselves, have long been plotting a slave revolt, and as Lilith comes of age and reveals the extent of her power, they see her as the key to their plans. But when she begins to understand her own feelings and desires and identity, Lilith starts to push at the edges of what is imaginable for the life of a slave woman in Jamaica, and risks becoming the conspiracy's weak link. 2009 Adult Fiction Book JAMES | |
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2010 Housewright, David Jelly's Gold Award for Genre Fiction Rushmore McKenzie, a retired St. Paul policeman and unexpected millionaire, often works as an unlicensed P.I., doing favors as it suits him. When graduate students Ivy Flynn and Josh Berglund show up with a story about $8 million in missing stolen gold from the '30s, McKenzie is intrigued. But they aren't the only ones looking. So are a couple of two-bit thugs, a woman named Heavenly, a local big-wig, and others. When Berglund is shot dead outside of Ivy's apartment, the treasure hunt turns unexpectedly deadly. McKenzie is looking for more than a legendary stash from seventy-five years ago, he's looking for a killer and the long hidden truth behind Jelly's gold. 2009 Adult Mystery Book HOUSEWR | |
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2009 Kramer, Julie Stalking Susan Award for Genre Fiction Investigative journalist Riley Spartz discovers that a serial killer may be targeting women named Susan and killing one on the same day of each year, and takes on an obstinate news director and a politician in fear of negative publicity for the city of Minneapolis as she launches a bold campaign to find the murderer. 2008 Adult Mystery Book KRAMER | |
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2009 Erdrich, Louise The Plague of Doves Award for Novel & Short Story Unaware of a violent event that marked the beginning of her mixed ancestry, ambitious young Evelina Harp, a part-Ojibwe, part-white girl prone to falling hopelessly in love, learns disturbing truths from her gifted storyteller grandfather, while a sentimental judge weighs the legacy of a century-old crime as reflected by his own love life. 2008 Adult Fiction Book ERDRICH | |
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2008 Ping, Wang The Last Communist Virgin: Stories Award for Novel & Short Story "From the restaurants of New York's Chinatown to the retail emporium of Bergdorf Goodman, and from remote Chinese military outposts to the streets of Beijing, these stories open a window into the rapid transformations of an ancient culture. As the characters struggle to find their way, a young girl discovers love amidst a sea of angry Red Guards, emigres navigate New York's relentless rat race, and an old man returns to a Beijing he doesn't recognize on a mission to restore his son-in-law's flagging honor. In the finale, the origins of humanity and its reckless dash toward an apocalyptic future are distilled into a love story with far-reaching implications." [Book Jacket] 2007 Adult Fiction Book WANG | |
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2008 Krueger, William Kent Thunder Bay: A Cork O'Connor Mystery Award for Genre Fiction Leaving behind a stressful law enforcement career in the hopes of becoming a private investigator in his small Minnesota hometown, Cork O'Connor is asked by an Ojibwe healer to help him find the son the man fathered years earlier, a case that culminates in an attempt on the Ojibwe's life. 2007 Adult Mystery Book KRUEGER | |
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2007 Smith, Maureen Millea When Charlotte Comes Home Award for Novel & Short Story Fred is a sensitive young man growing up in a Catholic family in Omaha when the death of his spunky younger sister causes a deep and far-reaching affect on his entire family and broader community. With the bleak backdrop of the 60s and 70s, Fred looks back on his early, formative years and his own sexual awakening and coming of age as a young gay man. 2006 Adult Fiction Book SMITH | |
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2007 Krueger, William Kent Copper River: A Cork O'Connor Mystery Award for Genre Fiction On the run from hitmen, sheriff Cork O'Connor hides out at an old resort, owned by his cousin Jewell DuBois, on the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. 2006 Adult Mystery Book KRUEGER | |
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2006 Erdrich, Louise The Painted Drum Award for Novel and Short Story Discovering a cache of valuable Native American artifacts while appraising a family estate in New Hampshire, Faye Travers investigates the history of a ceremonial drum, which possesses spiritual powers and changes the lives of people who encounter it. 2005 Adult Fiction Book ERDRICH | |
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2006 Hart, Ellen The Iron Girl Award for Popular Fiction While sorting through the belongings of her late lover, Christine Kane, Minneapolis restaurateur Jane Lawless discovers a gun that could hold the clue to Christine's death as well as the murders of three members of the Simoneau family. 2005 Adult Mystery Book HART | |
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2005 Meyers, Kent The Work of Wolves Award for Novel and Short Story Carson Fielding is well respected for his ability to train horses, but after reluctantly agreeing to work for a wealthy rancher he despises, he finds his loathing supplanted by his growing desire for his employer's wife. 2004 Adult Fiction Book MEYERS | |
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2005 Erickson, K. J. Alone at Night Award for Popular Fiction Exhausted and burnt-out after dealing with a series of major homicides, Mars Bahr and his partner are assigned to investigate the unsolved, sixteen-year-old case of a missing girl, but their search for answers uncovers the subsequent death of the girl's best friend, the disappearance of the case's two primary witnesses, and unexpected danger threatening those closest to them. 2004 Adult Mystery Book ERICKSON | |
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2004 O'Connor, Sheila Where No Gods Came Award for Novel and Short Story In a compelling novel about the difficulties of assimilation, the author of "Tokens of Grace" traces the life of a young girl caught in a web of lies designed to protect her. 2003 Adult Fiction Book O'CONNOR | |
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2004 Tracy, P. J. Monkeewrench Award for Popular Fiction Grace McBride and the team at her software company are horrified when events in their murder mystery computer game are replicated in the real world by a ruthless killer, a situation that prompts them to analyze the game in order to anticipate his next move. 2003 Adult Mystery Book TRACY | |
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2003 Labiner, Norah Miniatures Award for Fiction - Novel or Collection of Short Stories by a Single Author Young, impetuous, and possessing a passionate, vulnerable intellect, American Fern Jacobi is traveling in Ireland when she finds work as a live-in housekeeper to famous and reclusive writers Owen and Brigid Lieb....Amidst the Liebs’s riddled and deceitful world, Fern forges an alliance with Brigid, Owen’s young and beautiful second wife. When the two share the discovery of a controversial bundle of hidden letters, Fern not only unearths answers to the first wife’s suicide, but also to her own past. 2002 Adult Fiction Book LABINER | |
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2003 Sandford, John Mortal Prey Award for Genre Nearly killed in a hit attempt, retired top hitwoman Clara Rinker goes into hiding, prompting Lucas Davenport, a one-time target of Clara's, to assist the FBI and DEA in tracking her down before her old bosses in the St. Louis mob and a Mexican drug lord get to her first. 2002 Adult Fiction Book SANDFOR | |
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