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High Plains Book Awards

2013 High Plains Book Award Finalists Announced

The first-round readers for the High Plains Book Awards had the difficult task of selecting their favorites from among a record number of nominated books. Books nominated in more than one category were scored by separate readers in each category. The number of finalists per category may differ due to tied scores or clear breaks in scoring. The following books are the finalists for the 2013 Awards.

2012 Finalist Books:

Fiction

Canada

 The Round House
 The Royal Wulff Murders
Canada
Richard Ford
HarperCollins		 The Round House
Louise Erdrich
HarperCollins		 The Royal Wulff Murders
Keith McCafferty
Penguin Group USA

Nonfiction
 Deliverance From the Little Big Horn  Let Them Paddle  Visions and Voices  Wagons East
Deliverance From the Little Big Horn
Joan Nabseth Stevenson
University of Oklahoma Press
 Let Them Paddle
Alan Kesselheim
Fulcrum Publishing
 Visions and Voices: Montana's One Room Schoolhouses
Charlotte Caldwell
Barn Board Press
 Wagons East
Victoria Taylor
Your Nickel's Worth Publishing

Poetry
 I See My Love More Clearly From a Distance
  Nakoda Sky People  Notes From the Journey Westward
I See My Love More Clearly From a Distance
Nora Gould
Brick Books
 Nakoda Sky People
Minerva Allen
Many Voices Press
 Notes From the Journey Westward
Joe Wilkins
White Pine Press

First Book
The Anatomy of Edouard Beaupre
  The Boarding House  Fobbit
The Anatomy of Edouard Beaupre
Sarah Kathryn York
Coteau Books
 The Boarding House
Marcia Melton
Raven Publishing
 Fobbit
David Abrams
Grove/Atlantic

Woman Writer
 Blood and Salt  Deliverance From the Little Big Horn  The Miseducation of Cameron Post
Blood and Salt
Barbara Sapergia
Coteau Books
 Deliverance From the Little Big Horn
Joan Nabseth Stevenson
University of Oklahoma Press
 The Miseducation of Cameron Post
Emily M. Danforth
HarperCollins

Art & Photography
 The Diamond Willow Walking Stick  Montana Real Places Real People.jpg  The North American Journals of Prince Maximilien of Wied
The Diamond Willow Walking Stick: A Traditional Métis Story About Generosity
Leah Marie Dorion
Gabriel Dumont Institute
 Montana: Real Place, Real People
Alan P. Kesselheim & Thomas Lee
Companion Press
 The North American Journals of Prince Maximilien of Wied
Marsha V. Gallagher, editor
University of Oklahoma Press


Short Stories
 Dominant traits
  Western Taxidermy  What You Get At Home
Dominant Traits
Eric Freeze
Dufour Editions
 Western Taxidermy
Barb Howard
NeWest Press
 What You Get At Home
Dora Dueck
Turnstone Press

Culinary Book
Celebrating Home
  Food for the Gods
  Foodshed
Celebrating Home: A Handbook for Gracious Living
Christy Rost & Rock Souders
Bright Sky Press
 Food For the Gods
Karen Dudley
Turnstone Press
 Foodshed: An Edible Alberta Alphabet
Dee Hobsbawn-Smith
TouchWood Editions

Young Adult Book
 Dead Girl Moon  The Miseducation of Cameron Post  Outcasts of River Falls
Dead Girl Moon
Charlie Price
Farrar, Strauss & Giroux
 The Miseducation of Cameron Post
Emily M. Danforth
HarperCollins		 Outcasts of River Falls
Jacqueline Guest
Coteau Books
High Plains Book Award
Award Sponsors
Billings Public Library Board of Trustees, Billings Public Library Foundation, Stella Fong & Joe Dillard, Friends of the Billings Public Library, Sharon Ilie, MSU-Billings, The Ucross Foundation, The Writer's Voice of the Billings Family YMCA, Yellowstone Art Museum, and the Zonta Club of Billings.

About the High Plains Book Awards
The Billings Public Library Board has established the High Plains Book Awards to recognize regional authors and/or literary works which examine and reflect life on the High Plains including the states of Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, Nebraska, Colorado, and Kansas, and the Canadian provinces of Alberta, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan.

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