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2010 Oklahoma Book Award Finalists
Children/Young Adults
Annie Glover is Not a Tree Lover—Darlene Bailey Beard Farrar—Straus, Giroux
For a Girl Becoming—Joy Harjo—The University of Arizona
Paris Pan Takes the Dare—Cynthea Liu—G.P. Putnam's Sons
Time of the Witches—Anna Myers—Walker & Company
Chicken Dance—Tami Sauer—Sterling Publishing Company
Night Fires—George Edward Stanley
Design and Illustration
Lanterns on the Prairie: The Blackfeet Photographs
of Walter McClintock—
Eric H. Anderson and Karen Hayes-Thumann—University
of Oklahoma Press
Skirvin—Carl Brune—Full Circle Press
Roots from
the Cherokees, Promises for our Future: The Chronicle of Northeastern
State University
Buffy Cooper—Mullerhaus Publishing Group
Willard Stone—Carol Haralson—University of Tulsa/Gilcrease Museum
Sonic: The History of America's Drive-In—Skip McKinstry—Cottonwood Publications
Where to Sleep—Kandy Radzinski—Sleeping Bear Press
Fiction
Nemesis: The Final Case of Eliot Ness—William Bernhardt—Ballantine Books
Confessions of a Former Rock Queen—Kirk Bjornsgaard—4RV Publishing
The Sky Took Him—Donis Casey—Poisoned Pen Press
The Wind Come Sweeping—Marcia Preston—Mira Books
The Yard Dog—Sheldon Russell—Minotaur Books
The Sound of Honor—Jim Stovall—Hawk Publishing
Non-fiction
Sonic: The History of America's Drive-In—Bob L. Blackburn—Cottonwood Publications
Divided Hearts: The Presbyterian Journey Through Oklahoma History—Michael Cassity and Danney Goble—University of Oklahoma Press
Indian Tribes of Oklahoma: A Guide—Blue Clark—University of Oklahoma Press
Coach Tommy Thompson and the Boys of Sequoyah—Patti Dickinson—University of Oklahoma Press
Tar Creek: A History of the Quapaw Indians, the
World's Largest Lead and Zinc Discovery, and the Tar Creek Superfund
Site
Larry G. Johnson—Tate Publishing & Enterprise
Choctaw Crime and Punishment, 1884–1907—Devon Abbott Mihesuah—University of Oklahoma Press
Skirvin—Jack Money and Steve Lackmeyer—Full Circle Press
Another Hot Oklahoma Night: A Rock and Roll Story—Jeff Moore and Larry O'Dell—Oklahoma Historical Society
Thomas Gilcrease—Randy Ramer, Carole Klein, Kimberly Roblin, Eric Singleton, Anne Morand, Gary Moore, and April Miller—University of Tulsa/Gilcrease Museum
Poetry
Fault Line: Vulnerable Landscapes—Karen Coody Cooper—Soddenbank Press
Contrapuntal—Carol Hamilton—Finishing Line Press
Work is Love Made Visible: Poetry and Family Photographs—Jeanetta Calhoun Mish—West End Press
In the Presence of the Sun: Stories and Poems, 1961–1991—N. Scott Momaday—University of New Mexico Press
Too Long a Solitude—James Ragan—University of Oklahoma Press
After the Aftermath—Tenata Treital—Out On a Limb Publishing
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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