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2013 Oklahoma Book Award Finalists
Children/Young Adults
The Immortal Von B.—M. Scott Carter—The RoadRunner Press
Chikasha Stories, Volume Two: Shared Voices—Glenda Galvan—Chickasaw Press
Voices of the Dust Bowl—Sherry Garland—Pelican Publishing
Falcon—Tim Jessell—Random House
George: George Washington Our Founding Father—Frank Keating—Simon & Schuster
Arise—Tara Hudson—HarperCollins
While He Was Away—Karen Schreck—Sourcebooks, Inc.
Bawk & Roll—Tammi Sauer—Sterling Publishing Company
Princess in Training—Tammi Sauer—Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
The Twelve Days of Christmas in Oklahoma—Tammi Sauer—Sterling Publishing Company
Design/Illustration
Becoming the Village Potter: The Life of Linn L. Phelan—designed by Eric H. Anderson—Quail Creek Editions
Oklahoma Clay: Frankhoma Pottery—designed by Eric H. Anderson—Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art/University of Oklahoma
Operation Scissortail: Building a New Home for Devon Energy, Building a New Heart for OKC—designed by Carl Brune—Full Circle Press
Woody Crumbo—designed by Carol Haralson, Robert S. Cross photographer—Gilcrease Museum/University of Tulsa
The James T. Bialac Native American Art Collection—designed by Carol Haralson and Tony Roberts—Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art/University of Oklahoma Press
Spring Will Come: The Life of Clem McSpadden—designed by Skip McKinstry—Oklahoma Heritage Association
George: George Washington, Our Founding Father—illustrated by Mike Wimmer—Simon & Schuster
Woody’s Road: Woody Guthrie’s Letters Home, Drawings, Photos, and Other Unburied Treasures—designed by Paige Shepard—Paradigm Publishers
Fiction
Vermeer’s Lady in Waiting—Lolly Anderson—Ionic Press
Wrong Hill to Die On: An Alafair Tucker Mystery—Donis Casey—Poisoned Pen Press
Hard Twisted—C. Joseph Greaves—Bloomsbury
Crimes of Redemption—Linda McDonald—The Roadrunner Press
Stardust—Carla Stewart—Faith Words
Five O’Clock Follies: What’s a Woman Doing Here, Anyway?—Theasa Tuohy—Calliope Press
Playing with Matches—Carolyn Wall—Bantam Books
Non-fiction
Route 66 Still Kicks: Driving America’s Main Street—Rick Antonson�Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
Opala: In Faithful Service to the Law—Bob Burke and Ryan Leonard�Oklahoma Heritage Association
Operation Scissortail: Building a New Home for Devon Energy, Building a New Heart for OKC—Steve Lackmeyer and Jack Money�Full Circle Press
Woody Crumbo—Minisa Crumbo Halsey, Ruthe Blalock Jones, Carole Klein, Robert Perry, and Kimberly Roblin�Gilcrease Museum/University of Tulsa
Twenty Thousand Mornings: An Autobiography—John Joseph Mathews, edited by Susan Kalter�University of Oklahoma Press
Floyd Patterson: The Fighting Life of Boxing’s Invisible Champion—W.K. Stratton�Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Terrorism TV: Popular Entertainment in Post-9/11 America—Stacy Takacs—University Press of Kansas
Canvas of Clay: Seven Centuries of Hopi Ceramic Art—Edwin L. Wade and Allan Cooke�El Otro Lado
The Second Battle of Cabin Creek: Brilliant Victory—Steven L. Warren—The History Press
Poetry
Karma Crisis: New and Selected Poems—Nathan Brown—Mezcalita Press
Indios—Linda Hogan—Wings Press
Nocturnes and Sometimes, Even I—Carl Sennhenn—Village Books Press
Cowboys and Cantos—Ron Wallace—TJMF
The Smell of Good Mud—Lauren Zuniga—Write Bloody Publishing
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