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2021 Finalists and Winners of the Minnesota Book Awards: Adult Categories
By Scout & Morgan Books
By Scout & Morgan Books
The annual Minnesota Book Awards is a project of The Friends of the St. Paul Public Library. Winners were announced on Thursday, April 20, 2021. These wonderful books represent the "best of the best" in their respective categories! Winners are noted below. For more information about the award, visit https://thefriends.org/minnesota-book-awards/
Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World's Largest Owl
Jonathan Slaght
$28.00 $26.04General Nonfiction WINNER!
A Woman's War, Too: Women at Work During World War II
Virginia Wright-Peterson
$19.95 $18.55Emilie Buchwald Award for Minnesota Nonfiction
Daybreak Woman: An Anglo-Dakota Life
Jane Lamm Carroll
$18.95 $17.62Emilie Buchwald Award for Minnesota Nonfiction
Somewhere in the Unknown World: A Collective Refugee Memoir
Kao Kalia Yang
$17.99 $16.73Memoir & Creative Nonfiction
Minnesota's Geologist: The Life of Newton Horace Winchell
Sue Leaf
$29.95 $27.85Emilie Buchwald Award for Minnesota Nonfiction WINNER!
The Language Warrior's Manifesto: How to Keep Our Languages Alive No Matter the Odds
Anton Treuer
$18.95 $17.62General Nonfiction
How the Streets Were Made: Housing Segregation and Black Life in America
Yelena Bailey
$32.20General Nonfiction
100 Cookies: The Baking Book for Every Kitchen, with Classic Cookies, Novel Treats, Brownies, Bars, and More
Sarah Kieffer
$27.50 $25.58General Nonfiction
Elizabeth Scheu Close: A Life in Modern Architecture
Jane King Hession
$39.95Emilie Buchwald Award for Minnesota Nonfiction
Tell Me Your Names and I Will Testify: Essays
Carolyn Holbrook
$18.95 $17.62Memoir & Creative Nonfiction WINNER!