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Midwest Book Awards winners

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2022 Finalists: Design Categories VIEW LIST (8 BOOKS)
Dear Heroin: A Memoir of Goodbyes
Bellies to the Sky: A Bedtime Breathwork Book
Charles's Bridge
The Legend of Jet the Gerbil: Could Be the Greatest Gerbil Story Ever Told
Spirit of the Cheetah: A Somali Tale
A Peacemaker for Warring Nations: The Founding of the Iroquois League
The Birdman of Koshkonong: The Life of Naturalist Thure Kumlien
Fat Moons and Hunger Moons: The Turn of the Seasons for Northwoods Natives
2022 Finalists: Poetry VIEW LIST (10 BOOKS)
In Plains Sight
Gun/Shy
The Trouble with Daydream: Collected and New Poems
Alien Miss
There Are Trans People Here
A Fine Yellow Dust
Spit
Dead Dad Jokes
The Last Unkillable Thing
Essential Voices: Poetry of Iran and Its Diaspora
2022 Finalists: Children's Categories VIEW LIST (7 BOOKS)
The Fishermen, the Horse, and the Sea
That They Lived: African Americans Who Changed the World
The Legend of Jet the Gerbil: Could Be the Greatest Gerbil Story Ever Told
The Nodders: What! You Don't Want to Nap?
A Tale as Tall as Jacob: Misadventures with My Brother
Mystery Horse at Oak Lane Stable (Book 1 of 3)
Bellies to the Sky: A Bedtime Breathwork Book
2022 Finalists: Fiction VIEW LIST (15 BOOKS)
The Blondes of Wisconsin, 1
Call Me Athena: Girl from Detroit
How It Happens
A Driftless Murder
Death To The Dealers
Hiro's War
South of Luck
Deer Season
Murder Book: A Graphic Memoir of a True Crime Obsession
In My Heart: The Adoption Story Project
Boots and Bulls: Thrown by Love-Book 1
Burning Bridges
Don't Let the Music Die
Evil Alive: Book 2 in the Circle of Six Series
Just Bart
2022 Finalists: Nonfiction VIEW LIST (33 BOOKS)
Up North in Michigan: A Portrait of Place in Four Seasons
We Do This 'Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
The Inclusive Leader: Taking Intentional Action for Justice and Equity
Shalom: Our Search for Peace in a Troubled World
The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth
The Eye of the Heart: A New Translation with Selected Letters
Bicycling Through Paradise: Historical Rides Around Cincinnati
A Field Guide to Custer's Camps: On the March to the Little Bighorn
We Are Called to Do the Right Thing: A Practical Guide for Leaders Based on Personal Reflections and Experience from a Longtime Higher Education Leade
The Home Stretch: North of 80 - One Step at a Time
Cabin Fever: Life Goes On in the Northwoods
Speaking in Riddles
Tennessee Post Office Murals
The Wisconsin Supper Clubs Story: An Illustrated History, with Relish
Owl's Head: A Hidden Gem

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Virtual Reading Series: Season 2, Episode 1 VIEW LIST (4 BOOKS)
Synthesis: Lost and Found in America: The Art of Vesna Kittelson
Sign Here If You Exist and Other Essays
Afield: Portraits of Wisconsin Naturalists, Empowering Leopold's Legacy
Hazel Belvo
Virtual Reading Series: Season 2, Episode 2 VIEW LIST (4 BOOKS)
Opulence, Kansas
The Project
All Hallows' Shadows
They Shot Kennedy
Virtual Reading Series: Season 2, Episode 3 VIEW LIST (2 BOOKS)
Crimson Arrows: A Bowhunting Odyssey
A Time for Tears
2021 Finalists: Children's Categories VIEW LIST (6 BOOKS)
You Can Change the World: The Kids' Guide to a Better Planet
My Heart Grows
Monica the Muskie
The Generous Fish
Squirrel Trouble: Life in the Neck Book 2
Cat Ninja: Volume 1
2021 Finalists: Fiction VIEW LIST (14 BOOKS)
Opulence, Kansas
Gray Horse at Oak Lane Stable (Book 2 of 3)
A Time for Tears
You're in the Wrong Place
I Have the Answer
Tearza
The Project
He Lands In Palm Springs
Lost Little Sister
In the House of Night
All Hallows' Shadows
They Shot Kennedy
The Distance Between Stars
Lord's Dome