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Roots, Identity and Coming-of-Age in Transracial Adoption

April 15, 2016

Each day leading up to the April 16 announcement of the Minnesota Book Awards, and in collaboration with community editors from the award-winning Saint Paul Almanac, we highlight one of the thirty-two finalists. Today we feature 2016 Young People’s Literature finalist: See No Color by Shannon Gibney Published by Carolrhoda Lab/Lerner Publishing Group Category Sponsor:…

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Can Love Ever Be Recognized As Modern?

April 14, 2016

Each day leading up to the April 16 announcement of the Minnesota Book Awards, and in collaboration with community editors from the award-winning Saint Paul Almanac, we highlight one of the thirty-two finalists. Today we feature 2016 Poetry finalist: Modern Love & Other Myths by Joyce Sutphen Published by: Red Dragonfly Press Category Sponsor: Wellington Management…

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Stories Use Characters’ Choice for Dramatic Interest, Continuity

April 13, 2016

Each day leading up to the April 16 announcement of the Minnesota Book Awards, and in collaboration with community editors from the award-winning Saint Paul Almanac, we highlight one of the thirty-two finalists. Today we feature 2016 Novel & Short Story finalist: There’s Something I Want You to Do by Charles Baxter Published by Pantheon Books/Random…

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Four Centuries of Forceful Land Tenure

April 12, 2016

Each day leading up to the April 16 announcement of the Minnesota Book Awards, and in collaboration with community editors from the award-winning Saint Paul Almanac, we highlight one of the thirty-two finalists. Today we feature 2016 Minnesota finalist: Warrior Nation by Anton Treuer Published by Minnesota Historical Society Press Category Sponsor: Saint Mary’s University of…

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Embracing illness, loss, and death for a full and meaningful life

April 11, 2016

Each day leading up to the April 16 announcement of the Minnesota Book Awards, and in collaboration with community editors from the award-winning Saint Paul Almanac, we highlight one of the thirty-two finalists. Today we feature 2016 Memoir & Creative Fiction Finalist: We Know How This Ends: Living While Dying by Bruce H. Kramer with…

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As sultry and dangerous as a tropical storm

April 10, 2016

Each day leading up to the April 16 announcement of the Minnesota Book Awards, and in collaboration with community editors from the award-winning Saint Paul Almanac, we highlight one of the thirty-two finalists. Today we feature 2016 Genre Fiction finalist: Season of Fear by Brian Freeman Publisher: Quercus Category Sponsor: Macalester College Summary: While the shelves…

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