The Friends Blog

Each day we highlight one of the 36 finalists leading up to the April 8 announcement of the Minnesota Book Awards, presented by Education Minnesota. Today we feature 2017 Young Adult Literature finalist:   Original Fake by Kirstin Cronn-Mills, art by E. Eero Johnson Published by: G.P. Putnam’s Sons/Penguin Random House Category Sponsor: Brainfuse Introvert Frankie…

Each day we highlight one of the 36 finalists leading up to the April 8 announcement of the Minnesota Book Awards, presented by Education Minnesota. Today we feature 2017 Poetry finalist:   Yes Thorn by Amy Munson Published by: Tupelo Press Category Sponsor: Wellington Management, Inc. Yes Thorn abides with mysteries—mortality, spirituality, sexuality, nature, divinity, love—and interrogates…

Each day we highlight one of the 36 finalists leading up to the April 8 announcement of the Minnesota Book Awards, presented by Education Minnesota. Today we feature 2017 Novel & Short Story finalist:   Wintering by Peter Geye Published by: Alfred A. Knopf/Penguin Random House Category Sponsor: Fitzgerald in Saint Paul Wintering spans thirty-some years…

Each day we highlight one of the 36 finalists leading up to the April 8 announcement of the Minnesota Book Awards, presented by Education Minnesota. Today we feature 2017 Minnesota Nonfiction finalist:   Women of Mayo Clinic: The Founding Generation by Virginia M. Wright-Peterson Published by: Minnesota Historical Society Press Category Sponsor: Saint Mary’s University of…

Each day we highlight one of the 36 finalists leading up to the April 8 announcement of the Minnesota Book Awards, presented by Education Minnesota. Today we feature 2017 Middle Grade Literature finalist:   Sticks and Stones by Abby Cooper Published by: Farrar Straus Giroux/Macmillan Category Sponsor: Education Minnesota Ever since she was a baby, the…