Announcing “Great Lakes Reads,” a collaborative project of the Minnesota Center for the Book and other Centers for the Book bordering the Great Lakes. Created in 1977 by the Library of Congress, the Center for the Book promotes books, reading, literacy, and libraries.
Read MoreThe Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library, as the home of the Minnesota Center for the Book, is pleased to announce the state-level winners of the 2016 annual national Letters About Literature Essay Contest, co-sponsored by the Minnesota Council of Teachers of English and Common Good Books, and supported by Education Minnesota’s Foundation for…
Read MoreIn addition to Book Award winners in eight categories, The Friends presented the Minnesota Book Artist, Hognander Minnesota History, and Kay Sexton Awards to previously announced honorees—respectively, Wendy Fernstrum, William D. Green, and Jim Sitter.
Read MoreEach 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:…
Read MoreEach 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…
Read MoreEach 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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