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Send to friend20th Annual Colorado Book Awards
CONGRATULATIONS TO THE 2011 COLORADO BOOK AWARD FINALISTS!
They are:
Art/Pictorial
Public Architecture: The Art Inside by Curtis Fentress and Mary Voelz Chandler, ORO Editions
Touchstones of Design: Redefining Public Architecture by Curtis Fentress, Images Publishing Group Pty Ltd
The Colorado River: Flowing Through Conflict, photography by Peter McBride, text by Jonathan Waterman, Westcliffe Publishers
Landscapes on Glass: Lantern Slides for the Rainbow Bridge-Monument Valley Expedition, by Jack Turner, Durango Herald Small Press
Biography/History
Buffalo Bill: Scout, Showman, Visionary by Steve Friesen, Fulcrum Publishing
Rival Rails: The Race to Build America’s Greatest Transcontinental Railroad by Walter R. Borneman, Random House
Steam, Steel & Statutes: True Tales from Colorado Legal History by Frank Gibbard, Colorado Bar Association
Children's Literature/Picture Books
Magnus Maximus, A Marvelous Measurer by Kathleen T. Pelley, pictures by S.D. Schindler, Farrar Straus Giroux
Scarum Fair, poems by Jessica Swaim, illustrations by Carol Ashley, Wordsong (Boyd Mills Press)
The BLUES Go Birding Across America by Sandy F. Fuller and Carol L. Malnor, illustrated by Louise Schroeder, Dawn Publications
Creative Nonfiction/Memoir
Dear Dr. Thompson: Felony Murder, Hunter S. Thompson, and the Last Gonzo Campaign by Matthew L. Moseley, Ghost Road Press
Flawless: Inside the Largest Diamond Heist in History by Scott Andrew Selby and Greg Campbell, Union Square Press
Paradise General: Riding the Surge at a Combat Hospital in Iraq by Dr. Dave Hnida, Simon & Schuster
Gifts from the Heart: Stories, Memories & Chronicles of Lucille Gonzales Oller, edited by Alexander Blackburn, University of Colorado
General Nonfiction
The Heroine's Bookshelf: Life Lessons, From Jane Austen to Laura Ingalls Wilder by Erin Blakemore, Harper
Shinin' Times and the Fort by Holly Arnold Kinney, edited by Mary Goodbody, photography by Lois Ellen Frank, Fur Trade Press
Blue Lines: A Fishing Life by Tom Reed, Riverbend Publishing
Genre/Popular Fiction
The Spider's Web by Margaret Coel, Berkley Prime Crime
It Came from Del Rio: Part 1 of the Bunnyhead Chronicles by Stephen Graham Jones, Trapdoor Books
The Spirit Lens by Carol Berg, NAL (ROC) Penguin Group
Juvenile Literature
Trade on the Taos Mountain Trail by Deborah A. Martinez Martinez Ph.D., illustrated by Robert W. Pacheo, Vanishing Horizons
Star in the Forest by Laura Resau, Delacorte Press
Travels with Gannon and Wyatt: Botswana by Patti Wheeler and Keith Hemstreet, Claim Stake Publishers
Warriors: In the Crossfire by Nancy Bo Flood, Front Street Press
Literary Fiction
Postcards from a Dead Girl by Kirk Farber, Harper Perennial
My Sisters Made of Light by Jacqueline St. Joan, Press 53
Fast Forward: The Mix Tape, edited by Nancy Stohlman, Fast Forward Press
Poetry
The Diminishing House by Nicky Beer, Carnegie Mellon University Press
Flexible Bones by Maria Melendez, University of Arizona Press
Song from the Deep Middle Brain by Barbara Ellen Sorensen, Main Street Rag Publishing Company
Young Adult Literature
The Secret to Lying by Todd Mitchell, Candlewick Press
The Ruby Notebook by Laura Resau, Delacorte Press
Zen and Xander Undone by Amy Kathleen Ryan, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
20th Annual Colorado Book Awards 3:30pm - Conclusion Tickets for the event are $10. You can buy them here online in advance or at the door. Books for Sale Parking at the Doerr-Hosier
Doerr-Hosier Center at the Aspen Meadows Resort
Schedule of Events
12:30pm - Check-In/Registration
1:00pm - Awards Ceremony
2:30pm - Reception for all Finalists and Winners
Tickets
Copies of finalist books will be available for purchase and signing by the authors in attendance at the bookstore before and after the event.
Seating & Reservations
The event will be set with round tables. You may reserve a table only with a group reservation. If you've made a group reservation, you will be provided your table seating upon checking in. Please sit at your designated table, as there are group reservations with folks who have planned to sit together. To make a group table reservation (maximum of 8) please call 303-894-7951 x10.
Food & Beverage
Complimentary appetizers and wine will be passed during the Reception Celebration that follows the Awards presentation. A full bar will be open and available at the Aspen Meadows Resort Check-In both before and after the event as well.
What to Wear
It's a party to celebrate brilliance. We suggest simple cocktail attire, as it's the afternoon. Slacks and shirts or sport coats and jeans will work just fine for the guys.
Directions to the Doerr-Hosier
845 Meadows Road
Aspen, CO 81611
452-4240
FROM DENVER
Aspen is 220 miles or four hours from Denver. From Denver get on I-70 west to Glenwood Springs, connecting to Highway 82, at exit #116, to Aspen. Another scenic route from Denver takes approximately 3 1/2 hours via I-70 west to Highway 24 south, then west onto Highway 82 over Independence Pass (open only during the warm weather months, typically May 31 to Oct. 31st) into Aspen.
FROM DOWNTOWN ASPEN
Turn left on Main Street/Hwy 82 Follow Main to 7th street., turn right Take 7th to a 'T' intersection with North Street, turn left Follow this road into the Aspen Meadows.
Parking is provided at Aspen Meadows Health & Fitness Center (under the tennis courts) as you're driving into the resort. Look for a small sign indicating Visitor Parking on your right as you're heading toward the resort. It's a short walk (5 to 7 minutes) from the parking garage to the Doerr-Hosier Center.
Upon exiting the parking garage on foot, head down the road toward the resort check-in building (which will be on your left - a meditation park is to your right), stay on the road, go past the resort check-in building down the small hill. The Doerr-Hosier is just to the left at the bottom of the incline. It's the building with the "Stone River" sculpture in the front.
Taking a Shuttle to the Doerr-Hosier
A free Aspen Meadows Shuttle is available. It leaves every 30 minutes from the Aspen Bus Terminal.
You may also call the Aspen Meadows Resort and make shuttle arrangements. They are happy to accommodate based on availability. You may call them at 800-452-4240.