Colorado Book Awards Finalists and Winners

2009 Colorado Book Award Finalists

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Biography
Polk: The Man Who Transformed the Presidency and America by Walter R. Borneman, Random House
The Principled Politician: The Ralph Carr Story by Adam Schrager, Fulcrum Publishing
Rabbit Creek Country: Three Ranching Lives in the Heart of the Mountain West by Jon Thiem with Deborah Dimon, University of New Mexico Press

Children’s Literature
M Is for Mischief: An A to Z of Naughty Children by Linda Ashman, illustrated by Nancy Carpenter, Dutton Children’s BooksMax Goes to Jupiter: A Science Adventure with Max the Dog by Jeffrey Bennett, Nick Schneider, Erica Ellingson, illustrated by Michael Carroll, Big Kid Science
There Was a Man Who Loved a Rat and Other Vile Little Poems by Gerda Rovetch, illustrated by Lissa Rovetch, Philomel Books/Penguin Group

Creative Nonfiction
Bicycling Beyond the Divide: Two Journeys into the West by Daryl Farmer, University of Nebraska Press
Trespass: Living at the Edge of the Promised Land by Amy Irvine, North Point Press/Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Travels in Place: A Journey into Memory Loss by Christiane W. Griffin-Wehr, Robert D. Reed Publishers
Spring’s Edge: A Ranch Wife’s Chronicles by Laurie Wagner Buyer, University of New Mexico Press

Fiction
Orange Mint and Honey by Carleen Brice, One World/Ballantine Books
Home Pool: Stories of Fly Fishing and Lesser Passions by Bruce Ducker, Stackpole Books
The Song of Jonah by Gene Geurin, University of New Mexico Press
People of the Whale by Linda Hogan, W.W. Norton
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski, Ecco

General Nonfiction
Storey’s Illustrated Breed Guide to Sheep, Goats, Cattle and Pigs by Carol Ekarius, Storey Publishing, LLC
Green Home Improvement: 65 Projects that will Cut Utility Bills, Protect Your Health, Help the Environment by Daniel D. Chiras, RS Means/Reed Construction Data
Colorado Organic: Cooking Seasonally, Eating Locally by Jennifer Olson, written by Cecily Cullen and Mindy Sink, Jennifer Olson Photography

Genre Fiction
Fireweed: A Woman’s Saga in Gold Rush America by Carolyn Evans Campbell, Georgetown Editions/Xlibris Corporation
Come with Me to Babylon by Paul M. Levitt, University of New Mexico Press
Neptune’s Chariot by Irv Sternberg, Starmount Press/Outskirts Press
Wild Inferno by Sandi Ault, Berkley/Penguin
A Death in Gascony by Sarah D’Almeida, Berkley/Penguin
Soul of Fire by Sarah A. Hoyt, Bantam Spectra
A Stranger’s Game by Joan Johnston, Pocket Books Hardcover/Simon & Schuster
A Thousand Veils by D.J. Murphy, Lulu Press, Inc.
Breath and Bone by Carol Berg, ROC/NAL Penguin Group
Ex-Kop by Warren Hammond, Tor Books

Health and Well-Being
Health Is Simple, Disease Is Complicated: A Systems Approach to Vibrant Health by James Forleo, North Atlantic Books
Unexpected Intimacy: Everyday Connections that Nourish the Soul by Sarah Gabriel, Great Room Press
Notes from the Waiting Room: Managing a Loved One’s End-of-Life Hospitalization by Bart Windrum, Axiom Action

History
Killing for Coal: America’s Deadliest Labor War by Thomas G. Andrews, Harvard University Press
Where A Hundred Soldiers Were Killed: The Struggle for the Powder River Country in 1866 and the Making of the Fetterman Myth by John H. Monnett, Ph.D., University of New Mexico Press
Pioneer Cemeteries: Sculpture Gardens of the Old West by Annette Stott, University of Nebraska Press

Juvenile Literature
The No-No Boys: Home-Front Heroes by Teresa R. Funke, Bailiwick Press
Herby’s Secret Formula by Sue C. Hughey, Associated Arts Publisher
The Totally Made-up Civil War Diary of Amanda MacLeish by Claudia Mills, Farrar, Straus & Giroux

Pictorial
Colorado’s Wild Horses by Claude Steelman, Wildshots, Inc.
Colorado Scenic Byways, Taking the Other Road by Jim Steinberg and Susan J. Tweit, Portfolio Publications
Democratic National Convention 2008: Obama’s Mile High Moment, The Denver Post, Fulcrum Publishing

Poetry
A Murmuration of Starlings by Jake Adam York, Southern Illinois University Press
Wayfare by Pattiann Rogers, Penguin Group - Viking Adult
Holding Three Things At Once by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, Turkey Buzzard Press

Young Adult Literature
The Trials of Kate Hope by Wick Downing, Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Seize the Story: A Handbook for Teens Who Like to Write by Victoria Hanley, Cottonwood Press, Inc.
Fact of Life #31 by Denise Vega, Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers

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Author Claudia Mills accepts the Colorado Book Award for Juvenile Literature