Eugene, Oregon - November 19, 2008 - PNBA is thrilled to release its first-ever Book Awards Short List!
The PNBA Short List was selected by a committee of independent booksellers from
Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana and Alaska. The committee chose the
following twelve books from more than 100 nominees, all of which were written
by Northwest authors and published in 2008.
The Book Awards Committee will choose the final list of no more than
six titles in mid-December. PNBA will announce the winners to our members and to media in January.
Without further ado, here are the Short List titles:
American Buffalo: In Search of a Lost Icon
Steven Rinella (Anchorage, Alaska)
Spiegel & Grau
978-0-385-52168-0
The Art of Racing in the Rain: a Novel
Garth Stein (Seattle, WA)
Harper
978-0-06-153793-6
Conquistador: Hernán Cortés, King Montezuma, and the Last Stand of the Aztecs
Buddy Levy (Northern Idaho)
Bantam Books
978-0-553-80538-3
The Eleventh Man
Ivan Doig (Seattle, WA)
Harcourt, Inc.
978-0-15-101243-5
The English Major
Jim Harrison (Montana)
Grove Press
978-0-8021-1863-9
Guernica: A Novel
Dave Boling (Washington)
Bloomsbury
978-1-59691-563-3
The Jewel of Medina: A Novel
Sherry Jones (Spokane, WA)
Beaufort Books
978-0-8253-0518-4
Little Hoot
Jen Corace, Illustrator (Seattle, WA)
Chronicle Books
978-0-8118-6023-9
Selected Poems: 1970-2005
Floyd Skloot (Portland, OR)
Tupelo Press
978-1-932195-59-0
Shopping for Porcupine: A Life in Arctic Alaska
Seth Kantner (Kotzebu, Alaska)
Milkweed Editions
978-1-57131-301-0
Wild Beauty: Photographs of the Columbia River Gorge, 1867-1957
Terry Toedtemeier and John Laursen (Portland, OR)
The Northwest Photography Archive & Oregon State University Press
978-0-87071-418-4
The Wink of the Zenith: The Shaping of a Writer's Life
Floyd Skloot (Portland, OR)
University of Nebraska Press
978-0-8032-1119-3
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About the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association
The PNBA is a non-profit trade association that supports independent
bookselling, literacy and free speech in Alaska, Idaho, Montana,
Oregon and Washington. Each year since 1965, the Pacific Northwest Book
Awards have celebrated exceptional books written by Northwest authors.
The Pacific Northwest Independent Bestseller List, a weekly list of the
bestselling books in the independent bookstores of our five-state
region, can be reprinted for free in any publication. For information
about the list, contact PNBA. See this week's list at www.pnba.org.
For more information, contact Thom Chambliss, PNBA's Executive Director.
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