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2010 Shortlist Announced!
2009 Press Release
2009 Shortlist
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The Art of Racing in the Rain
Bonus: Enzo Flyer
Selected Poems: 1970-2005
You're a Good Dog, Carl
Wild Beauty
Guernica
American Buffalo
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2010 Nominees
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Garth Stein
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The Art of Racing in the Rain
In this, his third novel, Garth Stein gave himself the almost impossible task of telling his story from the perspective of the one participant whose faith in the protagonist can never be doubted: his dog. In so doing, Stein has created, in Enzo, an aging and surprisingly wise mutt, who is perhaps the most memorable narrator of the year.
--PNBA Awards Committee
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Harper
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Tupelo Press
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William Stafford Memorial Poetry Award
Selected Poems: 1970-2005
In this selection from a long and accomplished career, the poet and memoirist Floyd Skloot has established his place as one of the nation's premier poets. Across a wide range of moods, Skloot offers us his deeply moving and--ultimately--celebratory enthusiasm for the common moment.
--PNBA Awards Committe
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Floyd Skloot
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Alexandra
Day
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Lifetime Achievement Award
The Good Dog, Carl series
Alexandra Day has achieved, in her lifetime, the rare status of being widely and rightly accepted as the creator of a series of now classic children's books. In the ongoing adventures of the very good dog, Carl, Day has conjured a largely wordless, beautifully rendered world of bright colors and blissful days, the perfect fantasy of innocent exploration. --PNBA Awards Committee
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Farrar, Straus & Giroux and
Square Fish Books
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Oregon State
University Press
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the Northwest Photography Archive
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Wild Beauty: Photographs of the Columbia River Gorge, 1867-1957
The writers/editors have selected some 130 images from dozens of photographers, covering 90 years of natural and man-made history, and, in so doing, have recreated an otherwise lost history of a truly awe-inspiring wonder of the West. This book is a beautiful and breathtaking work of research and rediscovery, to be appreciated and treasured by anyone with an interest in photography, history and the majesty of landscape.
--PNBA Awards Committee
Tribute to Terry Toedtemeier
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John Laursen
Terry Toedtemeier
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Dave Boling
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Guernica
In a fictional epic based on the very real tragedy of an extraordinary place devastated during the Spanish Civil War, debut novelist Dave Boling has written the kind of rich, compelling and utterly unforgettable novel all too rarely attempted and even more rarely realized. Boling's remarkably researched book is a humane and thoughtful narrative of genuinely good people in impossible circumstances. --PNBA Awards Committee
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Bloomsbury
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Spiegel & Grau
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American Buffalo: In Search of a Lost Icon
Steven Rinella brings a contemporary sensibility and a breathtaking grasp of the history of the buffalo in America with him on the hunt of a lifetime. In the process, he redeems the tradition of great writing by American outdoorsmen. Few books of this or any year offer such an immediate and lasting connection with the reality of our long and often tragic interaction with the natural world.
--PNBA Awards Committee
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Steven Rinella
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