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Minnesota Book Awards Past Finalists and Winners - 1989
1988 | 1989 | 1991* | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998
1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009
*Note: No awards were held in 1990.
Please also note that the award winners listed for each year were awarded in the year following publication (i.e. winners published in 2007 were announced in 2008 at the 20th Annual Minnesota Book Awards).
(Winners indicated by the 
icon; all others are Finalists)
1989 Book Design & Execution
The Arctic Wolf: Living with the Pack
L. David Mech
Roger Caras, foreword
Voyageur Press
Circles of Tradition: Folk Arts in Minnesota
Willard B. Moore and others.
Published for the Minnesota Museum of Art by the Minnesota Historical Society Press
Minnesota's Endangered Flora and Fauna
Barbara Coffin, editor
Lee Pfannmuller, editor
Jan A. Janssens, illustrator
University of Minnesota Press
Village Without Mirrors
Patricia Weaver Francisco
Timothy Francisco, photographer
Milkweed Editions
1989 Children's
Going the Moose Way Home
Jim Latimer
Donald Carrick, illustrator
Scribner
I Like Me!
Nancy Carlson
Viking Kestrel
Song and Danceman
Karen Ackerman
Stephen Gammell, illustrator
Knopf
Porkchop's Halloween
Susan Pearson
Rick Brown, illustrator
Simon & Schuster
Saying Goodbye to Grandma
Jane Resh Thomas
Clarion Books
1989 Fiction
A Gravestone Made of Wheat: Stories
Will Weaver
Simon & Schuster
Feeding the Eagles: Short Stories
Paulette Bates Alden
Graywolf Press
This Coffin Has No Handles
Thomas McGrath
Thunder's Mouth Press
The Finer Grain
Denise Ohio
Naiad Press
The Madonna Stories
Gary Paulsen
Van Vliet & Company
Wheat that Springeth Green
J.F. (James Farl) Powers
Knopf
1989 Genres
Morning Glory
LaVyrle Spencer
Putnam's
Island of Steel
Stephen Paul Cohen
William Morrow
Family Closets
Marjorie Dorner
McGraw-Hill
Snow White and Rose Red
Patricia C. Wrede
Tom Doherty Associates (A TOR Book)
Mindscream
R.D. Zimmerman
Donald I. Fine
1989 Minnesota
Meant to Be Read Out Loud
Susan Hauser
Woodcuts by Barbara Orfield Loken
Loonfeather Press
Quiet Magic
Sam Cook
Bob Cary, illustrator
Pfeifer-Hamilton
The Necessity of Empty Places
Paul Gruchow
St. Martin's (A Thomas Dunne Book)
No Retreat, No Surrender: Labor's War at Hormel
Dave Hage
Paul Klauda
William Morrow
1989 Non-Fiction
Indian Givers: How the Indians of the Americas Transformed the World
Jack Weatherford
Crown
Rethinking the Cold War
Eric Black
Paradigm Press
Plastic Surgery: The Kindest Cut
John Camp
Henry Holt
Courage and Love
Gisela Konopka
Burgess Printing for the Author
Why Can't Sharon Kowalski Come Home?
Karen Thompson
Julie Andrzejewski
Spinsters/Aunt Lute
The Service Edge: 101 Companies that Profit from Customer Care
Ron Zemke
Dick Schaff
New American Library
1989 Poetry
Freedom of History: Poems
James Moore
Milkweed Editions
1989 Younger Children
The Sun, the Wind and the Rain
Lisa Westberg Peters
Ted Rand, illustrator
Henry Holt
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