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Minnesota Book Awards Past Finalists and Winners - 1995
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)
1995 Biography
Eggs in the Coffee, Sheep in the Corn: My 17 Years as a Farm Wife
Marjorie Myers Douglas
Minnesota Historical Society Press
Hellroaring: The Life and Times of a Fire Bum
Peter M. Leschak
North Star Press of Saint Cloud
Gratia Countryman: Her Life, Her Loves and Her Library
Jane Pejsa
Nodin Press
1995 Children's Non-Fiction
Sovietrek: A Journey by Bicycle Across Russia
Dan Buettner
Lerner Publications
Kerry, A Teenage Mother
Maggi Aitkens
Lerner Publications
Wings of Magic, 2nd ed.
Sandy Ehlers
McCartney
A Beekeeper's Year
Sylvia A. Johnson
Nick Von Ohlen, photographer
Little, Brown and Company
Jackie Joyner Kersee: Superwoman
Jennifer Larson
Lerner Publications
Hilde and Eli: Children of the Holocaust
Karen Ritz, illustrator
David A. Adler, author
Holiday House
1995 Fantasy & Science Fiction
A College of Magics
Caroline Stevermer
TOR
Five Hundred Years After
Steven Brust
TOR
Double Feature
Emma Bull
Will Shetterly
NESFA Press
The Dubious Hills
Pamela Dean
TOR
1995 Fiction (Novel & Stories)
Seventeen Grams of Soul
Emilio DeGrazia
Lone Oak Press
Losing Absalom: A Novel
Alexs D. Pate
Coffee House Press
The Peace Terrorist: Stories
Carol Masters
New Rivers Press
Hitting Into the Wind
William Meissner
Random House
A Walking Fire: A Novel
Valerie Miner
State University of New York Press
Rainy Lake: A Novel
Mary Francois Rockcastle
Graywolf Press
1995 Help & Guidance
Suicide: Why? 85 Questions and Answers About Suicide. 2nd ed.
Adina Wrobleski
Afterwords Publishing
Roughing it Elegantly: A Practical Guide to Canoe Camping. 2nd ed.
Linda Oliver Isakson, author
Patricia J. Bell, illustrator
Cat's Paw Press
Collaboration Handbook: Creating, Sustaining, and Enjoying the Journey
Michael Winer
Karen Ray
Amherst H. Wilder Foundation
Mediasmart: How to Handle a Reporter, By a Reporter
Dennis Stauffer
MinneApplePress
The Six Steps to Excellence in Selling: The Step-by-Step Guide to Effective Selling
Warren M. Wechsler
Better Books
1995 History
As Seen on TV: The Visual Culture of Everyday Life in the 1950s
Karal Ann Marling
Harvard University Press
Material Culture and People's Art Among the Norwegians in America
Marion J. Nelson, editor
Norwegian-American Historical Association
Churchill's Deception: The Dark Secret that Destroyed Nazi Germany
Louis C. Kilzer
Simon & Schuster
North Star Statehouse: An Armchair Guide to the Minnesota State Capitol
Thomas O'Sullivan
Pogo Press
1995 Illustrated Book
The Shape of Things: The Art of Francis Lee Jaques
Patricia Condon Johnston
Live Oak Press and Afton Historical Society Press
Gooseberry
Craig Blacklock
Nadine Blacklock
Pfeifer-Hamilton
Saint John's in Pictures
Michael Crouser
The Veronica Press
The Twin Cities Naturally: A Pictorial Tour of the Minneapolis-St. Paul Metropolitan Area
Greg Ryan
Sally Beyer
Voyageur Press
1995 Information
Minnesota Job Seeker's Sourcebook: The Complete Statewide Guide to Job-Seeking Support Services. 2nd ed.
Pati Gelfman, editor
Resource Publishing Group
Where the Waters Gather and the Rivers Meet: An Atlas of the Eastern Sioux
Paul Durand
Paul C. Durand
A Rustling of Wings: An Angelic Guide to the Twin Cities
Joan Nyberg
Richard Nyberg, photographer
Wingtip Press
Fishing Lake Superior: A Complete Guide to Stream, Shoreline, and Open-Water Angling
Shawn Perich
Pfeifer-Hamilton
1995 Mystery & Detective
A Small Sacrifice: A Jane Lawless Mystery
Ellen Hart
Seal Press
A Way with Widows: A Carl Wilcox Mystery
Harold Adams
Walker
The Bishop's Tale
Margaret Frazer, pseud.
Mary Monica Kuhfeld
Gail Frazer
Berkley Prime Crime
Red Trance
R. D. Zimmerman
Morrow
1995 Nature
Amphibians and Reptiles Native to Minnesota
John J. Moriarty
University of Minnesota Press
Wild Minnesota
Greg Breining
NorthWord Press
Sky Spirit: The American Bald Eagle
Michael Furtman
NorthWord Press
Wilderness Visionaries: Leopold, Thoreau, Muir, Olson, Murie, Service, Marshall, Rutstrum
Jim Dale Vickery
NorthWord Press
1995 Non-Fiction
Mother Journeys: Feminists Write About Mothering
Martha Roth, editor
Amy Sheldon, editor
Spinster's Ink
Rebel Baseball: The Summer the Game was Returned to the Fans
Steve Perlstein
Onion Press
Savages and Civilization: Who Will Survive?
Jack Weatherford
Crown
1995 Older Children
Am I Blue: Coming Out from the Silence
Marion Dane Bauer, editor
HarperCollins
A Question of Trust
Marion Dane Bauer
Scholastic
Writing to Richie
Patricia Calvert
Scribners
A Place to Belong
Emily Crofford
Carolrhoda Books
A Bride for Anna's Papa
Isabel R. Marvin
Kay Sather, illustrator
Milkweed Editions
Come in From the Cold
Marsha Qualey
Houghton-Mifflin
1995 Personal Voices
Neither Wolf Nor Dog: On Forgotten Roads with an Indian Elder
Kent Nerburn
New World Library
Seeing the Raven: A Narrative of Renewal
Peter M. Leschak
University of Minnesota Press
Letters to My Son: A Father's Wisdom on Manhood, Women, Life and Love
Kent Nerburn
New World Library
1995 Poetry
Nice Fish: New and Selected Prose Poems
Louis Jenkins
Holy Cow! Press
Handmade Paper: Poems
Patricia Barone
New Rivers Press
Meditations on the Insatiable Soul: Poems
Robert Bly
HarperCollins
The Physicist at the Mall
Janet Holmes
Anhinga Press
Ungodliness: Poems
Leslie Adrienne Miller
Carnegie Mellon University Press
Horse of Earth: Poems
Thomas R. Smith
Holy Cow! Press
1995 Younger Children (author & illustrator)
Imani in the Belly
Deborah M. Newton Chocolate
Alex Boies, illustrator
BridgeWater Books
Eve and Smithy: An Iowa Tale
Michelle Edwards
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard
The Masked Maverick
Jacqueline K. Ogburn
Nancy Carlson, illustrator
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard
The Great Buffalo Race: How the Buffalo Got Its Hump; A Seneca Tale Retold
Barbara Juster Esbensen
Little, Brown and Company
My Head is Full of Colors
Catherine Friend
Hyperion Books for Children
Clouds of Terror
Laurie K. Johnson, illustrator
Carolrhoda Books
Sam, Who Was Swallowed by a Shark
Phyllis Root
Candlewick Press
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