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Oklahoma Book Awards finalists announced
Published: 2/13/2009 8:32 AM
Last Modified: 2/13/2009 8:32 AM

The Oklahoma City-based Oklahoma Center for the Book announced its finalists for its Oklahoma Book Awards this week, which includes a few Tulsa writers and artists among the nominees.

Here's the list:

CHILDREN'S/YOUNG ADULT
Chosen—P.C. and Kristen Cast—St. Martin’s Press
On a Road in Africa—Kim Doner—Tricycle Press
It Wasn’t Much: Ten True Tales of Oklahoma Heroes—Jana Hausburg—Forty-Sixth Star Press
The Trial of Standing Bear—Frank Keating—Oklahoma Heritage Association
Spy—Anna Myers—Walker and Company
The Spectacular Now—Tim Tharp—Random House

POETRY
Lessons From An Oklahoma Girlhood—Dorothy Alexander—Village Books Press
Two Tables Over—Nathan Brown—Village Books Press
Antidotes & Home Remedies—Jim Chastain—Village Books Press
Shots On—Carol Hamilton—Finishing Line Press
Round the Human Corners—Linda Hogan—Coffee House Press

NON-FICTION
Oklahoma: A History—W. David Baird and Danney Goble—University of Oklahoma Press
A Letter to America—David Boren—University of Oklahoma Press
Only in Oklahoma—Gene Curtis—World Publishing Company
The Road to Monticello: The Life and Mind of Thomas Jefferson—Kevin J. Hayes—Oxford University Press
The Chouteaus—Stan Hoig—University of New Mexico Press
Grappling with Demon Rum: The Cultural Struggle Over Liquor in Early Oklahoma—James E. Klein—University of Oklahoma Press
In Reckless Hands: Skinner v. Oklahoma and the Near Triumph of American Eugenics—Victoria F. Nourse—W.W. Norton
Full Court Quest: The Girls from Shaw Indian School, Basketball Champions of the World—Linda Peavy and Ursula Smith—University of Oklahoma Press
The Nez Perces in Indian Territory—J. Diane Pearson—University of Oklahoma Press
Hunting the American West—Richard C. Rattenbury—Boone and Crockett Club

DESIGN AND ILLUSTRATION
Juxtapositions: Brunel Faris and the Visual Arts in Oklahoma City—Carl Brune—Full Circle Press
On a Road in Africa—Kim Doner—Tricycle Press
Charles Faudree Interiors—Debra McQuiston—Gibbs Smith
They Know Who They Are—Mike and Martha Larsen—Chickasaw Press
How We Lived: A Pictorial History of the Places Oklahomans Have Called Home—Holley Mangham—Oklahoma Housing Finance Agency
What Dogs Want for Christmas—Kandy Radzinski—Sleeping Bear Press
Placing Memory: A Photographic Exploration of Japanese Internment—Todd Stewart—University of Oklahoma Press
The Trial of Standing Bear—Mike Wimmer—Oklahoma Heritage Association

FICTION
People of the Whale—Linda Hogan—W.W. Norton
Made in the USA—Billie Letts—Grand Central Publishing
Trudy’s Promise—Marcia Preston—Mira Books
To Honor the Dead—Joseph Shaw—University of New Mexico Press
The Black Hand—Will Thomas—Simon & Schuster
Sweeping Up Glass—Carolyn Wall—Poisoned Pen Press

For those keeping track, the Tulsans on the list include the Tulsa World's own Gene Curtis for his "Only in Oklahoma" collection of columns written for the Tulsa World during the Oklahoma Centennial year; P.C. and Kristin Cast, whose first novel in their "House of Night" series of young adult paranormal romantic thrillers won the award last year; Kim Doner, up for two awards this year in Children's Literature and Design/Illustration for her "On a Road in Africa"; Carl Brune and Kandy Radzinski, both up for the Design/Illustration Award, and both previous winners; two-time OBA winner Billie Letts, and Broken Arrow's Will Thomas, also a previous winner of this award.

The awards will be presented at a ceremony in Oklahoma City Aprl 4.

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