Colorado Book Awards

Congratulations to the 2012 Colorado Book Award Winners!

The Colorado Book Awards is an annual program that celebrates the accomplishments of Colorado's outstanding authors, editors, illustrators, and photographers. Awards are presented in at least ten categories including anthology/collection, biography, children's, creative nonfiction, fiction, history, nonfiction, pictorial, poetry, and young adult.

2012Colorado Book Award Winner: Anthology/Collections
Monumental Majesty: 100 Years of Colorado National Monument, edited by Laurena Mayne Davis, The Daily Sentinel
9780578074962

2012Colorado Book Award Winner: Creative Nonfiction
Dances in Two Worlds: A Writer-Artist's Backstory by Thordis Simonsen, The Fundamental Note
9780962976674

2012Colorado Book Award Winner: General Nonfiction
Math for Life by Jeffrey Bennett, Roberts and Company
9781936221431

The Man Who Never Died: The Life, Times, and Legacy of Joe Hill, American Labor Icon (Hardcover)

By William M. Adler

$30.00

ISBN-13: 9781596916968
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Published: Bloomsbury USA, 8/2010

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2012Colorado Book Award Winner: Biography
The Man Who Never Died by William Adler, Bloomsbury

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Light Up the Night (Hardcover)

By Jean Reidy, Margaret Chodos-Irvine

$16.99

ISBN-13: 9781423120247
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Published: Disney-Hyperion, 10/2011

2012Colorado Book Award Winner: Children's Literature
Light Up the Night by Jean Reidy, Disney Hyperion

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The Soul Mirror: A Novel of the Collegia Magica (Paperback)

By Carol Berg

$16.00

ISBN-13: 9780451463746
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Published: Roc Trade, 1/2011

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2012Colorado Book Award Winner: Creative Nonfiction
Dances in Two Worlds: A Writer-Artist's Backstory by Thordis Simonsen, The Fundamental Note

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From Jars to the Stars (Paperback)

By Todd Neff

$24.95

ISBN-13: 9780982958308
Availability: Special Order - Subject to Availability
Published: Earthview Media, 11/2010

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2012Colorado Book Award Winner: History
From Jars to the Stars: by Todd Neff, Earthview Media

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City of Orphans (Hardcover)

By Avi, Greg Ruth

$17.99

ISBN-13: 9781416971023
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Published: Atheneum/Richard Jackson Books, 9/2011

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2012Colorado Book Award Winner: Juvenile Literature
City of Orphans by Avi, Simon & Schuster

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The Weird Sisters (Hardcover)

By Eleanor Brown

$24.95

ISBN-13: 9780399157226
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Published: Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam, 2/2011

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2012Colorado Book Award Winner: Literary Fiction
The Weird Sisters by Eleanor Brown, Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam

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Thomas W. Benton: Artist/Activist (Hardcover)

By Daniel Joseph Watkins, George Stranahan

$39.95

ISBN-13: 9781936905904
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Published: People's Press, 7/2011

2012Colorado Book Award Winner: Pictorial
Thomas W. Benton: Artist/Activist by Daniel Joseph Watkins, People's Press

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Circle's Apprentice (Paperback)

By Dan Beachy-Quick

$16.95

ISBN-13: 9781932195972
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Published: Tupelo Press, 5/2011

2012Colorado Book Award Winner: Poetry Circle's Apprentice by Dan Beachy-Quick, Tupelo Press

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Lucy Dakota: Rocky Mountain Beginnings (Book 1) (Hardcover)

By Carol Sue Shride

$22.95

ISBN-13: 9780983386315
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Published: My Piece of the Puzzle, 5/2011

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2012Colorado Book Award Winner: Young Adult Literature Lucy Dakota: Adventures of a Modern Explorer Book 1 - Rocky Mountain Beginnings by Carol Sue Shride, My Piece of the Puzzle

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