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Celebrate Nebraska’s 2022 Book Award Winners
Celebrate Nebraska’s 2022 Book Award winners with author readings and an
awards presentation ceremony at the Nebraska Center for the Book’s
Celebration of Nebraska Books. Held at the Nebraska History Museum on
October 22nd, winners of the 2022 Nebraska Book Awards will be
honored and the celebration will include readings by some of the winning
authors, designers and illustrators of books with a Nebraska connection
published in 2021. And the winners are:
Children’s Best Continuing Series:
George
Meets His Match
by Kristin Bauer Ganoung, illustrated by K. E. Gadeken. Publisher:
Prairieland Press
Youth Book:
Rhinos in Nebraska: The Amazing Discovery of the Ashfall Fossil Beds
by Alison Pearce Stevens, illustrated by Matt Huynh. Publisher: Godwin
Books, Henry Holt Company
Cover and Design:
After One Hundred Winters: In Search of Reconciliation on America’s Stolen
Lands
by Margaret D. Jacobs. Publisher: Princeton University Press
Illustration:
Rhinos in Nebraska: The Amazing Discovery of the Ashfall Fossil Beds
by Alison Pearce Stevens, illustrated by Matt Huynh. Publisher: Godwin
Books, Henry Holt Company
Fiction:
The Perfume Thief
by Timothy Schaffert. Publisher: Doubleday
Nonfiction Biography:
The Only Wonderful Things: The Creative Partnership of Willa Cather & Edith
Lewis
by Melissa J. Homestead. Publisher: Oxford University Press
Nonfiction Biography Honor:
Time in the Wilderness: The Formative Years of John “Black Jack” Pershing in
the American West
by Dr. Tim McNeese. Publisher: Potomac Books
Nonfiction Health and Fitness:
Fuel Your Body: How to Cook and Eat for Peak Performance
by Angie Asche. Publisher: Agate Publishing
Nonfiction Natural History:
Rhinos in Nebraska: The Amazing
Discovery of the Ashfall Fossil Beds by Alison Pearce Stevens, illustrated by Matt Huynh. Publisher: Godwin
Books, Henry Holt Company
Nonfiction Nebraska as Place:
Nebraska Golf: Out of the Shadows
by Stu Pospisil. Publisher: Omaha World Herald
Nonfiction Popular History:
Patient Zero: A Curious History of the World’s Worst Diseases
by Lydia Kang and Nate Pedersen. Publisher: Workman Publishing Company
Poetry:
The Way of Things
by Shannon Vesely. Publisher: Rogue Faculty Press
Poetry Honor:
Unholy Heart
by Grace Bauer. Publisher: The Backwaters Press
Special Poetry:
More in Time: A Tribute to Ted Kooser
by Jessica Poli, Marco Abel, Timothy Schaffert. Publisher: University of
Nebraska Press
The Celebration of Nebraska Books, on October 22nd, will also
honor winners of the 2022 Jane Geske and Mildred Bennett awards. The Mildred
Bennett Award recognizes individuals who have made a significant
contribution to fostering the literary tradition in Nebraska, reminding us
of the literary and intellectual heritage that enriches our lives and molds
our world. The Jane Geske Award is presented to a Nebraska organization for
exceptional contribution to literacy, books, reading, libraries, or
literature in Nebraska. It commemorates Geske’s passion for books, and was
established in recognition of her contributions to the well-being of the
libraries of Nebraska.
The 2022 One Book One Nebraska selection,
The Bones of Paradise: A Novel by
Jonis Agee (William Morrow, 2016) will be featured in a keynote presentation
by the author. The introduction of the 2023 One Book One Nebraska book
choice will conclude the festivities.
The Celebration of Nebraska Books is sponsored by Nebraska Center for the
Book and the Nebraska Library Commission, with support from History
Nebraska’s Nebraska History Museum. Humanities Nebraska provides support for
One Book One Nebraska. The Nebraska Center for the Book is housed at the
Nebraska Library Commission and brings together the state’s readers,
writers, booksellers, librarians, publishers, printers, educators, and
scholars to build the community of the book, supporting programs to
celebrate and stimulate public interest in books, reading, and the written
word. The Nebraska Center for the Book is supported by the national Center
for the Book in the Library of Congress and the Nebraska Library Commission.
As the state library agency, the Nebraska Library Commission is an advocate
for the library and information needs of all Nebraskans. The mission of the
Library Commission is statewide promotion, development, and coordination of
library and information services, “bringing together people and
information.”
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always available on the Library Commission website,
http://nlc.nebraska.gov/publications/newsreleases.