Friday, August 31, 2012 is the deadline to submit books for
consideration for the 2013 Oregon Book Awards. The guidelines and
applications can be found on our web site; contact Susan Denning for more information.
Here is a list of titles that have been submitted, as of August 15th, to the 2013 Oregon Book Awards:
Fiction
Curse the Names by
Robert Arellano
Holding Oniah by
Raven Brook
The Unnatural Aging
of Cheese by Steven Chrisman
The Orchardist by
Amanda Coplin
Sodom, Gomorrah, and
Joues by Charles Deemer
The Photo Album by K.B.
Dixon
Bin Laden’s Bald Spot
and Other Stories by Brian Doyle
The Rescuer’s Path by
Paula Friedman
A Very Minor Prophet
by James Bernard Frost
The Knight and The
Serpent: A Legend of Medieval Normandy by John Gabourel
Blue Bucket by
Suzanne Grant
Shakespeare’s Lovers
by Peter Jensen
We Live Inside You by
Jeremy Robert Johnson
Little Century by
Anna Keesey
Buyer’s Remorse: Book
1 in the Public Eye Mystery Series by Lori L Lake
Holding Lies by John
Larison
The Secrets of Mary
Bowser by Lois Leveen
Bridge of Scarlet
Leaves by Kristina McMorris
Aftermath by Scott
Nadelson
Riva Beside Me by
Carla Perry
The Astoria Chinatown
Conspiracy by Brian Powers
Rain Dragon by Jon
Raymond
Carry Yourself Back
To Me by Deborah Reed
Shout Her Lovely Name
by Natalie Serber
The Evening Hour by
Carter Sickels
Cream of Kohlrabi by
Floyd Skloot
Moorings by
Nancy Slavin
Glaciers by Alexis
Smith
Evel Knievel Days by
Pauls Toutonghi
The Listeners by Leni
Zumas
Poetry
Blinded By the Light
Then the Dark by Duane Ackerson
The Next Thing Always
Belongs by Chris Anderson
What Next Old Knife
by David Axelrod
Navigation by
Brittney Corrigan
The Sky is a Bird of
Sorrow by Steve Dieffenbacher
Wellspring: Poems
1993-2003 by Daniel Duford
Off-Key by Jean
Esteve
The Fear of Love by
David Filer
The Chemistry of
Buddha’s Brain by Marcy Greene
Entering by Cecelia
Hagen
Gertrude by Toni
Hanner
The Ravelling Braid
by Toni Hanner
Shutter Lines by
Henry Hughes
Meditations on the
Mysteries of Life by Patrick Joseph Leach
The Hundred-Year
House by Michael McDowell
Quarter Past Moon by
Reba Owen
The Thin Monster
House by Sue Parman
Thinking Like a
Canyon: New and Selected Poems by Jarold Ramsey
The State I’m In by
Dan Raphael
Pomegranate, Sister
of the Heart by Carlos Reyes
Fall Ill Medicine by
Carrie Seitzinger
Thousands Flee
California Wildflowers by Scot Siegel
Resin by Julie Weber
The Cantor Set by
Julie Weber
Drama
Eight Oregon Plays by Charles Deemer
The Gorilla in Beowulf by Sue Parman
Immaterial Matters by Steve Patterson
Next of Kin by Steve Patterson
Costa Rehab by Rich Rubin
Bunkin’ With You in the Afterlife by Jody Seay
Antarktikos by Andrea Stolowitz
Children’s Literature
A Boy Called Dickens
by Deborah Hopkinson
Annie and Helen by
Deborah Hopkinson
Titanic: Voices from
the Disaster by Deborah Hopkinson
Those Rebels, John & Tom by Barbara Kerley
Auntie Yang’s Great
Soybean Picnic by Ginnie Lo
Oddfellow’s Orphanage
by Emily Winfield Martin
Wildwood by Colin
Meloy
The Archangel’s Gift
by Richard Morgan
Four Seasons! Five
Senses! by Dawn Babb Prochovnic
Hip, Hip Hooray! It’s
Family Day! by Dawn Babb Prochovnic
One Trick for One
Treat by Dawn Babb Prochovnic
There’s a Story in My
Head by Dawn Babb Prochovnic
Bronto & the
Pterodactyl Eggs by Charlotte Rodenberg
The Mighty Mars
Rovers: The Incredible Adventures of Spirit and Opportunity by Elizabeth Rusch
Calvin Coconut: King
Fooey by Graham Salisbury
Calvin Coconut: Man
Trip by Graham Salisbury
Drawing From Memory
by Allen Say
Suppose You Meet a
Dinosaur by Judy Sierra
Zoozical by Judy
Sierra
Storm Runners #3:
Eruption by Roland Smith
Young Adult Literature
Awkward by Marni
Bates
Pretty Amy by Lisa
Burstein
Parktails by Douglas
Campbell
Cat’s Foot by Brian
Doyle
Blue Thread by Ruth
Feldman
Mimi and the Magic
Pea by Leo Franz
The Night She
Disappeared by April Henry
Spartacus and the
Circus of Shadows by Molly E Johnson
First Comes Love by
Katie Kacvinsky
Money Rides on
Silence by David Rubin
City of a Thousand
Gods by Jeannie St. John Taylor
Creative Nonfiction
Jesus Loves Women: A
Memoir of Body and Spirit by Tricia Gates Brown
Melanoma Mama: On
Life, Death and Tent Camping by Constance E. Crooker
The Sighing of
Rose-Breasted Cockatoos by Robert Ensign
Life Happens. Live
It! by Jake French
Lessons from the Borderlands
by Bette Lynch Husted
Childless by Marriage
by Susan Fagalde Lick
Hail Holy Light: A
Journey Through the Great Awakening of the Sixties
by Ken McCormack
Up the Capitol Steps
by Barbara Roberts
Brontosaurus by
Leanne Grabel Sander
Wild by Cheryl Strayed
Part Wild by
Ceiridwen Terrill
Messengers of Peace:
Inspiring Stories of Africans Creating Peace by DeEtte Waleed
General Nonfiction
Portland in Three
Centuries by Carl Abbott
Oregon Plans by Sy
Adler
Oregon Archaeology by
C. Melvin Aikens
Creek With No Name by
Ken Bilderback
Dirty Little Secrets
by Kerry Cohen
Unforgettable: The
Biography of Captain Thomas J. Flynn by Alice Flynn
The Wrecking Crew by
Kent Hartman
Shakespeare’s Name
Code by Peter Jensen
The Writer’s Workout
by Christina Katz
People Before Profit
by Ken Koopman
Multnomah: The Tumultuous Story of Oregon's Most Populous County
by Jewel Lansing and Fred Leeson
Sometimes a Great
Movie: Paul Newman, Ken Kesey, and the Filming of the Great Oregon Novel
by
Matt Love
To The Promised Land
by Tom Marsh
Angel’s Truckstop: A
Woman’s Love, Laughter, and Loss During the Vietnam War
by Angelica Pliato
Dead in a Ditch by
Jody Seay
A Promise Given by
Rick Steber
Wisdom Under the
Bridge; The Prophets from Skid Row by Linda Swanson
Krishna In The Sky
With Diamonds by Scott Teitsworth