Minnesota Book Award Finalists 2022
The finalists for the 2022 Minnesota Book Awards were chosen on Saturday, January 25, by a group of 27 judges from around the state.
How To Apologize
Author(s):
David LaRochelle
Mike Wohnoutka
Description:
Wouldn't the world be a better place if everyone knew how to apologize? Luckily, this humorous guidebook is full of practical tips about when, why, and how to say you're sorry. From a porcupine who accidentally popped his friend's balloon to a snail who was running so fast he stepped on a sloth's toes, hilarious examples and sweet illustrations abound.
Format:
Book
Call Number:
E LaR
Hello, Earth! Poems to Our Planet
Author(s):
Description:
Poems addressed to the earth itself explore scientific concepts including plate tectonics, water cycles, and the creation of tides
Format:
Book
Call Number:
J 811.54 Sid
Henry At Home
Author(s):
Description:
Liza is Henry's big sister, and Henry is Liza's little brother. As long as there has been a Henry and Liza, they have always done everything together. Haircuts, birthday parties, tree climbing, even flu shots. Liza and Henry. Henry and Liza. But that all changes when Liza starts school for the first time, heading off to kindergarten and leaving her little brother behind. Henry is incredulous. How can Liza do this to him?
Format:
Book
Call Number:
E May
Ten Beautiful Things
Author(s):
Molly Beth Griffin
Maribel Lechuga
Description:
Lily is moving into her grandmother's farm in Iowa, and she is sad about all the changes necessary in her life--but on the long drive her grandmother challenges her to find ten beautiful things that they can share together.
Format:
Book
Call Number:
E Gri
The Violence Project : How To Stop A Mass Shooting Epidemic
Author(s):
Jillian Peterson
James A. (James Andrew) Densley
Description:
Using research data, including first-person accounts from the perpetrators themselves, a special investigator and psychologist and a sociologist, who built The Violence Project, a comprehensive database of mass shooters, share their solutions for putting an end to these tragedies that have defined the modern era.
Format:
Book
Call Number:
364.1523 Pet
Booth girls : pregnancy, adoption, and the secrets we kept
Author(s):
Description:
A thoughtful and emotional multigenerational story of contested motherhood and the stigma of adoption--equal parts biography, oral history, history, and memoir. Kim Heikkila's mother had a secret: in 1961, two years before her marriage, she became pregnant. After several months hidden in her parents' attic bedroom, she gave birth to a daughter at the Salvation Army's Booth Memorial Hospital, a home for unwed mothers in St. Paul, and surrendered her for adoption. More than 30 years later, Kim's older sister reunited with her birth family. Kim's mother had written about her experiences, but after she died, Kim still had questions. Using careful research and sensitive interviews with other "Booth girls," Heikkila tells the stories of the Booth hospital and the women who passed through it--and she learned more about her own experience as an adoptive mother.
Format:
Book
Call Number:
306.8743 Hei
Life's Too Short
Author(s):
Description:
"Vanessa lives life on her own terms -- one day at a time, every day to its fullest. She can't afford to think about whether she has the same fatal genetic condition as her older sister. After all, she has way too much to do, traveling the globe and showing millions of YouTube followers the joy in seizing every moment. But lately, life has been anything but pure joy, and travel has come to an abrupt halt. After her younger step-sister drops off an infant and skips town, Vanessa is housebound -- on mommy duty for the foreseeable future and feeling totally out of her depth. The last person she expects to help is her wickedly hot next-door neighbor, Adrian Copeland. After all, she barely knows the guy. But the closer they get, the more she realizes her carefree ways and his need for a life game plan could never be compatible for the long term...not unless one of them is willing to take a drastic leap of faith" -- Provided by publisher.
Format:
Book
Call Number:
FIC Jim
Insurrection
Author(s):
Description:
Emergency physician Drake Cody is on duty at a controversial oil pipeline's opening ceremony when an explosion critically injures a Minnesota senator and others. With the blast, sovereign citizen militia leader Tolman Freid, cruelly wronged by government and corporate injustice, has transformed his extremist anti-government ideology into terrorist action. He believes he is history- and duty-bound to take down the system, no matter the cost. Upon arriving at the ER, Drake's hopes for saving the dying senator and other victims rise, but in the next minute, Freid and his militia set in motion the rest of their devastating scheme--a terrorist action more deadly than any in history--and it is centered in the ER. While FBI agents and police coordinate desperate efforts outside the hospital, Drake, a few ER colleagues, and a handful of vulnerable patients must somehow stop the heavily-armed, fanatical extremists or they and tens of thousands of innocent people will die
Format:
Book
Call Number:
FIC Com
Lightning Strike : A Novel
Author(s):
Description:
Aurora is a small town nestled in the ancient forest alongside the shores of Minnesota's Iron Lake. In the summer of 1963, it is the whole world to twelve-year-old Cork O'Connor, its rhythms as familiar as his own heartbeat. But when Cork stumbles upon the body of a man he revered hanging from a tree in an abandoned logging camp, it is the first in a series of events that will cause him to question everything he took for granted about his hometown, his family, and himself. Cork's father, Liam O'Connor, is Aurora's sheriff and it is his job to confirm that the man's death was the result of suicide, as all the evidence suggests. In the shadow of his father's official investigation, Cork begins to look for answers on his own. Together, father and son face the ultimate test of choosing between what their heads tell them is true and what their hearts know is right.
Format:
Book
Call Number:
FIC Kru
The stolen hours
Author(s):
Description:
Lila Nash is on the verge of landing her dream job—working as a prosecutor under the Hennepin County Attorney—and has settled into a happy life with her boyfriend, Joe Talbert. But when a woman is pulled from the Mississippi River, barely alive, things in the office take a personal turn. The police believe the woman’s assailant is local photographer Gavin Spenser, but the case quickly flounders as the evidence wears thin. It seems Gavin saw this investigation coming—and no one can imagine how carefully he has prepared. The more determined Lila is to put Gavin behind bars, the more elusive justice becomes. Battling a vindictive new boss and haunted by the ghosts of her own unspeakable attack, which she’s kept a dark secret for eight long years, Lila knows the clock is ticking down. In a race against an evil mastermind, it will take everything Lila’s got to outsmart a killer—and to escape the dark hold of her own past.
Format:
Book
Call Number:
FIC Esk
Watershed : attending to body and earth in distress
Author(s):
Description:
A personal health crisis, stories from environmental refugees, and our climate in danger prompt a meditation on intimate connections between the health of the body and the health of the ecosystem
Format:
Book
Call Number:
364.19 Han
Are you Borg now?
Author(s):
Description:
A memoir of Said Shaiye, who immigrated from Somalia to the United States. Told in a combination of poetry, introspection and photography.
Format:
Book
Call Number:
811 Sai
Saving Us : A Climate Scientist's Case For Hope And Healing In A Divided World
Author(s):
Description:
Katharine Hayhoe shares her journey in talking about climate. The result is an engaging look at science, faith, and human psychology, without the political theater. Katharine argues that alarmism around climate turns off the undecided and promotes hopelessness among those who want to bring about change.
Format:
Audiobook
Call Number:
363.7387 Hay
Sound like trapped thunder
Author(s):
Description:
n essays on subjects ranging from seahorse mating rituals to an urgent letter addressing a grizzly bear, from a wounded hummingbird to an old woman following the call of a lonely whale, Jessica Lind Peterson explores tensions between domesticity and wildness, often discovering latent elements of magic within the mundane
Format:
Book
Call Number:
814 Pet
Long Lost
Author(s):
Description:
Feeling lonely and out of place after her family moves to a new town, eleven-year-old Fiona Crane ventures to the local library, where she finds a gripping mystery novel about a small town, family secrets, and a tragic disappearance.
Format:
Book
Call Number:
J FIC Wes
