[OPLINLIST] Ohioana Announces 2012 Ohioana Book Award Finalists

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Ohioana Announces 2012 Ohioana Book Award Finalists

Columbus, OH - May 18, 2012 -The Ohioana Library
<http://www.ohioana.org/>  has announced the 28 finalists for the 2012
Ohioana Book Awards. The Ohioana Awards were first given in 1942, with
James B. "Scotty" Reston <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Reston> ,
Walter Havighurst <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Havighurst> , and
Willard M. Kiplinger
<http://www.cpl.org/ocb/OhioAuthors/KiplingerWMWillardMonroe.aspx>  as
the first recipients. During the past seventy-one years, more than 400
books have been recognized with an Ohioana Book Award. 

"This was an outstanding year for books by Ohio writers and books about
Ohio and Ohioans." said Linda Hengst, executive director of the Ohioana
Library. "We receive 600-800 traditionally published books each year,
which become eligible for the book awards, so the authors of the books
selected as finalists this year should feel truly honored."

The book awards are given in five categories: fiction, nonfiction,
poetry, juvenile literature, and about Ohio/Ohioans. Ohioana will
announce the winners in each category near the end of August, and
recipients will be honored at the annual Ohioana Awards Ceremony in
mid-October. 

2012 Ohioana Book Award finalists

* not Ohioans - note, books about Ohio or Ohioans need not be authored
by an Ohioan. 

Fiction

Breaking Silence by Linda Castillo
<http://www.lindacastillo.com/about_linda.html>  - Minotaur Books 

Ready Player One
<http://www.randomhouse.com/book/209887/ready-player-one-by-ernest-cline
/>  by Ernest Cline <http://www.ernestcline.com/blog/about/>  - Crown
Publishing Group 

The Paris Wife
<http://www.randomhouse.com/rhpg/features/paula_mclain/author/>  by
Paula McLain <http://www.bookreporter.com/authors/paula-mclain>  -
Ballantine Books

The Devil All the Time <http://donaldraypollock.com/books>  by Donald
Ray Pollock <http://donaldraypollock.com/bio-4>  - Doubleday

Doc: A Novel <http://www.marydoriarussell.net/books/doc/>  by Mary Doria
Russell <http://www.marydoriarussell.net/about/>  - Random House

Ziggy <http://www.amazon.com/dp/B006CDDGOQ/ref=rdr_ext_tmb>  by Tom
Wilson (II) <http://archive.suite101.com/article.cfm/cartoonists/80386>
- Andrews McMeel Publishing, LLC

Non-Fiction  

History of a Suicide: My Sister's Unfinished Life
<http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/history-of-a-suicide-jill-bialosky/1100
367223>  by Jill Bialosky <http://www.jillbialosky.com/>  - Atria Books

Toward a Better Life:
<http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/24/nyregion/books-about-immigration-and-
the-best-urban-sanctuaries-in-new-york.html>  America's New Immigrants
in Their Own Words--from Ellis Island to the Present by Peter Morton
Coan <http://www.ohioana-authors.org/coan/highlights.php>  - Prometheus
Books

Dance Anatomy
<http://www.humankinetics.com/products/all-products/Dance-Anatomy>  by
Jacqui Greene Haas
<http://www.humankinetics.com/hksearch?parentCode=0&letter=Jacqui%20Haas
>  - Human Kinetics 

The Quest for the Perfect Hive: A History of Innovation in Bee Culture
by Gene Kritsky
<http://news.cincinnati.com/article/AB/20100805/NEWS01/8050344/Beekeepin
g-book-puts-local-cicada-expert-Gene-Kritsky-national-spotlight-again>
-  Oxford University Press 

Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend by Susan Orlean - Simon & Schuster

About Ohio/Ohioan   

Literary Cincinnati: The Missing Chapter
<http://www.ohioswallow.com/book/Literary+Cincinnati>  by Dale Patrick
Brown - Ohio University Press & Swallow Press 

George Szell: A Life of Music
<http://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/35kpk5df9780252036163.html
>  by Michael Charry
<http://www.conductorsguild.org/main.asp?pageID=58&boardID=37>  -
University of Illinois Press

Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War
<http://us.macmillan.com/midnightrising/TonyHorwitz>  by Tony Horwitz* -
Henry Holt and Co 

Destiny of the Republic
<http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/02/books/review/destiny-of-the-republic-
by-candice-millard-book-review.html?pagewanted=all> : A Tale of Madness,
Medicine and the Murder of a President by Candice Millard* - Doubleday 

Over-the-Rhine Tour Guide:
<http://www.littlemiamibooks.com/shop/pc/Over-the-Rhine-Tour-Guide-Cinci
nnati-s-Historic-German-District-Over-the-Rhine-and-Environs-3p98.htm>
Cincinnati's Historic German District, Over-the-Rhine, and Environs by
Don Heinrich Tolzmann <http://www.gamhof.org/bio_tolzmann.html>  -
Little Miami Publishing

Juvenile

Roots and Blues: A Celebration
<https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/arnold-adoff/roots-and-blues
/>  by Arnold Adoff <http://www.arnoldadoff.com/>  - Clarion Books

Girl of Fire and Thorns
<http://raecarson.com/pb/wp_6f454bbe/wp_6f454bbe.html>  by Rae Carson
<http://raecarson.com/pb/wp_edea27a5/wp_edea27a5.html>  - Greenwillow
Books/HarperCollins 

Where Do You Stay? <http://www.andreacheng.com/node/131>  by Andrea
Cheng <http://www.andreacheng.com/about>  - Boyds Mills

Mary Mae and the Gospel Truth <http://www.marymaeandthegospeltruth.com/>
by Sandra Dutton <http://www.sandradutton.com/>  - Houghton Mifflin
Harcourt

So Shelly
<http://www.tyrothbooks.com/novels.phphttp:/www.tyrothbooks.com/novels.p
hp>  by Ty Roth <http://www.tyrothbooks.com/ty.php>  - Delacorte Press 

Butterfly Tree
<https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/sandra-markle/butterfly-tree
/>  by Sandra Markle
<http://www.charlesbridge.com/contributorinfo.cfm?ContribID=172>  -
Peachtree Publishers

Cousins of Clouds: Elephant Poems
<http://blog.schoollibraryjournal.com/afuse8production/2011/03/07/review
-of-the-day-cousins-of-clouds-by-tracie-vaughn-zimmer/>  by Tracie
Vaughn Zimmer <http://www.tracievaughnzimmer.com/BIO.html>  - Clarion
Books 

Poetry

Your Father on the Train of Ghosts
<https://www.boaeditions.org/bookstore/your-father-on-the-train-of-ghost
s.html>  by John Gallaher <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gallaher>
and G.C. Waldrep* - BOA Editions

Weather <http://www.ugapress.org/index.php/books/weather>  by Dave Lucas
- University of Georgia Press 

Hotel Utopia <http://www.powells.com/biblio?isbn=9780898232554>  by
Robert Miltner <http://www.pw.org/content/robert_miltner_0>  - New
Rivers Press

Mechanical Fireflies
<http://lima.osu.edu/english/poetry/mechanicalfireflies.html>  by Doug
Ramspeck <http://lima.osu.edu/english/poetry/>  - Barrow Street Press 

Wait <http://uwpress.wisc.edu/books/4882.htm>  by Alison Stine
<http://www.pw.org/content/alison_stine>  - University of Wisconsin
Press

The mission of the Ohioana Library, established in 1929 by First Lady
Martha Kinney Cooper, is to recognize and encourage the creative
accomplishments of Ohioans; preserve and expand a permanent collection
of books, sheet music, manuscripts, and other materials by Ohioans and
about Ohio; and disseminate information about the work of Ohio writers,
musicians and other artists to researchers, schools, and the general
public. Individuals may visit the Library at 274 East First Avenue,
Columbus, OH, or online at www.ohioana.org <http://www.ohioana.org/> .

For more information, contact Linda R. Hengst at 614-466-3831 or
ohioana at ohiaona.org. 

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