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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt">2013 Oregon Book Awards Finalists
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Literary Arts is pleased to announce the finalists for the 26th annual
<a href="http://www.literary-arts.org/oba-home/">Oregon Book Awards</a>. The winners will be announced at
<a href="http://www.literary-arts.org/ai1ec_event/2013-oregon-book-awards-ceremony/?instance_id=1292">
the 26th Oregon Book Awards ceremony</a> on April 8, 2013.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt">FICTION</span></u></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><br>
Brian Doyle of Portland, <b><i>Bin Laden’s Bald Spot</i></b> (Red Hen Press)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Ismet Prcic of Portland, <b><i>Shards</i>
</b>(Grove/Atlantic)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Carter Sickels of Portland, <b>
<i>The Evening Hour</i></b> (Bloomsbury)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Alexis Smith of Portland, <b>
<i>Glaciers</i></b><i> </i>(Tin House Books)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Leni Zumas of Portland, <b><i>The Listeners</i></b> (Tin House Books)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p><span style="text-decoration:none"> </span></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt">POETRY</span></u></b><b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt">
</span></u></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Jean Esteve of Waldport, <b><i>Off-Key</i></b> (Finishing Line Press)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Toni Hanner of Eugene, <b><i>Gertrude: Poems and Other Objects</i></b> (Traprock Books)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Alan Peterson of Ashland, <b>
<i>Fragile Acts</i></b><i> </i>(McSweeney’s)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Zachary Schomburg of Portland,
<b><i>Fjords Vol 1</i></b> (Black Ocean)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Carrie Seitzinger of Portland,
<b><i>Fall Ill Medicine</i></b> (Small Doggies Press)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><u>DRAMA</u></b></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><br>
Susan Mach of Portland, <b><i>A Noble Failure</i></b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Steve Patterson of Portland,<i>
<b>Immaterial Matters</b></i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Andrea Stolowitz of Portland,
<b><i>Antarktikos</i></b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Rich Rubin of Portland, <b><i>Costa Rehab</i></b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">C.S. Whitcomb of Wilsonville,
<b><i>Lear’s Follies</i></b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><br>
<b><u>GENERAL NONFICTION</u></b></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><br>
Nicholas Buccola of McMinnville, <b><i>The Political Thought of Frederick Douglass: In Pursuit of American Liberty</i></b> (NYU Press)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Kerry Cohen of Portland, <b><i>Dirty Little Secrets: Breaking the Silence on Teenage Girls and Promiscuity</i></b> (Sourcebooks)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Scott Farris of Portland, <b>
<i>Almost President</i></b> (Lyons Press)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Steven Green of Salem, <b><i>The Bible, the School, and the Constitution</i></b> (Oxford University Press)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Kent Hartman of Portland, <b>
<i>The Wrecking Crew</i></b> (St. Martin’s Press)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt">CREATIVE NONFICTION</span></u></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><br>
Kerry Cohen of Portland, <b><i>Seeing Ezra</i></b> (Seal Press)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Storm Large of Portland, <b><i>Crazy Enough</i></b> (Free Press)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Aria Minu-Sepehr of Corvallis,
<b><i>We Heard the Heavens Then</i></b> (Free Press)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Cheryl Strayed of Portland, <b>
<i>Wild</i></b> (Knopf)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Ceiridwen Terrill of Portland,<i>
<b>Part Wild</b> </i>(Scribner)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt">CHILDREN’S LITERATURE</span></u></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><br>
Heather Vogel Frederick of Portland, <b><i>Once Upon a Toad</i></b> (Simon & Schuster)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Deborah Hopkinson of West Linn,
<b><i>Annie and Helen</i></b> (Schwartz & Wade)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Graham Salisbury of Lake Oswego,
<b><i>Calvin Coconut: Man Trip</i></b> (Wendy Lamb Books)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Allen Say of Portland, <b><i>Drawing From Memory</i></b> (Scholastic Press)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">J.H. Shapiro of Portland, <b>
<i>Magic Trash: A Story of Tyree Guyton and His Art</i></b> (Charlesbridge)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><u>YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE</u></b></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><br>
Brian Doyle of Portland, <b><i>Cat’s Foot</i></b> (Corby Books)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Katie Kacvinsky of Corvallis,
<b><i>First Comes Love</i></b> (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Ruth Tenzer Feldman of Portland,
<b><i>Blue Thread</i></b> (Ooligan Press)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="color:black">Katie Anderson, Library Development Services<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="color:black">* Youth Services Consultant * Oregon Center for the Book Coordinator *<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="color:black">Oregon State Library, 250 Winter St. NE, Salem, OR 97301<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="color:black"><a href="mailto:katie.anderson@state.or.us"><span style="color:blue">katie.anderson@state.or.us</span></a>, 503-378-2528<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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