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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><strong><a href="http://www.literary-arts.org/index.php?article=700"><span style="font-weight:normal">2012 Oregon Book Awards Finalists</span></a>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">The following are the finalists for the 2012 Oregon Book Awards. Winners will be announced at a ceremony on Monday, April 23rd at 7:30 p.m. at the Gerding Theater at the Armory in Portland (128 NW Eleventh Ave). Tickets
to the ceremony are available at <a href="http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/219351">
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/219351</a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><strong><span style="font-weight:normal">If you are promoting the Oregon Book Awards at your library, please encourage your patrons to</span></strong><b>
</b>cast<b> </b>their vote for the <b>Readers’ Choice Award</b>! Vote at: <a href="http://www.oregonlive.com/books">
oregonlive.com/books</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><u>GRAPHIC LITERATURE AWARD</u></b><br>
Graham Annable of Portland <b><i>The Book of Grickle</i></b> (Dark Horse Comics)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">Aidan Koch of Portland <b><i>The Whale</i></b> (Gaze Books)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">Sarah Oleksyk of Portland <b><i>Ivy </i>
</b>(Oni Press)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">Greg Rucka of Portland <b><i>Stumptown</i>
</b>(Oni Press)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">Joe Sacco of Portland <b><i>Footnotes in Gaza</i></b> (Metropolitan Books)
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><u>FICTION</u></b><br>
Dan DeWeese of Portland <b><i>You Don’t Love This Man</i></b> (Harper Perennial)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">Patrick DeWitt of Portland <b><i>The Sisters Brothers</i></b><i>
</i>(Ecco)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">Brian Doyle of Portland <b><i>Mink River</i></b> (Oregon State University Press)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">Matthew Stadler of Portland <b><i>Chloe Jarren’s La Cucaracha</i></b><i>
</i>(Publication Studio)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">Vanessa Veselka of Portland <b><i>Zazen</i></b><i>
</i>(Red Lemonade) <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><u>POETRY </u></b><br>
Carl Adamshick of Portland <b><i>Curses and Wishes</i></b> (Louisiana State University Press)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">Geri Doran of Eugene <b><i>Sanderlings</i>
</b>(Tupelo Press)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">Emily Kendal Freyof Portland <b><i>The Grief Performance</i></b> (Cleveland State University Press)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">Daniel Skach-Mills of Portland <b><i>The Hut Beneath the Pine</i></b> (Daniel Skach-Mills)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">Ursula K. Le Guin of Portland and Roger Dorband of Astoria
<b><i>Out Here</i> </b>(Raven Studio)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><u>GENERAL NONFICTION</u></b> <br>
Glenn Anthony May of Eugene <b><i>Sonny Montes and Mexican American Activism in Oregon</i></b> (Oregon State University Press)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">Kenneth J. Ruoff of Portland <b><i>Imperial Japan At Its Zenith: The Wartime Celebration of the Empire’s 2600th Anniversary</i>
</b>(Cornell University Press)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">Roger J. Porter of Portland <b><i>Bureau of Missing Persons: Writing the Secret Lives of Fathers</i></b> (Cornell University Press)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><u>CREATIVE NONFICTION</u></b><br>
George Estreich of Corvallis <i>The <b>Shape of the Eye: Down Syndrome, Family, and the Stories We Inherit</b>
</i>(Southern Methodist University Press)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">Jennifer Lauck of Portland <b><i>Found</i>
</b>(Seal Press)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">Sarahlee Lawrence of Portland <b><i>River House</i></b> (Tin House Books)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">Marjorie Sandor of Corvallis <b><i>The Late Interiors</i></b> (Arcade Publishing)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">Lidia Yuknavitch of Portland <b><i>The Chronology of Water</i></b> (Hawthorne Books)
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><u>CHILDREN’S LITERATURE</u></b><br>
Nancy Coffelt of Portland <b><i>Catch That Baby!</i></b><i> </i>(Simon & Schuster)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">Judy Cox of Ontario <b><i>Nora and the Texas Terror</i></b><i>
</i>(Holiday House)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">Eric A. Kimmel of Portland <b><i>Medio Pollito</i></b> (Marshall Cavendish)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">Cynthia Rylant of Portland <b><i>Brownie and Pearl Take a Dip</i></b> (Simon & Schuster)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">Graham Salisbury of Lake Oswego <b><i>Calvin Coconut: Hero of Hawaii</i></b> (Wendy Lamb Books)
<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><u>YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE</u></b> <br>
Heather Vogel Frederick of Portland <b><i>Pies and Prejudice</i></b> (Simon & Schuster)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">April Henry of Portland <b><i>Girl, Stolen</i></b> (Henry Holt)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">Lisa Schroeder of Beaverton <b><i>The Day Before</i></b> (Simon Pulse)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">Jen Violi of Portland <b><i>Putting Makeup on Dead People</i></b><i>
</i>(Hyperion)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">Emily Whitman of Portland <b><i>Wildwing</i></b><i>
</i>(Greenwillow Books) <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Katie Anderson, Library Development Services<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;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="font-size:12.0pt;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="font-size:12.0pt;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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