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Florida Book Award Winners Announced

2/12/2015

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    Established in 2006, the Florida Book Awards are coordinated by the Florida State University Libraries. Authors must be full-time Florida residents, except in the nonfiction and visual arts categories, where the subject matter must focus on Florida.  All book were published during 2014.
    This year's awards
will be presented to all award winners at a dinner in Tallahassee in March, and the Gold Medal award winners will be honored the following day at the Historic and Cultural Awards Ceremony sponsored by the State of Florida's Division of Cultural Affairs.
    Here are the winning books, listed alphabetically by category:
Children’s Literature
Gold: Cleopatra in Space (Scholastic) by Mike Maihack
Silver: Hello, I'm Johnny Cash (Candlewick Press) by G. Neri, illustrated by A.G. Ford
Bronze: Just A Drop of Water (Sky Pony Press) by Kerry O'Malley Cerra

Florida Nonfiction
Gold: La Florida: Five Hundred Years of Hispanic Presence (University Press of Florida) edited by Viviana Díaz Balsera and Rachel A. May
Silver: The Peace of Blue: Water Journeys (University Press of Florida) by Bill Belleville
Bronze: Mr. Flagler's St. Augustine by (University Press of Florida) Thomas Graham

General Fiction
Gold: The Invention of Wings (Viking Penguin Group) by Sue Monk Kidd
Silver: The Heaven of Animals (Simon & Schuster) by David James Poissant*
Bronze: The Sheltering (University of South Carolina Press) by Mark Powell

General Nonfiction

Gold: Merlin Stone Remembered (Llewellyn Worldwide) by David B. Axelrod, Lenny Schneir, and Carol Thomas
Silver: Einstein Relatively Simple: Our Universe Revealed in Everyday Language (World Scientific Publishing Company) by Ira Mark Egdall
Bronze: Southside Buddhist Essays (University of Tampa Press) by Ira Sukrungruang

Poetry
Gold: SLANT SIX (Copper Canyon Press) by Erin Belieu
Silver: On the Street of Divine Love (University of Pittsburgh Press) by Barbara Hamby*
Bronze: The Small Blades Hurt (Measure Press) by Erica Dawson

Popular Fiction
Gold: Haunted (G. P. Putnam's Sons) by Randy Wayne White*
Silver: Assassin’s Game (Forge Books) by Ward Larsen
Bronze: The Design is Murder (Carina Press) by Jean Harrington

Visual Arts
Gold: Africa in Florida: Five Hundred Years of African Presence in the Sunshine State (University Press of Florida) edited by Amanda B. Carlson and Robin Poynor
Silver: Everglades: America’s Wetland (University Press of Florida) by Mac Stone)
Bronze: Surfing Florida: A Photographic History (University Press of Florida)by Paul Aho

Spanish Language
Gold: El Arma Secreta (Editora Nacional de la República Dominicana) by José M. Fernández Pequeñ

Young Adult
Gold:  Kiss of Broken Glass (HarperTeen) by Madeleine Kuderick
Silver: Knockout Games (Carol Rhoda Lab/Lerner Publishing Group) by G. Neri
Bronze: More Than Good Enough (Flux) by Crissa-Jean Chappell

*You can read FBR's reviews of these books on the Crime Writing, Fiction, and Poetry pages.

        —Lynne Barrett

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