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The Great Lakes Booksellers Association is one of ten regional booksellers associations in the country. Along with the GLBA, some of these other trade associations have their own sets of literary awards that honor the writers and publishers from their respective regions. We have listed the most recent sets of awards for those associations that participate in awards programs.

Mountains and Plains Booksellers Association
2005
Fiction: The Work of Wolves, Kent Meyers
Non Fiction: Little Things in a Big Country: An Artist and Her Dog on the Rocky Mountain Front, Hannah Hinchman
Poetry/Art: The Pueblo Imagination: Landscape and Memory in the Photography of Lee Marmon, Lee Marmon
Children’s Chapter Books: Searching for Chipeta: The Story of a Ute and Her People, Vicki Leigh Krudwig
Children’s Picture Book: Old Coyote, Nancy Wood, Max Grafe (illustrator)
Regional Reference: Select Peaks of Greater Yellowstone : A Mountaineering History and Guide, Thomas Turiano

2004
Fiction: Land That Moves, Land That Stands Still , Kent Nelson
Non Fiction: Hawks Rest: A Season in the Remote Heart of Yellowstone , Gary Ferguson
The Arts: Birds of Prey in the American West, Tom Vezo (photos), Richard L. Glinski (text)
Children's Picture Book: Enduring Wisdom, Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve, Synthia Saint James (Illustrations)
Regional Reference: Creation of the Teton Landscape, Love, Reed, Pierce
Spirit of the West: Sandra Cisneros


2003

Adult Fiction: Perma Red, Debra Magpie Earling
Adult Nonfiction: Breaking Clean, Judy Blunt
Poetry/Art: Drawn to Yellowstone: Artists in America’s First National Park, Peter Hassrick
Children’s Chapter Book: Women’s Artists of the Westl: Five Portraits in Creativity and Courage
Spirit of the West Award: Craig Childs

2002
Adult Fiction: The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint, Brady Udall
Adult Nonfiction: A River Running West, Donald Worster
Poetry/Art: Ansel Adams at 100, John Szarkowski
Children’s Chapter Book: Daniel's Walk, Michael Spooner
Children’s Picture Book: Mountain Men, Andrew Glass

New England Booksellers Association
2004
Children’s: Molly Bang
Fiction: Archer Mayor
Non Fiction: Linda Greenlaw
Publishing: Storey Publishing

2002
Fiction: Chris Bohjalian
New England Publishing: University Press of New England

2001
Fiction: Elinor Lipman
Nonfiction: Howard Zinn
Children’s: Leonard Everett Fisher

2000
Fiction: Suzanne Strempek Shea
Nonfiction: John Hanson Mitchell
Children’s Books: Marcia Sewall
New England Publishing: Steerforth Publishing

Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association
2004
Hawk’s Rest, Gary Ferguson
Cool As I Am, Pete Fromm
Bold Spirit: Helga Estby’s Forgotten Walk Across Victorian America, Linda Lawrence Hunt
The Devil in the White City , Erik Larson
Set This House in Order, Matt Ruff
Jarhead, Anthony Swoffard

2003
Early Morning, Remembering My Father, William Stafford, Kim Stafford
A Perfect Snow, Nora Martin
Lullaby, Chuck Palahniuk
The Necessary Grace to Fall, Gina Ochsner
Dumb Luck, Sam Hamill
The Resurrectionists, Michael Collins

2002
Fiction: A Perfect Snow, Nora Martin
Nonfiction: Early Morning, Remembering My Father, William Stafford, Kim Stafford
Short Story Collection: The Necessary Grace to Fall, Gina Uchsner
Poetry: Dumb Luck, Sam Hamill
Mystery: The Resurrectionists, Michael Collins

Southeast Booksellers Association
2004
Fiction:  Lunch at the Piccadilly, Clyde Edgerton
Non-Fiction:  GRITS: Girls Raised in the South, Deborah Ford
Poetry:  Locales, Poems from the Fellowship of Southern Writers, Ed. by Fred Chappell
Children:  How I Became a Pirate, Melinda Long
Cookbook:  The Gift of Southern Cooking, Scott Peacock & Edna Lewis

2003
Fiction: The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
Nonfiction: My Losing Season, Pat Conroy
Children: Hoot, Carl Hiaasen
Poetry: Catching Light, Kathryn Stripling Byer

2002
Fiction: The Bridge, Doug Marlette
Nonfiction: Ava’s Man, Rick Bragg
Children: How Animals Saved the People, J.J. Reneaux

Northern California Independent Booksellers Association
2004
Novel: Old School, Tobias Wolff
Short Fiction: How to Breathe Underwater: Stories, Julie Orringer
Non Fiction: River of Shadows : Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West, Rebecca Solnit
Poetry: Notes From the Divided Country, Suji Kwock Kim
Children’s Literature: The Day the Babies Crawled Away, Peggy Rathman

Southern California Booksellers Association
2004
Fiction: Jamesland, Michelle Huneven
Non Fiction: The King of California : J.G. Boswell and the Making of the Secret American Empire, Mark Arax and Rick Wartzman
Mystery: Wile I Disappear, Edward Wright
Children’s: The Golden Hour, Maiya Williams

Awards


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