Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers Association



 
March 31, 2014
PRESS RELEASE
For Immediate Release

READING THE WEST
BOOK AWARDS
2013 Awards Year

Shortlist Selections


Winners to be announced on May 30, 2014 
 
 
Adult Fiction
Kind of Kin: A Novel

HarperCollins/Ecco
KIND OF KIN
by Rilla Askew
978-0-062-19879-2


The Son

HarperCollins/Ecco
THE SON
by Philipp Meyer

978-0-062-12039-7


Loteria

HarperCollins/Harper
LOTERIA
by Mario Alberto Zambrano

978-0-062-26854-9


The Carrion Birds: A Novel

HarperCollins/William Morrow
THE CARRION BIRDS
by Urban Waite

978-0-062-21688-5


Monument Road

Torrey House Press
MONUMENT ROAD: A Novel
by Charlie Quimby

978-1-937-22625-1

Adult Nonfiction

Dead Run: The Murder of a Lawman and the Greatest Manhunt of the Modern American West

Macmillan/St. Martin's Press
DEAD RUN:
The Murder of a Lawman and the Greatest
Manhunt of the Modern American West
by Dan Schultz

978-0-312-68188-3


The Heart of Everything That Is: The Untold Story of Red Cloud, An American Legend

Simon & Schuster
THE HEART OF EVERYTHING THAT IS:

The Untold Story of Red Cloud,
an American Legend
by Bob Drury and Tom Clavin

978-1-451-65466-0


The Emerald Mile: The Epic Story of the Fastest Ride in History Though the Heart of the Grand Canyon

Simon & Schuster/Scribner
THE EMERALD MILE:
The Epic Story of the Fastest Ride in History
through the Heart of the Grand Canyon
by Kevin Fedarko
978-1-439-15988-9


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University of Iowa Press
BETWEEN URBAN AND WILD:
Reflections from Colorado
by Andrea M. Jones

978-1-609-38187-5


Seven Summers: A Naturalist Homesteads in the Modern West

University of Utah Press
SEVEN SUMMERS:
A Naturalist Homesteads
in the Modern West
by Julia Corbett

978-1-607-81249-4

Children's

Ivy Takes Care

Candlewick Press
IVY TAKES CARE
by Rosemary Wells

978-0-763-65352-1


Thunderstorm

Enchanted Lion Books
THUNDERSTORM
written and illustrated by Arthur Geisert

978-1-592-70133-9


Relic

Entangled Publishing
RELIC
by Renee Collins

978-1-622-66014-8


Jan Adkins; Illustrations by the author What If You Met a Cowboy?

Macmillan Children's Publishing Group
WHAT IF YOU MET A COWBOY?
written and illustrated by Jan Adkins

978-1-596-43149-2


Last Ride of Caleb O'Toole

Sourcebooks/Jabberwocky
THE LAST RIDE OF CALEB O'TOOLE
by Eric Pierpoint

978-1-402-28171-6


 
 
Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers Association

Laura Ayrey

Executive Director

  
 


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