The winners, presented by , will be announced June 22 in Aspen. Here is a list of :
Anthology/Collections
“Climb: Tales of Man Versus Boulder, Crag, Wall and Peak,”
Edited by Kerry L. Burns and Cameron M. Burns, FalconGuides
“Denver Inside and Out,”
Managing Editor, Steve Grinstead, History Colorado
“Monumental Majesty: 100 Years of Colorado National Monument,”
Edited by Laurena Mayne Davis, The Daily Sentinel
Biography
“Helen Ring Robinson,”
by Pat Pascoe, University Press of Colorado
“The Man Who Never Died,”
by William Adler, Bloomsbury
“W.D. Farr,”
by Daniel Tyler, University of Oklahoma Press
Children’s Literature
“Raj the Bookstore Tiger,”
by Kathleen T. Pelley, Charlesbridge
“Light Up the Night,”
by Jean Reidy, Disney Hyperion
“Young Henry and the Dragon,”
by Jeanne Kaufman, Shenanigan Books
Creative Nonfiction
“Breaking the Chain: How I Banned Chain Restaurants From My Diet and Went From Full to Fulfilled,”
by Allyson Reedy
“Dances in Two Worlds: A Writer-Artist’s Backstory.”
by Thordis Simonsen, The Fundamental Note
“Finding Uri,”
by Sandy Munro
“How Delicate These Arches,”
by David Feela, Raven’s Eye Press
General Nonfiction
“Math for Life,”
by Jeffrey Bennett, Roberts and Co.
“The Fleece & Fiber Sourcebook,”
by Debora Robson, Storey Publishing
“The Beekeeper’s Lament,”
by Hannah Nordhaus, Harper Perennial
Genre Fiction
“Buried by the Roan,”
by Mark Stevens, People’s Press
“Mercury’s Rise,”
by Ann Parker, Poisoned Pen Press
“The Soul Mirror,”
by Carol Berg, Penguin Group USA
History
“Breaking the Ties that Bound: The Politics of Marital Strife in Late Imperial Russia,”
by Barbara Alpern Engel, Cornell University Press
“From Jars to the Stars,”
by Todd Neff, Earthview Media
“The Beasts of the Buchenwald: Karl & Ilse Kock, Human-Skin Lampshades and the War-Crimes Trial of the Century,”
by Flint Whitlock, Cable Publishing
Juvenile Literature
“City of Orphans,”
by Avi, Simon & Schuster
“Letters to Jupiter,”
by Peggy Tibbetts, Sisterhood Publications
“Rescue in Poverty Gulch,”
by Nancy Oswald, Filter Press, LLC
Literary Fiction
“Kings of Colorado,”
by David E. Hilton, Simon & Schuster
“Safe Haven,”
by Susan Dugan, Karat Publishing
“The Bride’s House,”
by Sandra Dallas, St. Martin’s Press
“The Weird Sisters,”
by Eleanor Brown, Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam
Pictorial
“Elevated Perspective: The Paintings of Joellyn Duesberry,”
by Joellyn T. Duesberry, Rose Fredrick Fine Arts Publishing
“Serengeti: The Eternal Beginning,”
by Boyd Norton, Fulcrum Books
“Thomas W. Benton: Artist/Activist,” by Daniel Joseph Watkins, People’s Press
Poetry
“Nevertheless,”
by Wendy Videlock, Able Muse Press
“Circle’s Apprentice,”
by Dan Beachy-Quick, Tupelo Press
“Doubters and Dreamers,”
by Janice Gould, The University of Arizona Press
“Born to Be Blue,”
by Tony Moffeit, Lummox Press
Young Adult Literature
“Lucy Dakota: Adventures of a Modern Explorer Book 1: Rocky Mountain Beginnings,”
by Carol Sue Shride, My Piece of the Puzzle
“Queen of Water,”
by Laura Resau, Random House Children’s Books
“The Dragon, the Blade and the Thread: Book Three of the Star Trilogy,”
by Donald Samson, AWSNA Publications
