Massachusetts Book Award2012

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Andere Namen: Mass Book Awards (Englisch), Massachusetts Must-Read (Englisch)
48 Werke 39,271 Bücher 2,527 Rezensionen ½ 3.9
Awarded by the Massachusetts Center for the Book
Each year, the MassBooks recognize significant achievements in fiction, general nonfiction, poetry, and children's literature from the previous mehr anzeigen calendar year. To be eligible, books must have been written by authors who currently live and work in Massachusetts or must present topics of particular and specific importance to the Commonwealth regardless of their author’s residency.
Throughout the award year, we promote an award winner and two honors books in each of the four award categories by producing/hosting reading, discussion, and activity guides for each title at our web site and by featuring the books at the Massachusetts table in the Pavilion of the States at the National Book Festival. The award and honors titles are also deposited in Special Collections at the State Library.
Massachusetts Book Award website
The 1st annual awards were made in 2001 weniger anzeigen
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Winner 4

Must-Read (Longlist) 48

WerkKategorieJahr
Chasing the Nightbird von Krista RussellChildren's / Young Adult2012
A Call for a New Alphabet von Jef CzekajChildren's / Young Adult2012
Everything I Was von Corinne DemasChildren's / Young Adult2012
Phantoms In The Snow von Kathleen Benner DubleChildren's / Young Adult2012
Dead End in Norvelt von Jack GantosChildren's / Young Adult2012
Dear Hot Dog von Mordicai GersteinChildren's / Young Adult2012
Neville von Norton JusterChildren's / Young Adult2012
The Deadlies: Spiders on the Case von Kathryn LaskyChildren's / Young Adult2012
Exposed von Kimberly MarcusChildren's / Young Adult2012
Music Was It: Young Leonard Bernstein (Junior Library Guild Selection (Charlesbridge Hardcover)) von Susan Goldman RubinChildren's / Young Adult2012
The Mysteries of Angkor Wat: Exploring Cambodia's Ancient Temple von Richard SobolChildren's / Young Adult2012
Hooray for Amanda & Her Alligator! von Mo WillemsChildren's / Young Adult2012
Alice Bliss: A Novel von Laura HarringtonFiction2012
Insel zweier Welten: Roman von Geraldine BrooksFiction2012
The Grief of Others von Leah Hager CohenFiction2012
Broken Irish von Edward J. DelaneyFiction2012
The Red Garden von Alice HoffmanFiction2012
The Language of the Sea: A Novel von James MacManusFiction2012
The Talk-Funny Girl: A Novel von Roland MerulloFiction2012
Der Nachtzirkus von Erin MorgensternFiction2012
Light from a Distant Star von Mary McGarry MorrisFiction2012
Binocular Vision: New & Selected Stories von Edith PearlmanFiction2012
Die Verlassenen: The Leftovers - Roman von Tom PerrottaFiction2012
All Cry Chaos von Leonard RosenFiction2012
Killer Stuff and Tons of Money: Seeking History and Hidden Gems in Flea-Market America von Maureen StantonNonfiction2012
Season to Taste: How I Lost My Sense of Smell and Found My Way von Molly BirnbaumNonfiction2012
American Anthrax: Fear, Crime, and the Investigation of the Nation's Deadliest Bioterror Attack von Jeanne GuilleminNonfiction2012
The Forgotten Founding Father: Noah Webster's Obsession and the Creation of an American Culture von Joshua KendallNonfiction2012
Kolumbus' Erbe: Wie Menschen, Tiere, Pflanzen die Ozeane überquerten und die Welt von heute schufen von Charles C. MannNonfiction2012
The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris von David McCulloughNonfiction2012
Sex on the Moon: The Amazing Story Behind the Most Audacious Heist in History von Ben MezrichNonfiction2012
Why Read Moby-Dick? von Nathaniel PhilbrickNonfiction2012
Fenway 1912: The Birth of a Ballpark, a Championship Season, and Fenway's Remarkable First Year von Glenn StoutNonfiction2012
Cabin: Two Brothers, a Dream, and Five Acres in Maine von Lou UreneckNonfiction2012
In search of Motif No. 1 : the history of a fish shack von L. M. VincentNonfiction2012
Lost in Shangri-La: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II von Mitchell ZuckoffNonfiction2012
The Trouble Ball: Poems von Martín EspadaPoetry2012
Skating on Bones von J. Lorraine BrownPoetry2012
Kentucky Derby (Salmon Poetry) von Andrea CohenPoetry2012
Touch: Poems von Henri ColePoetry2012
Mid Drift: Poems von Kate Hanson FosterPoetry2012
Nightly, at the Institute of the Possible von D. M. GordonPoetry2012
Old Ladies in the Locker Room and Pool von Zane KotkerPoetry2012
Beauty Was the Case That They Gave Me von Mark LeidnerPoetry2012
The Hunger Moon: New and Selected Poems, 1980-2010 von Marge PiercyPoetry2012
Aromatics : poems von Robert Burns ShawPoetry2012
Ghost in a Red Hat: Poems von Rosanna WarrenPoetry2012
Things to Say to a Dead Man: Poems at the End of a Marriage and After von Jane YolenPoetry2012

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Awarded by the Massachusetts Center for the Book
Each year, the MassBooks recognize significant achievements in fiction, general nonfiction, poetry, and children's literature from the previous calendar year. To be eligible, books must have been written by authors who currently live and work in Massachusetts or must present topics of particular and specific importance to the Commonwealth regardless of their author’s residency.
Throughout the award year, we promote an award winner and two honors books in each of the four award categories by producing/hosting reading, discussion, and activity guides for each title at our web site and by featuring the books at the Massachusetts table in the Pavilion of the States at the National Book Festival. The award and honors titles are also deposited in Special Collections at the State Library.
Massachusetts Book Award website
The 1st annual awards were made in 2001 (English, Von Mitgliedern verfasst)
Massachusetts Book Awards

The Massachusetts Book Awards highlight the work of our vital contemporary writing community and encourage readers to do some "close reading" of those imaginative works created by the authors among us. Throughout the award year, we a list of "Must Reads " in each of four award categories -- fiction, nonfiction, poetry & children's/young adult literature -- that have been written by Massachusetts writers or about Massachusetts themes. We also publish an annual MassBook Census of Massachusetts books. In the Fall, we name promote an award winner in each of the categories. (English, Von Mitgliedern verfasst)

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