Great Lakes Book AwardGeneral Nonfiction

Given by Great Lakes Independent Booksellers Association

26 Works / 27 Items 0 Books
"Founded in 1995, The Great Lakes Book Awards annually honor the year’s brightest and most deserving books about America’s heartland. Established by the Great Lakes Booksellers Association, show more the purpose of the awards is to recognize and reward excellence in the writing and publishing of books that capture the spirit and enhance awareness of the Great Lakes region."
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Stages:
All, Winner (46), Honor Book (1), Finalist (71)
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Years:
All, 2008 (6), 2007 (1), 2006 (1), 2005 (1), 2004 (5), 2003 (8), 2002 (1), 2001 (2), 2000 (1), 1997 (1)

Winner 10

WorkYear
The Third Coast: Sailors, Strippers, Fishermen, Folksingers, Long-Haired Ojibway Painters, and God-Save-the-Queen Monarchists of the Great Lakes by Ted McClelland2008
The Great Lakes Water Wars by Peter Annin2007
Made in Detroit by Paul Clemens2006
Bound for Canaan: The Underground Railroad and the War for the Soul of America by Fergus M. Bordewich2005
One Man's Castle: Clarence Darrow in Defense of the American Dream by Phyllis Vine2004
To Conquer the Air: The Wright Brothers and the Great Race for Flight by James Tobin2003
Lake Effect by Rich Cohen2002
Taken for a Ride : How Daimler-Benz Drove off with Chrysler by Bill Vlasic2001
Bodies in Motion and at Rest: On Metaphor and Mortality by Thomas Lynch2000
City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America by Donald L. Miller1997

Finalist 17

WorkYear
Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America's Soul by Karen Abbott2008
Little Heathens by Mildred Armstrong Kalish2008
American Band: Music, Dreams, and Coming of Age in the Heartland by Kristen Laine2008
The Third Coast: Sailors, Strippers, Fishermen, Folksingers, Long-Haired Ojibway Painters, and God-Save-the-Queen Monarchists of the Great Lakes by Ted McClelland2008
Ty and The Babe: Baseball's Fiercest Rivals: A Surprising Friendship and the 1941 Has-Beens Golf Championship by Tom Stanton2008
In the Middle of the Middle West: Literary Nonfiction from the Heartland by Becky Bradway2004
Enslaved by Ducks by Bob Tarte2004
Zingerman's Guide to Good Eating: How to Choose the Best Bread, Cheeses, Olive Oil, Pasta, Chocolate, and Much More by Ari Weinzweig2004
Your Negro Tour Guide: Truths in Black and White by Kathy Y. Wilson2004
Wheels for the World: Henry Ford, His Company, and a Century of Progress by Douglas Brinkley2003
The Living Great Lakes: Searching for the Heart of the Inland Seas by Jerry Dennis2003
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson2003
Indian Summer: The Tragic Story of Louis Francis Sockalexis, the First Native American in Major League Baseball by Brian McDonald2003
Population: 485: Meeting Your Neighbors One Siren at a Time by Michael Perry2003
Walk on Water: Inside an Elite Pediatric Surgical Unit by Michael Ruhlman2003
Voelker's Pond: A Robert Traver Legacy by Ed Wargin2003
The Huron River: Voices from the Watershed by John R. Knott2001

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