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S M T W T F S 29303568101112131415161820212224252627293112Wed 09Book Voyagers / Storytelling program
October 9 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pmThu 17Book Voyagers / Hispanic Heritage Celebration
October 17 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pmSat 19Book Voyagers / Seasonal Storytelling
October 19 @ 1:30 pm - 2:30 pmWed 23Book Voyagers / Tales from Around the World
October 23 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pmMon 28Book Voyagers / Storytelling with Rona Leventhal
October 28 @ 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
2017 Book Award Finalists
Entries for the 2017 Book Award
The Connecticut Center for the Book is very pleased to announce the finalists for the 2017 Connecticut Book Awards! The process was vigorous (and long!) and care and consideration was taken with each and every title submitted.
Here are a few factoids:
- One hundred nine (109) titles were submitted as candidates for the Book Awards between January 1 and April 19, 2017 and after review against the guidelines, one hundred titles were admitted into the judging process.
- Each category had five judges with expertise in the literary arts. They reviewed the titles over three months using criteria appropriate to the category.
- Seventeen titles made it to the finalist list.
The Finalists Are...
Fiction
Back Lash by Chris Knopf
I’ll Take You There by Wally Lamb
Shadows of Paris by Eric D. Lehman
Cajun Waltz by Robert H. Patton
Beneath a Shooting Star by Susan Harrison Rashid
Non-Fiction
Rare Light by Anne Dawson
Never Look an American in the Eye by Okey Ndibe
The Lost White Tribe by Michael Robinson
Poetry
The Banquet by Gray Jacobik
Barrel Children by Rayon Lennon
The Meeting House by Marilyn Nelson
Fugitives by Danielle Pieratti
Young Readers
All Rise for the Honorable Perry T. Cook by Leslie Connor
The Weight of Zero by Karen Fortunati
Ada’s Violin by Susan Hood
The Unexpected Everything by Morgan Matson
Good Night, Bat! Good Morning, Squirrel! by Paul Meisel