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2017 Library of Virginia Literary Awards Nominations 2017 Library of Virginia Literary Awards Nominations FICTION Alison, Jane Nine Island Catapult Bausch, Robert The Legend of Jesse Smoke Bloomsbury, USA TorBooks Belcher, R.S. Brotherhood of the Wheel Karma and the Art of Butter Bodes Well Bhide, Monica Chicken: A Novel Publishing Brown, Carrie The Stargazer’s Sister: A Novel Pantheon Books Brown, John Gregory A Thousand Miles from Nowhere Lee Boudreaux Books The Dollmaker Montlake Romance Burton, Mary The Shark Montlake Romance Burton, Mary Vulnerable Montlake Romance Burton, Mary The Learning Curve Authorhouse Carter, David H. Savant Books and All Things Await Publications Clabough, Seth Thomas There Will Be Stars Nelson/HarperCollins Coffey, Billy Champagne Conspiracy Minotaur Books Crosby, Ellen Dacey, Patrick We’ve Already Gone This Far Henry Holt and Co Karnoie, America’s First Daughter: A William Morrow Dray, Stephanie Laura Novel Paperbacks Ellison, November Beacon self-published Even, Aaron He Comes in Fire Atticus Books Fuhrman, Paul Thomas The Downeaster - Deadly Voyage Fireship Press 2017 Library of Virginia Literary Awards Nominations George, Katy Resch Exposure Kore Press Gleaton, Donna The Whistlers Gold self-published The Whistler Doubleday Grisham, John Glory Over Everything: Beyond Simon and Schuster Grissom, Kathleen the Kitchen House Ohio State University Landfall: A Ring of Stories Hensley, Julie Press Forsaken NewSouth Books Howell, (Jr.), Ross Chasm in Time Createspace Johnson, Jacqueline Knopf Johnson, Lee Clay Nitro Mountain: A Novel Another Place You've Never Counterpoint Kauffman, Rebecca Been Viking Kerney, Kelly Hard Red Spring Sante Fe Writers Bystanders Laskowski, Tara Project Elegy in Scarlet Crimetime Press Lawson, BV The Progeny Howard Books Lee, Tosca Prayers the Devil Answers: A Atria Books McCrumb, Sharyn Novel Medina, Meg Burn Baby, Burn Candlewick Warwick House Parker, Joy The Pathway Home Publishing Patchett, Ann Commonwealth Harper Collins Poliner, Elizabeth As Close to Us As Breathing Lee Boudreaux Books Poyer, David Onslaught St. Martin's Press Prince, Steve Farewell the Innocent FriesenPress Twelve Radulescu, Domnica Country of Red Azaleas 2017 Library of Virginia Literary Awards Nominations Losing It Riverhead Books Rathbone, Emma The Boston Castrato Barbican Press Sargent, Colin Sara Barefield Self-published Schwartz, Marian Homicide in the House Camel Press Shogan, Colleen Skrutskie, Emily The Abyss Surrounds Us Llewellyn Worldwide Spears, Kat The Boy Who Killed Grant Parker St. Martin's Press Publication Sutherland, Sally Barns A Pit Pony Named Bobbit Consultants Taylor, Mary Ellen The View from Prince Street Penguin Turner, Tiffany Alley Self-published Walker, Ran Black Hand Side: Stories CreateSpace Williams, Erin Gemini Rising self-published NONFICTION The Genius of Birds Penguin Press Ackerman, Jennifer Wisdom's Workshop: The Rise of Princeton University Axtell, James the Modern University Press The Beauty of Impermanence: A Amazon Digital Barnhart, Frances Woman's Memoir Services, LLC The Art of Waiting: On Fertility, Graywolf Press Boggs, Belle Medicine, and Motherhood The First Congress: How James Madison, George Washington, Simon and Schuster and a Group of Extraordinary Bordewich, Fergus Men Invented the Government Plunky: Juju Jazz Funk and Cool Grove Branch, James “Plunky" Oneness Publishing, Inc. 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Onuf Empire of the Imagination The Virgin Vote: How Young Americans Made Democracy University of North Social, Politics Personal, and Carolina Press Voting Popular in the Nineteenth Grinspan, Jon Century The Alien and Sedition Acts of John Hopkins Halperin, Terri Diane 1798 University Press Harvard University Hamilton, Jack Just Around Midnight Press From Slave to Statesman: The Heinrich, Life of Educator, Editor, and Civil LSU Press Robert Rights Activist Willis M. Carter of Harding, Deborah Virginia University of Georgia New Negro Politics in the Jim Harold, Claudrena Crow South Press Haynes, Joe Virginia Barbecue: A History The History Press Yoga for Grief and Loss: Poses, Singing Dragon Meditation, Devotion, Self- Publishers (Jessica Helbert, Karla reflection, Selfless Acts, Rituals Kingsley Publishing) Farrar, Straus, & Black Elk Jackson, Joe Giroux They Left Us Everything G.P. 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