2017 Library of Virginia Literary Awards Nominations
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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
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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. First in the Homes of His Countrymen: George
Washington's Mount Vernon in University of Virginia Brandt, Lydia Mattice the American Imagination Press 2017 Library of Virginia Literary Awards Nominations
University of South Brannon, Rebecca From Revolution to Reunion Carolina Press The Land Shall Be Deluged in Oxford University Blood: A New History of the Nat Press Breen, Patrick Turner Revolt George Washington’s Journey: The President Forges a New Breen, T. H. Nation Simon and Schuster How Everything Became War and the Military Became Simon and Schuster Brooks, Rosa Everything
Lords of the Harvest: Biotech, Big Basic Books Charles, Dan Money, and the Future of Food Mackowski, Seizing Destiny, The Army of the Savas Beatie Conner, Albert Chris Potomac's "Valley Forge" The Burning of the White House: James and Dolley Madison and Regency Publishing Cook, Jane the War of 1812 University of Virginia In Search of Annie Drew: Jamaica Dance, Daryl Kincaid's Mother and Muse Press Keep on Keeping On: The NAACP and the Implementation of University of Virginia
Brown V. Board of Education in Press Daughterity, Brian Virginia The Making of a Racist: A University of Virginia Southerner Reflects on Family, Press Dew, Charles History, and the Slave Trade. High Tide
Dorsey, Sharon Canfield Daughter of the Mountains Publications Why Write?: A Master Class on the Art of Writing and Why it Bloomsburg Edmundson, Mark Matters Catching Homelessness: A Nurse's Story of Falling Through She Writes Press Ensign, Josephine the Safety Net Bitterroot - A Memoir: Echoes of Beaufort Books Faulkner, Steven Beauty and Loss Overcoming Bias: Building Jana, Tiffany Authentic Relationships Across Berrett-Koehler Freeman, Matt Differences Publishers Rowman and Sexual Assault: The Ultimate Ghafoerkhan, Olivia Teen Guide Littlefield
The Mathews Men: Seven Viking Geroux, William Brothers and the War Against 2017 Library of Virginia Literary Awards Nominations
Hitler's U-Boats
Escape to Virginia: From Nazi Arcadia Publishing Gillette, Robert Germany to Thalhimer's Farm The Fate of the Revolution: John Hopkins Virginians Debate the University Press Glover, Lorri Constitution Harvard University
Goff, Lisa Shantytown, USA Press Vagrant Nation: Police Power, Oxford University Constitutional Change, and the Press Goluboff, Risa (Dr.) Making of the 1960s Most Blessed of the Patriarchs: Gordon-Reed, Annette & Thomas Jefferson and the Norton Peter S. 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. Putnam Johnson, Plum Finding Peace When Life's Createspace Joyce, Victoria (Susan Vachal) Manual No Longer Makes Sense
University of Virginia George Washington: Nationalist Press Larson, Edward 2017 Library of Virginia Literary Awards Nominations
First Entrepreneur: How George Washington Built His—and the Da Capo Press Lengel, Edward Nation's—Prosperity
Viking Lofgren, Mike The Deep State "That's a Damn Good Dog!": Commonwealth of Virginia Vs. Createspace Lookabill, Royce Stephen Matteson Epperly Truevine: Two Brothers, a Kidnapping, and a Mother’s Little, Brown and Quest: A True Story of the Jim Company (October Macy, Beth Crow South 18, 2016) Tredegar Iron Works: Richmond’s Foundry on the Madison, Vernon James Arcadia Publishing
Agony and Eloquence: John Skyhorse Publishing Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and a Mallock, Daniel World of Revolution
Officers of the Senate of Virginia Virginia Senate Manarin, Louis (1776-2016) Clerk's Office
The Gentleman's Farm: Elegant Rizzoli International McClane, Debra Country House Living Publications Confounding Father: Thomas Jefferson's Image in His Own University of Virginia McDonald, Robert M.S. Time Press
67 Shots: Kent State and the End Means, Howard of American Innocence Da Capo Press
Washington's Revolution: The Knopf Middlekauff, Robert Making of America's First Leader wei-siang A Savage War: A Military History Murray, Williamson Princeton Hsieh, Wayne of the Civil War Washington’s Immortals: The Untold Story of an Elite Regiment Atlantic Monthly
Who Changed the Course of the Press O’Donnell, Patrick K Revolution Farrar, Straus, and Utopia Drive Reece, Erik Giroux Paul W. Bryant Mike Denny: The Shadow of a Reed, Delbert Single Man Museum 2017 Library of Virginia Literary Awards Nominations
The Language of Man: Learning DayMark Press Robertson, Larry to Speak Creatively Wait, How Do I Write This Email? Game-Changing Templates for News To Live By LLC Rubin, Danny Networking and the Job Search Haunted Historic Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia with Schiffer Publishing Breakthrough Ghost Scullion, Tim Photography The Carnival Campaign: How the Rollicking 1840 Campaign of Tippecanoe and Tyler Too Chicago Review Press Changed Presidential Elections Shafer, Ronald Forever Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of William Morrow the Black Women Paperbacks Mathematicians Who Helped Shetterly, Margot Lee Win the Space Race
The Airship ROMA Disaster in Arcadia Publishing Sheppard, Nancy Hampton Roads
Coming Up Short: Working-Class Oxford University
Adulthood in an Age of Press Silva, Jennifer Uncertainty Smith, Lee Dimestore: A Writer's Life Algonquin Books Hope Reborn of War: The Story of a World War II Military Hospital, a World Famous Augusta County Sorrells, Nancy Rehabilitation Center, and a Historical Society Unique Educational Community in Fishersville, Va. God of Earth: Discovering a Westminister John
Radically Ecological Christianity Knox Press Swenson, Kristin A Saga of the New South: Race, University of Virginia
Law, and Public Debt in Virginia Press Tarter, Brent W. W. Norton & Taylor, Alan American Revolutions: A Company; 1 edition Continental History, 1750-1804 (September 6, 2016)
Trammell, Jack Terrell, Guy The Fourth Branch of Brandylane Government: We the People Publishers 2017 Library of Virginia Literary Awards Nominations
Venter, Bruce Kill Jeff Davis: The Union Raid on University of Richmond, 1864 Oklahoma Press
Wallmeyer, August Dementi Mileston The Extremes of Virginia Publishing, Inc
Warnick, Melody This is Where You Belong Viking Mingues, Sr., Wittenberg, Eric J. The Second Battle of Winchester Savas Beatie Scott L. Little, Brown and Wolfe, Tom The Kingdom of Speech Company POETRY
Arnoult, Darnell Galaxie Wagon: Poems LSU Press
Poetry for the Clinically Insane, Kindle Book Beau, Edgar Allen Vol 1 Publishing
Groundhog Poetry Christian, Jack Domestic Yoga Press, LLC W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition Dove, Rita Collected Poems: 1974-2004 (May 17, 2016)
DeGroat, Wendy Beautiful Machinery Headmistress Press
High Tide Dorsey, Sharon Canfield Tapestry Publications
National Media Duvell, John Plant a Tree Poetry: The Sapling Services, Inc.
Echoes of Tattered Tongues: Aquila Polonica Guzlowski, John Memory Unfolded Publishing Groundhog Poetry
Hankla, Cathryn Great Bear Press, LLC
Hicok, Bob Sex & Love &. Copper Canyon Press
Homebound Jarvis, Andrew Landslide Publications Brick Road Poetry
Jonas, Shannon Tate Battle Sleep Press
Karapetkova, Holly Towline Cloudbank Books 2017 Library of Virginia Literary Awards Nominations
Keith, Sally River House Milkweed Editions Southern Indiana
Kim, Annie Into the Cyclorama Review Press
As if Wine Could Pour from Her San Francisco Bay Kledzik, Mary Jean Nipple Press
Miller, John After the Invocation Pinyon Publishing
Musgrove, Jonathan A Hand in Place of a Hand Somondoco Press Sheep Meadow Nystrom, Debra Night Sky Frequencies: Poems Iris Press Poulos, Michele Black Laurel Tonight, We Fuck the Trailer Park Sibling Rivalry Press Price, C. Russell Out of Each Other Groundhog Poetry
Quill, Liana as a flock of goats Press, LLC
Texas Review Press Quillen, Rita Sims The Mad Farmer's Wife
Nightboat Books Rebele-Henry, Brynne Fleshgraphs Cedar Creek Sometimes the Little Town. Robinson, Sarah. Publishing
Louisiana State Soniat, Katherine. Bright Stranger: Poems. University Press Monticello in Mind: Fifty University of Virginia Spaar, Lisa (ed) Contemporary Poems on Press. February Jefferson. 2016.
Stuart, Dabney Only the One Sky Pinyon Publishing
Teter, Vivian Breath Enough Wolf Ridge Press
Warner, Barrett Why Is It So Hard to Kill You? Somondoco Press Brick Road Poetry Cracker Sonnets Wright, Amy Press
Wright, Amy Everything in the Universe Iris Books
The University of Weaving the Boundary Wood, Karenne Arizona Press