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Year/Category
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Winner
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Finalists
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2007
Fiction
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Judith Bader Jones
Delta Pearls
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Susan McBride, The Lone Star Lonely Hearts Club
Roderick Townley, The Constellation of Sylvie
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2007
Nonfiction
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Joe Miller
Cross-X: The Amazing Story of How the Most Unlikely Team from the Most Unlikely of Places Overcame Staggering Obstacles at Home and at School To Challenge the Debate Community on Race, Power, and Education
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Diane Eickhoff, Revolutionary Heart: The Life of Clarina Nichols and the Pioneering Crusade for Women’s Rights
Donald Hoffmann, Mark Twain in Paradise: His Voyages to Bermuda
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2007
Poetry
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Wayne Miller
Only the Senses Sleep
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Walter Bargen, Remedies for Vertigo
John Jenkinson, Rebekah Orders Lasagna
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2006
Fiction
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Whitney Terrell
The King of Kings County
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Thomas Fox Averill, Ordinary Genius
Diane Glancy, The Dance Partner
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2006
Nonfiction
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Candice Millard
The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt’s Darkest Journey
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Jack Cashill, Hoodwinked: How Intellectual Hucksters Have Hijacked American Culture
Hal Elliott Wert, Hoover the Fishing President: Portrait of the Private Man and His Life Outdoors
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2006
Poetry
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Kevin Prufer
Fallen from a Chariot
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Diane Glancy, Rooms: New and Selected Poems
Richard Newman, Borrowed Towns
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2005
Fiction
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Richard Jennings
Scribble
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Bob Keith Bonebrake, King of America : War Was Only Half the Battle
Wayne Johnson, The Devil You Know
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2005
Nonfiction
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William Tsutsui
Godzilla on My Mind:
Fifty Years of the King of Monsters
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Shirley Christian, Before Lewis and Clark: The Story of the Chouteaus, the French Dynasty That Ruled America’s Frontier
Harold Ivan Smith, Griefkeeping: Learning How Long Grief Lasts
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2005
Poetry
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Walter Bargen
The Feast
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Jason Sommer, The Man Who Sleeps in My Office
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2004
Fiction
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Barbara Wright
Plain Language
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Trudy Lewis, The Bones of Garbo: A Collection of Short Stories
Mary Troy, The Alibi Café and Other Stories
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2004
Nonfiction
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Elizabeth Dodd
Prospect: Journeys and Landscapes
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David Nelson Duke, In the Trenches with Jesus and Marx: Harry F. Ward and the Struggle for Social Justice
Michael Scheibach, Atomic Narratives and American Youth: Coming of Age with the Atom, 1945-1955
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2004
Poetry
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Albert Goldbarth
Combinations of the Universe
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Rush Rankin, Bene-Dictions
Sherod Santos, The Perishing
William Trowbridge, The Complete Book of Kong
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2003
Fiction
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Frederick J. Chiaventone
Moon of Bitter Cold
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Sara Gursick, The Seasons of Mae
Michelle Black, Solomon Spring
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2003
Nonfiction
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Gretchen Cassel Eick
Dissent in Wichita: The Civil Rights Movement in the Midwest, 1954-1972
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Craig Miner, Kansas: The History of the Sunflower State, 1854-2000
Pok Chi Lau, Dreams of the Golden Mountain
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2003
Poetry
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Kevin Prufer
The Finger Bone
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Wyatt Townley, The Breathing Field: Meditations on Yoga
Warren Lane Molton, If God Is: A Poetic Search for God Within
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