Warriors on Horseback: The Inside Story of the Professional Jockey by John Carter has won the 2015 Dr. Tony Ryan Book Award, honoring horse racing-oriented literary works. The author receives $10,000.
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The winners of the Oklahoma Book Awards, sponsored by the Oklahoma Center for the Book, are:
Fiction: The Long and Faraway Gone by Lou Berney (HarperCollins)
Nonfiction: The Mercy of the Sky by Holly Bailey (Viking)
Poetry: Places I Was Dreaming by Loren Graham (CavanKerry Press)
Young Adult: The Boy Who Carried Bricks by Alton Carter (RoadRunner Press)
Children: Bike on, Bear! by Cynthea Liu (Simon & Schuster)
Design: Making Friends Was My Business, book design by Laura Hyde (Müllerhaus Legacy)
Illustration/Photography: Ilittibaaimpa': Let's Eat Together! A Chickasaw Cookbook, photography by Sanford Mauldin, book and cover design by Corey Fetters (Chickasaw Press)
For a full list of finalists and other awards, click here.
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The winners of the Minnesota Book Awards, sponsored by the Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library, are:
Novel & Short Story: There's Something I Want You to Do by Charles Baxter (Pantheon Books)
Genre Fiction: The Grave Soul by Ellen Hart (Minotaur Books)
Poetry: Beautiful Wall by Ray Gonzalez (BOA Editions)
General Nonfiction: No House to Call My Home: Love, Family and Other Transgressions by Ryan Berg (Nation Books)
Memoir & Creative Nonfiction: Water and What We Know: Following the Roots of a Northern Life by Karen Sabine (University of Minnesota Press)
Minnesota: Minnesota Modern: Architecture and Life at Midcentury by Larry Millett (University of Minnesota Press)
Children's Literature: Red: A Crayon's Story by Michael Hall (Greenwillow Books)
Young People's Literature: See No Color by Shannon Gibney (Carolrhoda Books)