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2022 Finalist for Short Stories
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Chasing Whispers
In Eugen Bacon’s multifaceted and disarming short story collection "Chasing Whispers", women and other beings are caught up in whirlwinds of emotion. In “Chasing Whispers,” a young woman is interested in dating, but being with her...
2010 Finalist for Anthologies
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The Best of Adventure
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Jasper Spring
by John Senger
This novel reaffirms that, although bad things happen, ultimately goodness shines through. James T. Hughes’s "Jasper Spring" portrays the enduring strength of relationships, though a pallor of gloom also hangs over this story like the...
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The Best of Adventure
by Trina Carter
"The Best of Adventure" is full of intrigue, action, mystery, danger, and daring—and this is just the first volume! The pulp magazine Adventure started 100 years ago. It became renowned for publishing top authors of the day, including...
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Gold
A teenager on a farm shoulders increasing responsibilities to help her family and community in the moralistic historical novel "Gold". The fourth book in a series, Linda Jane Niedfeldt’s standalone historical novel "Gold" is about an...
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Corky Tails: Tales of a Tailless Dog Named Sagebrush
by Ali Ortiz
In the picture book Sagebrush and the Never Summer Mountains, friends stand up to discrimination and ignorance while living in harmony with the natural world. The latest installment in the Corky Tails series, Joni Franks’s...
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Half Wild
Dave Dempsey spent more than three decades working in a range of environmental-policy roles in Michigan, and those experiences inform his new essay collection "Half Wild". The stories in the book all discuss the intersection of human...
