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Connecticut Book Awards
2009 Finalists
Biography or Memoir
Joseph Hopkins Twichell: The Life and Times of Mark Twain’s Closest FriendThe University of Georgia Press Written by Steve Courtney
The Prodigal Daughter: Reclaiming an Unfinished ChildhoodUniversity of Missouri Press Written by Margaret Gibson
Children’s Author
Fly, Monarch, Fly! Marshall Cavendish Children Written by Nancy Elizabeth Wallace
The Freedom Business, Including a Narrative of the Life & Adventures ofVenture, a Native of Africa Wordsong: Boyds Mills Press Written by Marilyn Nelson
Waiting for Normal Katherine Tegen Books: HarperCollins Publishers Written by Leslie Connor
Children’s Illustrator
Baseball Hour Marshall Cavendish Children Illustrated by Bill Thomson
The Freedom Business, Including a Narrative of the Life & Adventures ofVenture, a Native of Africa Wordsong: Boyds Mills Press Illustrated by Deborah Dancy
The Wolves Are Back Dutton Children’s Books: Penguin Young Readers Group Illustrated by Wendell Minor
Design
Scrapbooks: An American History Yale University Press Designed by Jessica Helfand
FictionDinosaurs on the Roof Simon & Schuster Written by David Rabe
Nothing Is Quite Forgotten in Brooklyn HarperCollins Written by Alice Mattison
Songs for the Missing Viking Written by Stewart O’Nan
Nonfiction
Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of AmericanCapitalism Viking Written by Kevin Phillips
Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation Pantheon Written by Charles Barber
Dishonorable Passions: Sodomy Laws in America, 1861-2003 Viking Written by William N. Eskridge, Jr.
The Quest for Democracy in Iran: A Century of Struggle against Authoritarian Rule Harvard University Press Written by Fakhreddin Azimi
Thinking Beyond the Unthinkable: Harnessing Doom from the Cold War to the Age of Terror Viking Written by Jonathan Stevenson
Poetry
Let’s Not Call It Consequence Shearsman Books (UK) Written by Richard Deming
The Odes of Horace The Johns Hopkins University Press Translated by Jeffrey H. Kaimowitz
Present Vanishing Sarabande Books Written by Dick Allen
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