2024 Winners

Rethinking Rural: Reflections on Today, Insights for the Future

by Matt Ehlman, Series Editor (North Dakota State University Press)

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Friends of Friends of Friends

by Lee Fearnside (Chimera Projects)

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Finding Mother, Chia and Chao

by Tou Pao Lor (FuzionPress)

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Under the Henfluence: Inside the World of Backyard Chickens and the People Who Love Them

by Tove Danovich (Agate Publishing)

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Fieldwork: A Forager’s Memoir

by Iliana Regan (Agate Publishing)

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Divining, A Memoir in Trees

by Maureen Dunphy (Wayne State University Press)

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Retirement Reboot: Commonsense Financial Strategies for Getting Back on Track

by Mark Miller (Agate Publishing)

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Gift of Empathy

by Joel Bretscher, Kenneth Haugk (Stephen Ministries)

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Little Birdie Buddies of Minnesota

by Heather Boschke (Buddha Birdie)

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Bass Reeves-Legendary Lawman of the Wild West

by Billie Holladay Skelley (Crossing Time Press)

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Survival Food: Survival Food: North Woods Stories by a Menominee Cook

by Thomas Pecore Weso (Wisconsin Historical Society Press)

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Common Threads: Delivering Hope and Meaning Through Sewing Machines

by Margaret John Jankowski (Little Creek Press)

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Gift of Empathy

by Joel Bretscher, Kenneth Haugk (Stephen Ministries)

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Dear Department Chair: Letters from Black Women Leaders to the Next Generation

by Stephanie Y. Evans, Stephanie Shonekan, and Stephanie G. Adams (editors) (Wayne State University Press)

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There is No Shrimp… And Other Lies My Mother Told Me

by Kenny Loui (UFO Comics)

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Walking The Tightrope – Trusting Your Life To Telemedicine

by Wayne D. Liebhard, M.D. (Alethos Press)

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Becoming You: 3 Steps to Emotional Freedom and What Keeps You from It

by Tamarack Song (Snow Wolf Publishing)

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Sand and Fire: Exploring a Rare Pine Barrens Landscape

by Dave Peters (Wisconsin Historical Society Press)

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Dust Yourself Off: The Gravel Road to a Good Life

by Tricia Velure & Tom Sandhei (North Dakota State University Press)

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Grounded Wildness: Break Free from Performing Your Life and Start Living It

by Heather Whelpley (Wise Ink Creative Publishing)

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Gift of Empathy

by Joel Bretscher, Kenneth Haugk (Stephen Ministries)

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Swine Republic: Struggles with the Truth about Agriculture and Water Quality

by Chris Jones (Ice Cube Press, LLC)

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Iowa’s Changing Wildlife: Three Decades of Gain and Loss

by James J. Dinsmore and Stephen J. Dinsmore (University of Iowa Press)

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Living Resistance

by Kaitlin B. Curtice (Brazos Press)

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Essential Martin Lings

by Reza Shah-Kazemi (World Wisdom)

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Rethinking Rural: Reflections on Today, Insights for the Future

by Matt Ehlman, Series Editor (North Dakota State University Press)

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My Costume, Myself: Celebrating Stories of Cosplay and Beyond

by Thomas G. Endres, PhD (Kirk House Publishers)

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Capture of Clementine

by Jane Wright (Coconut Avenue Publishing)

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At the Edge of the Ice

by Carolyn Armstrong (Carolyn Armstrong)

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Wonder: A Song of the Seasons

by Julia Key (Wisdom Tales Press)

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Northern Sights

by Tove Conway (Beaver’s Pond Press)

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Dionysus in Wisconsin

by E. H. Lupton (Winnowing Fan Press)

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Death by Silver

by Melissa Scott and Amy Griswold (Queen of Swords Press)

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Up There

by Sherry Roberts (Osmyrrah Publishing)

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Power & Light

by Will Weaver (Calumet Editions)

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Driftless Desperation

by Sue Berg (Little Creek Press)

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Crashing Through the Windshield

by Kathryn Tokar Haidet (Archway Publishing)

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Artful Bargain

by Audrey Lynden (Penske Publishing)

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Amazon in Exile

by Elizabeth Salo (Elizabeth Salo)

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Luck of the Fall

by Jim Ray Daniels (Michigan State University Press)

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Enough to Lose

by RS Deeren (Wayne State University Press)

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Middle School is No Place for Magic

by Mimi Olson (Fifth Avenue Press)

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Little Mountain, Big Trouble

by Chris Norbury (CSN Press)

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Fight

by Jennifer Manthey (Trio House Press)

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Art of Bagging

by Joshua Gottlieb-Miller (Conduit Books & Ephemera)

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Second Stop Is Jupiter

by upfromsumdirt (Wayne State University Press)

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Gathering of Bastards

by Romeo Oriogun (University of Nebraska Press)

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Life Lessons from a UFO Catcher: An Autobiographical Manga

by Kenny Loui (UFO Comics)

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Death’s Door: True Tales of Tragedy, Mystery, and Bravery from the Great Lakes’ Most Dangerous Waters

by Barbara Joosse and Renée Graef (Illustrator) (Wisconsin Historical Society Press)

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Pathfinder, Poems, Essays and Tales

by Robert Love (Up On Big Rock Poetry Series, a Shipwreckt Books imprint)

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Forgotten Frequencies

by Brendan Stermer (North Dakota State University Press)

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Wonder: A Song of the Seasons

by Julia Key (Wisdom Tales Press)

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Artful Bargain

by Audrey Lynden (Penske Publishing) Okay Creation Sarah Hansen

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More Than a Crown

by Roberto Concepcion, Jr. (Wise Ink Creative Publishing)

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Isle of Stuck Faces

by Brooke Saucier (Little Creek Press) Matthew LaFleur

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Taboo

by R.J. King (Written in Detroit) Jim Van Fleteren

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Bless Ye the Lord: Praise Song of the Three Holy Children

by Frances Tyrrell (Wisdom Tales Press)

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There is No Shrimp… And Other Lies My Mother Told Me

by Kenny Loui (UFO Comics)

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Life Lessons from a UFO Catcher: An Autobiographical Manga

by Kenny Loui (UFO Comics)

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