Books

Northeastern Minnesota Book Awards (NEMBA) (awards)

This award was given to 81 books.


  1. Big belching bog

    by Phyllis Root

    Year: 2010
    Category: Children's Literature
    Rank: Honorable Mention
  2. Minnesota's Hidden Alphabet

    by David LaRochelle

    Year: 2010
    Category: Children's Literature
    Rank: Winner
  3. Jonathan Stride: Book 5

    The Burying Place

    by Brian Freeman

    Year: 2010
    Category: Fiction
    Rank: Honorable Mention
  4. The assassination of Hole in the Day

    by Anton Treuer

    Year: 2010
    Category: General Nonfiction
    Rank: Honorable Mention
  5. Paddle North: Canoeing the Boundary Waters-Quetico Wilderness

    by Greg Breining

    Year: 2010
    Category: General Nonvfiction
    Rank: Winner
  6. Brown Sugar Syrup and Jack Pine Sand

    by Dennis Herschbach

    Year: 2010
    Category: Memoir and Creative Nonfiction
    Rank: Winner
  7. Under the Influence of Lilacs

    by Deborah Gordon Cooper

    Year: 2010
    Category: Poetry
    Rank: Honorable Mention
  8. On speaking terms

    by Connie Wanek

    Year: 2010
    Category: Poetry
    Rank: Winner
  9. Manoomin: A Wild Rice Adventure

    by Joshua Whitebird

    Year: 2009
    Category: Children's Literature
    Rank: Honorable Mention
  10. The Broken Blade: Book 2

    Wintering

    by William Durbin

    Year: 2009
    Category: Children's Literature
    Rank: Winner
  11. Big Noise: A Jo Spence Mystery (Jo Spence Mysteries)

    by Jen Wright

    Year: 2009
    Category: Fiction
    Rank: Honorable Mention
  12. Minnesota Cold

    by Cynthia Kraack

    Year: 2009
    Category: Fiction
    Rank: Winner
  13. 61 Gems on Highway 61: A Guide to Minnesota's North Shore--from Well-Known Attractions to Best-Kept Secrets

    by Kathryn Mayo, William Mayo

    Year: 2009
    Category: General Nonfiction
    Rank: Honorable Mention
  14. Minong--the good place : Ojibwe and Isle Royale

    by Timothy Cochrane

    Year: 2009
    Category: Genral Nonfiction
    Rank: Winner
  15. Chaos and Grit Barbless Bits and Little Chits

    by Phyllis Burgess

    Year: 2009
    Category: Memoir and Creative Nonfiction
    Rank: Honorable Mention
  16. Knife Island: Circling a Year in a Herring Skiff

    by Stephen Dahl

    Year: 2009
    Category: Memoir and Creative Nonfiction
    Rank: Winner
  17. The Gravity of Flesh

    Poems

    by Jill Breckenridge

    Year: 2009
    Category: Poetry
    Rank: Honorable Mention
  18. The Dark Honey: New & Used Poems

    by Ellie Schoenfeld

    Year: 2009
    Category: Poetry
    Rank: Winner
  19. Edge of Forever: Images of Lake Superior

    by Peter Scott Eide

    Year: 2008
    Category: Art, Photography
    Rank: Honorable Mention
  20. Driftwood: Stories Picked Up Along the Shore

    by Howard Sivertson

    Year: 2008
    Category: Art, Photography
    Rank: Winner
  21. Face to Face With Wolves (Face to Face with Animals)

    by Jim Brandenburg

    Year: 2008
    Category: Children's Literature
    Rank: Honorable Mention
  22. Someone Walks By: The Wonders of Winter Wildlife

    by Polly Carlson-Voiles

    Year: 2008
    Category: Children's Literature
    Rank: Winner
  23. Shelter Half

    by Carol Bly

    Year: 2008
    Category: Fiction
    Rank: Honorable Mention
  24. A Finntown of the Soul

    by Patricia Eilola

    Year: 2008
    Category: Fiction
    Rank: Winner
  25. Invincible : history of the Duluth Boat Club, established 1886

    by Michael J. Cochran

    Year: 2008
    Category: General Nonfiction
    Rank: Honorable Mention
  26. Blueberry Summers: Growing Up at the Lake

    by Curtiss Anderson

    Year: 2008
    Category: Memoir and Creative Nonfiction
    Rank: Honorable Mention
  27. Overburden: Modern Life on the Iron Range

    by Aaron Brown

    Year: 2008
    Category: Memoir and Creative Nonfiction
    Rank: Winner
  28. Between the Ceiling and the Moon

    by Deborah Gordon Cooper

    Year: 2008
    Category: Poetry
    Rank: Honorable Mention
  29. Trail Guide to the Northland Experience in Prints and Poetry

    Year: 2008
    Category: Poetry
    Rank: Winner
  30. We Are at Home: Pictures of the Ojibwe People

    by Bruce M. White

    Year: 2007
    Category: Art, Photography
    Rank: Honorable Mention
  31. Celebrating Birch: The Lore, Art, and Craft of an Ancient Tree

    by North House Folk School

    Year: 2007
    Category: Art, Photography
    Rank: Winner
  32. Agate: What Good Is a Moose?

    by Joy Morgan Dey

    Year: 2007
    Category: Children's Literature
    Rank: Winner
  33. Mother Tongue

    by Sheila Packa

    Year: 2007
    Category: Fiction, Poetry, Drama
    Rank: Honorable Mention
  34. Morgan Park: Duluth, U.S. Steel, and the Forging of a Company Town

    by Arnold R. Alanen

    Year: 2007
    Category: Nonfiction, Memoir
    Rank: Winner
  35. The Legend of Minnesota

    by Kathy-jo Wargin, David Geister

    Year: 2006
    Category: Children's Literature
    Rank: Honorable Mention
  36. The Keeper's Daughter

    by Leanne Knott

    Year: 2006
    Category: Fiction, Poetry, Drama
    Rank: Honorable Mention
  37. The North Shore

    by Gunnard Landers

    Year: 2006
    Category: Fiction, Poetry, Drama
    Rank: Winner
  38. Waking

    A Memoir of Trauma and Transcendence

    by Matthew Sanford

    Year: 2006
    Category: Nonfiction, Memior
    Rank: Winner
  39. By The Ore Docks: A Working People'S History Of Duluth

    by Richard Hudelson

    Year: 2006
    Category: Nonfiction, Memoir
    Rank: Honorable Mention
  40. Cork O'Connor: Book 5

    Mercy Falls

    by William Kent Krueger

    Year: 2005
    Category: Fiction, Poetry, Drama
    Rank: Honorable Mention
  41. Zoe's Good-bye

    by Mary Schlangen

    Year: 2005
    Category: Fiction, Poetry, Drama
    Rank: Winner
  42. Salmela Architect

    by Thomas Fisher

    Year: 2005
    Category: Nonfiction, Art, Scholarship
    Rank: Winner
  43. Sea Smoke

    by Louis Jenkins

    Year: 2004
    Category: Fiction, Poetry, Drama
    Rank: Honorable Mention
  44. Ojibwe Tales: Stories of the Ojibwe People

    by Art Przybilla

    Year: 2004
    Category: Fiction, Poetry, Drama
    Rank: Winner
  45. Minnesota's Iron Country: Rich Ore, Rich Lives

    by Marvin G. Lamppa

    Year: 2004
    Category: Nonfiction, Art, Scholarship
    Rank: Winner
  46. Pride of the Inland Seas: An Illustrated History of the Port of Duluth-Superior

    by Bill Beck

    Year: 2004
    Category: Nonfiction, Art, Scholorship
    Rank: Honorable Mention
  47. Mittens in the Boundary Waters (Mittens in the Boundary Waters, 1)

    by Larry Ahlman

    Year: 2003
    Category: Fiction, Poetry, Drama
    Rank: Honorable Mention

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