Finalists for the Minnesota Guide Awards introduced

The finalists for this yr’s Minnesota Guide Awards — 36 books in 9 classes — had been introduced Saturday afternoon. Minneapolis author Solar Yung Shin is a finalist in two classes — poetry and youngsters’s literature. The winners will probably be introduced on the annual awards gala Might 2 on the Ordway Theater in St. Paul.

Listed below are the finalists:

Younger grownup, sponsored by Expedition Credit score Union:

“Mendel,” by Damone Bester (The Story Plant); “Maxwell and the Legend of Inini-Makwa,” by Simon Hargreaves (AHR Publishing); “Born in a Purple Canoe,” by Katharine Johnson (Silver Fox Books); “The Complicated Calculus (and Cows) of Carl Paulsen” by Gary Eldon Peter (Fitzroy Books).

Kids’s literature:

“You Are Life” by Bao Phi, illustrated by Hannah Li (Capstone Editions); “So Much Snow,” by Kristen Schroeder, illustrated by Sarah Jacoby (Random Home Studio); “The Darkish Was Performed” by Lauren Stringer (Seaside Lane Books); “Where We Come From” by Diane Wilson, Solar Yung Shin, Shannon Gibney and John Coy, illustrated by Dion MBD (Carolrhoda Books).

Center Grade, sponsored by Training Minnesota:

“Monsters within the Mist” by Juliana Brandt (Sourcebooks); “Meet Me Halfway,” by Anika Fajardo (Simon & Schuster); “The Counterclockwise Coronary heart,” by Brian Farrey (Algonquin Younger Readers); “Windswept,” by Margi Preus (Amulet Books).

Memoir & Artistic Nonfiction:

“Seven Aunts,” by Staci Lola Drouillard (College of Minnesota Press); “Farewell Transmission,” by Will McGrath (Dzanc Books); “The Means She Needs to Get There,” by Mary Moore Easter (Nodin Press); “Sinkhole: A Legacy of Suicide,” by Juliet Patterson (Milkweed Editions).

Minnesota Nonfiction, sponsored by Emilie Buchwald:

“When Minnehaha Flowed With Whiskey,” by Karen E. Cooper (Minnesota Historic Society Press); “A Natural Curiosity: The Story of the Bell Museum,” by Lansing Shepard, Don Luce, Barbara Coffin and Gwen Schagrin (College of Minnesota Press); “The Steger Homestead Kitchen,” by Will Steger and Rita Mae Steger (College of Minnesota Press); “Rochester: An City Biography,” by Virginia M. Wright-Peterson (Minnesota Historic Society Press).

Normal Nonfiction, sponsored by The Duchess Harris Assortment:

“Daughters of Arraweelo: Tales of Somali Ladies,” by Ayaan Adan (Minnesota Historic Society Press); “They Do not Need Her There: Combating Sexual and Racial Harassment within the American College,” by Carolyn Chalmers (College of Iowa Press); “By the Banks of the Purple Cedar,” by Maya Washington (Little A); “Wilhelm’s Means: The Inspiring Story of the Iowa Chemist Who Saved The Manhattan Mission,” by Teresa Wilhelm Waldof (Third Technology Publishing).

Novel & Brief Story, sponsored by Jeff & Bernadette Janisch

“Sirens & Muses,” by Antonia Angress (Ballantine Books); “The Barrens,” by Kurt Johnson and Ellie Johnson (Arcade Publishing); “The Evening Hero,” by Marie Myung-Okay Lee (Simon & Schuster); “Till the Wheels Fall Off,” by Brad Zellar (Espresso Home Press).

Style Fiction, sponsored by Macalester School:

“The Temps,” by Andrew DeYoung (Keylight Books); “The Ursulina” by Brian Freeman (Blackstone Publishing); “The Quarry Ladies” by Jess Lourey (Thomas and Mercer); “Sinister Graves” by Marcie R. Rendon (Soho Press).

Poetry, sponsored by Wellington Administration:

“The way to Talk” by John Lee Clark (W.W. Norton); “Actual Work” by Janna Knittel (Nodin Press); “Floor Displacements” by Sheila Packa (Wildwood River Press); “The Wet Hex” by Solar Yung Shin (Espresso Home Press).

The Minnesota Guide Awards are sponsored by the Associates of the St. Paul Public Library. Tickets for the awards will go on sale Monday at www.thefriends.org/mnba.