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Owls and Sharks lead the list of Minnesota Book Award winners Authors Jonathan C. Slaght and Kawai Strong Washburn were among those honored in a virtual celebration. April 29, 2021 8:01pm Text size Copy shortlink: The Minnesota Book Awards honored writers both established and emerging Thursday night in their second consecutive virtual awards ceremony. Here s the full list of winners: Novel & short story: Sharks in the Time of Saviors, by Washburn (Farrar, Straus and Giroux). Seven-year-old Noa falls overboard and is carefully, tenderly returned to the boat by sharks. Washburn s story is about a working-class Hawaiian family touched by the gods. General nonfiction: Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World s Largest Owl, by Slaght (Farrar, Straus and Giroux). The author spent five winters in far eastern Russia, tracking, banding and studying the rare Blakiston ....
Who was Newton Horace Winchell? Author Sue Leaf offers readers a look. Written By: John Weiss | × The bluffs along the Mississippi River in Winona County were one of the first things Newton Horace Winchell examined in his first outing as the state’s new geologist in the early 1870s. This is a view of the river from Latsch State Park. (Contributed photo by John Weiss) Let’s go back to the mid-1800s: Minnesota was a new state, with settlers pouring in, ready to farm, mine, log and help the Twin Cities grow. But not much was known about this state’s resources, its geology, or its earliest people. ....