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PAST AWARD WINNERS
 Useful Fictions    Useful Fictions
Evolution, Anxiety, and the Origins of Literature
Michael Austin

Named an Outstanding Academic Title for 2011 by Choice Magazine

 Benjamin Franklin and the American Revolution    Benjamin Franklin and the American Revolution
Jonathan R. Dull

Named an Outstanding Academic Title for 2011 by Choice Magazine

 Quotology    Quotology
Willis Goth Regier

Named an Outstanding Academic Title for 2011 by Choice Magazine

 Atlas of the Great Plains    Atlas of the Great Plains
Stephen J. Lavin, Fred M. Shelley, and J. Clark Archer
Foreword by David J. Wishart
Introduction by John C. Hudson

2011 Booklist Editor's Choice, reference category

 Inventing the Jew    Inventing the Jew
Antisemitic Stereotypes in Romanian and Other Central-East European Cultures
Andrei Oisteanu
Foreword by Moshe Idel
Translated by Mirela Adascalitei

Winner of the 2011 Alexandru D. Xenopol prize awarded by the Romanian Academy

 What They Saved    What They Saved
Pieces of a Jewish Past
Nancy K. Miller

Winner of the 2012 Jewish Journal Book Prize

 The JPS Bible Commentary: Ruth    The JPS Bible Commentary: Ruth
Tikva Frymer-Kensky and Tamara Cohn Eskenazi

2011 National Jewish Book Award Winner, Barbara Dobkin Award in Women’s Studies

 A Double Life    A Double Life
Discovering Motherhood
Lisa Catherine Harper

2011 National Book Critics Circle Small Press Highlight

 Paralyses    Paralyses
Literature, Travel, and Ethnography in French Modernity
John Culbert

Winner of the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for French and Francophone Studies, sponsored by the Modern Languages Association

 A Grammar of Creek (Muskogee)    A Grammar of Creek (Muskogee)
Jack B. Martin
With the assistance of Margaret McKane Mauldin and Juanita McGirt

Winner of the 2011 Leonard Bloomfield Book Award, sponsored by the Linguistic Society of America

 Lamb Bright Saviors    Lamb Bright Saviors
Robert Vivian

Winner, 2011 Nebraska Book Awards, Fiction Category

 Swallowing the Soap    Swallowing the Soap
New and Selected Poems
William Kloefkorn
Edited and with an introduction by Ted Genoways

Winner, Midwest Booksellers Choice Awards, Poetry Category

 Sacred Sites    Sacred Sites
The Secret History of Southern California
Susan Suntree
Foreword by Gary Snyder
Introduction by Lowell John Bean
Photographs by Juergen Nogai

Winner, 2011 PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles Literary Award

Winner, 2011 Southern California Independent Booksellers Awards, nonfiction category

 Goodbye Wifes and Daughters    Goodbye Wifes and Daughters
Susan Kushner Resnick

Winner, High Plains Book Award, Best Woman Writer Category

 Fabulous Harlequin    Fabulous Harlequin
ORLAN and the Patchwork Self
Edited by Jorge Daniel Veneciano and Rhonda K. Garelick

2011 Museum Publications Design Winner
Sponsored by the American Association of Museums

 Quotidiana Quotidiana
Patrick Madden

2011 PEN Center USA Literary Awards, finalist, Creative Nonfiction category

2011 Gold Medal, Essay/Creative Non-Fiction Category, Independent Publisher Book Awards

2010 Bronze Winner, Essay Category, ForeWord Book of the Year Awards

2010 Utah Book Awards, Nonfiction Category Finalist

 Stolen Horses Stolen Horses
Dan O'Brien

Honor Book, 2011 Nebraska Book Awards, Fiction Category

2010 Silver Winner, Fiction Category, ForeWord Book of the Year Awards

 Excavating Nauvoo Excavating Nauvoo
The Mormons and the Rise of Historical Archaeology in America
Benjamin C. Pykles
Foreword by Robert L. Schuyler

2011 Smith-Pettit Best First Book Award, sponsored by the Mormon History Association

 Seminole Voices Seminole Voices
Reflections on Their Changing Society, 1970-2000
Julian M. Pleasants and Harry A. Kersey Jr.

2011 Harry T. and Harriette V. Moore Award Winner and 2011 Samuel Proctor Award Winner, sponsored by the Florida Historical Society

2011 Florida Book Awards, Silver Medal, Florida Nonfiction category

 Scoreboard, Baby    Scoreboard, Baby
A Story of College Football, Crime, and Complicity
Ken Armstrong and Nick Perry

Winner, 2011 Edgar Awards
Sponsored by the Mystery Writers of America, Best Fact Crime Category

 Ambassadors from Earth    Ambassadors from Earth
Pioneering Explorations with Unmanned Spacecraft
Jay Gallentine

Winner of the 2009 Eugene M. Emme Astronautical Literature Award
Sponsored by the American Astronautical Society

 We Will Dance Our Truth    We Will Dance Our Truth
Yaqui History in Yoeme Performances
David Delgado Shorter

Winner of the 2010 Chicago Folklore Prize
Sponsored by American Folklore Society and the University of Chicago

 White Mother to a Dark Race    White Mother to a Dark Race
Settler Colonialism, Maternalism, and the Removal of Indigenous Children in the American West and Australia, 1880-1940
Margaret D. Jacobs

Winner of the 2010 Bancroft Prize

 The Texture of Contact    The Texture of Contact
European and Indian Settler Communities on the Frontiers of Iroquoia, 1667-1783
David L. Preston

Winner of the 2010 American Historical Association and Canadian Historical Association's Albert B. Corey Prize