High Plains Book Award2022

Given by Billings Public Libary Board

Other Names: High Plains Book Award Finalist
26 Works / 29 Items 1,010 Books 53 Reviews 4.0
The High Plains Book Awards originated as an idea from the Chair of the Billings Public Library’s Board of Trustees in 2006. Lloyd Mickelson loved the literature of the High Plains that evoked show more its special connection to that singular landscape. He encouraged the rest of the Board to consider having the Library sponsor an award to recognize and reward the excellent writing of our region. The first Awards were presented in 2007. show less
Stages:
All, Winner (152), Finalist (377)
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Years:
All, 2024 (13), 2023 (23), 2022 (29), 2021 (22), 2020 (31), 2019 (26), 2018 (31), 2017 (32), 2016 (29), 2015 (27), 2014 (27), 2013 (24), 2012 (17), 2011 (15), 2010 (15), 2009 (11), 2008 (11), 2007 (7)

Winner 13

WorkCategoryYear
Bison: Portrait of an Icon by Chase Reynolds EwaldArt & Photography2022
A History of Montana in 101 Objects (English and Italian Edition) by Montana Historical SocietyBig Sky Award2022
Dear Peter, Dear Ulla by Barbara NickelChildren’s Book2022
The Holly: Five Bullets, One Gun, and the Struggle to Save an American Neighborhood by Julian RubinsteinCreative Nonfiction2022
And It Will Be A Beautiful Life by Craig LancasterFiction2022
Black Snake: Standing Rock, the Dakota Access Pipeline, and Environmental Justice by Katherine Wiltenburg TodrysFirst Book2022
20.12m: A Short Story Collection of a Life Lived as a Road Allowance Métis by Arnolda Dufour BowesIndigenous Writer2022
Wild Rescues: A Paramedic's Extreme Adventures in Yosemite, Yellowstone, and Grand Teton by Kevin GrangeMedicine & Science2022
A History of Montana in 101 Objects (English and Italian Edition) by Montana Historical SocietyNonfiction2022
The Track the Whales Make: New and Selected Poems (Ted Kooser Contemporary Poetry) by Marjorie SaiserPoetry2022
Site Fidelity: Stories by Claire BoylesShort Stories2022
The Stone Sister by Caroline PattersonWoman Writer2022
Alone by Megan E. FreemanYoung Adult2022

Finalist 29

WorkCategoryYear
Bison: Portrait of an Icon by Chase Reynolds EwaldArt & Photography2022
A History of Montana in 101 Objects (English and Italian Edition) by Montana Historical SocietyBig Sky Award2022
Forever Neverland by Susan AdrianBig Sky Award2022
The Cheyenne Story: An Interpretation of Courage by Gerry RobinsonBig Sky Award2022
Dear Peter, Dear Ulla by Barbara NickelChildren’s Book2022
The Undercover Book List by Colleen NelsonChildren’s Book2022
The Holly: Five Bullets, One Gun, and the Struggle to Save an American Neighborhood by Julian RubinsteinCreative Nonfiction2022
Helmi's Shadow: A Journey of Survival From Russia to East Asia to the American West by David HorganCreative Nonfiction2022
We Are All Perfectly Fine: A Memoir of Love, Medicine and Healing by Jillian HortonCreative Nonfiction2022
And It Will Be A Beautiful Life by Craig LancasterFiction2022
Daughter of the Morning Star by Craig JohnsonFiction2022
Let the Wild Grasses Grow by Kase JohnstunFiction2022
Black Snake: Standing Rock, the Dakota Access Pipeline, and Environmental Justice by Katherine Wiltenburg TodrysFirst Book2022
20.12m: A Short Story Collection of a Life Lived as a Road Allowance Métis by Arnolda Dufour BowesIndigenous Writer2022
Standoff: Standing Rock, the Bundy Movement, and the American Story of Sacred Lands by Jacqueline KeelerIndigenous Writer2022
Wild Rescues: A Paramedic's Extreme Adventures in Yosemite, Yellowstone, and Grand Teton by Kevin GrangeMedicine & Science2022
We Are All Perfectly Fine: A Memoir of Love, Medicine and Healing by Jillian HortonMedicine & Science2022
Scenic Geology of Alberta A Roadside Touring and Hiking Guide by Dale LeckieMedicine & Science2022
A History of Montana in 101 Objects (English and Italian Edition) by Montana Historical SocietyNonfiction2022
We Are All Perfectly Fine: A Memoir of Love, Medicine and Healing by Jillian HortonNonfiction2022
No One Dare Call Her A Liar: The Untold Story of Alma Kruckenberg's 1938 Murder by Larry Lee KruckenbergNonfiction2022
The Track the Whales Make: New and Selected Poems (Ted Kooser Contemporary Poetry) by Marjorie SaiserPoetry2022
Site Fidelity: Stories by Claire BoylesShort Stories2022
What If We Were Somewhere Else by Wendy FoxShort Stories2022
The Stone Sister by Caroline PattersonWoman Writer2022
Ancestors: Indigenous Peoples of Western Canada in Historic Photographs by Sarah CarterWoman Writer2022
The Call of the Last Frontier: The True Story of a Woman's Twenty-Year Alaska Adventure by Melissa L. CookWoman Writer2022
Alone by Megan E. FreemanYoung Adult2022
The Life and Deaths of Frankie D. by Colleen NelsonYoung Adult2022

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