The shortlist for the 2009 Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Book Award consists of 12 books written or illlustrated by Northwest authors and published in 2008. Selected by a committee of independent booksellers from Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana and Alaska, the final list of no more than six titles is available in mid-December; the winners will be announced in January. The shortlist includes:
- “American Buffalo: In Search of a Lost Icon” by Steven Rinella
- “The Art of Racing in the Rain” by Garth Stein
- “Conquistador: Hernan Cortes, King Montezuma, and the Last Stand of the Aztecs” by Buddy Levy
- “The Eleventh Man” by Ivan Doig
- “The English Major” by Jim Harrison
- “Guernica” by Dave Boling
- “The Jewel of Medina” by Sherry Jones
- “Little Hoot” illustrated by Jen Corace
- “Selected Poems: 1970-2005″ by Flood Skloot
- “Shopping for Porcupine: A Life in Arctic Alaska” by Seth Kanter
- “Wild Beauty: Photographs of the Columbia River Gorge, 1867-1957″ by Terry Toedtemeier and John Laursen
- “The Wink of the Zenith: The Shaping of a Writer’s Life” by Floyd Skloot
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