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2021 Award Recipient —
Kearney Literacy Council
This award is given to an individual who provides leadership and service in the promotion of Nebraska literature. More...
2021 Award Recipient —
Rebecca Faber
The Nebraska Book Awards program, sponsored by the Nebraska Center for the Book (NCB), recognizes and honors books that are written by Nebraska authors, published by Nebraska publishers, set in Nebraska or concerning Nebraska. More...
2022 (23rd annual) for books published in 2021
- Children's Best Continuing Series
- George Meets His Match, by Kristin Bauer Ganoung
- Illustrated by K. E. Gadeken
- Publisher: Prairieland Press
- Youth Book
- Rhinos in Nebraska: The Amazing Discovery of the Ashfall Fossil Beds, by Alison Pearce Stevens
- Illustrated by Matt Huynh
- Publisher: Godwin Books, Henry Holt Company
- Cover and Design
- After One Hundred Winters: In Search of Reconciliation on America's Stolen Lands by Margaret D. Jacobs
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Illustration
- Rhinos in Nebraska: The Amazing Discovery of the Ashfall Fossil Beds by Alison Pearce Stevens
- Illustrated by Matt Huynh
- Publisher: Godwin Books, Henry Holt Company
- Fiction
- The Perfume Thief by Timothy Schaffert
- Publisher: Doubleday
- Nonfiction Biography
- The Only Wonderful Things: The Creative Partnership of Willa Cather & Edith Lewis by Melissa J. Homestead
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Nonfiction Biograpy Honor
- Time in the Wilderness: The Formative Years of John "Black Jack" Pershing in the American West by Dr. Tim McNeese
- Publisher: Potomac Books
- Nonfiction Health and Fitness
- Fuel Your Body: How to Cook and Eat for Peak Performance by Angie Asche
- Publisher: Agate Publishing
- Nonfiction Natural History
- Rhinos in Nebraska: The Amazing Discovery of the Ashfall Fossil Beds by Alison Pearce Stevens
- Illustrated by Matt Huynh
- Publisher: Godwin Books, Henry Holt Company
- Nonfiction Nebraska as Place
- Nebraska Golf: Out of the Shadows by Stu Pospisil
- Publisher: Omaha World Herald
- Nonfiction Popular History
- Patient Zero: A Curious History of the World's Worst Diseases by Lydia Kang and Nate Pedersen
- Publisher: Workman Publishing Company
- Poetry
- The Way of Things by Shannon Vesely
- Publisher: Rogue Faculty Press
- Poetry Honor
- Unholy Heart by Grace Bauer
- The Backwaters Press
- Special Poetry
- More in Time: A Tribute to Ted Kooser by Jessica Poli, Marco Abel, Timothy Schaffert
- Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
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