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19th BABRA AWARDS
for books published in 1999 by Northern California authors


Fiction  Poetry Non-Fiction Children's Literature

Special Award Publishing

Fred Cody Lifetime Achievement

27th Northern California Book Awards, April 13, 2008
(for books published in 2007)

Fiction


Werewolves in Their Youth
Michael Chabon
Random House

Breath and Shadows
Ella Leffland
William Morrow

Gods Go Begging
Alfredo Véa
Dutton
(1999 BABRA Winner!)

East Bay Grease
Eric Miles Williamson
Picador USA

Poetry


Midnight Salvage:
Poems 1995&endash;1998

Adrienne Rich
W. W. Norton

Touching the Edge
Michael McClure
Shambhala
(1999 BABRA Winner!)

The Mercy
Philip Levine
Knopf

Hotel Imperium
Rachel Loden
University of Georgia Press

Non-Fiction


To Believe In Women:
What Lesbians
Have Done For America

Lillian Faderman
Houghton Mifflin

Ants at Work:
How an Insect
Society is Organized

Deborah Gordon
Free Press

Totem Salmon:
Life Lessons
From Another Species

Freeman House
Beacon
(1999 BABRA Winner!)

Freedom From Fear:
The American People
in Depression and War

David M. Kennedy
Oxford University Press

Ever Since Adam and Eve:
The Evolution of Human Sexuality

Malcolm Potts and Roger Short
Cambridge University Press

Children's Literature


Sleepytime Rhyme
Remy Charlip
Greenwillow

Dive!
My Adventures
in the Deep Frontier

Sylvia A. Earle
National Geographic

Francie
Karen English
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
(1999 BABRA Winner!)

Weslandia
Paul Fleischman
illustrator Kevin Hawkes
Candlewick

The Peddler's Gift
Maxine Rose Schur
illustrator Kimberly Bulcken Root
Dial


Fred Cody
Award


Carolyn Kizer
Poet & Writer


Special Award
Publishing


OVERTIME: Selected Poems
Philip Whalen
editor Michael Rothenberg
introduction by Leslie Scalapino
Penguin

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27th Northern California Book Awards, April 13, 2008
(for books published in 2007)

Fiction  Poetry Non-Fiction Children's Literature


19th BABRA AWARDS