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Books By The Banks 2019

The 13th Annual Books By The Banks Cincinnati USA Book Festival will be held Saturday, October 26 the Duke Energy Convention Center in downtown Cincinnati. Along with more than 100 authors who will talk with patrons and sign copies of their books, there will be author panels and discussions; a kids zone and teen scene with a variety of activities and entertainment; sponsor tables; and an onsite bookstore from Joseph Beth Booksellers.Cincinnati Public Radio will have a table - stop by and say hi to the hosts and staff, sign-up to win a CD or other prize, and let us know what you think about our stations! This event is free to attend, and runs from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m.More information can be found at booksbythebanks.org.91.7 WVXU is a proud media partner.We've had the opportunity to interview, or review, many of the authors you'll meet at this year's Books by the Banks . Here's a list if you'd like to hear from one of your favorites! BBTB 2019 AUTHORS WHO HAVE BEEN ON WVXU THIS YEARConnie Dow: From A to Z with Energy! 26 Ways to Move and PlayTerry Gamble: The EulogistJessica Strawser: Forget You Know MeAlexander Watson: Saucy Boat, Stout Mates, Spotted Dog, AmericaMargaret McMullan: Where The Angels LivedCandace Ganger: Six Goodbyes We Never SaidBook Review: Dan and Judy Dourson: Wildflowers and Ferns of Red River Gorge and the Greater Red River BasinJohn Kachuba: Shapeshifters: A HistoryDan Woellert: Cincinnati Goetta: A Delectable HistoryKaren Abbott: The Ghosts Of Eden ParkBook Review: Constance J. Moore and Nancy M. Broermann: Maria Longworth Storer: From Music and Art to Popes and PresidentsPauletta Hansel:When She Was Done (a Mother's Day poem)Coal Town Photograph (Father's Day poems)Sherry Stanforth and Richard Hague: Riparian: Poetry, Short Prose, and Photographs Inspired by the Ohio River (airing on November 24)Rick Kennedy: 100 Years of Reimagining Flight (Cincinnati Edition)Jack Heffron: Classic Reds: The 50 Greatest Games in Cincinnati Reds History (Cincinnati Edition)Michael Morgan: Cincinnati Beer (Cincinnati Edition)Greg Rhodes and John Erardi: Baseball Revolutionaries: How the 1869 Cincinnati Red Stockings Rocked the Country and Made Baseball Famous (Cincinnati Edition)David Bell: LayoverWilliam Plunkett: The G-Men and the Nurse: A 1929 Washington Cold CaseJillian Scudder: Astroquizzical: A Curious Journey Through Our Cosmic Family Tree (Looking Up podcast)

Finalists Named For 2016 Ohioana Book Awards

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Published June 24, 2016 at 6:03 AM EDT

July 19, 2016 - UPDATE - Congratulations to local author/illustrator Loren Long for winning the 2016 Ohioana Book Award in the Juvenile Fiction category for his book Little Tree!

2016 Ohioana Book Award Finalists Announced

Literary prizes to be presented September 23 at Ohio Statehouse

Columbus, OH (June 10, 2016) —The Ohioana Library has announced the 30 finalists for the 2016 Ohioana Book Awards.

The awards, established in 1942, honor Ohio authors in Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Juvenile Literature, and Middle Grade/Young Adult Literature. The final category, About Ohio or an Ohioan, may also include books by non-Ohio authors.

Finalists include two Pulitzer Prize winners, a two-time National Book Award winner, a National Book Critics Circle Award recipient, two winners of Mystery Writers of America’s Edgar ® Award, a five-time Coretta Scott King Literary Award winner, two Cleveland Arts Prize recipients, and ten previous Ohioana Award winners.

This year marks the 75^th anniversary of the awards. Winners will be announced in July, and the awards presented at the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus on Friday, September 23.

The finalists are:

Fiction

Tom Batiuk and Chuck Ayers. Roses in December. Kent State University Press, 2015.

Paula McLain. Circling the Sun. Ballantine Books, 2015.

Barbara Roether. This Earth You’ll Come Back To. McPherson & Company, 2015.

Mary Doria Russell. Epitaph: A Novel of the O.K. Corral. Ecco, 2015.

Leah Stewart. The New Neighbor. Touchstone, 2015.

Nonfiction

Jennifer Bowers Bahney. Stealing Sisi’s Star. McFarland & Co., 2015.

Michael Dirda. Browsings: A Year of Reading, Collecting, and Living with Books. Pegasus Books, 2015.

Marilyn Greenwald. Pauline Frederick Reporting: A Pioneering Broadcaster Covers the Cold War. Potomac Books, 2015.

Wil Haygood. Showdown: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court Nomination That Changed America. Knopf, 2015.

Mary Norris. Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen. W.W. Norton & Company, 2015.

About Ohio or an Ohioan

William Heath. William Wells and the Struggle for the Old Northwest. University of Oklahoma Press, 2015.

David McCullough. The Wright Brothers. Simon & Schuster, 2015.

Karl Rove. The Triumph of William McKinley: Why the Election of 1896 Still Matters. Simon & Schuster, 2015.

Gloria Steinem. My Life on the Road. Random House, 2015.

Mary Stockwell. The Other Trail of Tears: The Removal of the Ohio Indians. Westholme Publishing, 2015.

Poetry

Nin Andrews. Why God Is a Woman. BOA Editions Ltd., 2015.

Ross Gay. Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015.

Tasha Golden. Once You Had Hands. Humanist Press, 2015.

William Greenway. Selected Poems. FutureCycle Press, 2014.

Jeff Gundy. Abandoned Homeland: Poems. Bottom Dog Press, 2015.

Juvenile Literature

Louise Borden. Kindergarten Luck. Chronicle Books, 2015.

Jeffrey Ebbeler. Click! Holiday House, 2015.

Loren Long. Little Tree. Philomel Books, 2015.

Margaret Peot. Crow Made a Friend. Holiday House, 2015.

Dav Pilkey (illustrator). One Today. Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2015.

Middle Grade/Young Adult Literature

Sharon Draper. Stella by Starlight. Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2015.

Mindy McGinnis. A Madness So Discreet. Katherine Tegen Books, 2015.

Shelley Pearsall. The Seventh Most Important Thing. Knopf Books for Young Readers, 2015.

Michael J. Rosen. The Tale of Rescue. Candlewick Press, 2015.

Kathy Cannon Wiechman. Like a River: A Civil War Novel. Calkins Creek, 2015.

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The mission of the Ohioana Library, established in 1929 by First Lady Martha Kinney Cooper, is to collect, preserve, and celebrate Ohio literature and other creative endeavors. Visit the Ohioana Library at 274 E. First Avenue in Columbus, OH, or online at www.ohioana.org.