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Sunday, April 12, 2009

New work, new ways of seeing the past
Everything old is new again, or rather, of new pertinence in the light of current events.  I’ve been finding this theme in a lot of our latest pieces on FBR.  Antolin Garcia Carbonell shows how research about projects built in the Depression, like that done for the essays in The New Deal in South Florida, can inform thinking about how to take action now, while Molly McGreevy’s look at Great Houses of Florida prompted some thoughts on how pauses in building let us appreciate and save what we have.  In Nick Garnett’s reconsideration of Elmore Leonard’s Stick we get a vision of the gumption people need when starting over. John Bond’s piece on Shadow Country, Peter Matthiessen's novel which reworks and revises three predecessors, looks at the myth-making that underlies all Florida storytelling, whether we call it fiction or not.  And I’m proud to announce our new feature, “American History, Florida Style,” a memoir piece by Dan Wakefield, which shows with rueful wit how different the old lessons look from here.

    —Lynne Barrett
12:39 pm edt 


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Winners of the 2010 Florida Book Awards

Children's Literature
Gold:  Jan Godown Annino, She Sang Promise: The story of Betty Mae Jumper, Seminole Tribal Leader
Silver: Mary GrandPre and Jack Relutsky, Camille Saint-Saens's The Carnival of the Animals
Bronze: Henry Cole, A Nest for Celeste
Bronze: Brad Meltzer, Heroes for My Son
Bronze: Harvey E. Oyer III, The Last Egret: The Adventures of Charlie Pierce

Florida Nonfiction
Gold:  Margaret Ross Tolbert, AQUIFERious
Silver:  Julian M. Pleasants and Harry A. Kersey, Seminole Voices: Reflections on Their Changing Society
Bronze: Lu Vickers, Cypress Gardens, America's Tropical Wonderland
Bronze: Anna Lillios, Crossing the Creek
Bronze: Randy Wayne White and Carlene Fredericka Brennen, Randy Wayne White's Ultimate Tarpon Book
 
General Fiction
Gold:  Mark Mustian, The Gendarme
Silver:  Patricia Engel, Vida
Bronze:
T.M Shine, Nothing Happens Until It Happens to You
Mary Jane Ryals, Cookie and Me
 
Popular Fiction
Gold Medal:  William Culver Hall, The Trouble With Panthers
Silver Medal:  Randy Wayne White, Deep Shadow
Bronze Medal:
Joyce Elson Moore, The Tapestry Shop
Charles Martin, The Mountain Between Us
James Grippando, Money to Burn
 
Poetry
Gold:  Carol Frost, Honeycomb
Silver:  Lola Haskins, Still, the Mountain
Bronze:Kelle Groom, Five Kingdoms

Spanish Language Book
Gold Medal:  Jose Alvarez, Los Alamos del Parque
 
Young Adult Literature
Gold Medal:  Christina Diaz Gonzalez, The Red Umbrella
 
Visual Arts
Gold: Jason Steuber, Laura K. Nemmers, and Tracy Pfaff, Eds., Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art at Twenty Years: The Collection Catalogue
Silver: Margaret Ross Tolbert, AQUIFERious
 
For more information on these and past winners, please visit the Florida Book Awards website.









































































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