Montana Book Award

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The Montana Book Award was established in 2001 by the Friends of the Missoula Public Library. Books by Montana authors or set in Montana are eligible. A committee of readers, representing the library federations in the state, select yearly winner from a large field of titles.

 

 

 

 

Montana Book Award 
Learn about the Award and how YOU can nominate your favorite Montana book!

 

Pictures from an Expedition Cover Image

Pictures from an Expedition (Paperback)

By Diane Smith
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ISBN: 9780142004067
Availability: Special Order
Published: Penguin Books - March 30th, 2004

2002 Winner

Hope in Hard Times: New Deal Photographs of Montana, 1936-1942 Cover Image

Hope in Hard Times: New Deal Photographs of Montana, 1936-1942 (Paperback)

By Mary Murphy
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ISBN: 9780917298813
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Published: Montana Historical Society Press - June 1st, 2003

2003 Winner

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Useful Girl (Hardcover)

By Marcus Stevens
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ISBN: 9781565123663
Availability: Out of Print
Published: Algonquin Books - January 4th, 2004

2004 Winner

Decade of the Wolf: Returning the Wild to Yellowstone Cover Image

Decade of the Wolf: Returning the Wild to Yellowstone (Hardcover)

By Douglas Smith, Gary Ferguson
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ISBN: 9781592287000
Availability: Hard to Find
Published: Lyons Press - April 1st, 2005

2005 Winner

Hattie Big Sky Cover Image

Hattie Big Sky (Hardcover)

By Kirby Larson
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ISBN: 9780385733137
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Published: Delacorte Books for Young Readers - September 26th, 2006

2006 Winner

Red Rover Cover Image

Red Rover (Hardcover)

By Deirdre McNamer
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ISBN: 9780670063505
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Published: Viking Adult - August 2nd, 2007

2007 Winner

Full-Court Quest: The Girls from Fort Shaw Indian School Basketball Champions of the World Cover Image

Full-Court Quest: The Girls from Fort Shaw Indian School Basketball Champions of the World (Hardcover)

By Linda Peavy, Ursula Smith
$34.44
ISBN: 9780806139739
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Published: University of Oklahoma Press - November 10th, 2008

2008 Winner

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet Cover Image

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet (Paperback)

By Jamie Ford
$17.00
ISBN: 9780345505347
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Ballantine Books - October 6th, 2009

2009 Winner

Bound Like Grass: A Memoir from the Western High Plains Cover Image

Bound Like Grass: A Memoir from the Western High Plains (Hardcover)

By Ruth McLaughlin, Dee Garceau-Hagen (Foreword by)
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ISBN: 9780806141374
Availability: Hard to Find
Published: University of Oklahoma Press - October 8th, 2010

2010 Winner

Raptors of the West: Captured in Photographs Cover Image

Raptors of the West: Captured in Photographs (Paperback)

By Kate Davis, Rob Palmer (Photographer), Nick Dunlop (Photographer)
$30.00
ISBN: 9780878425754
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Mountain Press Publishing Company - May 1st, 2011

2011 Winner

The Miseducation of Cameron Post Cover Image

The Miseducation of Cameron Post (Hardcover)

By Emily M. Danforth
$17.99
ISBN: 9780062020567
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Published: Balzer + Bray - February 7th, 2012

2012 Winner

Let Him Go Cover Image

Let Him Go (Paperback)

By Larry Watson
$16.00
ISBN: 9781571311030
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Milkweed Editions - September 2nd, 2014

2013 Winner

Fourth of July Creek: A Novel Cover Image

Fourth of July Creek: A Novel (Hardcover)

By Smith Henderson
$26.99
ISBN: 9780062286444
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Published: Ecco - May 27th, 2014

2014 Winner