2019 Ohioana Award Winners
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Sadness Is a White Bird: A Novel
Author: Moriel Rothman-Zecher
ISBN: 9781501176265
"Nuanced, sharp, and beautifully written, Sadness Is a White Bird manages, with seeming effortlessness, to find something fresh and surprising and poignant in the classic coming-of-age, love-triangle narrative, something starker, more heartbreaking: something new." - Michael Chabon "Unflinching in its honesty, unyielding in its moral complexity." - Pulitzer Prize-winning author...
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Furnishing Eternity: A Father, a Son, a Coffin, and a Measure of Life
Author: David Giffels
ISBN: 9781501105944
"A lifetime's worth of workbench philosophy in a heartfelt memoir about the connection between a father and son" (Kirkus Reviews) - the acclaimed author of The Hard Way on Purpose confronts mortality, survives loss, and finds resilience through an unusual woodworking project - constructing, with his father, his own coffin.David...
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Tigerland: 1968-1969: A City Divided, a Nation Torn Apart, and a Magical Season of Healing
Author: Wil Haygood
ISBN: 9781524731861
From the author of the best-selling The Butler--an emotional, inspiring story of two teams from a poor, black, segregated high school in Ohio, who, in the midst of the racial turbulence of 1968/1969, win the Ohio state baseball and basketball championships in the same year.1968 and 1969: Martin Luther King...
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Pardon My Heart: Poems
Author: Marcus Jackson
ISBN: 9780810136915
Pardon My Heart is an exploration of love in the contemporary African American ethos. In this lyrically complex collection, the speakers and subjects - the adult descendants of the Great Migration - reckon with past experiences and revelatory, hard-earned ideas about race and class. With a compelling blend of narrative...
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Out of Left Field
Author: ELLEN KLAGES
ISBN: 9780425288597
A story about the fight for equal rights in America's favorite arena: the baseball field!Every boy in the neighborhood knows Katy Gordon is their best pitcher, even though she's a girl. But when she tries out for Little League, it's a whole different story. Girls are not eligible, period. It...
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