The winners of the 2012 Northern California Independent Booksellers Book of the Year Awards, voted by NCIBA booksellers and featuring books written by local authors, are:
Fiction: Turn of Mind by Alice LaPlante (Atlantic Monthly)
Nonfiction: A Thousand Lives: The Untold Story of Hope, Deception and Survival at Jonestown by Julia Scheeres (Free Press)
Food Writing: Mourad: New Moroccan by Mourad Lahlou (Artisan)
Poetry: Of Indigo and Saffron: New and Selected Poems by Michael McClure (University of California)
Regional: The Left Coast: California on the Edge by Philip L. Fradkin (University of California)
Children's Picture Book: The Astonishing Secret of Awesome Man by Michael Chabon and Jake Parker (Balzer & Bray)
Middle Grade Readers: One Day and One Amazing Morning on Orange Street by Joanne Rocklin (Amulet)
Teen Lit: Why We Broke Up by Daniel Handler (Little, Brown)
Peter, thanks for posting this. I am Joanne Rocklin's booking agent for school visits and will be announcing on my blog (http://balkinbuddies.blogspot.com) the news that her book won in the middle grade category today and will link to your blog. As a courtesy, I wanted to let you know. Thanks,
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