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U.S. North-East - Best Regional FictionGold: An Unexpected Forest, by Eleanor Lincoln Morse (Down East Books)
Silver: The Lace Reader, by Brunonia Barry (Flap Jacket Press)
Bronze: A Jolly Good Fellow, by Stephen V. Masse (Good Harbor Press)
U.S. North-East - Best Regional Non-Fiction
Gold: Our Point of View, by Thomas Mark Szelog and Lee Ann
Szelog (Down East Books)
Silver: Mighty Giants: An American Chestnut Anthology, edited by Chris Bolgiano and Glenn Novak (The American Chestnut Foundation)
Bronze: Broken Justice: A True Story of Race, Sex and Revenge in a Boston
Courtroom, by Kenneth C. Edelin, M.D. (PondViewPress); Hudson Valley
Voyage, by Ted Spiegel and Reed Sparling (Involvement Media, Inc.); Northeast
Passage, by Clyde H. Smith (Thistle Hill Publications)
Mid-Atlantic – Best Regional Fiction
Gold: Death Takes a Buggy Ride, by Ron Yeakley (iUniverse)
Silver: Shades of Gray: A Novel of the Civil War in Virginia, by Jessica James (Patriot Press)
Bronze: Must Thee Fight, by Lynmar Brock (BookSurge)
Mid-Atlantic – Best Regional Non-Fiction
Gold: The Horseshoe Curve: Sabotage and Subversion in the Railroad City, by Dennis P. McIlnay (Seven Oaks Press)
Silver (tie): Country Pursuits: British, American, and French Sporting Art from the Mellon Collections in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, by Malcolm Cormack (Virginia Museum of Fine Arts) and The Narrative Art of Robert Griffing, by Robert Griffing and Tim Todish (Paramount Press)
Bronze: The Hidden Galleon, by John Amrhein Jr. (New Maritima Press); Holocaust Survivors of South Jersey: Portraits of Resilience, edited by Maryann
McLoughlin, Ph.D. (ComteQ Publishing)
South-East – Best Regional Fiction
Gold: Absolution, by Miriam Herin (Novello Festival Press)
Silver: An Angry Drum Echoed, by Pamela Bauer Mueller (Pinata Publishing)
Bronze: Journey to Wholeness, by Charles Jarrett (BookSurge)
South-East – Best Regional Non-Fiction
Gold (tie): Gunny: Memoirs of Mobile’s South Side: Riding Alabama’s
Tide of White Supremacy, by James Joullian Gonzales (Academy Books) and Pigs on the Patio: My Life Riding Herd on a Lowcountry Plantation, by Liz Tucker (Legacy Publications)
Silver: The Complete Guide to Walt Disney World 2008, by Julie and Mike Neal (Coconut Press)
Bronze: Florida’s Lighthouses in the Civil War, by Neil E. Hurley (Middle River Press); Alligators, Sharks and Panthers: Deadly Encounters with Florida’s Top Predator – Man, by Charles Sobczak (Indigo Press)
South – Best Regional Fiction
Gold: The Wisdom of Yawdy Rum, by Michael Lane (Expert
Publishing)
Silver: Outside Child, by Alice Wilson-Fried (Komenar Publishing)
Bronze: Seven Ox Seven, Part One: Escondido Bound, by P.A. Ritzer (Seven
Ox Press)
South – Best Regional Non-Fiction
Gold: Every Town Needs a Trail, by Jen Ohlson (Pathway Productions)
Silver: Deep Water: Joseph P. Macheca and the Birth of the American Mafia, by Thomas Hunt and Martha Macheca Sheldon (iUniverse)
Bronze: Letters to Lori: The Family History and Stories of Opal Corn Meyers, by Barbara League; My South Coast Home: Photographs of the Mississippi Gulf Coast, by Ken Murphy (South Coast Publishing); Marshes to Mansions: Treasured Recipes of South Louisiana, by The Junior League of Lake Charles (Junior League of Lake Charles)
Great Lakes – Best Regional Fiction
Gold: Mr. Pleasant, by Jim Ray Daniels (Michigan State University Press)
Silver: Eight Dogs Named Jack, by Joe Borri (Momentum Books)
Bronze: A Warrant for Mrs. Lincoln, by Nancy Schleifer (Xlibris)
Great Lakes – Best Regional Non-Fiction Gold: The Great Lakes: The Natural History of a Changing Region, by Wayne Grady (Greystone Books)
Silver: Downtown Chicago in Transition, by Eric Bronsky and Neal Samors
(Chicago’s Books Press) and Chicago: City on the Move, by Michael Williams, Richard Cahan, and Bruce Moffat (Cityfiles Press)
Bronze: Shooting Star, by Alana Paluszewski (Momentum Books);
Strange Wisconsin: More Badger State Weirdness, by Linda S. Godfrey (Trails Books); General Motors Styling 1927-1958: Genesis of the World’s Largest Design Studios, by Tracy Powell (Powell House Publishing and Communications)
Mid-West – Best Regional Fiction
Gold: Fiddler’s Ghost, by Mitch Jayne (Wildstone Media)
Silver: The Ghost of Schafer Meadows, by Beth Hodder (Grizzly Ridge Publishing)
Bronze:The Mystery of Round Rocks, by Mark Meierhenry and David Volk (South Dakota State Historical Society Press)
Mid-West – Best Regional Non-Fiction
Gold (3-way tie): A Noble Task: The Saint Paul Public Library Celebrates 125!, by Biloine W. Young (Afton Historical Society Press); Haythorn Land and Cattle Co.: A Horseman's Heritage, by Lisa Norman (Trabon Publishing) and The Fish House Book: Life on Ice in the Northland, by Kathryn Nordstorm (Dovetailed Press)
Silver (tie): The Boyhood Memoirs of A.E. Hotchner: King of the Hill – Looking for Miracles,by A.E. Hotchner (Missouri History Museum) and Stories from Before: The New Voices of Immigrants in St. Louis, by Janet Morey and Gail Schafers (Missouri History Museum)
Bronze: Ron Schara’s Minnesota Bound, by Ron Schara (Tristan Publishing); Chaco’s Vanished Past Hogans, Tents and Ruins, by Florence C. Lister (Durango Herald Small Press)
West-Mountain – Best Regional Fiction
Gold: Where the Rivers Run North, by Sam Morton (Sheridan County Historical Society Press)
Silver: The Arc and the Sediment, by Christine Allen-Yazzie (Utah State University Press)
Bronze: Coyota, by Martha Egan (Papalote Press)
West-Mountain – Best Regional Non-Fiction
Gold: New Geographies of the American West: Land Use and the Changing Patterns of Place, by William R. Travis (Island Press)
Silver: Grand Obsession: Harvey Butchart and the Exploration of the Grand
Canyon, by Elias Butler and Tom Myers (Puma Press)
Bronze: Wild About Wildflowers: Extreme Botanizing in the Crested Butte, Wildflower Capital of Colorado, by Katherine Darrow (WildKat Publishing Co.); Brave New West, by Jim Stiles (University of Arizona Press); Natural Revelations, by Susan Swartz (Susan Swartz Studios)
West-Pacific – Best Regional Fiction
Gold: Stolen Boy, by Michael Mehas (iUniverse)
Silver: The Stillness of Love and Exile, by Rosa Martha Villarreal (Tertulia Press)
Bronze: Field Notes, by Sheila Clapkin (Booksurge/Berclair Lane Books)
West-Pacific – Best Regional Non-Fiction
Gold (tie): Hometown Santa Monica: The Bay Cities Book, edited byColleen Dunn Bates; co-authors Jenn Garbee, Nancy Gottesman, Stephanie Helper & Margery L. Schwartz (Prospect Park Books) and Anchorage: Life at the Edge of the Frontier, by Clark James Mishler (Yes Alaska Press)
Silver: Wildflowers of Northern California’s Wine Country and North Coast Ranges, by Reny Parker (New Creek Ranch Press)
Bronze: The Methow Valley, by Lumry, Wengerd, and Hurwitz (Eaglemont Press); Voices from the Street: Truths About Homelessness from the Sisters of the Road, by Jessica P. Morrell (Gray Sunshine)
Canada–East – Best Regional Fiction
Gold: The Best Laid Plans, by Terry Fallis (iUniverse)
Silver: Borderline, by Bonnie Rozanski (The Porcupine’s Quill)
Bronze: Vinland: The Beginning, by R.G. Johnston (R.G. Johnston)
Canada–East – Best Regional Non-Fiction
Gold: Cod: The Ecological History of the North Atlantic Fisheries, by George A. Rose (Breakwater Books)
Silver: A Year at Fougères, by Charles Part and Jennifer Warren-Part (Chelsea Books)
Bronze: Reverend Mother’s Daughter, by Mary Haskett (Believe Books); A Personal Journey to the Heart of Teaching, by John Fioravanti (Iceberg Publishing); Canadian Marathon Stories: A Book of Extraordinary Inspirations, edited by Linda Rainville Wagar (Linda Wagar)
Canada-West – Best Regional Fiction
Gold: Whispers Across Time, by J. Robert Whittle and Joyce Sandilands
(Whitlands Publishing)
Silver: The Trapps Family Adventures: The Old One, by Lawrence E.R. Adams (Trapps Publishing)
Bronze: The Hammer, by Vance Neudorf (Novel Concept Books)
Canada-West – Best Regional Non-Fiction
Gold: em>Wild Alberta at the Crossroads, by Marian White and Robin White (NatureWatch Press)
Silver: One With the Herd: A Spiritual Journey, by Liz Mitten Ryan (Publishing Works)
Bronze: No Corner Boys Here, by Jean Crozier (Crozier Information Press);
A World of Good, by Darlene L'Archeveque (AWOG Publishing); They Never Surrendered: The Lakota Sioux Band that Stayed in Canada, by Ron Papandrea (BookSurge Publishing)