The 35th Minnesota Book Awards winners were announced on Tuesday and you can find almost all of them right here at Next Chapter! We have a couple copies of each of this year's winners, and more on the way, so come by and pick up some home-grown reading material!

And the winners are...

In Children's Literature: So Much Snow by Kristen Schroeder, illustrated by Sarah Jacoby

In General Nonfiction: Wilhelm’s Way: The Inspiring Story of the Iowa Chemist Who Saved The Manhattan Project by Teresa Wilhelm Waldof

In Genre Fiction: The Quarry Girls by Jess Lourey

In Memoir & Creative Nonfiction: Seven Aunts by Staci Lola Drouillard

In Middle Grade Literature: The Counterclockwise Heart by Brian Farrey

The Emilie Buchwald Award for Minnesota Nonfiction: When Minnehaha Flowed With Whiskey: A Spirited History of the Falls by Karen E. Cooper

In Novel & Short Story: The Barrens by Kurt Johnson and Ellie Johnson

In Poetry: How to Communicate by John Lee Clark

In Young Adult Literature: The Complicated Calculus (and Cows) of Carl Paulsen by Gary Eldon Peter

Finally, we were delighted to learn that Stu Abraham is this year's winner of the Kay Sexton Award! Everyone in the Minnesota book world knows Stu -- every bookseller here has their own 'Stu story' about a time he was sweet, funny, or generous to them. Our manager David had this to say: "Stu's contributions have been commercial as well as artistic, and we shouldn't underestimate their impact just because he's not making literature. I'm glad the judges took the opportunity to recognize a wider literary community. And of course... it's Stu!"