NAACP Image Awards Winners and Nominees

NAACP Image Award LogoThe NAACP Image Awards nominates five books in nine categories for Outstanding Literature: Biography/Autobiography, Children, Debut Author, Fiction, Graphic Novel, Instructional, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Youth/Teens

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39 Image Award Winning and Nominated Books for 2015

Winner - Biography/Autobiography

Winner - Biography/Autobiography

Nominee - Biography/Autobiography

Handbook For An Unpredictable Life: How I Survived Sister Renata And My Crazy Mother, And Still Came Out Smiling (With Great Hair)
by Rosie Perez

List Price: $26.00
Knopf (Feb 25, 2014)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 336 pages
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Nominee - Biography/Autobiography

Stand Up Straight and Sing!
by Jessye Norman

List Price: $27.00
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (May 06, 2014)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 336 pages
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Nominee - Biography/Autobiography

Winner - Children

Dork Diaries 8: Tales from a Not-So-Happily Ever After
by Rachel Renee Russell

List Price: $13.99
Aladdin (Sep 30, 2014)
Fiction, Hardcover, 304 pages
Target Age Group: Middle Grade
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Nominee - Children

Nominee - Children

Nominee - Children

Searching For Sarah Rector: The Richest Black Girl In America
by Tonya Bolden

List Price: $21.95
Abrams Books (Jan 07, 2014)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 80 pages
Target Age Group: Middle Grade
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Nominee - Children

Winner - Debut Author

Nominee - Debut Author

Nominee - Debut Author

Time of the Locust: A Novel
by Morowa Yejide

List Price: $25.00
Atria Books (Jun 10, 2014)
Fiction, Hardcover, 256 pages
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Nominee - Debut Author

The 16th Minute of Fame: An Insider’s Guide for Maintaining Success Beyond 15 Minutes of Fame
by Darrell Miller

List Price: $14.99
Dunham Books (May 20, 2014)
Nonfiction, Paperback, 176 pages
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Nominee - Debut Author

Remedy for a Broken Angel
by Toni Ann Johnson

List Price: $17.95
Nortia Press (Jun 10, 2014)
Fiction, Paperback, 280 pages
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Winner - Fiction

Nominee - Fiction

Nominee - Fiction

Another Womans Man (A Gibbons Gold Digger Novel)
by Shelly Ellis

List Price: $31.99
Thorndike Press (Aug 20, 2014)
Fiction, Hardcover, 401 pages
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Nominee - Fiction

Nominee - Fiction

Winner - Instructional

Promises Kept: Raising Black Boys to Succeed in School and in Life
by Joe Brewster, Michele Stephenson, and Hilary Beard

List Price: $18.00
Spiegel & Grau (Jan 14, 2014)
Nonfiction, Paperback, 384 pages
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Nominee - Instructional

Afro-Vegan: Farm-Fresh African, Caribbean, and Southern Flavors Remix
by Bryant Terry

List Price: $27.50
Ten Speed Press (Apr 08, 2014)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 224 pages
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Nominee - Instructional

Nominee - Instructional

101 Scholarship Applications - 2015: What It Takes To Obtain A Debt-Free College Education
by Gwen Richardson

List Price: $12.00
Cushcity Communications (Jan 09, 2015)
Nonfiction, Paperback, 164 pages
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Winner - Nonfiction

Nominee - Nonfiction

Nominee - Nonfiction

Nominee - Nonfiction

Place, Not Race: A New Vision of Opportunity in America
by Sheryll Cashin

List Price: $25.95
Beacon Press (May 06, 2014)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 176 pages
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Nominee - Nonfiction

The Bill of the Century: The Epic Battle for the Civil Rights Act
by Clay Risen

List Price: $28.00
Bloomsbury Press (Apr 01, 2014)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 320 pages
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Winner - Poetry

Nominee - Poetry

The Poetry of Derek Walcott 1948-2013
by Derek Walcott

List Price: $40.00
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Jan 21, 2014)
Poetry, Hardcover, 640 pages
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Nominee - Poetry

Nominee - Poetry

Nominee - Poetry

Winner - Youth/Teens

Nominee - Youth/Teens

Nominee - Youth/Teens

Revolution (The Sixties Trilogy)
by Deborah Wiles

List Price: $19.99
Scholastic Press (May 27, 2014)
Fiction, Hardcover, 544 pages
Target Age Group: Middle Grade
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Nominee - Youth/Teens

The Freedom Summer Murders
by Don Mitchell

List Price: $18.99
Scholastic Press (Apr 29, 2014)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 256 pages
Target Age Group: Young Adult
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Nominee - Youth/Teens

Because They Marched: The People’s Campaign for Voting Rights That Changed America
by Russell Freedman

List Price: $20.00
Holiday House (Aug 11, 2014)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 96 pages
Target Age Group: Middle Grade
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