MPIBA Announces 2007 Book Award Winners

The Mountains and Plains Independent Booksellers Association (MPIBA) has announced the winners of its 2007 Regional Book Awards. The awards honor outstanding books set in the MPIBA region, which includes Colorado, Wyoming, New Mexico, Utah, Idaho, Texas, Montana, Kansas, Arizona, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and South Dakota.

Presentation of the awards will be a highlight of the MPIBA banquet at the Doubletree Hotel in Austin, Texas, on Friday, March 30, 2007. The banquet is open to the public.

The winners are:

• Adult Fiction: Cottonwood Saints by Gene Guerin (UNM Press)
• Adult Nonfiction: Blood and Thunder by Hampton Sides (Doubleday)
• The Arts: Mesa Verde National Park: The First 100 Years by Rose Houk, Faith Marcovecchio, and Duane A. Smith (Fulcrum/Mesa Verde Museum Association)
• Children's: The Buffalo and the Indians by Dorothy Hinshaw Patent, photos by William Munoz (Clarion)
• Regional Reference: Pinedale, Wyoming: A Centennial History 1904 - 2004 by Ann Chambers Noble (Sublette Country Historical Society/Museum of the Mountain Man)