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2017 Praiseworthy Award Winners

Winners were announced at the 2017 Annual Conference on September 22, 2017.

Text: Collective Works

Winner
The First Fifty Years of Relief Society: Key Documents in Latter-Day Saint Women’s History
Jill Mulvay Derr, Carol Cornwall Madsen, Kate Holbrook, Matthew J. Grow, Chad O. Foulger, Brian D. Reeves, Patricia Lemmon Spilsbury, W. Randall Dixon, Jennifer Reeder, Janelle M. Higbee, Leslie Sherman, Shannon Kelly, Jay A. Parry, Christopher Blythe

Suzy Bills (Board Member), Kate Holbrook, Caroline Larsen (Operations Manager), and Patricia Lemmon Spilsbury

Honorable Mention
Saints at Devil’s Gate: Landscapes Along the Mormon Trail
Bryon Andreasen, Wayne Pullman, John Burton, Josh Clare, Laura Hurtado, Bryan Mark Taylor

Suzy Bills (Board Member), Laura Hurtado, and Caroline Larsen (Operations Manager)

Text: Individual Works

Winner
A Land Twice Promised: An Israeli Woman’s Quest for Peace
Noa Baum, David Miles, Brooke Jorden

Suzy Bills (Board Member), Brooke Jorden, and Caroline Larsen (Operations Manager)

Honorable Mention
One Hundred Birds Taught Me to Fly
Ashley Mae Hoiland, Kristin Matthews, Shirley Ricks, Blair Hodges

Suzy Bills (Board Member), Blair Hodges, and Caroline Larsen (Operations Manager)

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