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VIKINGS IN THE ATTIC a finalist for MN Book Award

Vikings in the Attic: In Search of Nordic America, by Eric Dregni, is nominated in the General Nonfiction category.

Jan 29, 2012

Eric Dregni's Vikings in the Attic: In Search of Nordic America has been named a finalist for a Minnesota Book Award in the General Nonfiction category.

Winners will be announced April 14th, 2012. In the meantime, readers can vote for the Readers' Choice Award (which was awarded last year to UMP's News to Me: Adventures of an Accidental Journalist by Laurie Hertzel) throughout the month of March via www.thefriends.org.

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