Kelly James Clark As I was writing this book on Muslim, Christian and Jewish love, I learned that I am writing about how I learned about love of neighbor and even enemy. When I’m writing about compassion in the Abrahamic traditions, I am writing about what I have learned, first and foremost, from Christians (my…
Are You Ready? How to Build a Legacy to Die ForWinner
2024 San Francisco Book Festival
Kimberly Harms Are You Ready? How to Build a Legacy to Die For is designed to help you build a positive legacy and prepare an emotional life insurance plan for your loved ones. Don’t wait to get ready! Your graduation from life comes unexpectedly. This book will help you be prepared to graduate with honors.
The Curious History of the Heart: A Cultural and Scientific JourneyRunner-Up
2024 San Francisco Book Festival
Vincent Figueredo The Curious History of the Heart takes a panoptic look at the role and meaning of the heart over the whole of human history. This book explores the role and significance of the heart in art, culture, religion, philosophy, and science across time and place.
Voices of the Basque SignetHonorable Mention
2024 San Francisco Book Festival
Gala Gabirondo These overlapping tales move back and forth across time and generations. From the mountains of the Basque country and old Puerto Rico, to Madrid, San Juan, New York, Los Angeles, and revolutionary Nicaragua, the Itsasmendía, Quijano, and Romero clans navigate the twentieth century’s upheavals with humor, hope, and tenacity.
Charlotte’s Ghosts: The Mystery of the Vanishing BoyRunner-Up
2024 Beach Book Festival
L. P. Simone he spring before 7th Grade, tragedy strikes C. C. Cross. Dad won’t be coming home from Afghanistan… …Jeremy Turner wants to join Lincoln’s army and shoot himself some Rebels, but Ma won’t sign the enlistment papers. Can these two broken hearts, one a ghost, help each other?
Saving MarinaRunner-Up
2024 Beach Book Festival
Ines Ferrari Garcia To the outside world, Teresa has everything: an interesting career, a loving husband, and a beautiful daughter, but soon, her perfect life will fall apart. “Saving Marina” has everything one looks for in a book: a compelling thriller with an emotional edge and lots of twists.
SEEKING CLOSUREHonorable Mention
2024 San Francisco Book Festival
MONSIEUR SERENDIPITY A story about diversity, love, loyalty, and philosophy. Blinding conforming, we surrender to love, career, family, and legacy. How does sexual orientation affect one’s attitude toward these four pillars? What is true love? What is family? Is it luck or skill? How do I want to be remembered?
THE WINDY FORESTHonorable Mention
2024 Los Angeles Book Festival
Sherry A. Jackson Ronda a successful investigating newspaper reporter quits her job in the city and moved to a small remote town in the mountains where she has inherited her late aunt’s cabin and gift shop. When evidence surfaced that her late aunt’s accidental fall off a cliff may not have been an accident, Rhonda…
The HollowWinner
2024 San Francisco Book Festival
Christopher L Thomas Bruce Westman, an Iraqi War Veteran suffering from PTSD turned private investigator, and his brother Jeffrey, a police detective, chase a serial killer across Connecticut in a deadly pursuit to stop him before he kills again.
Near the Danube BridgeWinner
2024 Great Midwest Book Festival
Catherine Allen-Walters Kalman Hartig (1930-2021) was born into an affluent family in the former Kingdom of Yugoslavia. He was exposed to music, art, and literature at a young age. After joining the American Seventh-day Adventist movement that had been sweeping through war-torn Europe, he discovered how difficult life would be living in what would become…