Elisa Chastaine Life can take a dramatic turn without warning. Just when everything is working out for the best, it can all be swept away. Sometimes quite literally. Lina, know as E to a select few, and her beloved Daniel are hiking in a majestic slot canyon when an unexpected flash flood changes their lives…
Splat!Honorable Mention
2021 New York Book Festival
Adele Irving The author’s pen is fast paced, dramatic, detailed, heart wrenching and honest.The thread of love weaves together a true story of family trials, pride, shame, grief,loss,healing, hope and understanding. Beautifully written this easy to read memoir takes the reader from emotional lows to emotional highs. An excellent read!
Rendered Safe: Tales of an NYPD Bomb TechRunner-up
2021 SLos Angeles Book Festival
Annie DawidJeff Ingber In Forrest Gump-like fashion, during his career Donald Sadowy was an astounding magnet for many significant events and persons, including solving the 1993 WTC bombing, surviving being buried alive on 9/11, the Abortion Bomber and TWA flight 800 cases, and being personal bodyguard to U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim.
Facing OffHonorable Mention
2021 New York Book Festival
Tanya Ross A rising revolution. Renegades on the run. Relationships transformed. The Tranquility teens return from their justice-seeking trip to The Outside to deliver a brewing revolution to Serpio Magnus’s doorstep. But when Tranquility’s Magistrate goes on the hunt for them, it sends them scattering into the wind in a desperate attempt to survive. As…
Never Say NeverHonorable Mention
2021 New York Book Festival
Justine Manzano Blaming the rocky marriage of her parents, Brynn Stark swears off love. But she doesn’t know that Aphrodite is on Earth and hidden among Brynn’s friends. Aphrodite sees Brynn’s resistance as a challenge–one she’s determined to win. Love sucks. And it’s all about to blow up in their faces.
KC’s Cocktails, Simple Sips of BlissHonorable Mention
2021 San Francisco Book Festival
KC KC’s Cocktails Simple Sips of Bliss is a cocktail book filled with more than twenty unique recipes created by a home mixologist. With every sip of your cocktail, sit back and slip away into the short stories that accompany each delicious libation. You’ll find yourself entertained and touched by the stories of KC’s life….
grydscaen: darkHonorable Mention
2021 San Francisco Book Festival
Natsuya Uesugi DuBois A clandestine meet occurs in the Echelons under cover of darkness where Top Secret intel on the stock market changes hands. The insider tip gets the gothic hacker Jester engaged in a high tech game. Parliament votes to lower harsh stock market regulations fueling the Corporation’s bottom line. Ordered by Jester, the…
A Constitution for a DemocracyHonorable Mention
2021 San Francisco Book Festival
Rohit (Roy) Kajaria The two basic models of democracy in the world today are the parliamentary form as practiced in the United Kingdom, and the presidential form as practiced in the United States of America. The author analyzes each, and develops a new model that synthesizes their relative advantages while minimizing their shortcomings. The proposed…
A Turbulent Mind -My journey to Ironman 70.3Honorable Mention
2021 San Francisco Book Festival
Swetha Amit Sometimes in life, you are hit by an unexpected wave of change. A change that will forcibly stir you out of your cocooned comfort zone. You may face despair, loneliness and depression. This is not a dead end but just a test to rediscover yourself and unleash your inner potential.
If I Were A PonyHonorable Mention
2021 San Francisco Book Festival
Leonard Eckhaus Written In the form of a poem and told from the perspective of the Pony, “If I Were A Pony” describes the beautiful, emotional relationship of love between a young boy and his pony as they grow old together sharing nuzzles, rides in the sun and dreams of the future.