Shadows of Shame
Honorable Mention
2017 New York Book Festival

Bruce Ashkenas Harold Apple is a Jewish reporter willing to do anything for a story. When he’s asked to risk his life to infiltrate the Nazi Bund in late 1930’s New York, he jumps at the chance. Leaving behind his fiancée and the safety of his home, Apple goes undercover in search of the real…

Father, Who Art
Honorable Mention
2017 Hollywood Book Festival

Drew O’Brien Alone, neglected, lost in the foster care system. Armed only with the voice in his head that is unflinching with the truth, Gem runs away to find a father he has yearned for. From an orphanage in Hollywood to the suburbs of 1972 southern California, a harder life just got harder. At the…

Never Summer
Honorable Mention
2017 Hollywood Book Festival

Tim Blaine “…a compelling literary piece about a nineteenth-century drifter who returns from Japan to traverse a landscape as foreign to him as the concept of his own impending demise. Readers who appreciate genre-busting, thought-provoking reads…will relish the tone and characters of Never Summer.” -Midwest Book Review

Fireball Summer
Honorable Mention
2017 Hollywood Book Festival

James Lynn Durham This is the story of a boy and his pony and the bond they formed during their summers together. It’s about working for what you want and making sacrifices when necessary. There’s action, adventure, hardship, and heartache. The ending leaves you speculating.

Protecting the Planet
Winner
2017 New York Book Festival

Budd Titlow and Mariah Tinger Climate change is often associated with predictions of dire calamities. In the past, however, heroic individuals have stepped forward to meet ominous ecological challenges. This book tells an inspirational story–both of pioneering environmentalists who raised our collective consciousness regarding nature’s value and heroes of today who are working to secure…

Ishtaq; The Second Vial
Honorable Mention
2017 Hollywood Book Festival

Thomas G. Fournier Scientists working within a secret alien spacecraft buried within the Antarctic permafrost accidentally release a long-dormant entity capable of eliminating all life on earth. As they struggle to survive and prevent the global spread of the organism, the evidence begins to mount that they are fighting more than one form of alien…

Wild Life of Limericks from A to Z
Runner-up
2017 Green Book Festival

Jean Merrill The Wild Life of Limericks from A to Z, is a book the entire family to enjoy. The text for each animal is a witty limerick. David Bygott, a world famous primatologist, African tour leader, and artist for National Geographic has rendered each fanciful limerick into a matching illustration. Each drawing has the…

How To Set The World On Fire
Winner
2017 New York Book Festival

T.K. Riggins A warrior, wizard and two scholars join together and enter the annual competition at The Academy known as The Quest Series. They must travel across the realm to collect magical items, creatures in order to defeat the other competitors and claim championship glory.

Shielded Suffering
Runner-up
2017 Beach Book Festival

A.J. Nystrom Certified life coach & former federal agent AJ Nystrom tackles the topics of bullying advocacy, mental health normalization, & suicide prevention from autobiographical, community based, and life coaching perspectives.

LISA…Color Me Fast
Honorable Mention
2017 New York Book Festival

Penelope Kahler Swan The fascinating and frightening story of a dangerously beautiful woman who fell in love with speed.