ORB: An aeronautical love story from an altered world
Runner-up
2016 Green Book Festival

Author: Francisco Rebollo A mid-air encounter with a mysterious sphere of light changes everything for a young airline pilot and the child he loves.

Somehow I Am Different
Winner
2016 New York Book Festival

Author: Alyssa Petersel “A journey through the lives of young Eastern European Jews that’s not to be missed.” — Kirkus Reviews (starred review). A young American author immerses herself in modern Jewish Budapest. The twenty-one stories she shares will make you laugh, make you cry, and make you want to be your own best self….

Black and White: Volume I of the Lincoln County Law Trilogy
Honorable Mention
2016 New York Book Festival

Author: Jerri Blair A rural Southern county takes a step from the racist past to a more hopeful future in this legal thriller where the courtroom becomes a battleground for justice. An innocent man’s life hangs in the balance as his lawyer challenges the power structure of his home town.

A Secret Muse
Honorable Mention
2016 Paris Book Festival

Author: Mandy Jackson-Beverly After an attempt on her life and a letter from her dead mother, Coco demands explanations from her brother Christopher. Enter Gabriel a powerful warlock with a vampire father, and Prudence keeper of the Allegiance. Following a friend’s murder Coco’s life takes a darker turn.

The Whispering of Trees
Honorable Mention
2016 Paris Book Festival

Author: C.Y. Bourgeois Aggie Ksisak longs to be a normal teenager, but her coming of age includes a legacy as the most powerful Inupiat Eskimo shaman in history. She embraces her heritage until a powerful demon spirit invades her dreams, threatening to destroy her and everyone she loves. Despite her overwhelming fear, she soon realizesshe…

Cosmic Chaos
Honorable Mention
2016 San Francisco Book Festival

Author: C.M. Shelton Twelve-year-old Logan lives inside the Luna Biodome on the moon. Not only is the moon dust making him sick, it also sets him apart from the other kids. While Logan is inside his new robot’s interactive program, his illness disappears and mysteries occur that he can’t explain.

Girl Friend & Other Mysteries of Love
Winner
2016 Paris Book Festival

Author: Charles P. Ries Charles Ries reflects on the landscape of contemporary love with vulnerability, humor, and insight. These poems are written beautifully and have such a unique and quiet voice to them. His search to have the mystery of love answered, is answered. “I love more now, not because love has grown within me,…

Visions of You
Honorable Mention
2013 Paris Book Festival

Author: C.Y. Bourgeois In 1975 the sleepy town of Palmer Alaska is rocked when a serial killer takes his first victim. High school senior Shelby Leight and friends face life and death in their quest stop a monster before he kills again. Follow this intricate tangle of dark secrets, murders and love.

Libido Tsunami
Runner-up
2016 Pacific Rim Book Festival

Author: Cate Burns Libido Tsunami: Awash with the Droll in Life enchants with thirty-eight humorous short stories. Burns unearths the ludicrous in the emotional live traps surrounding us — in families, friends and disastrous romances. She relishes the uproarious human spirit and its on-going absurd wrestling with ego.

A Middle Class Dream – Coast to Coast
Honorable Mention
2016 Paris Book Festival

Author: Kamlesh Thakur Do you let rocks thrown at you hold you down? Or do you use the same rocks to build a solid foundation and monument that will stand the test of time? Follow Krish’s life journey coast to coast as he shares how he overcame odds to achieve and manifest material wealth and…