Killing Maine
Winner
2015 New England Book Festival

Author: Mike Bond Trying to rescue a Special Forces buddy accused of murder, Pono Hawkins takes on Maine’s rampant political corruption, where huge energy companies pillage Maine’s majestic mountains and buy politicians at bargain prices. He is hunted, shot at and betrayed as he tries to find the real murderer and save Maine.

Craved (Twisted #2)
Honorable Mention
2015 London Book Festival

Author: Lola Smirnova Having been to hell and back, the eager sisters from Ukraine – Natalia, Lena and Julia – decide to retire from selling sex and walk the straight and narrow path back home. But when an old friend calls them with an opportunity to make buckets of ‘easy’ money in South Africa, they…

Jet Trails: Looking for Blue Skies
Honorable Mention
2015 New England Book Festival

Author: M.H. Sullivan Meara Cellini’s husband has died leaving her with a bunch of “couple” plans that won’t work now that she’s suddenly solo. She takes a trip to think about her future and meets a mysterious man who turns out to be a part of both her past and future.

The Gay Teen’s Guide to Defeating a Siren
Runner-up
2015 New England Book Festival

Author: Cody Wagner Blaize Trales’s world crumbles when he’s dragged to Sanctuary, a pray-away-the-gay school. The place sucks so much they serve food like “Cleansing Corn”. But things at Sanctuary aren’t what they appear. Between surviving bullies, rescuing students from mysterious attacks, and passing algebra, Blaize’s life is going to get crazy.

Karachi, Dacca and Back: Searching to Reclaim My Children
Honorable Mention
2015 Southern California Book Festival

Author: Isabel Camacho Diamond Travel drama and romance pervade this memoir as the author follows her American pilot husband to new work in Iran. There her hopes for stability are shattered by his alcoholic abuse, and consequently he takes off with her two children, stranding her in Pakistan. Fortuitously, she encounters a prince and the…

The Grumpy Frog
Honorable Mention
2010 DIY Book Festival

Author: Dana L. Perri The Grumpy Frog Who among us hasn’t been grumpy? In this story, the bird’s morning song abruptly awakens Rana, the frog, making him very grumpy. After meeting Lulu, the wise bird, he realizes that they all can live together happily. Rana and Lulu both learn that they must Think…Then Jump™.

Lonnie the Loon Learns to Call
Honorable Mention
2015 Animals, Animals, Animals Book Festival

Author: Barbara Renner Lonnie is a juvenile Loon who wants to learn how to call like his Dad. Using a free QR Code Reader App, you can listen to four beautiful Loon calls as Lonnie’s father gives him lessons and explains the meaning of each call. Interesting facts about Loons are included in the book.

Société
Honorable Mention
2015 Southern California Book Festival

Author: Alexander Helas Christian Matters is a neurotic architect living in Chicago, USA, but after a bizarre episode throws him off his morning routine, he abandons his promising career, girlfriend and home for a life-changing journey to San Francisco, where he meets a cavalier aristocrat named Lester Rothschild and his beautifully extravagant love, fortepianist Ella…

Strength and Grace
Honorable Mention
2015 Southern California Book Festival

Author: Deamer Dunn Strength and Grace is the story of a young Mexican woman who stumbles into becoming a bullfighter. She so excels that she becomes a great Matador. The catch is all but a few think she is a man. It is a story of female empowerment within the Mexican male culture of the…

Evolving The Human Race Game
Honorable Mention
2015 Great Midwest Book Festival

Author: Carroy Ferguson, PhD What if human nature was more than you think it is? What is the mirror effect, and how does it help you to evolve the human race game? This book provides an alternative spiritual framework for new understandings and for becoming conscious creators in our individual and collective soul-linked dramas.