Author: Anna C Morrison Green Gooey Goop was written to capture the moment when a child is confronted by healthy food that, while nutritious, may not appear to be delicious. Please enjoy starting a conversation with your child about the value of eating healthy foods that also taste delicious while boosting vocabulary skills!
Summers In BayvilleHonorable Mention
2015 New York Book Festival
Louise Gaylord Lucia Simmons was a young woman ahead of her time. Strong-willed and ambitious, she pursued a publishing career during the fifties—a time when most women gave up their jobs to become stay-at-home wives. Despite her gender and elevated social status, Lucia quickly rose through the ranks in a man’s world. Unfortunately, she was…
Games of MindHonorable Mention
2015 New York Book Festival
Dennis Quiles Games of Mind features a former government intelligence agent now PI who is drawn into a global conspiracy of Mind Control and targeted assassinations aim to control the global Stem-Cell Research market.
Hello! Is Anybody There? Honorable mention
2015 Green Book Festival
Author: Shweta Ravi Shankar For those who think the apple is anordinary fruit, Red Delicious begs to differ. As if the challenges of fierce competition in thefruit bazaar and making another attempt to dethrone the mango from the king’s position arenot daunting enough, Red Delicious’ mind is constantly boggled by this strange creation that he…
Do Not Resuscitate Honorable mention
2015 Green Book Festival
Author: Nicholas Ponticello Jim Frost thinks that when you’re dead, you’re dead. Gone. Finished. Kaput. But on the eve of his seventy-third birthday, his daughter suggests he have his brain downloaded to a microchip for safekeeping, and Jim is forced to consider what it really means to die—and what it might mean to live forever….
A Cup of Redemption Honorable mention
2015 Paris Book Festival
Author: Carole Bumpus Like the braiding of three strands of brioche, the lives of three women—one elderly French woman, her daughter and an American friend—become inextricably intertwined as each struggles to resolve issues from past wars that have profoundly impacted their lives. Shared conversations about family recipes brings solace and understanding.
BrutusHonorable Mention
2015 New York Book Festival
Leonard Vernon Sacks Brutus is an intellectual slob; self-important, and disruptive. Emerging from squalor, he invents himself as an offbeat internet counselor and creates a booming if perverted consultancy. Will his personality be his undoing? This burlesque brings to life an outlandish character, whose zany wisdom refuses to be shackled by societal norms.
Scaling Up: How a Few Companies Make It…and Why the Rest Don’tWinner
2013 San Francisco Book Festival
Author: Verne Harnish Scaling Up provides practical tools and techniques for building an industry-dominating business and navigating the complexities faced by growing companies. The goal of the book is to help you create a company where the team is engaged; the customers are doing your marketing; and everyone is making money.
The Harriet ClubHonorable Mention
2015 San Francisco Book Festival
Kathe Maguire Virgil McCormick, Harriet’s old babysitter, vanished years ago from the corner of Oak and Masonic. Was he kidnapped? Murdered? When incognito graffiti artist Blinky leaves stenciled clues on the McCormick house, Harriet and her friends follow his prank-by-prank artwork and, searching for dead-or-alive Virgil, uncover their own secret San Francisco.
The Ibom PilgrimRunner-up
2015 Paris Book Festival
Author: Imelda Udoh The Ibom Pilgrim provides a record of a pilgrimage experience intended to help you grow spiritually, build your faith and spur you to visit the Holy Land of the Prophets, the Land of Jesus.