Author:Hope Concordia “Still Standing will speak to survivors, family, friends, and experts. This book has been added to the California state mandated Domestic Violence curriculum.” – M. Presley, Laura’s House “Hope’s compassion and courage exemplify our School’s mission to serve, to lead, to help and to heal” – Pinchas Cohen M.D. dean of USC Davis…
DevoçãoRunner-up
2014 New England Book Festival
Author:Isabela Senatore “Devoção” is a documentary photo book of cultural patrimony of popular religious celebrations, it was photographed in seven states of Brazil . For 14 years the photographer Isabela Senatore captured images which shows groups and individuals devotion passing through heads, hands, knees and feet. The book has 116 pages with 111 images ,…
The Bella Chronicles – The Adventure BeginsHonorable Mention
2014 New England Book Festival
Author:Erica Leigh Austin Bella the Shih Tzu is in the throes of her great escape, searching for the loving home she’s always wanted. She hears someone cry out that there’s a dog in the street! Bella immediately puts her escape on hold and springs into action as she frantically tries to save the dog…but she…
RedemptionWinner
2015 Florida Book Festival
Author: Ian Prattis Callum Martin, gifted child, master mariner, derelict drunk gains wisdom from a hard life’s journey. Nature’s harsh rhapsody as the background for tragic human failings – violence, power, murder, rape and madness. Ultimately overcome by the triumph of the human spirit. Allegory for author’s life difficulties.
Night Crossing, the third in The Trilogy of Remembrance Honorable Mention
2014 London Book Festival
Mary E. Martin A tale of a love so strong it transcends life and death. It’s about cruelty, compassion, life, art and the magic of creation. It’s about that yearning within for what lies beyond. A vision of a cosmic egg drives landscape painter, Alexander Wainwright, ever onward in search of his muse.
The HoppernotsHonorable Mention
2014 New England Book Festival
Author: Deborah Blake Dempsey When Max, Cristobel, and Spyder discover legendary creatures believed to be the crazy imaginings of their Elders, they vow to find out why they’ve returned and help drive them away. But first they must figure out how to become heroes when everyone thinks they trouble.
DrumbeatsHonorable Mention
2014 New England Book Festival
Author:Julia Ibbotson It is 1965 and eighteen year old Jess flees her stifling home for West Africa, where she teaches and nurses in the bush villages, a world away from her conservative English background. But fate has in store danger, civil war, tragedy, love, and why do the drumbeats haunt her dreams?
In Search of God and the Ten CommandmentsHonorable Mention
2014 New England Book Festival
Author: Sue A. Hoffman In Search of God and the Ten Commandments takes you on a pictorial journey in a discussion of the controversial Ten Commandments Project that placed Ten Commandments monuments all across the United States starting in the 1950’s. The book incorporates the history, politics, religion, and culture of the times.
The Vermont DifferenceHonorable Mention
2014 New England Book Festival
Author: Graffagnino, Muller, Donath, Peterson-Ishaq Twenty essayists, all leaders in major areas of Green Mountain life and work, provide a rich mixture of personal perceptions, professional insights, and keen observations about noteworthy Vermont traditions, policies, and practices. This beautifully-illustrated book provides a fresh appreciation for Vermont as an essential thread in America’s national tapestries.
S.C.A.R.SHonorable Mention
2014 New England Book Festival
Author: Julia Ibbotson Dragons, knights and a quest: Gavin finds himself slipping through a tear in the fabric of the universe into a medieval fantasy world. As Gawain, the knight, can he save Unor? And more importantly, can he save himself?