Lamb of Legacy: A Child’s Survival in Hitler’s Berlin
Winner,
2014 Hollywood Book Festival

Author: Edeltraud Fellendorf A Child’s Survival in Hitler’s Berlin is the beautifully honest and haunting true story of Edeltraud Fellendorf’s childhood in Silesia and adolescent years in Berlin, Germany, where she was raised in the shadow of Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich, the madness of World War 2, and the years that followed. See book website…

A Predisposition for Grit
Honorable Mention,
2014 Hollywood Book Festival

Author: Stephen J. LoPorcaro The specialized profession of engineer-diving is little known outside of the engineering and commercial diving industries. As licensed professional engineers and certified commercial divers, its consultants routinely combine both engineering and commercial diving skills to inspect submerged waterfront structures worldwide. In A Predisposition for Grit, author Stephen J. LoPorcaro provides insight…

Forbidden Child
Honorable Mention,
2014 Hollywood Book Festival

Author: James Aiello Sensational and compelling! Forbidden Child grabs a hold of your mind and heart and won’t let go. Forbidden Child catapults readers into the twenty-first century with a powerful look at some of the most sensational events of our time. Energetic and fast paced, Forbidden Child takes readers behind the scenes to rub…

Magic in the Sea
Honorable Mention,
2014 Hollywood Book Festival

Author: Amanda Russo In a magical land under the sea, Sally the Seahorse is scared to learn that sharks are trying to take over the ocean. She refuses to let this happen and asks Ody the Octopus to help her make a plan. Together, with other creatures from the sea, they go on a mission…

In the Shadow of Lies: An Oliver Wright Mystery Novel
Honorable Mention,
2014 Hollywood Book Festival

Author: M. A. Adler Richmond, California, WWII. Homicide detective Oliver Wright returns home from Guam with his dog, wounded and afraid his career is over, but when an Italian POW is murdered on Angel Island, the Army asks him to investigate. Oliver provokes an unknown enemy who threatens him and everyone he holds dear.

Singing to the Lions
Honorable Mention,
2014 New York Book Festival

Author: Robert A. Gisclair “In Singing to the Lions, Robert Gisclair takes the reader inside the head of a Vietnam War grunt. Gisclair straps a heavy pack to your back as you step into the Vietnamese jungle, breathing heavily in its claustrophobic, stinking depths and exhaling cautiously as you break through the brush and stand…

A Surgeon’s Story: The Autobiography of Robert T. Morris
Honorable Mention,
2014 New York Book Festival

Authors:Roger G Gosden, Pam Walker The story of a renowned New York doctor who struggled with a reactionary profession to pioneer sterility, small incisions, and better wound-healing in surgery. This is an updated edition of a 1935 classic, brimming with case histories starting from the late Victorian age.

To the Faithless: and the Unbelieving BERTRAM GREY
Runner-up,
2014 Green Book Festival

Author: Kevin Garrett A boy born without faith seeks to become special enough so that God will talk out loud to him and he can know for certain that He is real. To this end he travels from his hometown of Pietyville South Carolina to the rainforests of South America.

Sutton Place
Runner-up,
2014 Beach Book Festival

Author: Louise Gaylord Just When Things Seem to Be Going So Well… …a horrific incident from Julia Fairchild’s past—one she thought had been buried long ago—comes charging back into her life. Then a promising romantic weekend goes bad, which makes staying at Sutton Place more than Julia can handle. So she flees her home, her…

Hunting in a Farmer’s World
Winner,
2014 New York Book Festival

Author: John F. Dini From the ambition that captures an entrepreneur and drives him to take the plunge of starting up, to the unexpected pitfalls of runaway success, Hunting in a Farmer’s World examines why business owners are different from the people who work for them.