M. Bradley Davis What would you do if your best friend turned out to be an alien? Join the fun with eleven year old Jerry Saunders as he faces fear, adventure, and responsibility in The Hand in the Mirror – the first in a new Sci-Fi series for sixth grade readers and up!
My Life after LifeHonorable Mention,
2011 Hollywood Book Festival
Galen Stoller My Life after Life confronts timeless questions concerning what happens after death. The journey began one evening when a father received a phone call from the state police that his 16-year-old son had been killed. Shortly thereafter, Dr. Stoller’s son appeared and eventually began to communicate with him in dream states.
Motherghost: A Journey to the MotherHonorable Mention,
2012 New England Book Festival
Eclipse Neilson Motherghost: looks directly at the powerful complexity of mother-love through the perspective of a woman who lost her mother as a child. After an astonishing secret about her past is revealed, Robin sets out on a journey of myth and fantasy to find the answers to her identity.
After The BombHonorable Mention,
2012 Paris Book Festival
Author: C. L. Kostow They have survived a worldwide calamity which destroyed most life on earth? Now what do they do? What type of society would they build? What would the world be like three hundred years later? “After the Bomb” is a story about what could happen, maybe even what might have happened.
Puttin’ Cologne on the RickshawWinner, 2012 Southern California Book Festival
Author: William Bouffard Puttin’ Cologne on the Rickshaw is a must read for all who are about to enter the workforce. It teaches what’s not taught in business school – how the workplace really works. Ace preparation for the emotional abuse that comes in heaping helpings from today’s dysfunctional workplace.
The Battered Heiress BluesWinner, 2012 New York Book Festival
Author: Laurie Van Dermark When the life of her child is threatened, philanthropist Julia Spencer is faced with a most difficult decision -do nothing thereby saving herself or forge ahead and lose everything she holds dear. While one child is spared, another is lost forever. Unable to find her way out of the grief and…
Hollywood BuckarooHonorable Mention,
2012 San Francisco Book Festival
Author: Tracy DeBrincat After his father dies, Sander Sanderson must decide whether he wants to fix toilets or make movies. When the opportunity to direct a hamburger commercial in a wild west town falls into his lap, Sander seems to have it made…until love, locals, gunslingers and Mother Nature intervene.
On Sale: Employers Get Good Workers Dirt Cheap Honorable Mention,
2012 New England Book Festival
Author: Tracy L. Kinne In 2007, Tracy Kinne left the newspaper where she had worked for most of her 21 years in journalism and took a low-pay retail job. This is her story and the stories of her co-workers, a hardworking but under-appreciated cross section of today’s workforce.
Destined:
a novel of the Tarot Honorable Mention,
2012 New England Book Festival
Author: Gail Cleare Follow Emily’s journey to self-discovery, community, spirit and love. A contemporary magic-realism romance with engaging multi-cultural characters, this “novel of the Tarot” begins each chapter with a card from the Higher Arcane and shows how the ancient path to wisdom might manifest in real life.
Muriel Spark – Time in Her Fiction Honorable Mention,
2012 London Book Festival
Author: Linette Arthurton Bruno Muriel Spark saw the world as a stage where ‘all the men and women are merely players’ having their ‘moments’ on the stage of life. In her fiction, old people become babes again. Schoolboys (or girls) grow into their prime – a cycle of life that is akin to the seasons.