Book Award 2022

Browse through these submissions for the Page Turner Book Award 2022. This is an international writing contest for published authors to showcase their books.

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"Finding Camille" by CLDonley Donley
Genre: Romance

Camille Winters accepts a job as the first colored secretary on Madison Avenue, ten years after WWII ended. When her boss uses his influence to help her find information about her long-lost love who died in the war, the ghosts from the past suddenly come back to haunt her.

Book Cover: DEAD SOUND by Anise Eden. The power to heal is the power to kill. Image: The title in blue letters over a black-and-white image of a hospital reflected in still water with a digital rain overlay.
"Dead Sound" by Anise Eden
Genre: Suspense & Thriller

When a mutual patient pulls psychotherapist Neve Keane and Irish doctor Cornelius O'Brien into a deadly conspiracy mired in Washington, DC's shadowy underbelly, they must race to save the President and prevent a new world war -- provided they can survive the week with targets on their backs.

Pioneer cannabis CEO gets down and dirty in the political and regulatory trenches of California’s greenest industry. An inspirational story about taking a chance, following your vision, and thriving in one of the US’s wildest emerging industries, Unconventional profiles Jamie Andrea Garzot’s journey as one of California’s legal cannabis industry pioneers as she shares insightful life lessons beyond business and cannabis.
"Unconventional: A Memoir of Entrepreneurism, Politics, and Pot" by Jamie Garzot
Genre: Memoir

Pioneer cannabis CEO gets down and dirty in the political and regulatory trenches of California’s greenest industry.
An inspirational story about taking a chance, following your vision, and thriving in one of the US’s wildest emerging industries.

A green eye with an orange tree inside of it on a green background. Identifiable written across the top and Julia Tvardovskaya written across the bottom.
"Identifiable" by Julia Tvardovskaya
Genre: Sci-Fi

Identifiable takes you into a world where just by looking at you, an individual can learn everything about you. But Rory Walsh’s life has been narrated through the lens of someone else. How can he create his own identity when everything that people see is a version of him that doesn’t exist?

The Little Blue Rocket Ship: A Story About Postpartum Depression by Jessica Wendi Abel and Illustrated by Nathalie Kranich
"The Little Blue Rocket Ship: A Story About Postpartum Depression " by Jessica Wendi Abel
Genre: Childrens Picture Books

Blending together fiction storytelling with supportive communication strategies, “The Little Blue Rocket Ship” encourages open dialogue about postpartum depression, a condition that "affects up to one in seven women" (March of Dimes).

The cover for These Walls Between Us: Smears of white plaster on a black background, evoking the creation of walls.
"These Walls Between Us: A Memoir of Friendship Across Race and Class" by Wendy Sanford
Genre: Memoir

Mary Norman, who is Black and 15, works as a summer-time domestic worker for Wendy Sanford’s white family. Wendy, at 12, is the family’s privileged daughter. Over sixty-five years, and across socially constructed inequities of race and class , the two co-create a deep friendship.

Mysterious, Indian woman reverentially holding a budding plant against a backdrop of a verandah of a colonial bungalow. Title on top of page. Author name and credit for previous book bottom of page. Back cover has continuation of veranda.
"The House on East Canal Road" by Neerja Raman
Genre: Historical Fiction

"An evocative, well-imagined portrayal of late-colonial India through one family's eyes." - Kirkus reviews.

Born into poverty, Kishan Chand Das marries his childhood sweetheart, raises a family, and builds a fortune. But in 1905, when India is firmly in the grip of the Raj, tragedy strikes.

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"Threads" by bryan.cassiday77 Cassiday
Genre: Suspense & Thriller

When a crass, but outrageously successful, fashion icon, who made his reputation exploiting violence in his ads, is blown up in his Beverly Hills penthouse office, he leaves behind skeletons in his closet and a long list of enemies.

A house with colourful butterflies flying out of the open door
"I Am bigger than me" by FrancesPunter Punter
Genre: Memoir

I Am bigger than me, is a selection of meaningful experiences that showed me who I really am. The reflections at the end of each story are the thoughts and insights that arose out of each one. This book is not just about me, its about you too, as everything is connected energetically.

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"Glass Arrows" by Heather Peck Peck
Genre: Crime

The body of a farmworker is found during a turkey cull. Greg Geldard’s investigation uncovers evidence of modern slavery and wildlife smuggling, the body count rises, and a friend is threatened as he struggles to bring the murderer to justice. 2nd book in the Greg Geldard series.

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"Fires of Hate" by Heather Peck Peck
Genre: Crime

A principled animal lover is perverted into violent action culminating in an attack on a government laboratory. The investigation by DCI Greg Geldard is fraught with danger and he risks his life rescuing his prime suspect from a Norfolk river. 3rd book in the Greg Geldard Series.

images of glass eels in shades of green and black
"Glass Arrows" by Heather Peck Peck
Genre: Crime

The body of a farmworker is found during a turkey cull. Greg Geldard’s investigation uncovers evidence of modern slavery and wildlife smuggling, the body count rises, and a friend is threatened as he struggles to bring the murderer to justice. 2nd book in the Greg Geldard series.

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"Secret Places" by Heather Peck Peck
Genre: Crime

An abused wife strikes out and flees Yorkshire to a new life on the Norfolk Broads, but years later archaeologists find a modern skeleton in a secret World War 2 bunker. DI Greg Geldard identifies the victim and pursues his suspect to Norfolk, where history is threatening to repeat itself.

"Following God Across the Page" by Alisa Hope Wagner Wagner
Genre: Memoir

God uses the gifts and talents that He bestows on each of us in unlikely but profound ways. Follow Alisa Hope Wagner as she writes a 40-day devotional about reality TV, nose surgery and the love between twin sisters.

Get fit in the comforts of your home with this user friendly fitness guide.
"Fearlessly Fit at Home: Your Personal Guide to Getting Fit " by Alisa Hope Wagner Wagner
Genre: Non-Fiction

If you want to get fit without the hassle, this exercise program is for you! Fearlessly Fit at Home combines Cardio Calisthenics and Dumbbell Weightlifting exercises to get you fit in a minimal amount of time and at the convenience of your own home.

"A Testimony of Voices: 100 Devotionals Rising as One" by Alisa Hope Wagner Wagner
Genre: Anthology & Compilations

A Testimony of Voices is a collection of devotionals by writers from all different backgrounds, uniting together as one voice to declare the goodness of God and salvation through Jesus Christ. May their words encourage your faith and inspire you to claim the victory that is rightfully yours.

"A Movement of Hearts: 100 Devotionals Beating as One" by Alisa Hope Wagner Wagner
Genre: Anthology & Compilations

A Movement of Hearts is a collection of devotionals by writers from different backgrounds, uniting together as one heart to declare the goodness of God and salvation through His Son, Jesus Christ. May their words encourage your faith and inspire you to claim the purposes that God designed for you.

A woman, blonde and wearing a blue gown, stands gazing across hot golden sands of the Arabian desert.
"The Remarkable Miss Digby" by Patricia Donovan
Genre: Historical Fiction

Jane Digby, a beautiful and impetuous English aristocrat, finds herself caught between warring Bedouin tribes in the Syrian desert, and must confront her own scandalous past if she is to survive, and win back the love of her life.
[This story follows faithfully what is known of Jane Digby's life.]

This cover image portrays the heroine, Willow, riding upon Sir Gyzmo, the enchanted fairy dog.
"The Crooked Forest, Legacy of the Holey Stone" by authorjonifranks Franks
Genre: Young Adult

In this spell binding fairytale, you will be transported in time, to a place between places, separated from reality by a crossroads, that leads to the mystical Crooked Forest, a botanical mystery as old as the earth.

"The Onoma Series: Books 1-4" by Alisa Hope Wagner Wagner
Genre: Christian

The Onoma Series is a post-Second Civil War Christian Dystopian that will capture your mind and heart as a band of Efficientists and Colonials work together to take down a corrupt World Government, ruling with fear in order to maintain control.