Book Award 2022

Nicole Nero knows exactly what she wants out of life. The only problem is Nicole is underqualified, broke, and invisible. As she fights to turn her luck around, Nicole discovers that not everything is as it seems, and some of what she once wanted isn't what she wants anymore.

A prude raised by strict Catholic parents to her friends, a student mature beyond her years to her teachers, a responsible daughter to her parents – all of these things fall into freefall as Nora finds herself increasingly fixated on her new literature teacher, William Summers.

Life can change in an instant...
Maggie owes her sister everything, but can she step up?

Pulse is a multi-POV dystopian sci-fi horror thriller set in 2040, centered around a corporation, a creature, and a music festival. Think Fyre Festival, Black Mirror, and X-Files combined.

Pulse is a multi-POV dystopian sci-fi horror thriller set in 2040, centered around a corporation, a creature, and a music festival. Think Fyre Festival, Black Mirror, and X-Files combined.

Someone’s Story is literally Someone’s story, as in a first-person narrative of a teenager that calls himself Someone. As he struggles to find a new footing in a new space, we encounter the many ups and downs of modern teenage life, the difficulties that adjusting to adult feelings bring, and a few

The Battle of The Kingdoms takes place in the Royal Amphitheatre of Luella and the winner is awarded the newly discovered Island. Prince Yalem from the Kingdom of Yistyyim aids Prince Zaaki in the preparations of the Battle of The Kingdoms.

Prince Zaaki is heir to the throne and his father, King Zok, has decided that on his twentieth birthday he will succeed his father and become King of Luella. Thus the Prince embarks on an expedition across his great Kingdom before the accession to the throne. Attempts to assassinate the Prince occur

A young boy has a natural talent for the game of golf and an enviable swing but playing the game well is not enough. There's something missing. When Jimmy, the homeless man who spends his days cheering on golfers from his usual sitting spot just off the 5th green at Old Elm Municipal Golf course

In Bob's therapy room, people tell their stories, heal emotional wounds and create legacies using words and music. Songs from a Window is a book about the power of the human spirit, hope and love.

The Last Dog is a dystopian drama set in 2086.

A highly intelligent puppy must make the long journey to Texmexzona and find her human parents after she escapes from a government lab.

Jimmy Katz, a young journalist from the Big City, throws in the towel after he's robbed at gunpoint at a gas station. He finds a job at the Twinkle Independent News in Twinkle, Texas, 385 miles from the closest shopping mall.

Recurring nightmares haunted D’laine Jackson when she woke from an eight-month coma following a tragic accident. Four images were branded in her head: a dark-haired, handsome princely young man, a fierce reptilian monster, a white furry creature whose red eyes implored her with some unspoken message

A young woman who bears disfiguring birthmarks is thrilled when, one-by-one, they begin to disappear—until she learns that her marks protect her from becoming a killer’s next victim.

Philadelphia Homicide Detective Lexi Danvers is determined to bring a suspected child killer to justice...no matter the cost.

A damaged heart. A life of regrets. The path to healing begins in unlikely places.
Amy has to face her past mistakes to find her future. Because she’s discovering it’s impossible to run from yourself. Was she doing all the right things for all the wrong reasons? Or all the wrong things for no

1926. Alex arrives at a small Montana newspaper as a cub reporter with big dreams. On her first day, a courthouse shootout thrusts her into the lead reporter’s role and into the path of the town’s most eligible, and handsome, cattle rancher. Can she handle this major story and the budding love she

Caught in the crosshairs of ruthless killers an ex-soldier and a psychic race to stay alive.

Uncolonized Latinas provides insights into the cultural limiting beliefs holding Latinas back, which contribute to the relative lack of representation in leadership positions and spaces of collective influence in the US and beyond, and provides a roadmap to create personal and systemic change.

Your Next Big Idea explains how entrepreneurs, inventors, creatives, and innovators develop successful ideas.