Book Award 2022

An Eastern European girl learns the ropes of life through hardships and limitations put on her by the circumstances of her birth.

An unlikely college friendship — and an unexpected betrayal — yield life-changing results when two coeds dig into the history of the 1907 Quebec Bridge collapse.

In 1917, when a narcissistic new leader comes to medicine woman Maddie Fairbanks’s dying Southern Appalachian town, she does not bend the knee but continues in her socially progressive ways—and finds herself accused of witchcraft and targeted by the KKK.

Pain and heartache changes his life and a sword brings him greater strength instead of all the modern weapons around him, but he will fight when he has too and save those that he now sees in need.

Twenty-four-year-old Violet wants one thing: to hide from life after her husband’s death left her reeling. But life has other ideas. Well, life and a certain seven-year-old neighbor.
Violet moves to Magnolia Avenue, a forgotten street in a forgotten neighborhood filled with forgotten mobile homes

Reaching womanhood is a terrifying prospect for the young, strong-minded Margery Blake when her father arranges her marriage. With no power and no rights, what transpires is worse than anything Margery could have imagined. The harshness of 19th century life, seen through the eyes of a young bride.

When a young woman who has been missing for months is found lying next to a headless corpse, the police are convinced she is the murderer, the only clue, the murder weapon, an ancient sword. Refusing to speak, the doctor sets out to find out the truth; but what she learns, couldn't possibly be true.

A secretive young woman moves to a village in Shropshire and becomes embroiled in a centuries old mystery when she witnesses a murder that has her fighting for her life as one terrible decision echoes down through the centuries. There were many casualties of war, but some refuse to be forgotten.

Dreams, vision, and a landscape that changes as you walk. A Guide who has never led such an impossible group across the Dry Country. And a hero learning who she is.

Andrea, 13, finds small people in the woods, making friends with Erau, a Bokaaj boy. Then new road full of houses begins to chew up the woods. Andrea must keep the Bokaaj safe, while managing a new school, overprotective parents, and a bratty younger brother

Olive is stuck in a rut with her long-term boyfriend but a case of projectile vomiting and a psychic reading she decides it’s time to start actually living her life and runs away to Bodrum, Turkey where she meets the handsome but damaged, Deniz.
Two men. One is perfect, the other… not so much.

Ginger’s love life is perfect—at least by her rom-com standards. Living in Notting Hill and engaged to a bonafide Chris Hemsworth clone, she finally has her HEA! Until Aydin.
If she can survive through the hurricane Aydin brings with him, she might come out the other end with her HEA.

Kaylee Browne discovers a magic key in a new bookstore in town. The key takes her to the faraway lands of The Five Realms, where she begins a quest to find the maker of the key so she can learn how to get home... then to her surprise, a completely new quest involving giant cats, a castle, a witch, a

The year 2030 as world wide oil supplies come to a grinding halt overnight, there are now hoards of starving, desperate people in the overcrowded cities and looting, violence and chaos become rife. Living in a remote valley, Gen is a kick ass, protective mother who, along with husband Nate, will

When several explosions shatter the peace and quiet of Christmas morning, Colorado Bureau of Investigation agent Buck Taylor and his team are sent to sift through the wreckage to determine if these bombings are the work of a mad bomber, terrorists, or home-grown extremists.

When several explosions shatter the peace and quiet of Christmas morning, Colorado Bureau of Investigation agent Buck Taylor and his team are sent to sift through the wreckage to determine if these bombings are the work of a mad bomber, terrorists, or home-grown extremists.

Alicia Hawkins didn’t become a serial killer in the usual manner. She was a perfectly normal college student until that summer a year ago when she made the discovery that would change her life.

Alicia Hawkins didn’t become a serial killer in the usual manner. She was a perfectly normal college student until that summer a year ago when she made the discovery that would change her life.
Now, Alicia is back in Aspen, and she’s preparing to fulfill a promise she made to her late grandfather.

Corey has developed into the perfect pirate, serving under a fine captain in a position of trust and authority. However, when Captain Lear decides she should learn to be more lady-like, she is mistaken for a missing duchess and kidnapped by pirates who are after the bounty for her return.