Book Award 2022

When a woman’s near-death experience results in her meeting Jesus, it contradicts her beliefs about God, the afterlife, and life on Earth. The encounter changes her forever and brings with it an unexpected surprise.

When a body is found in the woods near her childhood home, forestry worker Cadie Kessler and her estranged best friend must confront the murky details of a decade’s old secret as false accusations fly, temperatures rise, and a catastrophic wildfire threatens the forest Cadie loves.

Branded the Devil by my father, it was up to me and my unlikely partners to stop him stealing human souls and selling them into slavery. We were committed to ending this travesty.
And then the unthinkable happened.
We lost one of ours.
How on earth are we supposed to save mankind?

A 55-year old housewife, is dumped by her husband for a woman far younger, and attempts to renew herself by returning to the workforce, and by finding men interested in relations - without the relationship. Unfortunately, her first attempt at “just sex” lands her in the arms of a coworker with a

A rogue ex-priest joins forces with the Devil to bring down a terrifying conspiracy and free humanity from abject slavery after death.

Fun wording, rhythm and rhyme generate strong imagery in this cumulative story about a boat, a girl and the sea. When winds strengthen and the sea starts to rollick and frolic, what are a Big Blue Boat and her Captain brave to do?

Fun wording, rhythm and rhyme generate strong imagery in this cumulative story about a boat, a girl and the sea. When winds strengthen and the sea starts to rollick and frolic, what are a Big Blue Boat and her Captain brave to do?

After the death of his war hero father, Charlie Stoker lives by two principles: honour and duty. In 1930s London, consumed by an impossible love outside his sterile marriage, he battles Mosley’s fascists, a hero to others but tortured within, seeking self-respect as the dark clouds of war gather.

Can Joe and Wendy's love free them and help them overcome the heartache they've inherited so they can start a new life together?
Faith, hope and love prove stronger than the odds in this drama.

In the Cold War's wake, a child of the New World restores a kingdom of the Old — aided by, and in tribute to, "the piecemeal graces": the folks who do much and are seen little.
Inspired by true events, true promises, and just a bit of whimsy.

There are things beyond nature.
Clement Garner, 15, home from school for Christmas 1947, becomes embroiled in a semi-scientific hunt for the ghost of a dead safecracker. Set in remote Oxfordshire and smogbound London he and his New Zealand honorary cousin Berenice soon find themselves in an adult

Adventure. Suspense. Romance. And they're billionaires. What's not to like? Follow Chase, Nash, Finn, Beau, Gabe and Kade as they carry out their secret missions.

After Kyara becomes a banshee and is forced to abandon the Realm of Gold, home of shifters, she must fight the evil spirits before they swallow the world.

Careful what you wish for,
you just might get it!

When 10 year-old Jill meets an elderly man in a wheelchair who must get to the top floor of her apartment complex, she has no idea that their journey up ten stories will evolve into an adventure of a lifetime.

Young carer Ruby's life is turned upside down when she is forced to live with her estranged father on the wrong side of the tracks. She finds love and friendship in the most unlikely of places, but when forces conspire to take it all away, she must fight for what matters.

Emulating a classroom scenario, the idea is to awaken the aesthetic sense and the creative muse who lurks within us all. The method is multi-sensory, interdisciplinary and holistic. Philosophy, art, music and linguistics are some of the disciplines used. The goal is to have the reader recognize and

When the body of Alison Goss washes up on Menhaden Island, in the Gulf of Maine, the working-class fishing community of hard-hewn ways and salty perspectives is faced with handling the future of her unusual son, Faron, who has a fascination with moths and stunning artistic talent. Bound together by

A young man discovers a catalyst that could brighten the future or ignite a dictatorship in the Antares solar system.

Brought together during the worst global disaster of the century, Karly and Clay are part of the final defense that stands between life and death. As doctors in the COVID Intensive Care Unit, lives hang in the balance, including their own. However, an ominous presence overshadows their every move.