2026 Against All Odds Award
A lifetime of cosmic secrets revealed: Michel is abducted by highly evolved extraterrestrial beings and taken to their utopian planet, Thiaoouba. There, he learns the true history of Earth, the illusions of material wealth, and the spiritual path to human enlightenment. An eye-opening journey.
A young woman sets out to study the cause of mummification in Guanajuato, Mexico, while confronting a culture steeped in machismo and superstition. From cemeteries to morgues, romantic villas and historical silver mines, she navigates local politics, misogyny and a glamorously doomed love affair.
Based on the true story of the author’s aunt, The Unwanted follows one woman’s journey from China to Hong Kong and Britain, where war, migration and loss shape her life, while love, family and resilience guide her through a changing world.
He endures genocide, brutal Nazi forced labor, Allied bombings, and Stalin’s enslavement. In 1946, hunted across Russia by the secret police, he must choose between the only thing he’s ever wanted and a promise he cannot break. It’s an epic saga of love, war, endurance, and integrity.
Based on the true story of Kalman Braun and Leopold Lowy, this award-winning memoir reveals a rare firsthand account from inside Mengele's hospital camp guard shack at Auschwitz II - Birkenau, where two boys witnessed history's darkest atrocities and fought to survive.
Inspired by a true story, an elderly woman recounts the tales of her ancestors from the age of the Romanovs through today and how their struggles, sacrifices, and perseverance influenced her decision to have an operation to save her life.
Orphaned by a brutal murder and abandoned in the desert, seven-year-old Sarah is rescued and raised by pioneers. As she grows, deep trauma and the jarring rise of plural marriage test her faith. To heal, she must tear down her walls and face her deepest fears to reclaim love.
A clinical psychologist who spent his life decoding the hidden rules of being human discovers he is autistic. His new understanding forces him to confront the cost of masking and to ask whether belonging is possible without performing.
Against a backdrop of cultural barriers and sudden twists, Love Changes a Man chronicles a whirlwind two-year journey of meeting my true love—and remarkably marrying her twice.
Professional woman is diagnosed as neurodivergent and then starts work in a chaotic law firm. She encounters comical, enlightening and tragic characters, while learning about her ‘new’ disabilities in an unconducive environment. Prepare to experience a gamut of emotions from start to finish.
fter decades of hiding childhood abuse behind a successful career in music education, a woman risks everything to tell the truth, reclaim her voice, and discover that resilience can transform even the deepest wounds.
Honey Kasper, writing under a pen-name, is more than just an author—she’s a testament to the indomitable spirit of survival. Enduring life’s harshest challenges, from abuse in its many forms to battling cancer, surviving over 100 surgeries, Honey transformed her pain into a narrative of hope and...
When I was twelve years old, on the cusp of puberty and all its delights, I lost my six year old little brother and perhaps even my own mind; however, with Sean’s continued silent, but now invisible presence, I found enduring sibling love.
After his family falls apart, a teenage boy from Philadelphia drifts into crime, drugs, and violence, surviving on bad decisions, dumb luck, and the fact that somehow nothing kills him.
A combat nurse’s raw journey from Afghanistan’s front lines to the battles waiting at home exposes the invisible wounds veterans carry, the weight borne by their families, and the silent struggles too many endure. Her story reveals resilience, purpose, and the strength to rise again.
Step into the cage with Alisa Hope Wagner on a powerful 40-day devotional journey through MMA training, fear, faith and surrender. Following God into the Cage reveals how God uses life’s hardest battles to strengthen, refine and transform us.
Unwitnessed is a true story of growing up within a high-control religious environment in rural Ireland in the 80s & 90s. Through my journey from obedience to self-discovery, it exposes the impact of religious control on identity, pregnancy, education, family relationships and personal freedom.
After surviving war and illness, a physician faces a deadlier battle: a medical system destroying her miracle son. Forced from healer to shield, she fights institutional gaslighting and overmedication to save his life. A haunting, bone-deep testament to faith and resolve against all odds.
After her twin sister’s devastating divorce and years of emotional pain, Alisa fights to get her on E!’s Botched for life-changing reconstructive surgery. Through faith, heartbreak and reality TV, two sisters discover healing, restoration and hope beyond their scars.
Seeking death to escape a searing survivor’s guilt and the shame of a forbidden love, a WWII Navy radioman intercepts the secrets that help turn the tide of the Pacific War.
Trapped behind the Iron Curtain, a determined young dreamer escapes a world designed to keep her small, only to spend decades discovering that the hardest cages to break are the invisible ones she carries within.
Based on an astonishing true story of the first woman to circumnavigate the globe, this is a sweeping tale of resilience and adventure. Disguised as a boy, she dared to chart her own course. It is sweeping tale of resilience, adventure. Jeanne Baret defied expectations by describing thousands of new...
Blue Lights, Dark Mind - A powerful true story of trauma, determination, and the journey to rebuild a life beyond the uniform.
