2026 Best True Debut Award
This is a story where I express how the St. Louis Mercy Hospital and my mom’s stroke affected my life at the age of fifteen.
What happens when a young, hopeful teacher lands in a remote Iñuit village, with a culture vastly different from her own? “Teaching in the Dark” is a heartfelt, humorous, and poignant story of a teacher challenged with no curriculum, no plumbing, and a lot of power outages, but who ultimately learns...
UNDER RED NOTICE is a heart-pounding legal thriller that will shake your faith in the global justice system. A TRUE story unfolding right now and traces the harrowing journey of an ordinar man caught between two superpowers — Russia and the United States in his fight for justice and his rights.
Faint, distant, a warbling fragment of what sounded like a 1960s rock song, distorted as if drifting through miles of jungle air. The collector frowned. That was impossible. The US Vietnam War radio's frequencies were long obsolete. It shouldn't be able to receive modern transmissions—if any at all...
Realising they are being sucked into a life of Sunday afternoons mowing the lawn a young Australian couple decide to backpack the length of Africa. The true story of an old-style journey from the 1990s about animals, love, and adventure… and the lengths a person will go to for the sake of an idea…
Blue Lights, Dark Mind - A powerful true story of trauma, determination, and the journey to rebuild a life beyond the uniform.
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.
Three marriages. Three Daves. “David” means the Beloved—and as I searched for the Beloved, the Beloved was reaching back to me, again and again, in the most unexpected ways. In a world starved for belonging and desperate to feel truly loved, many readers wrestle with shame, rejection, and the fear...
Fanny Herbert is a naïve young girl who becomes pregnant by a Primitive Methodist Minister. Three months after starting work for the Reverend’s family, he seduces her. She consents to a sexual relationship believing that the Reverend is in love with her. His wife, Elizabeth, discovers Fanny is...
A near–high school failure finds his calling as a hospital chaplain, guiding others through death and grief while confronting his own past—revealing how a flawed, uncertain man grows into purpose through hard-won self-awareness.
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.
Gripped by her grandmother Lucy Ker’s dramatic stories of her life in China from the Boxer Rebellion to the deposing of the Last Emperor, Kate follows in her footsteps a century later.
Born at the dawn of the Second World War, a German girl comes of age between two opressive regimes, her quest for freedom carrying her from behind the Iron Curtain to the shores of California.
