2026 Best True Debut 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.
During my father's very futile, and brief battle with prostate cancer he cycled through many of the devastating, typical changes that accompany cancer. What wasn't typical was also his biggest change. His personality, and who he was changed dramatically. Or did it?
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...
All my life I had either been missing my mother, or looking for her. The irony was she was right there in front of me the whole time.
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.
A powerful true story of trauma, determination, and the journey to rebuild a life beyond the uniform.
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.
In the post-COVID era, a nineteen-year-old law student clings to denial and substances to ignore her crashing academic performance, and the notion that this bizarre party across the street might have noticed her.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 Hungarian-Iranian woman, Zara, from suburban England travels solo back to Iran, joining her female cousin, Hoda. Zara is surprised and enlightened by what she learns as she rediscovers the country of her heritage as an adult, bringing her closer to her identity and ultimately herself.
A survivor who spent a lifetime helping others find their voices must finally find her own, proving that the past does not define the future.
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...
After three marriages to three men named David—each “beloved” by name—a former beauty queen ricochets through betrayal, addiction, and loss to stop chasing love outside herself and discover the Beloved within.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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…
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.
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...
