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Behind the Microphone

Lew Dobbins

2017 Finalist
256 Pages
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Non-Fiction - Autobiography

2017 Finalist
Los Angeles Book Festival Honorable Mention Best Memoir
Readers' Favorite Book Award Finalist
Lew Dobbins' 47 year broadcasting career began with an early audition in 1963, his freshman year of high school, announcing the death of a United States President. The West Virginia native openly writes of what would be compared today as the primitive days of broadcasting.

A recounting of an illustrious career in country music, radio and TV, Lew Dobbins writes a personal history of country music and engages the reader with personal and professional stories of our country's greatest stars.

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From the Rift Valley to the Dream of Freedom

Memories Of Lisungo
John Kachamila

2017 Honorable Mention
200 Pages
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Non-Fiction - Autobiography

2017 Honorable Mention
Paris Book Festival Award - Honorable Mention Best Autobiography/Memoir
New York Book Festival Honorable Mention
Readers Favorite Book Award-Honorable Mention

Born in the District of Lago, Province of Niassa in 1946, John William Kachamila migrated to Tanganyika with his parents when he was about four years old, in search of better living conditions. From the Rift Valley to the Dream of Freedom: Memories Of Lisungo is an amazing autobiography of author John Kachamila who is now the honorary consul of Serbia in Mozambique.

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Paralian

Not Just Transgender
Liam Klenk

2017 Bronze Medal
456 Pages
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Non-Fiction - Autobiography

2017 Bronze Medal
Definition: Paralian - Ancient Greek meaning 'one who lives by the sea'. Paralian is a memoir narrated through the author's relationship to water. We follow Liam Klenk's tumultuous journey to find his authentic self and happiness against more than a lifetime's worth of adversities. At five months old, Liam was adopted from an orphanage and ushered into a unique journey, which introduced him to the characters that would become both the currents that moved him and the rocks that supported him. Liam, who lives in Zurich with his wife, says: "At three years old I began catching odd glances because I was born in a girl's body yet began to introduce myself to people as a boy." Paralian tells the remarkable story of an honest, and at times, challenging life, and offers insight and wisdom from a fluid position - from experience. Liam reveals how exploring the world helped him find a home inside his own body and spirit. Through this ultimately heartwarming and inspiring story, readers learn how Liam never gave up, faced his fears, and always managed to find positivity in each trauma. Written with an engaging sense of humour, this memoir of transcendence and finding oneself will appeal to those who enjoy true stories of courage, resilience, and dedication in the face of adversity. Paralian celebrates life with infectious strength and positivity. Follow Liam's journey from a small river in Germany to the biggest performance pool in the world, from Switzerland to the US, the Maldives to Macau.

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Nothing Is Predictable

Adalina Mae

2017 Silver Medal
266 Pages
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Non-Fiction - Autobiography

2017 Silver Medal
Zara is eight years old, her father, in a drunken rampage, accidentally shoots himself dead.
Her childhood memories leave her struggling with romantic attachments and hinder her from developing healthy relationships.
Seeking answers, She meets a monk for wisdom, and a gypsy for insight.
The journeys Adalina Mae takes us on are interspersed with heartbreaking moments as well as hilarious escapades.
This is life and nothing is predictable. The story keeps you on your toes and offers mysteries to solve:
Why does Zara have recurrent nightmares of her last night with her father?
Why does she struggle with love?

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Pants Optional

UNconventional Tips For Your Road Through Life and Motherhood
Carol L. Steingreaber

2017 Gold Medal
231 Pages
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Non-Fiction - Autobiography

2017 Gold Medal
In her first autobiography, Pants Optional, Carol Steingreaber offers a hilarious, unrestricted insight into her life thus far in Iowa, USA. The reader is a privileged passenger on the journey, invited to buckle up for the ride as Carol shares her stories from the sibling squabbles of childhood, to cringeworthy dating moments, marriage and various stages of motherhood. Her witty, "tell-it-straight" writing style conjures up images you can't help but laugh at, often accompanied by photos that speak a thousand (usually comical) words.Carol provides the reader with "UNconventional tips" on a whole range of themes such as housework and hospitals, illness and injury, Nerf guns and nudity, safety concerns and sex, friendship, faith and a great many more. Moments of eternal embarrassment are interspersed with flashes of comic/parenting genius, and every reader will find a nugget or three (or twenty!) to inspire them. A cracking read, and highly recommended.

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The Man Called Red

An Autobiography of a Guide and Outfitter in Northern British Columbia
N.B. "Red" Sorensen

2016 Finalist
356 Pages
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Non-Fiction - Autobiography

2016 Finalist
At 2 months old a horse almost takes his life. Horses become part of his livelihood for the next 60 year. Follow a boy who works alongside German prisoners of war. At 15, runs away with the circus. Travel the adventure trail to be a cowboy in the Chilcotin in the heart of the Caribou. Venture's to the Peace River Country, to become a Forest Ranger. Is instrumental, sending a politician to jail. Learn how he and his wife with six small children face the wilderness to build a homestead into a ranching enterprise, 24 miles back in the mountains from the nearest road. Trades - their ranch, for the farthest ranching operation, in Northern British Columbia on the Alaska Highway. Has a horse save his life from drownings. Buys a Hunting Area, becomes one of the most successful Big Game Outfitters in North America. Bush pilot, who walks away, from four major, airplane crashes. Stories of Hunters adventure in pursuit of Mt. Sheep, Moose, Mt. Caribou, Mountain Goat, Grizzly and Black Bear. Crosse's the Berlin Wall. With a wife that stood by him through thick and thin.

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Gathering Courage

A Life-Changing Journey Through Adoption, Adversity, and a Reading Disability
T.A. McMullin

2016 Honorable Mention
222 Pages
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Non-Fiction - Autobiography

2016 Honorable Mention
Award-winning Gathering Courage author, T. A. "Terry" McMullin, knows as well as anyone that hard times are a part of the journey of life.  Gathering Courage is about Terry's journey, who was born in an orphanage, then adopted, and made a foster child by her parents. Because Terry struggled with reading, comprehension, and spelling, she was placed in a foster home at the age of nine.  Terry was failing in school and no one knew how to help her. From deep within, Terry developed an internal desire to excel, no matter the obstacle, no matter the situation. Pushing adversity, rejection, and a reading disability aside, Terry gathered the courage to enroll in college. While attending college, Terry taught herself how to read and study while working nights and weekends to pay her tuition and living expenses.  Because of dyslexia, Terry worked much harder than most students. For ten years, she remained diligent and focused on the goal of achieving a college education and a teaching certificate. Step by step and class by class, Terry succeeded, and walked across the stage to receive a Bachelor's and Master's degree from Texas A&M University. Terry's life transformed from a broken-hearted child who could barely make out words in elementary school to a successful teacher who encourages young people to work hard and achieve their greatest aspirations.
Gathering Courage is an inspiring life-changing journey not only to be read but also to be passed on as an encouragement to others. What started as a thought, then words on a napkin, set the dream in motion to form sentences on paper. The dream grew and the formation of a book developed into a purpose, a mission - "To Make Life Better."
2015 North American Book Award
 Winner
1st place winner - Animals/Pets

1st place winner - Biographies, Autobiographies, and Memoirs
2016 Readers' Favorites - 5 STAR AWARD WINNER - Christian: Non-Fiction 
2016 Readers' Favorites International - HONORABLE MENTION- Non-fiction: Autobiography
2016 USA Best Book Award - FINALIST - Young Adult: Non-Fiction
"Gathering Courage to make life better, to work hard to follow your dreams, to invest in yourself and others, to encourage others to be their best, will make life better." T. A. McMullin

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The Host With The Most

Tales of a Tattooed Television Personality
Todd Newton

2016 Silver Medal
172 Pages
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Non-Fiction - Autobiography

2016 Silver Medal
Award winning television personality Todd Newton only had one career aspiration as a boy: to be someone television viewers enjoyed tuning in to see. From an early age Newton looked up to TV icons Johnny Carson and Bob Barker simply because they entertained millions of Americans by being themselves. Today the same can be said for Todd Newton. From interviewing the world's most famous faces on the red carpets of Hollywood to sharing life-changing moments with game show contestants as they win piles of cash, Newton has mastered the art of being the man you want to invite over for dinner or have a drink with. Join The Host with the Most as he openly shares his journey from a chubby Midwestern kid with a dream to becoming one of the most familiar faces on the air today. You'll find his stories to be as colorful as the tattoos that adorn his body.

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Being Selfish

My Journey from Escort to Monk to Grandmother
Sarah Marshank

2016 Gold Medal
364 Pages
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Non-Fiction - Autobiography

2016 Gold Medal
In Being Selfish we meet Sarah facing a second unplanned pregnancy at the age of twenty-two. Her conservative Jewish, politically liberal, middle-class American upbringing fails to provide her with meaningful comfort or guidance. Depressed and disillusioned, she sets out on a twenty-year pilgrimage to explore sex, God, and herself. Her forays into orthodox Judaism, the sex trade, and new age spirituality don’t satisfy the depth of her longing for authenticity. Then she meets Sam, a New York baby boomer turned monk. living a life unplugged from society in remote rural Oregon. When Sarah realizes what Sam is up to, she abandons her career, friends, and family to dive into a disciplined life of meditation, yoga, fasting, and silence. It wasn’t her original intention to spend a decade in isolation, but that’s what it took for Sarah to discover who she really is, though not without paying a price.

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Initiation

A Harem Boy's Saga Book 1
Bernard Foong

2015 Finalist
548 Pages
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Non-Fiction - Autobiography

2015 Finalist
This provocative story is about an adolescent who was initiated into a clandestine sexual society. He was spirited to the Middle East, from his UK boarding school. He attended the Bahriji School (Oasis,) in The United Arab Emirates in preparation for serving in Harems for the wealthy and elite.

It is also a love story between the young man and his ‘Valet’ who served as his chaperone and mentor during the boy’s Harem service.

Author’s note:

I had a privileged and unique upbringing in Malaysia. Following in my brothers' footsteps, I was sent to an exclusive boarding school in England. It is there that I was inducted into a clandestine organization, E.R.O.S. The Enlightened Royal Oracle Society. For four years, unbeknownst to my family, I was willingly and happily part of a Harem.

My story has been kept under wraps for close to 45 years. The correct moment has arrived for me to make known my unique education.

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