2016 Full Results Listing by Category
Best Book Cover Design – Fiction
Winner: Ghosts from the Past – By: Erin Gilbert
Best Book Cover Design – Non-Fiction
Winner: Born for This – By: Chris Guillebeau
Best Children’s Illustrated
Winner: Am I small? – By: Philipp Winterberg
Best Debut Author
Winner: Closer to the Sun – By: Proz Prosper
Best Adventure
1. Winner: Run Toward the Blazing Sun: Nightmare in Turkey – By: Tom Walker
2. Finalist: Archons: The Foundling – By: S.R. Herman
Best Biography
1. Winner: Of Roots and Wings – by: Wai Wai Myaing
2. Finalist: Roger Ball!: The Odyssey of John Monroe “Hawk” Smith Navy Fighter Pilot – By: Donald E. Auten
Best Business
1. Winner: Finance Your Own Business: Get on the Financing Fast Track – By: Garrett Sutton
2. Finalist: The Handbook of Small Business – By: Dick Baynton
Best Children’s Books – General
1. Winner: Scuba Zak Meets Thaddeus the Barracuda – By: Alice Cypress
2. Finalist: Too Much MacTiggle – By: Antionette Melendez
Best Children’s Picture Book
1. Winner: Roll for Winnie (Team Golden Oldies – Volume 3) – By: Lisa Domeny
2. Finalist: The Bear and the Piano – By: David Litchfield & Frances Lincoln Ltd
Best Children’s – 5 and Younger
1. Winner: Sammi the Seahorse – By: Judith Shernock
2. Finalist: Tabitha Fink on a Mission to Mars- By: Rick Felty
Best Children’s – 6 and Older
1. Winner: The Kid’s Herb Book- By: Lesley Tierra
2. Finalist: Stephen Curry: The Best – By: Dave Jackson
Best Composers & Musicians
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Winner: The Musicians’s Way – By: Gerald Klickstein
2. Finalist: Thorns – By: Margueite Keiffer
Best Crime
1. Winner: Rude Boy USA – By: Victoria Bolton
2. Finalist: A Run of Luck – By: Wayne Overson
Best Education
1. Winner: Piecing It Together: A Systematic Approach Toward More Effective Language Therapy – By: Martha Frimer Cheslow
2. Finalist: The Way of Mindful Education – By: Daniel Rechtschaffen
Best Fantasy
1. Winner: Blade Forged in Darkness – By: M.A.N
2. Finalist: Sunborn Rising: Beneath the Fall – By: Aaron Safronoff
Best Fiction
1. Winner: It’s Good To Be King (Until The Bell Chimes) – By: David Lamb
2. Finalist: Fragile Brilliance: A Ronan Mccullough Novel – By: Eliot Parker
Best Fiction – Historical Fiction
1. Winner: Valley of the Kings: The 18th Dynasty – By: Terrance Coffey
2. Finalist: ‘290’: A Novel of the American Civil War (Volume II: The Laird Gunboat) – By: Donn Wonnell
Best Fiction – Juvenile
1. Winner: Peter and the Black Hole – By: Krystyna LaRose
2. Finalist: 3 Sprites and a Bed: A Fairy Tale – By: Sandra C. Addis
Best New – Fiction
1. Winner: The Lilac Bush is Blooming – By: Jan Surasky
2. Finalist: Sizzlin’ Summer Surprise – By: Alton J. Myers
Best Health
1. Winner: Stop the Diet, I Want To Get Off- By: Lisa Tillinger Johansen
2. Finalist: Epsom Salt – By: Lilian Welles
Best Inspirational
1. Winner: Beyond Happy – By: Beth Cabrera
2. Finalist: Memories: Expression from the Word – By: Rose Love
Best Memoir
1. Winner: Good Globe: Time for a Change of Hemisphere – By: Shelby Simpson
2. Finalist: Sentiment: A Memoir – By: Cheryl Krkoc
Best Middle Grade
1. Winner: Angus Adams – By: Lee. M. Winter
2. Finalist: Magora: The Golden Maple Tree (Book 2) – By: Marc Remus
Best Mystery
1. Winner: Nightmare in the Limbo of Halloween – By: Behzad Almasi
2. Finalist: Stabbing in the Senate (A Washington Whodunit) – By: Colleen Shogan
Best New Non-Fiction
1. Winner: A Walk Through Minden: In the Lives of the Crone and Vegh Families – By: Lillian (Sissy Crone) Frazer
2. Finalist: Spark Joy – By: Marie Kondo
Best Non-Fiction
1. Winner: Don’t Sweep It Under the Drug! – By: Dr. Cathy Rosenbaum
2. Finalist: Girls Who Rocked the World – By: Michelle Roehm McCann & Amelie Welden
Best Paranormal
1. Winner: Where Death Speaks – By: Ronnie Stich
2. Finalist: A Shade of Vampire – By: Bella Forrest
Best Parenting – Family
1. Winner: The Mommy-Go-Round – By: Eleanor Alspaugh
2. Finalist: Creating Peace of Mind – By: Jill M. Reid
Best Philosophy
1. Winner: The Author -or- The Characters’ Short Living Story – By: Facundo Raganato
2. Finalist: The Little Philosophy Book – By: Robert C. Solomon
Best Poetry
1. Winner: Postcards From Poland – By: Joseph Kuhn Carey
2. Finalist: Shifting Tides – By: Carroll Blair
Best Political
1. Winner: Democracy on the Edge: A Discussion of Political Issues in America – By: Terry AmRhein
2. Finalist: The Crossroads of Space and Time – By: Charles & Irene Nickerson
Best Romance
1. Winner: You and I: The Kate and Robert Chronicles – By: Suzanne Eglington
2. Finalist: Thin Space – By: Annette K. Collins
Best Science-Fiction
1. Winner: Pharaohs of the Sky – By: Robert L. Ballantyne
2. Finalist: The Digital Now – By: Roland Allnach
Best Self – Help
1. Winner: 90 Lessons for Living Large in 90 Square Feet – By: Felice Cohen
2. Finalist: Enjoy Stress: Ready? Get Power! Searching for usable simplicity? Don’t drown in advice and details – By: Stanley E. Abbott
Best Short Stories
1. Winner: All the Skies I Will Not See – By: Petra March
2. Finalist: Long Story Short: Ten-Minute Devotionals to Draw Your Family to God – By: Marty Machowski
Best Spirituality – Religious
1. Winner: Walking with God – By: Dr. Stephen A. Gammon
2. Finalist: Climbing with Abraham – By: David Ramos
Best Suspense
1. Winner: Twin River III: A Death at Valley Forge – By: Michael Fields
2. Finalist: Until It’s All Over – By: Terry L. Kemp
Best Thriller
1. Winner: Veil of Deception- By: Michael Byars Lewis
2. Finalist: God of the Internet – By: Lynn Lipinski
Best Travel
1. Winner: Seasons of Sand Sahara – By: Ernst Aebi
2. Finalist: Everywoman’s Travel Journal – By: Ten Speed Press Staff
Best Young Adult
1. Winner: Winter – By: Marissa Meyer
2. Finalist: Stanley Brambles and the Lost City – By: Owen Spendlove