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2020 Winners & Finalists

WINNERS & FINALISTS  (1 is winner, 2 is finalist for each category)

PACIFIC BOOK AWARDS 2020

 

Best Book Cover Design Fiction

1. Memories of a Jewish Girl from Brooklyn – By: Helene Oelerich

Best Book Cover Design Non Fiction

1. RUNNIN’ WITH FROG’S: A NAVY MEMOIR – By: George Worthington

 

Best Arts & Entertainment

1.The Music Therapy Profession: Inspiring Health, Wellness, and Joy – By: Christine Korb

 

Best Adventure

1. Nobody Knows: What We Sweep Under the Carpet– By: Timothy Bartlett
2.The Healing Bowl – By:  Anita Fisk

 

Best Biography – 

1. Soldier of the Leaf – By: Marvin E. Brown
2. If I Die Before I Wake: A Caregiver’s Journey – By: Eli Shaw

 

Best Business

1. The Customer Is an A**Hole: Spilling the Tea on the Reality of Customer Behavior – By: E.V. Rose
2. Zen and the Art of Funk Capitalism: A General Theory of Fallibility – By: Karun Philip

 

Best Children’s Book

1. The Adventures of Sally the Elephant who likes being upside down  – By: Michael P. Watts
2. Kurt Gert Jazmine and Bagel: A Search for the Gold Bone– By:  Irene Dolnick

 

Best Children’s Picture Book 5 and Younger

1.The Adventures of Mr. Fuzzy Ears: The Mystery of the Missing Bunnies – By: Donna Carr-Roberts
2.Ruby’s Christmas Gifts – By:  Nancy Oswald

 

Best Children’s Picture book 6 and older

1.Where is my home? – By: Joan Romney Groves
2. Chubby Wubbles – A Ferret’s Tale – M. J. Abrams

 

Best Comedy & Humor

1.The Antidote: To The T-Rump Show – By: Dr. Blackman
2.Between Tomorrow And Yesterday: Tripping Into Nowhere Behind Nothing – By: Ev’one-yaY Eulasson

 

Best Cookbooks

1. The Maestros Favourites: A Symphony of Taste – By: Marlin Wolfe
2.Nonna’s Recipes:  Recipes From the Italian Grandma in Each of US – By: Nonna Fiore

 

Coming of Age
1.Dangerous Journey: Book One – Clark Selby
2. What Love has done – By: Elizabeth Cain

 

Best Current Events & Politics

1.Them Ugly Beardens – By:  Pege Handley
2.The Misunderstood Ally – By: Faraz Inam

 

Best Education

1. Black People Invested Everything – By: Dr. Sujan K. Dass
2.Next Level Teaching – By: Jonathan Alsheimer

 

Best Fantasy

1.Quantum Leap – By: Rainie York
2.Vault of Power: The Unknown Region – By: Philip Whitby

 

Best Fiction

1. How the Deer Moon Hungers– By:  Susan Wingate.
2. Why – By:  Marvin Blake

 

Best Health

1. Trimming Your Waistline: Ten Steps to Better Health and Fitness – By: R. Matheny, PhD.
2.Ageless Mirror Athlete™: Overweight and Unfit No More – By: Marc T. Woodard

 

Best History
1. A True Story of Survival and Forgiveness from Hiroshima – By: Dr. Mikamo
2. Decision Affirmed  – By: Clarence Vold

 

Best Historical-Fiction
1. The Andean Cross A Novel – By: Lawrence Clayton
2. In the Beginning: The Early Days of Religious Beliefs – By:  Jaime Reyes

 

Best Inspirational

1. Just a Thought: Volume 2 – By: Richard Byrd
2.THE PRESIDENT’S Affair – John Gray

 

Best Memoir

1. Healing by His Spirit – By: Geraldine Bryant
2. Conflagration ( Why Am I still Alive ? ) – By: Teri-Anne

 

Best Mystery

1.  Crime Denied, A Buck Taylor Novel  – Chuck Morgan
2. Murder with Deceit – By: Winnfred Smith

 

Best Non-Fiction

1. Aviation & Air Traffic Control – By: Cecil Miller
2.El Armonico: Mi Historia De Una Forma Viviente – By: Alexandra Porter

 

Best Paranormal

1Warrior’s Embrace – By: Anita Crowley
2. Haunted Healthcare – By: Richard Estep

 

Best Parenting & Family

1. THE SEARCH FOR A PERFECT MARRIAGE: A Seminar Handbook for Everybody in the Journey of Marriage and Intimate Relationship – By:  Dominic Charles Okero
2. There’s Something Your Son Needs to Tell You – By:   Vernon Ennels, Jr.

 

Best Pets

1.  Wildlife of the World– By: DK
2. Caring For Your Pets – By: Ann Owen

 

Best Philosophy

1. Can I Tell you Something – By: Karl Kristian Flores
2. A Year of Positive Thinking – By: Cyndie Spiegel

 

Best Psychology

1. The Creative Advantages of Schizophrenia: The Muse and the Mad Hatter  – By: Paul Kiritsis
2. Adrift: Completely At Sea With Paranoid Schizophrenia – By: Nicki Adams

 

Best Poetry

1. Kingdom Verses – By: Rhoda Benjamin
2. I’ll be Alright:  Songs of my Life  – By: Dave Lamb

 

Best Reference

1.The Complete Book of Essential Oils and Aromatherapy, Revised and Expanded – By: Valerie Ann Worwood
2.Incurable?: The Answer to Overcoming Any Illness – By:  Don F. Pickett

 

Best Relationships

1. Preparing for Marriage – By:  Kunle & Wumi Ajayi
2.Mindful Relationships Habits – By: S. J. Scott

 

Best Religious
1.The Paradise Man according to Thomas Merton – By: Linhxuan Vu.
2.A Law from Eden – Marilyn Taplin

 

Best Spirituality

1. Inspirations: My Vivid Imagination Has Been Transformed into Reality – By:   Francois
2. Emotions Redeemed – By: Covette Hamilton

 

Best Romance

1. Moon’s Black Gold – By:  JR.H. Peake
2. Helping Hands – By: Ken Saik

 

Best Science Fiction

1. Lights Above Cass– By: Marilyn Brokaw Hall
2.Icebox  – Mary A. Lonergan

 

Best Self-Help

1.The Pursuit of the Personal Renaissance Experience: Finding Opportunities for Happiness in the Ever-Present Now – By:  Peter Justus
2.How to Live with OCD Naturally – By: Maria Flaherty

 

Best Short Stories

1.Shearing at Taumata Hills: and other stories – By: Wilse Taylor
2.Enter At Your Risk! – By: Timothy Bartlett

 

Best Sports

1. Be the Pine, Be the Ball: Haiku Reflections on the World of Golf – By: Paul J. Zingg
2. The Chicago Cubs – By: Rich Cohen

 

Best Suspense

1.The Red Carpet At Cannes – by: Duane Byrge
2. Ghost Ups her Game– By: Carolyn Hart

 

Best Thriller

1.Sam and James A Test of Will – By: AA Freda
2.The Salvation Project – By:  Joe Rothstein

  

Best Travel

1. The Bucket List – By: Kath Stathers  
2. Destination Earth – By: Nicos Hadjicostis

 

Best Young Adult

1. Merged – By: Jim and Stephanie Kroepfl 
2. One Grey Night It Happened  – By: Michael Fields

 

Best Westerns

1. The Three People  – By: Tom King
2.Goals are the Field – By: Clint Clay