2021 Winners & Finalists
WINNERS & FINALISTS (1 is winner, 2 is finalist for each category)
PACIFIC BOOK AWARDS 2021
Best Book Cover Design Fiction
1. The Belly Crawlers – By: Farah Velez Publisher
Best Book Cover Design Non Fiction
1. Peace in Trials: The Untold Story – By: Tarren Clark
Best Arts & Entertainment
1.Watercolor Batik: An Artist’s Guide to Watercolor Batik on Rice Paper – By: Martha C.S. Heppard
Best Adventure
1. Space Gamble: Volume 1: Perils– By: J.W. Delorie
2.The Healing Bowl – By: Anita Fisk
Best Biography –
1. 1946: A True Story of Wealth, Extraordinary Success and Great Tragedy – By: Diana Gillmor
2. The Life of an Ordinary Man – By: Norman Ross
Best Business
1. It’s Not Common Cent$: A 30-Day Personal Finance Crash Course for College Students and Young Adults. How to Manage Money, Save Money Fast, Pay off Debt and Invest in the Stock Market – By: Aaminah Amin
2. Scam-Proof Your Assets: Guarding Against Widespread Deception – By: Garrett Sutton, ESQ.
Best Children’s Book
1. The Christmas Time Travelers II: The Professor’s Journey – By: L.M. Haynes
2. Christmas Peas and Princesses: A Story of Love and Dreams– By: Terry Boucher
Best Children’s Picture Book 5 and Younger
1.My Buddy Knows Letters – By: Keith Wheeler
2.Ting Ting, the Girl Who Saved China – By: Ryan O’Connor
Best Children’s Picture book 6 and older
1.Little Abby and Her Animals – By: T. Steele Petry
2. Legacies – L.M. Haynes
Best Comedy & Humor
1.The Story of Pooville – By: Fenton Roades
2.The Salsa King of Scarsdale – By: Ben Fine
Best Cookbooks
1. Cooking Coach: A Cooking Playbook for the Rookie, as Well as the Semipro – By: Jan Plummer
2.The Maestros Favourites: A Symphony of Taste – By: Marlin Wolfe
Coming of Age
1.Stockdale Avenue – H.F. Beaumont
2. Treasure Chest – By: Joann Klusmeyer
Best Current Events & Politics
1.Liberty and the Wall: Of Separation Between Church and State – By: Robert J. O’Keefe
2.The Misunderstood Ally – By: Faraz Inam
Best Education
1. The Earth In Custody: Verses of lament and comment – By: Subhash S. Naik
2.Privatization of Facility Management in Public Hospitals – By: Fan Hong Poh
Best Fantasy
1. A Light In The Darkness– By: Rian McMurtry
2.Death to Moby Dick: a Love Story – By: Stephen Melillo
Best Fiction
1. What Love has done– By: Elizabeth Cain
2. The Lambda Factor – By: Dimple Patel Desai
Best Health
1. Patient Centricity: Achieving Positive Patient Outcomes and Bottom Line Results A Professional Guide for Improving Healthcare Performance Levels and the Global Patient Experience – By: Douglas A. Raisch
2.Phenomenal Vision Eyesight to Life Sight – By: Rev. Dr. Leonidas A. Johnson, Optometrist
Best History
1. Flynn and Miranda: Your Right to Remain Silent – By: Joseph B. Wallenstein
2. Wawahte: Subject: Canadian Indian Residential Schools – By: Robert P. Wells
Best Historical Fiction
1. Truth is in the House– By: Michael J. Coffino
2. Lighthouse – By: Tico Yang
Best Inspirational
1. Go All In: A Formula To Accelerate Your Success – By: Nim Stant
2.The Woo-Woo Sisters’ Wee Book of Wisdom –By: Cynthia Ann Drew Barnes, PhD
Best Memoir
1. Defining Moments of a Free Man from a Black Stream – By: Dr. Frank L. Douglas, Ph.D., M.D.
2. Nurturing From Afar– By: Jean Anderson
Best Mystery
1. Crime Denied, A Buck Taylor Novel – Chuck Morgan
2. The Fog Ladies: Family Matters – By: Susan McCormick
Best Non-Fiction
1. Voices from the Fallen: True Stories of Addiction, Grief, Recovery and Courage – By: Michael K. Tourville
2.Made in America 2.0 – By: J. Henry Warren
Best Paranormal
1Warrior’s Embrace – By: Anita Crowley
2. Haunted Healthcare – By: Richard Estep
Best Parenting & Family
1. Innovative Parenting: Simple Tips for Raising Awesome Kids– By: Judi Holdeman
2. There’s Something Your Son Needs to Tell You – By: Vernon Ennels, Jr.
Best Pets
1. Horses for Courses: A Beginner’s Guide– By: Russell S. Stokes
2. Caring For Your Pets – By: Ann Owen
Best Philosophy
1. God Inspired Quotations and Understandings – By: Stanley D. Rainbow
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. A Critical Investigation into Precognitive Dreams: Dreamscaping without My Timekeeper – By: Paul Kiritsis
Best Poetry
1. Make It A Double: More poems from my 10-year bender inside heaven’s dive bar – By: Randall McNair
2. By the Shoreline: For the Soul That Craves the Peace Within – By: Little Stickman
Best Reference
1.The Music Therapy Profession: Inspiring Health, Wellness, and Joy – By: Christine Korb
2.Patient Centricity: Achieving Positive Patient Outcomes and Bottom Line Results A Professional Guide for Improving Healthcare Performance Levels and the Global Patient Experience – By: Douglas A. Raisch
Best Relationships
1. Preparing for Marriage – By: Kunle & Wumi Ajayi
2.Mindful Relationships Habits – By: S. J. Scott
Best Religious
1.The YOU Beyond You: The Knowledge of the Willing – Ramzi Najjar
2. The Habitation of the Devils – Why God Doesn’t Act – Dan Overfield
Best Spirituality
1.God Inspired Quotations and Understandings – By: Stanley D. Rainbow
2. Soul Side Out: Universal Laws to Healing and Living Your Best Life – By: Summer Bozohora
Best Romance
1. A Hundred Honeymoons – By: J.S. Wilson
2. One Hawaiian Morning – By: Kelli Gard
Best Science Fiction
1. The Immortal Tree– By: Scott Devon
2.Transference – By: Brandon Keaton
Best Self-Help
1.Inspirations: My Vivid Imagination Has Been Transformed into Reality – By: Peterson Francois
2.Soul Side Out: Universal Laws to Healing and Living Your Best Life – By: Summer Bozohora
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. Reflections on Mountaineering: A Second Revised and Expanded Edition: A Journey Through Life as Experienced in the Mountains -By: Alan V. Goldman
2. More Black Athletes in the Media – By: Michael A. Banks, PHD
Best Suspense
1.Killuminati – by: Ferdinand Regensburger
2.Catch A Falling Knife – By: VJ DeFil
Best Thriller
1.Save Him – By: William M. Hayes
2.Qisas– By: AA Freda
Best Travel
1. The Bucket List – By: Kath Stathers
2. A Narrative Tale of Morocco – By: J. Peter Hall
Best Young Adult
1. Ever Alice – By: HJ Ramsay
2. The Omicron Six – By: Endy Wright
Best Westerns
1. From Homeless to Heaven – By: Jeanne Ann Off
2.Goals are the Field – By: Clint Clay