2022 Winners & Finalists
WINNERS & FINALISTS (1 is winner, 2 is finalist for each category)
PACIFIC BOOK AWARDS 2022
Best Book Cover Design Fiction
1. Ellwood’s Odyssey – By: Marshall Garvey & J.D. Weaver
Best Book Cover Design Non Fiction
1. Inspirations: My Vivid Imagination Has Been Transformed into Reality – By: Peterson Francois
Best Arts & Entertainment
1.Reflections of Intimacy – By: Jewel Mensah
Best Adventure
1. Geniuses III: The Double R Prophecy Continues – By: Neil W. Flanzraich
2.Tales: Volume 2 – By: Trebbiano
Best Biography
1. Harder I Fall, the Higher I Bounce: an Entrepreneur’s Humorous and Sometimes Painful Journey – By: Max James
2. Relentless: Homeless Teen to Achieving the Entrepreneur Dream – By: Natasha Miller
Best Business
1. Book Title Generator: A Proven System in Naming Your Book – By: Scott Lorenz
2. Veil Not Fail: Protecting Your Personal Assets from Business Attacks – By: Garrett Sutton, Esq.
Best Children’s Book
1. Queen Bee’s Alphabet Cookbook – By: Mariah Ecker RD, and Teri Ecker
2. Orange and Ginger Soapy Shampoo: A Bubble’ Story – By: Pamela James
Best Children’s Picture Book 5 and Younger
1.Buddy and Bailey’s Alaskan Adventure – By: Micai Reigo Nethercott
2.Imani’s Undersea Adventure – By: T.M. Jackson
Best Children’s Picture book 6 and older
1.The Hole Story – By: Lori Croy
2. A Walk In Time, Poetry From Real Life, About Love and Death – By: Sal Mallimo
Best Comedy & Humor
1.Lotsa Laughs: Funny Side of Everything – By: Ben Sheldon
2.The Story of Pooville – By: Fenton Roades
Best Cookbooks
1. Queen Bee’s Alphabet Cookbook – By: Teri Ecker
2.Cooking Coach: A Cooking Playbook for the Rookie, as Well as the Semipro – By: Jan Plummer
Coming of Age
1.Time and Curses: A Love for All Seasons – By: Loretta Elaine Jones
2. No Other Name – By: Robert Beatty
Best Current Events & Politics
1.Rise From the Blue – By: Boade Manned
2.The Whitebird Story – A Conspiracy of Silence – By: Tom Walker
Best Education
1. Preventing Bullying: A Manual for Teachers in Promoting Global Educational Harmony – By: Raju Ramanathan, M. Tech. and Christina Theopolis, M. Ed.
2.The Drive To Freedom: The Hustler’s Guide To Becoming An Independent Courier – By: JT Hustlez, MPA
Best Fantasy
1. The City of Snow & Stars: Cities of Wintenaeth Book One – By: S.D. Howard
2.The Wand, The Madigan Chronicles #3 – By: Marieke Lexmond
Best Fiction
1. A Revolution of The Mind – By: MV Perry
2. Resignation – By: David Colin
Best Health
1. Nature Gifts of the Soursop Leaves – By: David Soh Poh Huat
2.Contrary to Conception: Stories and Lessons about Successful Birth Control and Contraceptive Methods – By: Madeline Pasimio, DDS
Best History
1. Pages and Leaflets of North Oxfordshire: My Lineage Pre-1700-1959 – By: Angela Fortnum
2. History of 1 Field Squadron Group, Royal Australian Engineers – By: Brain Florence
Best Historical Fiction
1. Arlen‘s Gun: A Novel of Men at War – By: Edgar Doleman
2. Israela – By: Dr. Batya Casper
Best Inspirational
1. Black, White, And Gray All Over; a Black Man’s Odyssey in Life and Law Enforcement – By: Frederick Douglass Reynolds
2.REACH Your Dreams: Five Steps to Be a Conscious Creator in Your Life – By: Alice Chan, Ph.D.
Best Memoir
1. Birth of a Unicorn: Six Basic Steps to Success – By: Heather Wilde
2. Black, White, And Gray All Over; a Black Man’s Odyssey in Life and Law Enforcement – By: Frederick Douglass Reynolds
Best Mystery
1. Portrait of Deceit – By: J. C. Andrew
2. Shopping Can Be Deadly (A Discount Detective Mystery) – By: Charlotte Stuart
Best Non-Fiction
1. The Evolutionary Cosmos: Outside-In Thinking The Universe – By: Richard Westberg and Cal Orey
2.Trust and Confidence – By: Jim Lichtman
Best Paranormal
1 Exalted Infidel – By: David Colin
2. The Nosferatu Conspiracy, Book Two: The Sommelier – By: Brian James Gage
Best Parenting & Family
1. The Years Fly By….But the Days Last Forever! A Biblical Guide to Urgent and Intentional Parenting – By: Cathy Durrenberg
2. Hell on Horrsman Road – By: Honest Chunk
Best Pets
1. Peaches and Jake Celebrate Christmas – By: Paula Bailey
2. Spots and All My Dogs – By: Leonard W Lindros Jr.
Best Philosophy
1. Liberty, Science and Wealth – By: Ralph L. Bayrer
2. How God Thinks – By: David Vancelette
Best Psychology
1. Love Over Lust – How Love Overcame the Power of Sexual Addition – By: Karen Valiant
2. Exploring the Landscape of the Mind – By: Stephen Clark
Best Poetry
1. ASH – By: Gloria Mindock
2. Make it a Double: More poems from my 10-year bender inside heaven’s dive bar – By: Randall McNair
Best Reference
1.Family Guide to Celebration of the Jewish Holidays – By: Leonard & Linda Chesler
2. The YOU beyond you: The knowledge of the willing – By: Ramzi Najjar
Best Relationships
1. Date up, not down: The modern woman’s blueprint to elevating in life and love – By: MeChelle Paterek
2.Guilty but Forgiven – By: Somi Omowo
Best Religious
1.Salt & Light: The Complete Jesus – By: Jonathan Geoffrey Dean
2. Come Climb Toward God: Are You Hungry For God? – By: Marianna W. Albritton
Best Spirituality
1.How God Thinks – By: David Vancelette
2. Be a Giant Killer: Overcoming Your Everyday Goliath – By: Ed Norwood
Best Romance
1. Destiny Cottage – By: Dieter Gartelmann
2. Silver Heels – By: Michelle Lynn
Best Science Fiction
1. The Jesus Ring – By: Daniel Harry
2.The Advent of Dreamtech – By: Isaac Petrov
Best Self-Help
1.SAFE From the Pain: Out of the Darkness Into a Life That’s Free, Happy, and Good – By: Poonam Bhuchar
2.The Noble Edge: Reclaiming an Ethical World One Choice at a Time – By: Christopher Gilbert
Best Short Stories
1.Quickies – By: Don P. Marquess
2.Look Within – By: Miles Mcalister
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. From Beaton’s To Beach Haven: A Cat Ghost, BH G – By: William W. Fortenbaugh
Best Suspense
1.Incident at the Historical Museum – By: Lawrence A. Deign
2.In Place of Strife – By: Elizabeth Reinach
Best Thriller
1.The Ides of September – By: Rob Zwiebach
2.Annihilation – By: Kaylin McFarren
Best Travel
1. A Girl’s Greek Odyssey – By: Nicki Collins Geigert
2. Family Trip to Magical Madagascar and Beyond – By: Nicki Geigert
Best Young Adult
1. A Girl’s Greek Odyssey – By: Nicki Geigert
2. The Rescue~ Book One of The Timestream Travelers Chronicles – By: Sher Stultz
Best Westerns
1. Flagstaff’s Forgotten Cowgirl: The Journals of Lizzie Hoffman – By: J.K. Hoffman
2.Cattle Drives, Moose Hunts, Blizzards, and Such: A Northern Canadian Cowboy – By: Lloyd Byra