2018 Medalists

1. Fine Art

GOLD Ray Stanford Strong: West Coast Landscape Artist By Mark Humpal (University of Oklahoma Press) SILVER Artists in Exile: Expressions of Loss and Hope By Frauke V. Josenhans (Yale University Art Gallery) BRONZE Manuel Neri & The Assertion of Modern Figurative Sculpture Presented by the Anderson Collection at Stanford University (Anderson Collection/Stanford University Press)

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2. Performing Arts (Music/Dance/Cinema/Theater)

GOLD Guillermo del Toro’s The Shape of Water: Creating a Fairy Tale for Troubled Times By Gina McIntyre (Insight Editions) SILVER Director's Cut: My Life in Film By Ted Kotcheff (ECW Press) BRONZE Dirty Windshields: The Best and the Worst of the Smugglers Tour Diaries By Grant Lawrence (Douglas & McIntyre)

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3. Photography

GOLD Tending the Fire: Native Voices & Portraits By Christopher Felver (University of New Mexico Press) SILVER Arthur Meyerson: The Journey Photography by Arthur Meyerson (A.M. Editions) BRONZE Forgotten Heritage By Matthew Emmett (Jonglez Publishing)

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4. Architecture

GOLD Aaron G. Green: Organic Architecture Beyond Frank Lloyd Wright By Randolph C. Henning (ORO Editions) SILVER The Fantastic Seashell of the Mind: The Architecture of Mark Mills By Janey Bennett (ORO Editions) BRONZE A White House of Stone: Building America’s First Ideal in Architecture By William Seale (The White House Historical Association)

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5. Coffee Table Books

GOLD The Art of Mondo By Mondo (Insight Editions) SILVER Cherokee National Treasures: In their Own Words Edited by Shawna Morton Cain, PhD, Pamela Jumper Thurman, PhD, and Betty Christie Frogg; co-edited by Gayle Parnell Samuels (Cherokee Nation) BRONZE Burners By Nicholas King (Laughing Coyote Press)

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6. Popular Fiction

GOLD The Cast By Amy Blumenfeld (SparkPress) SILVER Tangier By Stephen Holgate (Blank Slate Press) BRONZE (tie) A Handbook for Beautiful People By Jennifer Spruit (Inanna Publications) A Life Unexpected By Alison Ragsdale (Self-Published)

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7. Literary Fiction

GOLD All That Is Solid Melts Into Air By Carole Giangrande (Inanna Publications) SILVER Us & Them By Bahiyyih Nakhjavani (Redwood Press) BRONZE (tie) This Is How It Begins By Joan Dempsey (She Writes Press) The Hemingway Files By H.K. Bush (Blank Slate Press)

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8. Short Story Fiction

GOLD The Truth About Me: Stories By Louise Marburg; edited by Peg Alford Pursell (WTAW Press) SILVER The Love Life of an Assistant Animator & Other Stories By Katherine Vaz (Tailwinds Press) BRONZE Subcortical By Lee Conell (Johns Hopkins University Press)

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9. Poetry

GOLD Good Bones By Maggie Smith (Tupelo Press) SILVER Beginner's Guide to a Head-On Collision By Sebastian Matthews (Red Hen Press) BRONZE Scar On / Scar Off By Jennifer Maritza McCauley (Stalking Horse Press)

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10. Anthologies

GOLD Before All Memory is Lost: Women’s Voices from the Holocaust Edited by Myrna Goldenberg (The Azrieli Foundation) SILVER Breaking Sad: What to Say After Loss, What Not to Say, and When to Just Show Up Edited by Shelly Fisher & Jennifer Jones (She Writes Press) BRONZE Unmasked: Women Write About Sex and Intimacy After Fifty Edited by Marcia Meier and Kathleen A. Barry, PhD. (Weeping Willow Books)

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11. Juvenile Fiction

GOLD The Phantom of New York: Vol I, Peter and the Crown By A.L. Janney (Self-Published) SILVER The Tower By Lynn Yvonne Moon (Köehler Books) BRONZE (tie) Idiot Genius: Willa Snap and the Clockwerk Boy By Richard Due; Illustrations by Carolyn Arcabascio (Gibbering Gnome Press) Bigfoot: Mysterious Monsters Book One By David Michael Slater; Illustrated by Mauro Sorghienti (Corgi Bits)

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12. Young Adult Fiction

GOLD Rings of Time By Renée Veillet (Tellwell) SILVER Losing Adam By Adrienne Clarke (Self-Published) BRONZE (tie) The Frontman By Ron Bahar (SparkPress) Cold Summer By Gwen Cole (Sky Pony Press)

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13. Fantasy

GOLD Beforelife By Randal Graham (ECW Press) SILVER Littlest Death: A Labyrinth of Souls Novel By Eric Witchey (ShadowSpinners Press) BRONZE (tie) Tarbin’s True Heir: The Recharging: Book One By Kelly Lynn Colby (Inklings Publishing) Above the Star: The 8th Island Trilogy: Book One By Alexis Marie Chute (SparkPress)

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14. Science Fiction

GOLD The Riven Stars By Stephen Renneberg (Self-Published) SILVER Specimen 959 By Robert Davies (BHC Press/Indigo) BRONZE Solar Reboot By Matthew D. Hunt (Self-Published)

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15. LGBT+ Fiction

GOLD The Clothesline Swing By Ahmad Danny Ramadan (Nightwood Editions) SILVER Marriage of a Thousand Lies By S.J. Sindu (Soho Press, Inc.) BRONZE Postcards from the Canyon By Lisa Gitlin (Bywater Books)

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16. Erotica

GOLD Unspeakably Erotic: Lesbian Kink Edited by D.L. King (Cleis Press) SILVER Beyond the Rules By Anna del Mar (Self Published) BRONZE Behind the Door By A. Gavazzoni (Self Published)

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17. Historical Fiction

GOLD The Murderer’s Maid By Erika Mailman (Bonhomie Press) SILVER (tie) What is Forgiven By C.F. Yetmen (Ypsilon & Co Press) Madam of My Heart By Gini Grossenbacher (JGKS Press) BRONZE The Muse of Fire By Carol M. Cram (New Arcadia Publishing)

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18. Military/Wartime Fiction

GOLD The Last Innocent Hour By Margot Abbott (Sand Hill Review Press) SILVER The Trumpets of Jericho By J. Michael Dolan (Monochrome Books) BRONZE Shifting Sands: Tradecraft Phase One By Michael Shusko (Self-Published)

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19. Horror

GOLD Dante’s Town of Terror By Patrick R. Delaney (Self-Published) SILVER Knuckle Balled By Drew Stepek (Blood Bound Books) BRONZE Antitheus By G.A. Minton (World Castle Publishing)

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20. Multicultural Fiction

GOLD Outside People and Other Stories By Mariam Pirbhai (Inanna Publications) SILVER China Girl and Other Stories By Ho Lin (Regent Press) BRONZE Dream of Another America By Tyler McMahon (Gival Press)

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21. Multicultural Fiction – Juv-Young Adult

GOLD The Forbidden Temptation of Baseball By Dori Jones Yang (SparkPress) SILVER Choose Your Path: Adventures in American Jewish History By Shoshana Hantman (Sidney Books) BRONZE On a LARP (A Sid Rubin Silicon Alley Adventure) By Stefani Deoul (Bywater Books)

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22. Mystery/Cozy/Noir

GOLD A Sticky Inheritance By Emily James (Stronghold Books) SILVER(tie) Uncorking a Lie By Nadine Nettmann (Midnight Ink) The Last Train: A Tokyo Mystery By Michael Pronko (Raked Gravel Press) BRONZE A Song for Desmond By B.R. Laue (Brandy Hill Publishing)

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23. Suspense/Thriller

GOLD Hard Dog to Kill By Craig Holt (Wildblue Press) SILVER The Fourth Pularchek By Samuel Marquis (Mount Sopris Publishing) BRONZE (tie) Azrael By M.T. Ellis (Self-Published) Vacant Eyes By Christine Mager Wevik (Self-Published)

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24. Religious Fiction

GOLD The Shepherd's Calculus By C. S. Farrelly (Cavan Bridge Press) SILVER Judah's Scepter and the Sacred Stone By D. A. Brittain (First Edition Design Publishing) BRONZE (tie) Anchored By Death By Catherine Finger (Elk Lake Publishing) The Transmigrant By Kristi Saare Duarte (Self-Published)

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25. Romance

GOLD London, Can You Wait?  By Jacquelyn Middleton (Kirkwall Books) SILVER (tie) The Demon Duke: Put Up Your Dukes Book 1 By Margaret Locke (Locked On Love Publishing) The Many Lives of Fitzwilliam Darcy By Beau North & Brooke West (Self-Published) BRONZE Snapdragon By Kilby Blades (Luxe Press)

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26. True Crime

GOLD Famous Crimes the World Forgot Volume II: More Vintage True Crimes Rescued from Obscurity By Jason Lucky Morrow (Historical Crime Detective Publishing) SILVER Gaslight Lawyers: Criminal Trials & Exploits in Gilded Age New York By Richard H. Underwood (Shadelandhouse Modern Press) BRONZE Death of an Assassin: The True Story of the German Murderer Who Died Defending Robert E. Lee By Ann Marie Ackermann (Kent State University Press)

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27. Urban Fiction

GOLD The Boss By Aya de León (Dafina Books) SILVER Ruined By D.E. Eliot (Write On Publishing) BRONZE Heated: An Urban Dramedy By JC Gardner (Perfect Publishing)

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28. Visionary/New Age Fiction

GOLD Fire: Book Three of the Elemental Journey Series By Caroline Allen (Art of Storytelling) SILVER Grip of the Hawk By Brenda Schaeffer (Balboa Press) BRONZE The Mystical Village that Rewired Reality By Justin Nathan (Self-Published)

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29. Graphic Novel/Drawn Book - General

GOLD Quince By Kit Steinkellner; art by Emma Steinkellner; created by Sebastian Kadlecik (Fanbase Press) SILVER ELEMENTS: Fire - A Comic Anthology by Creators of Color Edited by Taneka Stotts (Beyond Press) BRONZE Portraits of Violence: An Illustrated History of Radical Thinking By Brad Evans and Sean Michael Wilson; Illustrated by Inko, Carl Thompson, Robert Brown, Chris Mackenzie, Michiru Morikawa & Yen Quach (New Internationalist)

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30. Graphic Novel/Drawn Book- Drama/Documentary

GOLD Renegade: Martin Luther, the Graphic Biography  By Andrea Grosso Ciponte and Dacia Palmerino (Plough Publishing House) SILVER Daddy Hall: A Biography in 80 Linocuts By Tony Miller (The Porcupine’s Quill) BRONZE Moonshot: The Indigenous Comics Collection Vol 2 By Various Authors (Alternate History Comics Inc)

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31. Humor

GOLD Die Hard Christmas: The Illustrated Holiday Classic By Doogie Horner; Illustrated by JJ Harrison (Insight Editions) SILVER Finding My Badass Self: A Year of Truths and Dares By Sherry Stanfa-Stanley (She Writes Press) BRONZE A Brief History of Oversharing: One Ginger’s Anthology of Humiliation By Shawn Hitchins (ECW Press)

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32. Children’s Picture Books ( 7 & Under)

GOLD (tie) I See You By Michael Genhart; Illustrated by Joanne Lew-Vriethoff (Magination Press) If You Look Up to the Sky By Angela Dalton; Illustrations by Margarita Sikorskaia (Beaver’s Pond Press) SILVER Trees By Lemniscates (Candlewick Studio) BRONZE Quiet!  By Kate Alizadeh (Child’s Play)

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33. Children’s Picture Books ( All ages)

GOLD (tie) The Girl Who Ran: Bobbi Gibb, the First Woman to Run the Boston Marathon By Frances Poletti & Kristina Yee; Illustrated by Susanna Chapman (Compendium) What Do You Do With a Chance?  By Kobi Yamada; Illustrated by Mae Besom (Compendium) SILVER (tie) The Silly Parade and Other Topsy-Turvy Poems By Anne Dwyer; Illustrations by Nikolai Popov (Rovakada Publishing) Yokki and the Parno Gry By Richard O’Neill & Katharine Quarmby; Illustrated by Marieke Nelissen (Childs Play) BRONZE The Lonely Mailman By Susanna Isern; Illustrations by Daniel Montero Galán (Cuento de Luz)

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34. Children’s Interactive

GOLD Superpowers! A Great Big Collection of Awesome Activities, Quirky Questions, and Wonderful Ways to See Just How Super You Already Are By M.H. Clark; illustrated by Michael Byers (Compendium) SILVER Mindful Kids: 50 Mindfulness Activities for Kindness, Focus, and Calm By Whitney Stewart and Mina Braun (Barefoot Books) BRONZE BigFoot Goes on Vacation: A Spectacular Seek and Find Challenge for All Ages!  By D.L. Miller (Happy Fox Books)

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35. Juvenile-Young Adult Non-Fiction

GOLD Feminism From A to Z By Gayle E. Pitman, PhD (Magination Press) SILVER In A Relationship: Avoid the Worst & Experience the Best in Your Social Life & Relationships By Aaron Boe (Smith Knutson Publishing) BRONZE (tie) The Sword and The Broom: The Exceptional Career and Accomplishments of John Mercer Langston By Linda Salisbury (Tabby House) What I Can Learn from the Incredible and Fantastic Life of Steve Jobs By Fredrik Colting and Melissa Medina; Illustrations by Natsuko Yoneyama (Moppet Books)

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36. Multicultural N-F Juv- Young Adult

GOLD (tie) Stormy Seas: Stories of Young Boat Refugees By Mary Beth Leatherdale; Art by Eleanor Shakespeare (Annick Press) #NotYourPrincess: Voices of Native American Women Edited by Lisa Charleyboy and Mary Beth Leatherdale (Annick Press) SILVER Standing Up for Civil Rights in St. Louis By Amanda E. Doyle and Melanie A. Adams (Missouri History Museum) BRONZE Come Sunday: A Young Reader’s History of Congo Square By Freddi Williams Evans (University of Louisiana at Lafayette Press)

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37. Multicultural Non-Fiction Adult

GOLD Piominko: Chickasaw Leader By Mitch Caver and Thomas W. Cowger (Chickasaw Press) SILVER Judith F. Baca By Anna Indych-López (UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Press) BRONZE Two-Countries: U.S. Daughters & Sons of Immigrant Parents: Flash Memoir, Personal Essays & Poetry Edited by Tina Schumann (Red Hen Press)

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38. Essay/Creative Non-Fiction

GOLD And There Was Evening and There Was Morning By Mike Smith; edited by Peg Alford Pursell (WTAW Press) SILVER I’ll Be Your Mirror: Essays & Aphorisms By David Lazar (University of Nebraska Press) BRONZE (tie) Flight Path: A Search for Roots Beneath the World’s Busiest Airport By Hannah Palmer (Hub City Press) The Pittsburgh That Stays Within You (Fifth Edition) By Samuel Hazo; Photography by Paige Crawley (Word Association Publishers)

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39. Autobiography/Memoir I (Celebrity/Political/Romance)

GOLD As I Saw It: A Reporter’s Intrepid Journey By Marvin Scott (Beaufort Books) SILVER My Tour Through the Asylum: A Southern Integrationist’s Memoir By William E. Dufford with Aïda Rogers and Salley McInerney (University of South Carolina Press) BRONZE Disqualified: Eddie Hart, Munich 1972, and the Voices of the Most Tragic Olympics By Eddie Hart with Dave Newhouse (Black Squirrel Books)

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40. Autobiography/Memoir II (Coming of Age/Family Legacy/Travel)

GOLD Just One Question: A Road Trip Memoir By Ty Sassaman (MCP Books) SILVER Self-Portrait with Dogwood By Christopher Merrill (Trinity University Press) BRONZE (tie) This African-American Life By Hugh B. Price (John F. Blair Publishing) Mapping My Way Home: Activism, Nostalgia, and the Downfall of Apartheid South Africa By Stephanie J. Urdang (Monthly Review Press)

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41. Autobiography/Memoir III (Personal Struggle/Health Issues)

GOLD (tie) The Chicken Who Saved Us: The Remarkable Story of Andrew and Frightful By Kristin Jarvis Adams (Behler Publications) The Vale of Tears By Rabbi Pinchas Hirschprung (The Azrieli Foundation) SILVER (tie) A Few Minor Adjustments: A Memoir of Healing By Cherie Kephart (Bazi Publishing) Guts: A Memoir By Janet Buttenwieser (Vine Leaves Press) BRONZE To Play Again: A Memoir By Carol Rosenberger (She Writes Press)

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42. Biography

GOLD Maximum Volume: The Life of Beatles Producer George Martin (The Early Years, 1926-1966) By Kenneth Womack (Chicago Review Press) SILVER Wilde’s Women: How Oscar Wilde was Shaped by the Women He Knew By Eleanor Fitzsimons (Duckworth Overlook) BRONZE The Man Who Lit Lady Liberty: The Extraordinary Rise and Fall of Actor M.B. Curtis By Richard Schwartz (RSB Books)

43. Aging/Death & Dying

GOLD Heart Guide: True Stories of Grief and Healing By Diana J. Ensign, JD (SpiritHawk Life Publications) SILVER A Friend Indeed: Help Those You Love When They Grieve by Amy Florian; with Ken Florian (Corgenius) BRONZE (tie) While They’re Still Here: A Memoir By Patricia Williams (She Writes Press) Holding the Net: Caring for my Mother on the Tightrope of Aging By Melanie P. Merriman (Green Writers Press)

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44. Animals/Pets

GOLD The Quarry Fox: And Other Critters of the Wild Catskills By Leslie T. Sharpe (The Overlook Press) SILVER (tie) The Pet Healer Project: Stories of the Healing Bond Between Humans and Animals By Sandy Johnson (Top Reads Publishing, Inc.) Welcome Home: An Animal Rights Perspective on Living with Dogs & Cats By Nathan & Jennifer Winograd (Almaden Books) BRONZE Wild & Furry Animals of the Southern Appalachian Mountains By Lee James Pantas (R. Brent & Co.)

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45. Business/Careers/Sales

GOLD You Don’t Own Me: How Mattel v. MGA Entertainment Exposed Barbie’s Dark Side By Orly Lobel (W.W. Norton & Co.) SILVER Non Obvious: How to Predict Trends and Win the Future By Rohit Bhargava (IdeaPress Publishing) BRONZE (tie) Capitalists ARISE!: End Economic Inequality, Grow the Middle Class, Heal the Nation By Peter Georgescu with David Dorsey (Berrett-Koehler Publishers) Seeing Around Corners: How to Unlock the Potential of Big Data By Graham Hogg (LID Publishing)

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46. Cookbooks - General

GOLD Lee Miller: A Life with Food, Friends & Recipes By Ami Bouhassane (Grapefrukt Forlag & Penrose Film Productions Ltd) SILVER The Elote Cafe Notebook By Jeff Smedstad; photography by Janise Witt and Jeff Smedstad; edited, designed and produced by Carol Haralson (Self Published) BRONZE (tie) Bubbe and Me in the Kitchen: A Kosher Cookbook of Beloved Recipes and Modern Twists By Miri Rotkovitz; photography by Evi Abeler (Sonoma Press) Cooking with the Wolfman: Indigenous Fusion By David Wolfman and Marlene Finn (Douglas & McIntyre)

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47. Cookbooks - Nutritional/Vegetarian

GOLD Earth Eats: Real Food Green Living By Annie Corrigan with Daniel Orr (Indiana University Press) SILVER Healthy Baking: Cakes, Cookies + Raw By Teresa Cutter; photography by Paul Cutter ACS (The Healthy Chef Pty Ltd) BRONZE Canning Full Circle: From Garden to Jar to Table By Diane Devereaux; photography by Jeff Hage (Devereaux Cyber Inc.)

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48. Current Events I (Political/Economic/Foreign Affairs)

GOLD China’s Great Migration: How the Poor Built a Prosperous Nation By Bradley M. Gardner (Independent Institute) SILVER Reimagining Journalism in a Post-Truth World; How Late-Night Comedians, Internet trolls, and Savvy Reporters are Transforming News By Ed Madison and Ben DeJarnette (Praeger) BRONZE (tie) Gangsters to Governors: The New Bosses of Gambling in America By David Clary (Rutgers University Press) Broke and Patriotic: Why Poor Americans Love Their Country By Francesco Duina (Stanford University Press)

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49. Current Events II (Social Issues/Humanitarian)

GOLD Meeting in the Margins: An Invitation to Encounter Society’s Invisible People By Cynthia Trenshaw (She Writes Press) SILVER (tie) Witnesses of the Unseen: Seven Years in Guantanamo By Lakhdar Boumediene and Mustafa Ait Idir (Redwood Press) Ten Cultures, Twenty Lives: Refugee Life Stories By Daina Jurika-Owen (Amaya Books) BRONZE Hidden in Plain Sight: America’s Slaves of the New Millennium By Kimberly Mehlman-Orozco, PhD (Praeger)

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50. Education I (Workbook/Resources)

GOLD HEART!: Fully Forming Your Professional Life as a Teacher and Leader By Timothy D. Kanold (Solution Tree Press) SILVER The New Art and Science of Teaching By Robert J. Marzano (Solution Tree Press) BRONZE Research-Based Strategies: Narrowing the Achievement Gap for Under-Resourced Students By Ruby K.Payne, PhD, and Bethanie H. Tucker, Ed.D (Aha! Process, Inc.)

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51. Education II (Commentary/Theory)

GOLD What I Didn’t Know: True Stories of Becoming a Teacher Edited by Lee Gutkind (In Fact Books) SILVER (tie) Robot-Proof: Higher Education in the Age of Artificial Intelligence By Joseph E. Aoun (MIT Press) The Conscious Classroom: The Inner Strength System™ for Transforming the Teenage Mind By Amy Edelstein (Emergence Education Press) BRONZE Mr Clark’s Big Band: A Year of Laughter, Tears, and Jazz in a Middle School Band Room By Meredith O’Brien (Wyatt-MacKenzie Publishing)

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52. Environment/Ecology/Nature

GOLD Eat the Beetles!: An Exploration into our Conflicted Relationship with Insects By David Waltner-Toews (ECW Press) SILVER Yellowstone Migrations By Joe Riis (Braided River) BRONZE Sage Grouse: Icon of the West By Noppadol Paothong and Kathy Love (Self-Published)

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53. Finance/Investment/Economics

GOLD Wealth by Virtue By Chad Gordon (GreenStar Press) SILVER The Financial Diaries: How American Families Cope in a World of Uncertainty By Jonathan Morduch & Rachel Schneider (Princeton University Press) BRONZE Financial Nutrition for Young Women: How (and Why) to Teach Girls about Money By Melissa Donohue, Ed.D. (Praeger)

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54. LGBT+ Non-Fiction

GOLD ¡Cuéntamelo!: Oral Histories by LGBT Latino Immigrants By Juliana Delgado Lopera (Aunt Lute Books) SILVER The Inheritance of Shame: A Memoir By Peter Gajdics (Brown Paper Press) BRONZE The Authenticity Experiment: Lessons From the Best & Worst Year of My Life By Kate Carroll de Gutes (Two Sylvias Press)

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55. Gift/Specialty/Journal

GOLD The Historical Heroines Coloring Book: Pioneering Women in Science from the 18th and 19th Centuries By Elizabeth Lorayne; Illustrated by Kendra Shedenhelm (White Wave Press) SILVER I Will Always Love You By Melissa Lyons; Illustrated by Mary Cindrich (Choose to Choose Inc.) BRONZE Losing My Reflection: A Coloring Book Journal to Record Your Personal Grief Experience By Kim Owen Mazur (Beaver’s Pond Press)

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56. Holiday

GOLD The Santa Thief By Alane Adams; Illustrated by Lauren Gallegos (SparkPress) SILVER Fog Valley Winter: Pioneer Heritage, Backroad Rambles, & Vintage Recipes By Frances Rivetti (Fog Valley Press) BRONZE Chanukah Tales from Oykvetchnik By Scott Hilton Davis; Illustrations by Amy F. Levine (Jewish Storyteller Press)

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57. Health/Medicine/Nutrition

GOLD The Secret Life of Your Microbiome: Why Nature and Biodiversity are Essential to Health and Happiness By Susan L. Prescott, MD, PhD and Alan C. Logan, ND (New Society Publishers) SILVER Back to Balance: The Art, Science, and Business of Medicine By Dr. Halee Fischer-Wright (Disruption Books) BRONZE Food Truths From Farm to Table: 25 Surprising Ways to Shop & Eat Without Guilt By Michele Payn (Praeger)

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58. History (U.S.)

GOLD The Suffragents: How Women Used Men to Get the Vote By Brooke Kroeger (SUNY Press) SILVER Music at the White House from the 18th to the 21st Centuries By Elise K. Kirk (The White House Historical Association) BRONZE (tie) Lynched: The Power of Memory in a Culture of Terror By Angela D. Sims (Baylor University Press) Forgotten Under a Tropical Sun: War Stories by American Veterans in the Philippines, 1898-1913 By Joseph P. McCallus (Kent State University Press)

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59. History (World)

GOLD World War II and the Caribbean Edited by Karen E. Eccles and Debbie McCollin (University of the West Indies Press) SILVER The Blue Shirts: Adrien Arcand and Fascist Anti-Semitism in Canada By Hugues Théorêt (University of Ottawa Press) BRONZE (tie) The Truth of the Russian Revolution: The Memoirs of he Tsar’s Chief of Security and his Wife By Konstantin Ivanovich Globachev and Sofia Nikolaevna Globacheva (SUNY Press) The World Turns to War By Jay Wertz; foreword by Gerhard Weinberg, PhD (Monroe Publications)

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60. Home & Garden

GOLD The Holistic Home: Feng Shui for Mind, Body, Spirit, Space By Laura Benko (Helios Press) SILVER Boathouses of Lake Minnetonka Photography by Karen Melvin and Written by Melinda Nelson (Big Picture Press) BRONZE Garden Wisdom: 365 Days By Cheryl Wilfong (Heart Path Press)

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61. How-To (Crafts/Hobby/Industrial Arts)

GOLD Cold Wax Medium: Techniques, Concepts, & Conversations By Rebecca Crowell & Jerry McLaughlin (Squeegee Press) SILVER Dollface Vintage: An Everyday Gal’s Guide to a Vintage Lifestyle By Cherry Dollface (Working Class Publishing) BRONZE The Crochet Wildlife Guide: Amigurumi Techniques, Tips, and Patterns By Phillip Ha and Jeff Wiehler (Self-Published)

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62. Inspirational/Spiritual

GOLD To Be Soul Do Soul: Adventures in Creative Consciousness By Hiro Boga (Deva Publishing) SILVER Garden in the East: The Spiritual Life of the Body By Angela Doll Carlson (Ancient Faith Publishing) BRONZE Walking With Dogs: A Spiritual Journey By Marti Healy; illustrated by Mimi Durand Caroe (The Design Group Press)

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63. New Age/Mind-Body-Spirit GOLD Embracing the End of Life: A Journey Into Dying & Awakening By Patt Lind-Kyle, MA (Llewellyn Publications) SILVER The Year of Drinking Magic: Twelve Ceremonies With the Vine of Souls By Guy Crittenden (Apocryphile Press) BRONZE Change the Story of Your Health: Using Shamanic and Jungian Techniques for Healing By Carl Greer, PhD, PsyD (Findhorn Press)

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64. Parenting

GOLD 18 Master Values: Be the Parent You Wish You’d Had By Christine Crockett Smith (Kekuatan Satu Publishing) SILVER Born to Eat: Whole, Healthy Foods from Baby’s First Bite By Leslie Schilling, MA, RDN & Wendy Jo Peterson, MS, RDN (Skyhorse Publishing) BRONZE Stepparenting the Grieving Child: Cultivating Past and Present Connections with Children Who Have Lost a Parent By Diane Ingram Fromme (Merry Dissonance Press)

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65. Popular Culture

GOLD Marvel’s Black Panther: The Illustrated History of a King: The Complete Comics Chronology By Dennis Culver (Insight Editions) SILVER Playboy Laughs: The Comedy, Comedians, and Cartoons of Playboy By Patty Farmer (Beaufort Books) BRONZE Seeing, Selling, and Situating Radio in Canada, 1922-1956 By Michael Windover and Anne F. MacLennan (Dalhousie Architectural Press)

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66. Psychology/Mental Health

GOLD Uniquely Normal: Tapping the Reservoir of Normalcy to Treat Autism By Robert J. Bernstein with Robin Cantor-Cooke (Future Horizons) SILVER Baffled by Love: Stories of the Lasting Impact of Childhood Trauma Inflicted by Loved Ones By Laurie Kahn (She Writes Press) BRONZE A to Z Healing Toolbox: A Practical Guide for Navigating Grief and Trauma with Intention By Susan Hannifin-MacNab (Wise Ink Creative Publishing)

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67. Sports/Fitness/Recreation

GOLD Legendary Lumber: The Top 100 Player Bats in Baseball History By Joe Orlando with Tom Zappala and Ellen Zappala (Peter E. Randall Publisher) SILVER Rockne & Jones: Notre Dame, USC, and the Greatest Rivalry of the Roaring Twenties By Thomas Rupp (Kent State University Press) BRONZE Downhills Don’t Come Free: One Man’s Bike Ride From Alaska to Mexico By Jerry Holl (Wise Ink Creative Publishing)

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68. Reference

GOLD The Encyclopedia of Trade Goods: Vol 6 - Provisions of the Fur Trade By James A. Hanson (Museum of the Fur Trade) SILVER American Academy of Pediatrics Quick Reference Guide to Pediatric Care By Deepak M. Kamat, MD, PhD, FAAP (American Academy of Pediatrics) BRONZE The American Middle Class: An Economic Encyclopedia of Progress and Poverty Edited by Robert S. Rycroft (Greenwood)

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69. Religion (Eastern/Western)

GOLD (tie) The Last Christians: Stories of Persecution, Flight, and Resilience in the Middle East By Andreas Knapp (Plough Publishing House) Religious Agrarianism and the Return of Place: From Values to Practice in Sustainable Agriculture By Todd LeVasseur (SUNY Press) SILVER Truth and Illusion: The Politics of Spirituality and How One Person's Lie Is Another One's Truth By Carol E. Richardson (Highest Harmony Healing & Coaching) BRONZE Who Cut God's Hair By Garrett Glass (Self-Published)

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70. Science

GOLD UFOs, Chemtrails, and Aliens: What Science Says By Donald R. Prothero and Timothy D. Callahan (Indiana University Press) SILVER Rising Tides: Climate Refugees in the Twenty-First Century By John R. Wennersten and Denise Robbins (Indiana University Press) BRONZE North Dakota’s Geologic Legacy By John P. Bluemle (North Dakota State University Press)

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71. Self Help

GOLD Living Happy to Be Me!: Dancing Your Soul Lightstyle By Valerie René Sheppard (The Heart of Living Vibrantly) SILVER Swing for the Fences: Show Up. Dig In. Suck Less By Gregory Bancroft (Wise Ink Creative Publishing) BRONZE Mind To Mouth: A Busy Chick’s Guide to Mindful Mealtime Moments By Heather Sears (Kensho Press)

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72. Sexuality/Relationships

GOLD Watching Porn: And Other Confessions of an Adult Entertainment Journalist By Lynsey G. (The Overlook Press) SILVER Vegan Love: Dating and Partnering for the Cruelty-Free Gal, with Fashion, Makeup & Wedding Tips By Maya Gottfried; illustrated by Dame Darcy (Skyhorse Publishing) BRONZE Evolution of Loving By Carl Studna (Motivational Press)

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73. Transportation (Auto/Aviation/Railroad, etc.)

GOLD Red 4WD Tractors 1957-2017: High-Horsepower Four-Wheel-Drive Tractors from International Harvester, Steiger, J.I. Case & Case IH By Lee Klancher (Octane Press) SILVER Book of Gow By Mr. Bones, Ken Schmidt and Jon Suckling (Rolling Bones Hot Rod Shop) BRONZE Big History in Flight: From Drifting and Soaring to Flying and Deep Space Exploration By Wendy Curtis and Evan Penn Serio (GeoBook Studio)

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74. Travel – Essay

GOLD The World’s Most Travelled Man: A Twenty-Three-Year Odyssey to and Through Every Country on the Planet By Mike Spencer Bown (Douglas & McIntyre) SILVER Beyond Mile Zero: The Vanishing Alaska Highway Lodge Community By Lily Gontard; photography by Mark Kelly (Lost Moose) BRONZE Four Seasons in a Day: Travel, Transitions, and Letting Go of the Place We Call Home By Deborah L. Jacobs (DJWorking Unlimited Inc.)

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75. Travel – Guidebook

GOLD Hiking Acadia National Park: A Guide to the Park’s Greatest Hiking Adventures By Dolores Kong and Dan Ring (FalconGuides) SILVER Base Camp Las Vegas: 101 Hikes in the Southwest By Deborah Wall (Imbrifex Books) BRONZE Secret New Orleans By Chris Champagne (Jonglez Publishing)

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76. Women's Issues

GOLD Before All Memory is Lost: Women’s Voices from the Holocaust Edited by Myrna Goldenberg (The Azrieli Foundation) SILVER Gilded Suffragists: The New York Socialites who Fought for Women’s Right to Vote By Johanna Neuman (Washington Mews Books/NYU Press) BRONZE (tie) Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Nine Political Wives By Anne Michaud (Ogunquit-NY Press) #Me Too: Essays About How and Why This Happened, What it Means, and How to Make Sure it Never Happens Again Edited by Lori Perkins (Riverdale Avenue Books)

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77. Writing/Publishing

GOLD Write Like a Pro: Ten Techniques for Getting Your Point Across at Work (and in Life) By Carl Hausman (Praeger) SILVER How to Create a Successful Children’s Picture Book By Bobbie Hinman (Best Fairy Books) BRONZE Writing as a Path to Awakening: A Year to Becoming an Excellent Writer & Living an Awakened Life By Albert Flynn DeSilver (Sounds True)

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78. Book/Author/Publisher Website

GOLD www.Robot-Proof.com Robot-Proof: Higher Education in the Age of Artificial Intelligence By Joseph E. Aoun; web developer Derrick Henry (MIT Press) SILVER www.PonyDreams.com The Smallest Horse By Lorie List & Amanda Holbo (Pony Tales, LLC) BRONZE www.FortyGavels.com Forty Gavels: The Life of Reuben Soderstrom and the Illinois AFL-CIO By Carl Soderstrom, Robert Soderstrom, Chris Stevens, and Andrew Burt (CWS Publishing)

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79. Cover Design – Fiction

GOLD Jasper Wild: Book Three in the Dyed in the Green Series By George Mercer; cover design by Dan Stiles (Write Nature) SILVER The Atheist and the Parrotfish By Richard Barager; cover design by D. Robert Pease (Evolved Publishing) BRONZE Wild, Wild Voices: Everyday Rhymes for the Untamed Minds By Amy Lou Miller; Illustrations by Melinda Moen; Cover design by Sally Frances Lee (Second Swan Press)

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80. Cover Design – Non-Fiction

GOLD Derby Girl: A Memoir By Sammi Jones; cover designed by Jamie Hohnadel Trosen (North Dakota State University Press) SILVER (tie) Things that Join the Sea and the Sky: Field Notes on Living By Mark Nepo; cover design by Jennifer Miles (Sounds True) It’s Nice to Meet Me Too: The Laughter and Lessons Learned from Raising Randy, a Young Man with Tuberous Sclerosis By Cynthia Rust; cover design by Amy Ashford (Beaver’s Pond Press) BRONZE Can Everybody Swim? A Survival Story from Katrina’s Superdome By Bruce S. Snow; cover designed by Amy Ashford (Et Alia Press)

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81. Cover Design - Non-Fiction Oversize

GOLD Perfectly Aged: 40 Years of Stories from the Taste of Texas Designed by Limb Design - Elise DeSilva, Linda Limb, Kara Forage, Guillermo Cubillos; photography & styling by Debora Smail (Taste of Texas) SILVER Kanban: Traditional Shop Signs of Japan By Alan Scott Pate; design by Jeff Wincapaw; principal photography by Steve Oliver and iocolor, Seattle (Mingei International Museum / Princeton University Press) BRONZE Spring is Here By Nancy Jo Shaw; illustrated by Andrea Larson; design by Laura Drew (Beaver’s Pond Press)

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82. Best First Book - Fiction

GOLD (tie) Hollywood Homicide By Kellye Garrett (Midnight Ink) Alphonse By Carl Sever (SparkPress) SILVER Clown William By Robin Elno (IngramElliott Publishing) BRONZE In the Shadow of Light By Tracy Causley (The Amethyst Press)

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83. Best First Book - Non-Fiction

GOLD (tie) Armand Merizon: His Life and Art 1920-2010 By Muriel Zandstra with Jan Keessen and Randall VanderMey (ArtBookPrinting) Marcel’s Letters: A Font and the Search for One Man’s Fate By Carolyn Porter (Skyhorse Publishing) SILVER Go Tell the Crocodiles: Chasing Prosperity in Mozambique By Rowan Moore Gerety (The New Press) BRONZE Kitchen Table Tarot: Pull up a Chair, Shuffle the Cards, and Let’s Talk Tarot By Melissa Cynova (Llewellyn Publications)