Winner Nonfiction: Cross-Genre 2022 Best Book Awards
Barbers and beauticians are expertly positioned to have a hand on the pulse of their communities—and Barnard the Barber is no exception. Learning from his village as the barber, the author shares those lessons learned on how we can liberate the rural South by building antiracist communities everywhere. This book provides actionable steps that each of us can take, in righteous indignation, to sign our own Emancipation Proclamations!
Finalist Nonfiction: Cross-Genre 2022 Best Book Awards
In this clear and accessible book, Dr. Linda Seger takes us on a journey through the images that represent the qualities of Linear Thinking, Circle Thinking, and Spiral Thinking. She arrives at the intricate images of Web Thinking, which combines the line, the circle, and the spiral. This is a metaphor for the elegant, complex bonds that are represented by the spider web, the interconnected model that makes up the World Wide Web, and our relational and social connections with each other.
Drawing upon science, history, archaeology, business models, aviation, the military, the arts, and theology, this insightful book shows us a path for the future. This model has been proven to be more joyful and more effective and can influence all aspects of our work and our relational, social, and spiritual lives.
Finalist Nonfiction: Cross-Genre 2022 Best Book Awards
His abusive family tore him away from her. Would destiny be enough to bring him back?
At ten years old, Chris didn't have good looks, a caring family, or a bright future. But what he did have for three years was the love of Danielle, his beautiful neighbor on Fairhaven Street who showed him a glimpse of a life he desperately wanted.
To escape his abusive father, Chris was forced to move out of state with his mother to the icy hills of Michigan. All he could leave Danielle with was half of a heart-shaped pendant and a promise that he would one day return for her. To have any chance of getting her back, he had to end over one hundred years of abuse in his family, something his family claimed he was destined to carry on. All he had to keep him going was his half of the pendant, which tarnished over the years from his refusal to take it off.
Finalist Nonfiction: Cross-Genre 2022 Best Book Awards
From the Author: "Let me offer an early disclaimer. I know exactly who the Founders were. I know exactly the crimes against humanity that they were responsible for and those they inherited and were not responsible for. I do not spend time extolling the virtues of Mr. Jefferson, Mr. Adams, Mr. Franklin, and Mr. Madison. Nothing in this work or in my experiment (my life's work) can change the fact or alter the history of the debasement of humanity that preceded the Declaration of Independence (1776), the Constitution (1787), and the Bill of Rights (1791) they were a part of and the obvious fact that the major accomplishment of the Founders' theories about self-government did not apply to African Americans and Native Americans, women, and specifically Black women in their thinking.
Still, there exists in their theological imagination infinite hope for their experiment. This work seeks to identify the evidence that shows and suggests that some of them were aware of a grand architectural experiment and design for the nation and its future.
Every cracked, broken, and imperfect vessel can be used to bring forward hope. I am a personal witness to this fact of human existence."
Finalist Nonfiction: Cross-Genre 2022 Best Book Awards
Voices of Diversity is a collection of poetry that encapsulates the features of social interactions. Each poem tells a story of the struggles, pains, challenges, and victories we record in our daily lives in our quest for love, inclusion, and acceptance.
This compilation seeks to help every young adult identify their voice and personality in a constantly evolving society. It endeavors to encourage this unique set of individuals to discover themselves, know where they belong in the world, and learn how they can contribute their significant quota and desired changes wherever they find themselves.
Finalist Nonfiction: Cross-Genre 2022 Best Book Awards
Zen (and Rage) is Marcia Formica’s first, and perhaps forever only book. It’s a humorous and sometimes harrowing account of surviving and even thriving through a decade-long home renovation project co-produced with her husband. This is the story of the monumental project they undertook to morph their adorable little colonial reproduction home into an energy-efficient, sustainability-minded house over twice the size in just over three times the original timeframe—with almost no lasting loss of sanity.
