2024 Pacific Book Award Winners & Finalists

 

 

 

 

Best Adventure

1. Winner – The Rogue Intruder – By: Frederick Jamison
2. Finalist –StormCatcher – By: Linda Eketoft

 

 

 

 

 

Best Biography

1.Winner – CCNY Made:  Profiles in Grit – By: Ronnyjane Goldsmith
2.Finalist – Housewife Assassin: The Woman Who Tried to Kill President Ford– By:  Geri Spieler

 

 

 

 

 

Best Business

1. Winner – The Doctor‘s Voice: Empowering Solutions to Physicians’ Frustrations, Burnout and Healthcare Inefficiencies – By:  Dr. Pietro Emanuele Garbelli
2. Finalist – A Leap to an Ecological Economy – By:  Derek Paul

 

 

 

 

 

Best Children’s Book

1. Winner – One Bright Ring – By: Gretchen Géser 
2. Finalist – Terry and Freddie  – By:  Mark Albini

 

 

 

 

 

Best Children’s Picture Book 5 and Younger

1. Winner – Timothy Gets Stuck – By:  Mark Lawrence
2. Finalist – The Swing on Ginny’s Porch – By:  Brenda Jenkins 

 

 

 

 

 

Best Children’s Picture book 6 and older

1.Winner – May I Come to Your Party? – Grace Wolf
2.Finalist – The Adventures of Professor Poodle & Auggie: Let’s Collect the Alphabet – By:  Mark Vogel

 

 

 

 

 

 

Best Christian Fiction 

1. Winner –  Kaleidoscope of Being – By:  Jennifer Toth
2. Finalist –  Overwhelming Victories in all these Difficulties – By Tamie Johnson

 

 

 

 

 

Best Current Events & Politics

1. Winner – Undermining the U.S. Constitution –  By: Diane S. Vann
2. Finalist – Wake up America – Water and Energy (WE) – By:  Charlie Pedersen

 

 

 

 

 

Best Education

1.Winner – Win the Talent Game: A Guide to Lateral Hiring for Law Firms and Lawyers – By: Richard Brock
2.Finalist – Why History Matters: American History Educators Speak Out  – Patrick Riccards

 

 

 

 

 

Best Fantasy

1.  Winner – The Secrets of Shadowcrest– – By:  Lance McColgan
2. Finalist –  The Future is a Memory – By:  C.M. Ross

 

 

 

 

 

Best Fiction

1. Winner – 180 Days – By: Alfredo Botello
2.Finalist –  Echoes of the Past – By:  Maya Mitra Das 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Best New Fiction

1. Winner –  Switchling– By: S G Fessel
2.Finalist –  The Goldie Standard – Simi Monheit

 

 

 

 

 

Best Health

1. Winner –  Good Health and Meaningful Travel with Dr. Chun – By:  Dr. John Chun 
2. Finalist – Help Yourself to Ultimate Health – By: Abdel Jaleel Nuriddin, ND, PhD.

 

 

 

 

 

Best Historical Fiction
1. Winner – The River of Eternity – By: Bruce Balfour
2.Finalist –  The Reversible Mask:  An Elizabethan Spy Novel – By:  Loretta Goldberg

 

 

 

 

 

Best Inspirational



1.Winner – Are You Ready?: How to Build a Legacy to Die For – By: Kimberly Harms
2.Finalist – Follow Me Still – By:  Wendy Litwinski

 

 

 

 

 

Best Memoir

1. Winner – Rottenkid:  A Succulent Story of Survival – By: Brigit Binns
2. Finalist – One Bad Mother: A Mother’s Search for Meaning in the Police Academy – By: Megan Williams

 

 

 

 

 

 

Best Non-Fiction 

1 Winner – Inheritance of Crises and Dysfunction – By:  James J. Maiwurm 
2.Finalist – I’d Rather Be Dead Than Deaf – By:  E. Adrienne Wilson

 

 

 

 

 

Best Paranormal

1 Winner – Xenopsychology:  Deciphering the Minds of the Cosmos – By:  Dr. Scott Flagg
2.Finalist – Extinguishing Shadows:  A New Adult Paranormal Fantasy – By:  Heather Beal

 

 

 

 

 

Best Philosophy

1.Winner –  Dialogues with the Wise Woman – By:  Richard Todd Devens
2.Finalist –  More than a Vision: A Plan for America’s Future – By:  Frank Fini 

 

 

 

 

 

Best Psychology

1.Winner –  The Fragility of Light  – By:  Heather S. Lonczak, Ph.D
2.Finalist – Belle and Chloe – Reflections in the Mirror – By:  Isabela Sardas, Ph.D.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Best Poetry

1.  Winner –   Some Organized Chaos: (Poetry and Such)– By: Tumbleweed
2.  Finalist – Odes from the heart – By: Betty Gutzmer Denson

 

 

 

 

 

Best Political

1.  Winner – Shrink Government: It’s Too Big!  – By: Archie Richards
2.  Finalist – Danger Close:  Domestic Extremist # 1 Comes Clean – By:  Patrick Byrne

 

 

 

 

 

Best Reference

1. Winner – Foundation Repair Secrets:  Learn How to Protect Yourself and Save Thousands – By:  Robert K. Brown 
2. Finalist – First Year Calculus: An Inquiry-Based Learning Approach (Second Edition) – By: Clement E. Falbo 

 

 

 

 

 

Best Religious

1. Winner – When Lambs Become Lions – By:  Connie Zeno
2. Finalist – The Future of our Nation – By: Alvin R. Ervin

 

 

 

 

 

Best Spirituality

1. Winner – God is My Super Hero – By:  Arvella Edwards  
2. Finalist – Salutations from Heaven: Dear Lord ..My Child… – By:  Debra Harper

 

 

 

 

 

Best Romance

1. Winner – The Dream Guy– By: Villincia Patrick
2. Finalist – The Next Breath– By: Laurel Osterkamp

 

 

 

 

 

Best Science Fiction

1. Winner – Winds of Eruna, Book One: A Flight of Wings– By:  Kathy Hyatt Moore
2. Finalist – Last Days of Coltish – By:  C L Roberts
 

 

 

 

Best Self-Help

1. Winner – With Love As love is – By:  G. Bradley
2. Finalist – Sport:  A Stage for Life – By: Cristiana Pinciroli

 

 

 

 

 

Best Short Stories

1. Winner – The Art of Dying and other Stories – By:  Mike Corwin
2. Finalist – 25 Days of Roses  – By:  Mellanie Crouell

 

 

 

 

 

Best Suspense

1. Winner – Driving For Justice  – By:  Justin K. Kojok
2. Finalist – Out of Habit: Sometimes we dare to change the things we do strictly… – By:  Kathleen Dutton

 

 

 

 

 

Best Thriller

1. Winner – The Fascination: Money, Power, Greed, Sex, Fear, Addiction – By:  Bob Renterson
2. Finalist – Hemingway‘s Treasure: Cam Derringer Series Book 5 – By:  Mac Fortner

 

 

 

 

 

Best Travel

1. Winner – Delaware from Railways to Freeways: First State, Second Phase– By:  Dave Table
2. Finalist – How to Understand and Talk Like a Jamaican – By:  Anthony MC Laughlin 

 

 

 

 

 

Best Young Adult

1. Winner –  Bad Loves Strikes – BY:  Kevin L. Schewe, MD, FACRO
2. Finalist – Erift’s Journeys:  Secrets of The Sealed Forest  – By:  J.T. Tenera

 

 

 

 

 

Best Westerns

1. Winner – Sins of the Past: A Western Novel of Forgiveness and Faith – By:  Bethany Klassen
2. Finalist – Eleven Stolen Horses – By:  Robin Somers