Nina Hamberg, Book Award Coordinator

Best Memoir: Larry Jacobson, “The Boy Behind the Gate”

Best Overall Design: David Grove, “An Illustrated Life”

Best Literary Fiction: A.V. Walters, “The Emma Caites Way”

Best Fiction: Carol Sheldon, “Mother Lode”

Best Book: Susan Pace-Koch, “Get Out of My Head

The Full List of Winners

Nonfiction

Best Advice/Self-Help:  Juliane Cortino, “Nothing Can Scare Me Now”

Best Memoir: Larry Jacobson, “The Boy Behind the Gate”

Best Military History: Kristin Baron & John Martini, “Fort Baker Through the Years”

Best Reference: Wolfgang Lederer, “Disorder and Early Love: the eroticism of Thomas Mann”

Fiction

Best Fiction: Carol Sheldon, “Mother Lode”

Best Educational Children’s: Surrey Blackburn, “Pip: Grandma’s Coming to Stay” (awarded posthumously)

Best Historical Fiction: Barbara Reichmuth Geisler, “In Vain”

Best Genre Fiction: Robbi  Sommers Bryant, “The Beautiful Evil”

Best Literary Fiction: A.V. Walters, “The Emma Caites Way”

Overall

Best Cover: David Gregory and John Bear, “Mendocino”

Best Overall Design: David Grove, “An Illustrated Life”

Best Book: Susan Pace-Koch, “Get Out of My Head