2023 NAUTILUS WINNERS Categories 11-20
11. DEATH & DYING / GRIEF & LOSS (LARGE PRESS) | GOLD WINNERS
Grief is Love
Marisa Renee Lee
Legacy Lit
Soulbroken: A Guidebook for Your Journey Through Ambiguous Grief
Stephanie SarazinGCP Balance
11. DEATH & DYING / GRIEF & LOSS (LARGE PRESS) | SILVER WINNERS
Touching Two Worlds: A Guide for Finding Hope in the Landscape of Loss
Sherry Walling
Sounds True
What's Your Grief?
Eleanor Haley, Litsa Williams
Quirk Books
11. DEATH & DYING / GRIEF & LOSS (SMALL PRESS) | GOLD WINNER
Earth Grief: The Journey Into and Through Ecological Loss
Stephen Harrod Buhner
Raven Press
11. DEATH & DYING / GRIEF & LOSS (SMALL PRESS) | SILVER WINNERS
Doing Grief in Real Life: A Soulful Guide to Navigate Loss, Death & Change
Shea Darian
Gilead Press
Sacred Sendoffs: An Animal Chaplain’s Advice For Surviving Animal Loss, Making Life Meaningful, & Healing The Planet
Sarah A. Bowen
Monkfish Book Publishing
11. DEATH & DYING / GRIEF & LOSS - FOCUSED TOPIC: MEMOIR | GOLD WINNER
A Daughter's Kaddish: My Year of Grief, Devotion, and Healing
Sarah Birnbach
Wonderwell
11. DEATH & DYING / GRIEF & LOSS - FOCUSED TOPIC: MEMOIR | SILVER WINNERS
An Eight Year Goodbye
Maryanne V Scott
Page Publishing
The Difference Between Seeds and Stones
Rondi Lightmark
Lightmark Arts
Let Yourself Be Loved: Big Lessons from a Little Life
Elizabeth Leon
Koehler Books
11. DEATH & DYING / GRIEF & LOSS - FOCUSED TOPIC: LIFE AFTER DEATH | GOLD WINNERS
At Heaven's Door
William J. Peters
Simon and Schuster
Love Dad
Mike Anthony
Self Published
11. DEATH & DYING / GRIEF & LOSS - FOCUSED TOPIC: LIFE AFTER DEATH | SILVER WINNERS
No Beginning No End
Terry Gordon
Self Published
Wake Me When You Leave
Elisa Donovan
Llewellyn Publications
11. DEATH & DYING / GRIEF & LOSS - FOCUSED TOPIC: POETRY | SILVER WINNERS
Evening Light
Jemi Reis McDonald
Mandorla Books
Whispers from Her Deathbed: A Posthumous Poetry Collection
Janavi Held - Author, Catherine L. Schweig-Editor, Landis Blair-Illustr
Golden Dragonfly Press
12. HEALTH, HEALING & WELLNESS | GOLD WINNERS
Beyond Medicine: A Physician's Revolutionary Prescription for Achieving Absolute Health and Finding Inner Peace
Patricia A. Muehsam, MD
New World Library
Healthy Heart, Healthy Brain
Bradley Bale, Amy Doneen
Little, Brown Spark
12. HEALTH, HEALING & WELLNESS | SILVER WINNERS
Reclaiming Wellness: Ancient Wisdom for Your Healthy, Happy, and Beautiful Life
Jovanka Ciares
Alfred A. Knopf, Penguin New World Library
The Pain Solution: 5 Steps to Relieve and Prevent Back Pain, Muscle Pain, and Joint Pain without Medication
Saloni Sharma, MD, FAAPMR, LAc
New World Library
You Finished Treatment, Now What? A Field Guide for Cancer Survivors
Dr. Amy Rothenberg
Koehler Books
12.HEALTH, HEALING & WELLNESS (SMALL PRESS) | GOLD WINNER
Your Health Is at Risk: How to Navigate Information Chaos to Prevent Lifestyle Diseases
John Poothullil, MD, FRCP
New Insights Press
12.HEALTH, HEALING & WELLNESS (SMALL PRESS) | SILVER WINNER
The Physics and Poetry of Eastern Herbal Medicine
Judyth Shamosh, PhD
Pure Carbon Publishing
13. HEROIC JOURNEYS | GOLD WINNER
A Place Called Home
David Ambroz
Legacy Lit
Terra Viva
Vandana Shiva
Chelsea Greenk
13. HEROIC JOURNEYS | SILVER WINNERS
Labor Under Siege: Big Bob McEllrath and the ILWU's Fight for Organized Labor in an AntiUnion Era
Harvey Schwartz, Ronald E. Magden
University of Washington Press
The Ones Who Remember: Second-Generation Voices of the Holocaust
Rita Benn, Julie Goldstein Ellis, Joy Wolfe Ensor, Ruth Wade
City Point Press
The Movement Made Us
David J. Dennis Jr.
HarperCollins
Thirty-Five Days To Baltimore
Alexis Portillo, Jana Laiz
Crow Flies Press
14. INNER PROSPERITY & RIGHT LIVELIHOOD | GOLD WINNERS
Doorways to Transformation: Everyday Wisdom for the Creative Soul
Karen Kinney
Winged Bird Press
The Light We Give: How Sikh Wisdom Can Transform Your Life
Simran Jeet Singh
Riverhead Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House
14. INNER PROSPERITY & RIGHT LIVELIHOOD | SILVER WINNERS
911 From Your Soul
Jeanine Thompson
WorldChangers Media
The Liminal Odyssey, The Alchemical Power of The Spaces In-Between
Sande Hart
Self Published
Winning in Your Own Court: 10 Laws for a Successful Career without Burning Out or Selling Out
Dena Lefkowitz
ABA Book Publishing
15. JOURNALISM & INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING | GOLD WINNER
By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners
Margaret A. Burnham
W.W. Norton & Company
15. JOURNALISM & INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING | SILVER WINNERS
Ethically Challenged: Private Equity Storms U.S. Health Care
Laura Katz Olson
Johns Hopkins Press
Somewhere Sisters: A Story of Adoption, Identity, and the Meaning of Family
Erika Hayasaki
Algonquin Books
The Founders: The Story of Paypal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley
Jimmy Soni
Simon & Schuster, Adult
15. FOCUSED TOPIC: CRIMINAL JUSTICE | SILVER WINNER
Free
Lauren Kessler
Sourcebooks
15. FOCUSED TOPIC: ENVIRONMENTAL | GOLD WINNER
Paradise Falls: The True Story of an Environmental Catastrophe
Keith O'Brien
Pantheon Books
15. FOCUSED TOPIC: ENVIRONMENTAL | SILVER WINNER
Tree Thieves
Lyndsie Bourgon
Little, Brown Spark
16A. MEMOIR & PERSONAL JOURNEY (SMALL PRESS) | GOLD WINNERS
A Little Bit of Land
Jessica Gigot
Oregon State University Press
The Answers Are There: Building Peace From the Inside Out
Libby Hoffman
Greenleaf Book Group
16A. MEMOIR & PERSONAL JOURNEY (SMALL PRESS) | SILVER WINNERS
Hello Universe, It’s Me
Deepika Sandhu
The Akipeed Company
Living While Human
Arwinder Kaur
Tellwell Talent
Rewilding: A Woman's Quest to Remember Her Roots, Rekindle Her Instincts, and Reclaim Her Sovereignty
Kristy M. Vanacore, Psy.D
Sacred Stories Publishing
16B. MEMOIR & PERSONAL JOURNEY (LARGE PUBLISHER) | GOLD WINNERS
Living a Committed Life
Lynne Twist
Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Tuesdays in Jail: What I Learned Teaching Journaling to Inmates
Tina Welling
New World Library
20. PSYCHOLOGY / MENTAL & EMOTIONAL WELL-BEING (SMALL PRESS) | SILVER WINNERS
Deaf Utopia
Nyle DiMarco
William Morrow
SURVIVING: Why We Stay and How We Leave Abusive Relationships
Beverly Gooden
Rowman & Littlefield
The Raven's Nest
Sarah Thomas
Atlantic Books
16. FOCUSED TOPIC: MEMOIR IN ESSAYS | GOLD WINNERS
Wolf Tree: An Ecopsychological Memoir in Essays
Heather Durham
Homebound Publications
Dear Dana: That time I went crazy and wrote all 580 of my Facebook friends a handwritten letter
Amy Weinland Daughters
She Writes Press
16. FOCUSED TOPIC: MEMOIR IN ESSAYS | SILVER WINNERS
Apertures: Findings from a Rural Life
Mary B. Kurtz
Shanti Arts Publishing
In Between Places: A Memoir in Essays
Lucy Bryan
Homebound Publication
Ordinary Sacred: Farewell to the Soul Artist Journal
L.R. Heartsong
Hearthside Press
16. FOCUSED TOPIC: TRAVEL MEMOIR | GOLD WINNER
Refraction: An Arctic Memoir
Bruce Rettig
Wayfarer Books
16. FOCUSED TOPIC: TRAVEL MEMOIR | SILVER WINNERS
Bike Riding in Kabul: The Global Adventures of a Foreign Aid Practitioner
Jamie Bowman
Boyle & Dalton
To Travel Well, Travel Light. An Adventure Memoir of Living Abroad and Letting Go of Life's Trappings: Material Possessions, Cultural Blinders, and a Patriarchal Christian World View
Mary Coday Edwards
SBNR Press
Who Will Accompany You? My Mother-Daughter Journeys Far From Home and Close to the Heart
Meg Stafford, Kate Stafford, Gale Stafford
Green Leaf Press
16. FOCUSED TOPIC: ADDICTION RECOVERY MEMOIR | GOLD WINNER
Rock Bottom and Rising
Simon Chapple
Sheldon Press
16. FOCUSED TOPIC: ADDICTION RECOVERY MEMOIR | SILVER WINNER
Choosing Life: One man’s journey through alcoholism and depression to wellness and self-discovery
Blue Andrews
Luminare Press
16. MEMOIR & PERSONAL JOURNEY - FOCUSED TOPIC: RESILIENCE THROUGH HARDSHIP/ILLNESS | GOLD WINNER
A Fraction Stronger
Mark Berridge
Major Street Publishing
16. MEMOIR & PERSONAL JOURNEY - FOCUSED TOPIC: RESILIENCE THROUGH HARDSHIP/ILLNESS | SILVER WINNER
My Pain-Body Solution: A Journey to the Other Side of Suffering
Michael J. Murray
Greenleaf Book Group / River Grove Books
16. FOCUSED TOPIC: MEDICAL MEMOIRS | GOLD WINNERS
Fighting For Air
Ola Didrik Saugstad
Self Published
The Medical Jungle
Frank J. Veith, MD
Amplify Publishing
16. FOCUSED TOPIC: MEDICAL MEMOIRS | SILVER WINNERS
Embrace Grace: New Medicine for a Wounded World
Arlene Santos McCain
Bookbaby
Healing: When a Nurse Becomes a Patient
Theresa Brown
Algonquin Books
Making the Rounds: Defying Norms in Love and Medicine
Patricia Grayhall
She Writes Press
16. FOCUSED TOPIC: RELIGIOUS/SPIRITUAL MEMOIR | GOLD WINNER
A Place at the Table
Jo Swinney, Miranda Harris
Hodder Faith
16. FOCUSED TOPIC: RELIGIOUS/SPIRITUAL MEMOIR | SILVER WINNERS
Crooked Lines: A Single Mom's Jewish Journey
Jenna Zark
Koehler Books
Dearest Sister Wendy ... A Surprising Story of Faith and Friendship
Sister Wendy Beckett, Robert Ellsberg
Orbis Books
On Pilgrimage: The Seventies
Dorothy Day, Robert Ellsberg (editor)
Orbis Books
17. MULTICULTURAL & INDIGENOUS | GOLD WINNERS
A Drum in One Hand, a Sockeye in the Other
Charlotte Coté
University of Washington Press
A Sky of Infinite Blue- A Japanese Immigrant's Search for Home and Self
Kyomi O'Connor
She Writes Press
17. MULTICULTURAL & INDIGENOUS | SILVER WINNERS
Last Days in Naked Valley: The Struggle for Humanity's Homeland
Edward DeMarco
Afrologi Media LLC
Send Her Back and Other Stories
Munashe Kaseke
Mukana Press
18. PARENTING & FAMILY | GOLD WINNERS
How the World is Making Our Children Mad and What to Do About It
Louis Weinstock
Penguin Random House UK
Parent Nation: Unlocking Every Child's Potential, Fulfilling Society's Promise
Dana Suskind; with Lydia Denworth
Penguin Random House
18. PARENTING & FAMILY | SILVER WINNERS
Very Intentional Parenting: Awakening the Empowered Parent Within
Destini Ann Davis
DK; Alpha
Zen Parenting: Caring for Ourselves and Our Children in an Unpredictable World
Cathy Cassani Adams
Hachette Go
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The Sears Baby Book (New and Expanded)
William Sears, Martha Sears, Robert Sears, James Sears
Little, Brown Spark
18. SPECIAL TOPIC: ECO-PARENTING | GOLD WINNER
Finding Ecohappiness: Fun Nature Activities to Help Your Kids Feel Happier and Calmer
Sandi Schwartz
Quill Driver Books (An Imprint of Linden Publishing)
18. SPECIAL TOPIC: ECO-PARENTING | SILVER WINNERS
Baby Ecology: Using Science and Intuition to Create the Best Feeding, Sleep, and Play Environment for Your Unique Baby
Anya Dunham
Encradled Press
Blossoming the Child: A Guide to Child-Friendly Parenting
Tamarack Song
Snow Wolf Publishing
19A. PERSONAL GROWTH & SELF-HELP (SMALL PRESS) | GOLD WINNERS
Reclaiming the Sacred: Healing Our Relationships with Ourselves and the World
Jeff Golden
Self Published
2023 Grand Winner
The Half-Known Life: What Matters Most When You're Running Out of Time
Ryan Lindner
Koehler Books
19A. PERSONAL GROWTH & SELF HELP (SMALL PRESS) | SILVER WINNERS
Endless Awakening: Time, Paradox, and the Path to Enlightenment
Patrick Paul Garlinger
Monkfish Book Publishing Company
Stepping Out of the Shadows: Naming and Claiming the Medial Woman Today
Roberta Bassett Corson , Jeanie Tomanek- cover art
Mandorla Books
Life Re-Vision: A Journey to Rediscover Your Core, Reinvent Yourself, and Renew Your Future Vision
Anamaria Aristizabal
Succulent Publishing
The Stress Book: Forty-Plus Ways to Manage Stress & Enjoy Your Life
D. Terrence Foster, MD.
Global Health & Consortium
19B. PERSONAL GROWTH & SELF HELP (LARGE PRESS) | GOLD WINNERS
Get It Done
Ayelet Fishbach
Little, Brown Spark
Wonder Seeker: 52 Ways to Wake up Your Creativity and Find Your Joy
Andrea Scher
HarperDesign
19B. PERSONAL GROWTH & SELF HELP (LARGE PRESS) | SILVER WINNERS
All for Love
Matt Kahn
Sounds True
Own Your Opportunities: A Story of Self-Discovery and Self-determination
Juliet Hall
Post Hill Press
Keep the Memories, Lose the Stuff: Declutter, Downsize, and Move Forward with Your Life
Matt Paxton, Jordan Michael Smith
Portfolio - an imprint of Penguin Random House L.L.C
The Change Guidebook - How to Align Your Heart, Truths, and Energy to Find Success in All Areas of Your Life
Elizabeth Hamilton-Guarino
HCI Books
20. PSYCHOLOGY / MENTAL & EMOTIONAL WELL-BEING (LARGE PRESS) | GOLD WINNERS
Brain Energy
Christopher M. Palmer, MD
BenBella Books
Ride or Die
Shanita Hubbard
Legacy Lit
20. PSYCHOLOGY / MENTAL & EMOTIONAL WELL-BEING (LARGE PRESS) | SILVER WINNERS
Emotional Inheritance
Galit Atlas, PhD
Little, Brown Spark
Reassembling Models of Reality
Aldrich Chan
W.W. Norton
Worth The Risk
Kristen Lee, EdD LICSW
Sounds True
20. PSYCHOLOGY / MENTAL & EMOTIONAL WELL-BEING (SMALL PRESS) | SILVER WINNERS
Lyra
Emily Franchini
Self Published
Uncaged: Trauma Recovery Using Facet Integration Technique
Sparrow Spaulding
Cage Free Press