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As you know, one of our key missions over the past six years here at Kindle Nation has been to help emerging and independent writers of distinction connect with and find audience among you, the greatest readers in the world.
In keeping with that mission, we were happy to co-sponsor the 2013 Best Indie Book Awards. A team of judges associated with the Kindle Book Review chose eight category winners from among hundreds of entries, and the results are in. It’s a treat to share the winning titles with out readers, and we hope you will take the time to check them out!
Sci-Fi/Fantasy Winner
Earth Tones (Elemental Magic)
By Angela Wallace
Nita Young doesn’t know if she has a future with college sweetheart
Keenan Donovan—two star-crossed lovers of opposing elements—but she
invites him up to Alaska to see if Earth and Water can rekindle their
old flame.
When a series of wild animal attacks strike the inhabitants of
Yakutat, Nita has to put her romantic plans on hold. Mangled bodies are
turning up, and a mysterious black panther has been spotted in the
woods. Fur, scales, and a venomous bite suggest the cat is supernatural
in origin—and evidence indicates that someone not only summoned it, but
is using it to target those Nita cares about. It’s the perfect murder
weapon: no fingerprints, no evidence. And in a town this small, the
killer is someone she knows.
Nita’s strength will be put to the test as she faces losing her friends, her town, and the man she loves.
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Literary Fiction Winner:
Don’t Tell Anyone
By Laurie Boris
A family accidentally learns that their matriarch, Estelle, not only has breast cancer but also intended to take it to her grave. Now that the secret is out, Estelle decides to ask Liza, the daughter-in-law she once called a godless hippie raised by wolves, to kill her. A horrified Liza refuses but keeps the request from her husband and his brother. As the three adult children urge Estelle to consider treatment, their complicated weave of family secrets and lies begins to unravel. Can they hold their own lives together long enough to help Estelle with hers?
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Young Adult Winner:
Jump/Drive
By Rich Griffith
When a sink hole swallows up a small mid-western town’s mall three teens
decide to find out what happened and let the world know about the
secret underground in their small corner of the world.
Relationships are explored, old friendships deepened, and unlikely friendships formed
in the backdrop of conspiracy and adventure created by the disaster.
Adolescents bring all sorts of strange ideas to sex, love, and how those two are
related, but when there is past sexual abuse in the picture the strange
ideas can be even stranger and then at night, when the lights are off
and they can’t see each other’s faces, sometimes, they’ll talk about it
and learn things about themselves, and each other.
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Mystery/Thriller Winner:
PLUMMET: A Novel
By MICHAEL ZAROCOSTAS
Working in a big law firm is murder.
Want to find out for yourself?
Then take the plunge…Micah
Grayson is an eager rookie fresh out of law school. Raphael Bianco is a
degenerate senior associate who’s never met a temptation he could
resist. Gabe Weiss is a millionaire senior partner who has a dream life.
All three are litigators at Sullivan & Adler, the most powerful law
firm in Manhattan. Two of them share a lover. One of them will kill in
cold blood. But who is his victim? A dark why-dun-it set in the
backstabbing conference rooms of corporate law.
MICHAEL ZAROCOSTAS is represented by the Ann Rittenberg Literary Agency, which also represents New York Times bestselling authors such as DENNIS LEHANE (Mystic River, Shutter Island, The Given Day), PAUL DOIRON (Bad Little Falls), and C.J. BOX (Blue Heaven).
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Non-Fiction Winner:
The Contract of Love
By José Chaves
Growing up with a Colombian father for whom magical realism was a way of
life made ordinary reality feel like an immigrant experience for author
Jose Chaves, who was born in the U.S. but—as his father would
insist—“made in Colombia!”
That experience comes alive like a movie on the page in The Contract
of Love, a memoir about family that is both hilarious and
heartbreaking. Chaves’ straightforward style turns the familiar exotic
and makes the unfamiliar feel like home as he takes readers on a
cultural journey from small-town, muscle-car America to the Chaves
family farm in Colombia, where the cow is named Lyndon Johnson, and an
emotional journey from his father’s volatile world where unrequited love
is sung out loud in restaurants, to a fraternity where the most
important rule is to never reveal your feelings to another guy in
public.With tenderness, humor, and hypnotic clarity, Chaves explores the
landscape of love that holds us together, beyond the addictions that
bind us—from the broken faith that sends a boy spiraling down, to the
grace that finds the man.
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Romance Winner:
Your Gift to Me
By Bonnie Bartel Latino and Bob Vale
What would you get if Stephen Ambrose, Patricia Cornwell, and Max
Lucado teamed up to create a story? The result, I suspect, would turn
out to be something very close to the compelling narrative found in YOUR
GIFT TO ME.” - NY Times best-selling author, Andy Andrews
Emotionally scarred years after her husband died in a fiery Special
Operations helicopter crash, Gulf War widow and Alabamian, Emily Ann
Meade, is having a near-life-experience. She clings to her vow never to
get involved with another man committed to a dangerous profession …
until she meets F-16 pilot, Ted Foley, in Hawaii. Although they are
mutually attracted, the charismatic widower’s fighter wing in Japan
recently lost two pilots in unexplained air crashes.Allowing
her mind to wander through fields of dreams on which she can’t afford
the emotional mortgage, Emily lowers her barriers. She discovers Ted’s
greatest virtue: he makes the ordinary feel sacred. Healing in shared
confidences solidifies their bond. When another crash reignites her
fears, the relationship shatters. Unless Emily finds a path through her
emotional minefields, she risks never discovering she is rejecting the
only type of man to whom she is genuinely attracted, a man who leads by
example and from the front. And that man’s life could be in danger! Like
STEEL MAGNOLIAS and TOP GUN, this inspirational love story and mystery
celebrates the human spirit’s capacity to triumph over tragedy.
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Short Fiction Winner:
Just One Day
By Sharla Lovelace
Fans of both contemporary romance and women’s fiction will love this
smart, witty, and beautiful short novella from national bestselling
author Sharla Lovelace. If you like Susan Elizabeth Philips, Susan
Mallery, or Sarah Addison Allen you’re going to fall in love with this
author.
She has nothing but time . . .Twenty-four hours.
That’s how long Andie Fremont has to say yes–or no. At forty-four with
a daughter in college, she’s no young kitten with starry-eyed ideas of
what love is. Still, when the man who is everything she should want pops
the question with a ring he knows isn’t her style, during a party she
didn’t want to have, Andie balks. Something tells her that it isn’t
right.Looking to clear her head, Andie hits the Texas highway
in search of an answer. And when she stumbles upon an old roadside diner
she decides waffles might be it, at least for now. What she didn’t
expect to find was Jesse Montgomery. The man who stole her heart and
broke it all in one day, two decades earlier.As a Texas-size storm takes shape outside, the electricity between Andie and Jesse
builds inside. Suddenly Andie is faced with more than just yes or no. As
the storm clears there are two men who will want answers.
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Suspense/Horror Winner:
The Answer to Your Question
By Paulette Alden
After raising her son, Ben, by herself, librarian Inga Daudelin is
blindsided when he is accused of the murders of four young women. At the
same time, Jean, a young, pregnant waif who seems both simple and wise,
“imprints” on Inga at work, drawing her into an unusual friendship.
When Ben kidnaps Jean, Inga and lead detective Ron O’Loughlin, with whom
she is falling in love, search for the two, who along with Jean’s baby,
have formed a strange but human family.
“This wonderful novel is a success at every level–an engrossing
thriller and a nuanced examination of love–written with artful
directness. I loved every word and could not put it down.” — Scott
Turow
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