2016 NAUTILUS SILVER WINNERS
Aging consciously
The Eldercare Consultant: Your Guide to Making the Best Choices Possible
Becky Feola
AMACOM Books (American Mgmt. Assoc.)
Aging consciously
Downsizing the Family Home
Marni Jameson
AARP Books / Sterling
Aging consciously
Disrupt Aging: A Bold New Path to Living
Your Best Life at Every Age
Jo Ann Jenkins, CEO of AARP
AARP Books / Public Affairs, The Perseus Books Group
ANIMALS & NATURE
Endangered Edens: Exploring the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Costa Rica, the Everglades, & Puerto Rico
Marty Essen
Encante Press
ANIMALS & NATURE
Cattail Moonshine & Milkweed Medicine
Tammi Hartung
Storey Publishing
ANIMALS & NATURE
Esther – The Wonder Pig
Steve Jenkins, & Derek Walter, with Caprice Crane
Grand Central Publishing
ANIMALS & NATURE
Becoming Nature: Learning the Language of Wild Animals & Plants
Tamarack Song
Bear & Company
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT PRACTICES
Forever Painless: End chronic pain and reclaim your life in 30 minutes a day
Miranda Esmonde-White
HarperCollins / Harper Wave
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT PRACTICES
Emotional Rescue
Dzogchen Ponlop
TarcherPerigee / Penguin RandomHouse
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT PRACTICES
Body Intelligence: A New Paradigm
John L. Mayfield, D.C.
Nubalance Publishing (Self)
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT PRACTICES
Conscious Fitness: Strength Training for the
Evolution of Body, Mind, & Spirit
Catt Tripoli
Bull Terrier Publishing (Self)
BUSINESS & LEADERSHIP
Mastering Civility: A Manifesto for the Workplace
Christine Porath
Grand Central Publishing / Distributed by Hachette Book Group
BUSINESS & LEADERSHIP
The Art of Community: Seven Principles for Belonging
Charles H. Vogl
Berrett-Koehler Publishers
BUSINESS & LEADERSHIP
The Art of Authenticity: Tools to become an authentic leader & your best self
Karissa Thacker
Wiley
BUSINESS & LEADERSHIP
Spiraling Upward: The 5 Co-Creative Powers
for Women on the Rise
Wendy Wallbridge
Bibliomotion
CREATIVE PROCESS
Your Idea Starts Here
Carolyn Eckhert
Storey Publishing
CREATIVE PROCESS
The Language of Man: Learning to Speak Creativity
Larry Robertson
DayMark Press (Self)
ECOLOGY & ENVIRONMENT
A Global Warming Primer
Jeffrey Bennett
Big Kid Science
ECOLOGY & ENVIRONMENT
Citizen Scientist: Searching for Heroes and Hope in an Age of Extinction
Mary Ellen Hannibal
The Experiment Publishing
ECOLOGY & ENVIRONMENT
Earth in Human Hands: Shaping Our Planet’s Future
David Grinspoon
Grand Central Publishing / distributed by Hachette Book Group
ECOLOGY & ENVIRONMENT
Dirt: A Love Story
Barbara Richardson, editor
ForeEdge / Imprint of Univ Press of New England
FICTION: SELF-PUBLISHED & SMALL PRESS
Love’s Affliction
Fidelis O. Mkparu
Harvard Square Editions
FICTION: SELF-PUBLISHED & SMALL PRESS
The Outcasts of Eden
D.J. Presson
Kwill and Keyboard Publishing
FICTION: LARGE PUBLISHER
LaRose – a novel
Louise Erdrich
HarperCollins / Harper
Fiction: large publisher
In the Blue Hour
Elizabeth Hall
Lake Union Publishing
FICTION: LARGE PUBLISHER
Balm
Dolen Perkins-Valdez
HarperCollins / Amistad
FOOD, COOKING & HEALTHY EATING
Whole Cooking and Nutrition: An everyday Superfoods Approach to planning, cooking, & eating with diabetes
Katie Cavuto
American Diabetes Assoc.
FOOD, COOKING & HEALTHY EATING
The Big Book of Kombucha
Hannah Crum & Alex LaGory
Storey Publishing
FOOD, COOKING & HEALTHY EATING
Eating Well through Cancer: Easy Recipes & Tips to Guide You through Treatment & Cancer Prevention
Holly Clegg & Gerald Miletello, MD
Southwestern Publishing Group (Self)
FOOD, COOKING & HEALTHY EATING
Chef Ronaldo’s Sabores de Cuba: Diabetes-friendly traditional & nuevo cubano cuisine
Ronaldo Linares
American Diabetes Assoc.
GIFT & SPECIALTY
Sacred Geometry Activations Oracle Cards
Lon
Beyond Words Publishing
GIFT & SPECIALTY
Drawn Together: Uplifting comics on the curious journey through life and love
Leah Pearlman
TarcherPerigee / Penguin RandomHouse
Gift & Specialty
Walking on Water: A path to empowerment
Rea Nolan Martin
Wiawaka Press (Self)
Gift & Specialty
I Am Here Now: A creative mindfulness guide and journal
The Mindfulness Project
TarcherPerigee / Penguin RandomHouse
GREEN LIVING / SUSTAINABILITY
Gardening with Less Water
David A. Bainbridge
Storey Publishing
GREEN LIVING / SUSTAINABILITY
Where Water is Gold: Life and livelihood
in Alaska’s Bristol Bay
Carl Johnson
Braided River / Mountaineers Books
GREEN LIVING / SUSTAINABILITY
The Cool Block: An On-ramp to the Future
of our Cities & Planet
David Gershon
High Point
GREEN LIVING / SUSTAINABILITY
Grow~Create~Inspire: Crafting a joyful life
of beauty & abundance
Crystal Stevens
New Society Publishers
DEATH & DYING / GRIEF & LOSS
Change Maker: How My Brother's
Death Woke Up My Life
Rebecca Austill-Clausen
She Writes Press
DEATH & DYING / GRIEF & LOSS
Jewish Rites of Death: Stories of
Beauty and Transformation
Richard A. Light
Terra Nova Books s
DEATH & DYING / GRIEF & LOSS
Naked Mountain
Marcia Mabee
She Writes Press
HEALTH & HEALING / WELLNESS
Soul Medicine: A Physician’s Reflections
on Life, Love, Death & Healing
Judith Boice, ND, LAc.
Lorian Press Harper Wave
HEALTH & HEALING / WELLNESS
Body into Balance: An Herbal Guide to Holistic Self-Care
Maria Noel Groves
Storey Publishing
HEALTH & HEALING / WELLNESS
A Mind of Your Own: The truth about Depression and how Women can Heal their Bodies to Reclaim their Lives
Kelly Brogan, with Kristin Loberg
HarperCollins / Harper Wave
HEALTH & HEALING / WELLNESS
Goodbye Parkinson’s, Hello Life
Alex Kerten & David Brinn
Divine Arts Media
HEROIC JOURNEYS
Holy Daring: The earthy mysticism of St Teresa,
the Wild Woman of Avila
Tessa Bielecki
Adam Kadmon Books /Monkfish Book Publishing
HEROIC JOURNEYS
The Honor Was Mine: A Look Inside the
Struggles of Military Veterans
Elizabeth Heaney
Grand Harbor Press
HEROIC JOURNEYS
Turning Homeward: Restoring Hope &
Nature in the Urban Wild
Adrienne Ross Scanlan
Mountaineers Books
INNER PROSPERITY
How to Be Alive: A guide to the kind of
Happiness that helps the world
Colin Beavan
HarperCollins / Dey Street Books
INNER PROSPERITY
Firedancer: Your spiral journey to a
life of passion and purpose
Kami Guildner
Merry Dissonance Press
INNER PROSPERITY
Let Me Out: Unlock your creative mind & bring your ideas to life
Peter Himmelman
TarcherPerigee / Penguin RandomHouse
JOURNALISM & INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING
The Battle for Room 314
Ed Boland
Grand Central Publishing
JOURNALISM & INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING
Moscow Nights: The Van Cliburn Story
Nigel Cliff
HarperCollins / Harper
JOURNALISM & INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING
Exoneree Diaries: The Fight for Innocence, Independence, & Identity
Alison Flowers
Haymarket Books
MEMOIR: SELF-PUBLISHED & SMALL PRESS
Undaunted - A Memoir
Van B. Choat
Chiral House; imprint of Joshua Tree Publishing
MEMOIR: SELF-PUBLISHED & SMALL PRESS
Give Yourself Permission - Anthology
Priya Rana Kapoor
Permission Media Inc.
MEMOIR: SELF-PUBLISHED & SMALL PRESS
Tobe and the River Is
Micah Sanger
Perception4U (Self)
MEMOIR: LARGE PUBLISHER
Sometimes Brilliant
Larry Brilliant
HarperCollins / HarperOne
MEMOIR: LARGE PUBLISHER
The Bridge Ladies
Betsy Lerner
HarperCollins / Harper Wave
MEMOIR: LARGE PUBLISHER
The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored
Man’s Love Affair with Nature
J. Drew Lanham
Milkweed Editions
MEMOIR: LARGE PUBLISHER
My Old Man & the Mountain
Leif Whittaker
Mountaineers Books
MULTICULTURAL & INDIGENOUS
Footprints on an Island: Rediscovering Pulau Ubin
EE Kiam Chua, Choo Mui Eng & Wong Tuan Wah
Simply Green
MULTICULTURAL & INDIGENOUS
An Angel & a Shaman
Torrey James Lystra
Red Hawk Books (Self)
MULTICULTURAL & INDIGENOUS
A Black Man’s Journey from Sharecropper to College President:
Life and Work of William Johnson Trent
Judy Scales-Trent
Monroe Street Press / Imprint of Wyatt-MacKenzie
PARENTING & FAMILY
When Your Child is Gay: What you need to know
Wesley C Davidson, & Jonathan L Tobkes, MD
Sterling Publishing
PARENTING & FAMILY
Unlatched: Evolution of Breastfeeding &
the Making of a Controversy
Jennifer Grayson
HarperCollins / Perennial
PARENTING & FAMILY
It’s OK to Go UP the Slide: Renegade Rules for
Raising Confident & Creative Kids
Heather Shumaker
TarcherPerigee / Penguin RandomHouse
PERSONAL GROWTH
Note to Self: A seven-step path to gratitude and growth
Laurie Buchanan
She Writes Press
PERSONAL GROWTH
This Is Where You Belong: The Art & Science
of Loving the Place You Live
Melody Warnick
Viking /Penguin RandomHouse
PERSONAL GROWTH
The Art of Money
Bari Tessler
Parallax Press
PERSONAL GROWTH
Drop In: Lead with Deeper Presence and Courage
Sara Harvey Yao
She Writes Press
PERSONAL GROWTH
Pathways to Possibility: Transforming Our Relationship
with Ourselves, Each Other, & the World
Rosamund Stone Zander
Viking /Penguin RandomHouse
PSYCHOLOGY
Dog Medicine: How My Dog Saved Me from Myself
Julie Barton
Penguin / RandomHouse
PSYCHOLOGY
The Other Side of Bipolar: Revealing your strengths
to move beyond the diagnosis
Lauren Polly
Over & Above Press (Self)
PSYCHOLOGY
It Didn’t Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma
shapes who we are and how to end the cycle
Mark Wolynn
Viking / Penguin RandomHouse
PHOTOGRAPHY & ART
Treasured Lands: A Photographic Odyssey
through America’s National Parks
Q.T. Luong
Cameron & Company
PHOTOGRAPHY & ART
ECOTOPIA 2121: Vision for our future
green utopia – in 100 cities
Dr. Alan Marshall
Arcade Publishing (Skyhorse, distributor)
POETRY
Landslide
Andrew Jarvis
Homebound Publications
POETRY
The Way Under the Way: Place of True Meaning
Mark Nepo
Sounds True
POETRY
Nature Speaks: Art and Poetry for the Earth
Deborah Kennedy
White Cloud Press
POETRY
Water, Rocks and Trees
James Scott Smith
Homebound Publications
RELATIONSHIPS & COMMUNICATION
Housewife – Home re-making
in a Transgender Marriage
Kristin K. Collier
Abbondanze Publishing (Self)
RELATIONSHIPS & COMMUNICATION
Loving Promises: The Master Class for
Creating Magnificent Relationship
Richard Matzkin
First Edition Design Publishing (Self)
RELATIONSHIPS & COMMUNICATION
The Heart of the Fight: A couple’s guide to 15 common fights,
what they really mean & how they can bring you closer
Judith Wright, & Bob Wright
New Harbinger Publications (Oakland CA)
RELIGION / SPIRITUALITY OF EASTERN THOUGHT
Finding the Blue Sky
Joseph Emet
TarcherPerigee / Penguin RandomHouse
RELIGION / SPIRITUALITY OF EASTERN THOUGHT
Shadows of the Sun Dynasty: An Illustrated Series
Based on the Ramayana
Vrinda Sheth
Anna Johansson, Illustrator’
Mandala Publishing (InsightEditions)
RELIGION / SPIRITUALITY OF EASTERN THOUGHT
Awaken Your Third Eye
Susan Shumsky, DD
New Page Books /Division of Career Press
RELIGION / SPIRITUALITY OF WESTERN THOUGHT
Act Justly, Love Tenderly: Lifelong Lessons
in Conscience & Calling
John Neafsey
Orbis Books [Maryknoll]
RELIGION / SPIRITUALITY OF WESTERN THOUGHT
Tears to Triumph: The spiritual journey
from suffering to enlightenment
Marianne Williamson
HarperCollins / HarperOne
RELIGION / SPIRITUALITY OF WESTERN THOUGHT
The Day the Revolution Began: Reconsidering the
Meaning of Jesus’s Crucifixion
N.T. Wright
HarperCollins / HarperOne
RELIGION / SPIRITUALITY OF other traditions
Let Your Spirit Guides Speak
Debra Landwehr Engle
Hampton Roads
RELIGION / SPIRITUALITY OF other traditions
The Unseen Partner:
Love & Longing in the Unconscious
Diane Croft
Interleaf Press (Self)
RELIGION / SPIRITUALITY OF other traditions
The Call of the Heart: The Teaching of the Heart, Book 1
Zinovia Dushkova
Alexander Gerasimchuk, translator
Radiant Books (Moscow)
RELIGION / SPIRITUALITY OF other traditions
Awaken Your Divine Intuition: Receive Wisdom,
Blessings, & Love by Connecting with Spirit
Susan Shumsky, DD
New Page Books /div. of Career Press
SCIENCE, COSMOLOGY & EXPANDING CONSCIOUSNESS
How Whole Brain Thinking Can Save the Future
James Olson
Origin Press
SCIENCE, COSMOLOGY & EXPANDING CONSCIOUSNESS
Divine Love Affair: An Akashic Journey
Nancy Smith
Angelscapes Publishing (Self)
SCIENCE, COSMOLOGY & EXPANDING CONSCIOUSNESS
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes within Us and a Grander View of Life
Ed Yong
HarperCollins / Ecco
SOCIAL SCIENCES & EDUCATION
The Bridge to Brilliance: How One Principal in a Tough
Community is Inspiring the World
Nadia Lopez with Rebecca Paley
Viking /Penguin RandomHouse
SOCIAL SCIENCES & EDUCATION
The End of Average: How we succeed in a world
that values sameness
Todd Rose
HarperCollins / HarperOne
SOCIAL CHANGE
Nobody: Casualties of America’s War on the
Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint & Beyond
Marc Lamont Hill
Atria Books /Simon & Schuster
SOCIAL CHANGE
The Well-Tempered City: What modern science,
ancient civilizations, & human nature teach
us about the Future of Urban Life
Jonathan F. P. Rose
HarperCollins / Harper Wave
SOCIAL CHANGE
Where We Live: Communities for All Ages,
100+ Inspiring Ideas from America’s Mayors
Nancy LeaMond
AARP Books / Time Books Inc.
SOCIAL CHANGE
The 8 Laws of Change: How to Be an Agent of
Personal & Social Transformation
Stephan A. Schwartz
Inner Traditions / Bear &Co
USA SPIRITUAL GROWTH & DEVELOPMENT
Sacred America, Sacred World: Fulfilling Our Mission in Service to All
Stephen Dinan
Hampton Roads
WOMEN
If Women Rose Rooted: The Journey
to Authenticity & Belonging
Sharon Blackie
September Publishing
WOMEN
Dear Princess Grace, Dear Betty:
Memoir of a Romantic Feminist
Alida Brill
Schaffner Press
WOMEN
The Bridge Ladies
Betsy Lerner
HarperCollins / Harper Wave
CHILDREN'S CATEGORIES
CHILDREN'S PICTURE BOOKS - FICTION
What Does It Mean to Be An Entrepreneur?
Rana DiOrio & Emma Dryden
Ken Min, Illustrator
Little Pickle Press
CHILDREN'S PICTURE BOOKS - FICTION
Thank You, Me
Elena Reznikova
DTPerfect, LLC (Self)
CHILDREN'S PICTURE BOOKS - FICTION
Courageous Gilbert the Groundhog
Regina E. McCarthy
Sue Dettman, Illustrator
Blue Stone Healing Books (Self)
CHILDREN'S PICTURE BOOKS - FICTION
Kodah and Me
Elizabeth Slayton
Owl House Books / Imprint of Homebound Pub.
CHILDREN'S PICTURE BOOKS - NONFICTION
Octopus Escapes Again!
Laurie Ellen Angus, author & illustrator
Dawn Publications
CHILDREN'S PICTURE BOOKS - NONFICTION
Ouch! Moments: When words are used in hurtful ways
Michael Genhart
Viviana Garofoli, illustrator
American Psychological Assoc. (APA)
CHILDREN'S PICTURE BOOKS - NONFICTION
My Little Plastic Bag
Sam Love
Samrae Duke, Illustrator
Self
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED - FICTION
Be Yourself
Jackie Swirsky
Self
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED - FICTION
Cimarron Girl: The Dust Bowl Years
of Abigail Brubaker
Mike Blanc
Vanita Books
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED - NONFICTION
Farmers Market: Create-and-Play Activity Book
Deanna F. Cook
Storey Publishing
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED - NONFICTION
Hayley’s Vibrant Vegetables
Mohana Gill
Tan Vay Fern, Illustrator
Mosat Network SDN (Self)
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED - NONFICTION
What Love Would Say: In Nine Languages
Connie Munde
Shepherd Sanctuary Publishing [Self]
CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED - NONFICTION
Hayley’s Fantastic Fruits
Mohana Gill
Tan Vay Fern, Illustrator
Mosat Network SDN (Self)
MIDDLE GRADES - FICTION
The Ancient One
T.A. Barron
Puffin Books / Penguin
MIDDLE GRADES - FICTION
Max & Charlie
Zack Lieberman & Louis Neubert
Exit Strategy new media
MIDDLE GRADES - NONFICTION
Fashion Rebels: Style Icons Who Changed
the World through Fashion
Carlyn Cerniglia Beccia
Aladdin / Beyond Words Publishing
MIDDLE GRADES - NONFICTION
Endangered Edens: Exploring the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Costa Rica, the Everglades, & Puerto Rico
Marty Essen
Encante Press
MIDDLE GRADES - NONFICTION
Charlie: A Child’s Tale of Grief, Loss & Love
Cole W. Williams
Ian Durneen, Illustrator
Burning Belly Press [self]
YOUNG ADULT FICTION
Atlantis Lost
T.A. Barron
Philomel / imprint of Penguin Young Readers Group
YOUNG ADULT FICTION
Alannah
Leslie Brooks
Love Incarnate Books (Self)
YOUNG ADULT FICTION
The Buddha of Lightning Peak
Yudron Wangmo
Mayum Mountain Resources (Self)
YOUNG ADULT NON-FICTION
Carry On: A Story of Resilience, Redemption,
& an Unlikely Family
Lisa Fenn
HarperCollins / Harper Wave
YOUNG ADULT NON-FICTION
Building the Golden Gate Bridge: A Workers’
Oral History
Harvey Schwartz
University of Washington Press
YOUNG ADULT NON-FICTION
Get Lit Rising! Words Ignite. Claim
Your Poem. Claim Your Life.
Diane Luby Lane & the Get Lit Players
Simon Pulse / Beyond Words
YOUNG ADULT NON-FICTION
Becoming Nature: Learning the Language of
Wild Animals & Plants
Tamarack Song
Bear & Company