2020 NAUTILUS SILVER WINNERS
1. AGING CONSCIOUSLY
Plan for Aging Well: Building a Team to Provide physical, emotional
& spiritual Support as We Age
Stephanie Erickson
Platform Publishing
Wise Moves: Checklist for Where to Live, What to
Consider, & Whether to Stay or Go
Sally Hume, & Lawrence Frolik
American Bar Assoc. (ABA) & AARP
In Case You Get Hit By a Bus: How to Organize Your Life Now -for When You're Not Around Later
Abby Schneiderman, Adam Seifer, & Gene Newman
Workman Publishing
Next Stage: In Your Retirement, Create the Life You Want
Tom Wilson
Balboa Press /Self
2. ANIMALS & NATURE
Pacific Flyway: Waterbird Migration from the Arctic to
Tierra del Fuego
Audrey D. Benedict, Geoffrey A. Hammerson, &
Robert W. Butler
Sasquatch Books
Every Penguin in the World
Charles Bergman
Sasquatch Books
Between the Rocks and the Stars: Narratives in Natural History
Stephen Daubert
Vanderbilt Univ. Press
3. BODY, MIND & SPIRIT PRACTICES
Restorative Yoga
Caren Baginski
DK / Penguin RH
Real Happiness (10th anniversary Edition)
Sharon Salzberg
Workman Publishing
The Power of Ritual: Turning Everyday Activities into Soulful Practices
Casper ter Kuile
HarperOne
4A. BUSINESS & LEADERSHIP (SMALL PRESS & SELF-PUBLISHED)
Heartfelt Leadership: How to capture the top spot and
keep on soaring
Deb Boelkes
Business World Rising
The Inside Gig: How Sharing Untapped Talent Across Boundaries Unleashes Organizational Capacity
Edie Goldberg PhD, and Kelley Steven-Waiss
LifeTree Media
Invite Change: Lessons from 2020 the Year of No Return
Janet M. Harvey
Self Published
Survive & Thrive: Entrepreneurship Frameworks That Work
Paul Kewene-Hite
Mātanga Hāpai Ltd.
4B. BUSINESS & LEADERSHIP (LARGE PUBLISHER)
Moral Leadership: Integrity, Courage, Imagination
Robert Michael Franklin
Orbis Books
When Leaders Face Personal Crisis: The Human Side of Leadership
Gill Robinson Hickman, & Laura E. Knouse
Routledge
Rethinking Success: Eight Essential Practices for Finding
Meaning in Work and Life
J. Douglas Holladay
HarperOne
Breaking Through Bias: Communication Techniques for
Women to Succeed at Work (2nd ed.)
Andrea S. Kramer, & Alton B. Harris
Nicholas Brealey Publishing
5. CREATIVITY & INNOVATION
Wild+Free Handcrafts: 32 Activities to Build Confidence, Creativity, and Skill
Ainsley Arment
HarperOne
As You Feel, So You Heal: A Write of Passage
Donna DeNomme
Red Feather /Schiffer
Make Noise: A Creator’s Guide to Podcasting and Great Audio Storytelling
Eric Nuzum
Workman Publishing
27 Essential Principles of Story
Daniel Joshua Rubin
Workman Publishing
Supermindful: How to tap into your creativity
Eliza Lay Ryan
Panoma Press
6. ECOLOGY & ENVIRONMENT
The Green New Deal and Beyond: Ending the Climate Emergency While We Still Can
Stan Cox
City Lights
Finding Our Niche: Toward a Restorative Human
Ecology
Philip A. Loring
Fernwood Publishing
The Nature of Nature: Why We Need the Wild
Enric Sala
National Geographic Partners
Climate Change Solutions: Beyond the Capital-Climate
Contradiction
Diana Stuart, Ryan Gunderson, & Brian Peterson
Univ. Michigan Press
7A. FICTION: SELF-PUBLISHED & SMALL PRESS
Until We’re Fish
Susannah R. Drissi
Propertius Press
MAGE
Sharon Ede
Sharon Ede /Lightwork Press
Temple Dancer
Amy Weintraub
Tumamoc Press
Far Less
Kathy Wollenberg
Humboldt State Univ. Press
7B. FICTION: LARGE PUBLISHER
Wildland
Rebecca Hodge
Crooked Lane Books
Daughters of Smoke and Fire
Ava Homa
Overlook Press / ABRAMS
To Hold Up the Sky
Cixin Liu “Cixin Liu”
Tor Books /Macmillan
Treasure of the Blue Whale
Steven Mayfield
Regal House Publishing
Black Bottom Saints
Alice Randall
Amistad /HarperCollins
Subduction
Kristen Millares Young
Red Hen Press
8. FOOD, HEALTHY EATING & COOKING
How to Be a Conscious Eater
Sophie Egan
Workman Publishing
Half the Sugar, All the Love
Jennifer Tyler Lee, & Anisha Patel MD
Workman Publishing
The Big Book of Cidermaking
Christopher Shockey
Storey Publishing
9. GIFT & SPECIALTY
Guide to Spiritual L.A.: the Irreverent, the Awake, and the True
Catherine Auman
Green Tara Press
Be Wild Be Free
Amber Fossey
HarperOne
Spark Change: 108 Provocative Questions for Spiritual Evolution
Jennie Lee
Sounds True
Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change
Maggie Smith
Atria /One Signal Publishers
10. GREEN LIVING & SUSTAINABILITY
One Size Fits None: A Farm Girl’s Search for the Promise of Regenerative Agriculture
Stephanie Anderson
Univ. Nebraska Press
The Buy Nothing, Get Everything Plan
Liesl Clark, & Rebecca Rockefeller
Atria Books
Live Sustainably Now: A Low-Carbon Vision of the Good Life
Karl Coplan
Columbia Univ. Press
The Reindeer Chronicles: And other Inspiring Stories of
Working with Nature to Heal the Earth
Judith D. Schwartz
Chelsea Green Publishing
Lawns Into Meadows: Growing A Regenerative Landscape
Owen Wormser
Stone Pier Press
11. DEATH & DYING / GRIEF & LOSS
Grief Girl’s Guide: How to Grieve, Why You Should, & What’s In It for You
Katherine Ingram, MA
Lodestone Press
The Hospice Doctor’s Widow: A Journal
Jennifer A. O’Brien
Et Alia Press
Everything You Wanted to Know About the Afterlife but Were Afraid to Ask
Hollister Rand
Atria /Beyond Words
Warbler
Jane Schapiro
Kelsay Books
12. HEALTH, HEALING, WELLNESS & VITALITY
HEALING- Beyond Pills & Potions: Core Principles for Helpers & Healers
Steve Bierman MD
Gyro Press International
The MOTTO Effect: Transforming Hashimoto’s with 10 Powerful Health & Lifestyle Mottos
Meena Chan
Self Published
The Ultimate College Student Health Handbook: Your Guide for Everything from Hangovers to Homesickness
Jill Grimes MD, & Nicole Grimes, Illustrator
Skyhorse Publishing
Peak Human Clock: How to Get up Early, Fix Eating Time Schedule, and Improve Exercise Routines to be Highly Productive
Said Hasyim
Self Published
13. HEROIC JOURNEYS
One by One by One: Making a Small Difference Amid a Billion Problems
Aaron Berkowitz
HarperOne
Find the Helpers: What 9/11 and Parkland Taught Me About Recovery, Purpose, and Hope
Fred Guttenberg
Mango Publishing
Breaking Ground: From Landmines to Grapevines, One Woman’s Mission to Heal the World
Heidi Kuhn
Earth Aware Editions
How to Astronaut: An Insider’s Guide to Leaving Planet Earth
Terry Virts
Workman Publishing
14. INNER PROSPERITY & RIGHT LIVELIHOOD
Friday Forward: Inspiration and Motivation to End Your
Week Stronger Than It Started
Robert Glazer
Sourcebooks
Choosing Purposeful Alignment: The Messy Middle of Transformation
Tracey Greene-Washington
Elite Online Publishing
Durable Trades: Family-Centered Economies That Have Stood the Test of Time
Rory Groves
Front Porch Republic Books /Wipf & Stock
The Soul’s Twins: Emancipate Your Feminine and Masculine Archetypes
Jean Benedict Raffa Ed.D.
Red Feather /Schiffer Publishing
15. JOURNALISM & INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING
The Short Life & Curious Death of Free Speech in America
Ellis Cose
Amistad /HarperCollins
The Rules of Contagion: Why Things Spread— And Why They Stop
Adam Kucharski
Basic Books /HBG
The Hanford Plaintiffs: Voices from the Fight for Atomic Justice
Trisha T. Pritikin
Univ. Press of Kansas
Words Whispered in Water: Why the Levees Broke in Hurricane Katrina
Sandy Rosenthal
Mango Publishing Group
Breath From Salt: A deadly genetic disease, a new era in science,
and the patients & families who changed medicine forever
Bijal P. Trivedi
BenBella Books
16A. MEMOIR & PERSONAL JOURNEY (SELF-PUBLISHED, SMALL PRESS)
School Choice: A Legacy to Keep
Virginia Walden Ford
Beaufort Books
Baggage: Confessions of a Globe-Trotting Hypochondriac
Jeremy Leon Hance
Health Communications, Inc (HCI)
Resilient Threads: Weaving Joy and Meaning into Well-Being
Mukta Panda, MD
Creative Courage Press
Burn Scars: A Memoir of the Land and Its Loss
Patricia Prijatel
Clementine Press
16b. MEMOIR & PERSONAL JOURNEY (LARGE PUBLISHER)
The Adventurer’s Son
Roman Dial
William Morrow /HarperCollins
Writing Straight with Crooked Lines
Jim Forest
Orbis Books
Api’s Berlin Diaries: My Quest to Understand My Grandfather’s Nazi Past
Gabrielle Robinson
She Writes Press
My Vanishing Country
Bakari Sellers
Amistad /HarperCollins
ROOTLINES
Rikki West
She Writes Press
17. MULTICULTURAL & INDIGENOUS
Spirits of the Coast: ORCAS in Science, Art and History
Martha Black, Gavin Hanke, & Lorne Hammond, Eds; with Nikki Sanchez
Royal BC Museum, Canada
SPECIAL HONORS AS OUR 2020 BEST OF SMALL PRESS
As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock
Dina Gilio-Whitaker
Beacon Press
Girl Gurl Grrrl: On Womanhood and Belonging in the Age of Black Girl Magic
Kenya Hunt
Amistad /HarperCollins
Unforgetting: A Memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs, and
Revolution in the Americas
Roberto Lovato
Harper /HarperCollins
18. PARENTING & FAMILY
When the World Feels Like a Scary Place
Abigail Gewirtz
Workman Publishing
Curly Kids: The Handbook -How to Care for Your Child's Glorious Hair
Lorraine Massey, with Michele Bender
Workman Publishing
Parenting Right From the Start: Laying a Healthy Foundation in the Baby and Toddler Years
Dr. Vanessa Lapointe
LifeTree Media
How to Talk to Your Kids About Climate Change: Turning Angst into Action
Harriet Shugarman
New Society Publishers
19A. PERSONAL GROWTH (SELF-PUBLISHED, SMALL PRESS)
The Achiever Fever Cure: How I Learned to Stop Striving Myself Crazy
Claire Booth
LifeTree Media
The Hidden Gifts of Addiction: Direct Path of Recovery
Victor Bucklew PhD
Rock Creek Canyon Publishing
On Purpose: What are you really here to do?
Steve Chamberlain
Self Published
Brilliance: A coaching guide to clearing inner obstacles and letting your authenticity shine
Amy Lombardo
LifeTree Media
19B. PERSONAL GROWTH (LARGE PUBLISHER)
The Wisdom Codes: Ancient words to rewire our brains and heal our hearts
Gregg Braden
Hay House Publishing
The Wounded Healer: A Journey in Radical Self-Love
Andrew Chaleff
Koehler Books
Why Bother? Discover the Desire for What’s Next
Jennifer Louden
Page Two Books
Break the Good Girl Myth: How to Dismantle Outdated Rules, Unleash Your Power, & Design a More Purposeful Life
Majo Molfino
HarperOne
20. PSYCHOLOGY
Anxiety Rx: A New Prescription for Anxiety Relief from the Doctor Who Created It
Russell Kennedy MD
Awaken Village Press
The EQ Intervention: Shaping a Self-Aware Generation
through Social and Emotional Learning
Adam L. Saenz PhD
Greenleaf Book Group
You Belong: A Call for Connection
Sebene Salassie
HarperOne
A Short History of (Nearly) Everything Paranormal
Terje G. Simonsen
Watkins Publishing
21. PHOTOGRAPHY & THE ARTS
Major Arcana: Portraits of Witches in America
Frances Denny
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Kenturah Davis: Everything That Cannot Be Known
SCAD Museum of Art
SCAD: Savannah College of Art & Design
22A. POETRY
Feeding Hour
Jessica Gigot
Trail to Table /Wandering Aengus Press
The More Extravagant Feast
Leah Naomi Green
Graywolf Press
Savagery
J. C. Mehta
Airlie Press
The Death of Sitting Bear
N. Scott Momaday
Harper /HarperCollins
The Lost Arabs
Omar Sakr
Andrews McMeel Publishing
22B. LYRIC PROSE
Film for Her
Orion Carloto
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Inquire Within: If you change the present, you change the past and the future
IN-Q
HarperOne
Risking Wonderful: The art of living inside-out
Cal Móre
Self Published
23. RELATIONSHIPS & COMMUNICATION
The Good Fight
Jana Kramer, & Michael Caussin
HarperOne
The Art of Holding Space: A Practice of Love, Liberation, and Leadership
Heather Plett
Page Two Books
24A. RELIGION / SPIRITUALITY OF EASTERN THOUGHT
Embracing the Inconceivable: Interspiritual Practice of Zen and Christianity
Ellen Birx
Orbis Books
The Ascending Goddess: Untold Story of the Lotus of Fiery Love
Zinovia Dushkova
Radiant Books
Myths of the Asanas: Stories at the Heart of the Yoga Tradition
Chris Yeazel, Alanna Kaivalya, & Arjuna van der Kooij
Mandala Publishing /Mandala Earth
24B. RELIGION / SPIRITUALITY OF WESTERN THOUGHT
Eat, Fast, Feast: Heal Your Body While Feeding Your Soul: A Christian Guide to Fasting
Jay W. Richards
HarperOne
The Daily Practice of Life: Practical Reflections Toward Meaningful Living
Walt Shelton
Crosslink Publishing
Broken Signposts: How Christianity Makes Sense of the World
N. T. Wright
HarperOne
24C. RELIGION / SPIRITUALITY OF OTHER TRADITIONS
Illumination of the Shadow: Ancestral Wisdom from the past for the future
Anthea Durand
Shamanism & Evolving Consciousness Ltd. /Self
Priestess: Ancient Spiritual Wisdom for Modern Sacred Women
Julie Parker
The Kind Press
Trust Your Animal Instincts: Recharge Your Life & Ignite Your Power
Tabitha A. Scott
Powering Potential Media
Journey to the Ancestral Self: Remembering What It Is to Be Human
Tamarack Song
Snow Wolf Publishing
25. SCIENCE & COSMOLOGY
Spinach on the Ceiling: The Multifaceted Life of a Theoretical Chemist
Martin Karplus
World Scientific Publishing
Creative Alchemy: The Science of Miracles
Stephanie Sinclaire Lightsmith
Creative Alchemy Publishing
The Source: Secrets of the Universe, the Science of the Brain
Tara Swart, MD PhD
HarperOne
26. SOCIAL SCIENCES & EDUCATION
A Walk Around the Block: Stoplight Secrets, Mischievous Squirrels, Manhole Mysteries
Spike Carlsen
HarperOne
Field Guide to a School of Belonging
David Levine
Teaching Empathy Institute
The Knowledge Gap: The Hidden Cause of America’s Broken Education System — and How to Fix It
Natalie Wexler
Avery
27. SOCIAL CHANGE & SOCIAL JUSTICE
The Stonewall Generation: LGBTQ Elders on Sex, Activism, and Aging
Jane Fleishman
Skinner House Books /UUA
Beyond Survival: Strategies & Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement
Ejeris Dixon and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, editors
AK Press
Tomorrow Was Yesterday: Explosive First-Person Indictments of the U.S. Mental Health System - Mothers Across the Nation Tell It like It Is
Dede Ranahan, and 64 Co-Authors
Read First Press
The Love Prison Made and Unmade
Ebony Roberts
Amistad /HarperCollins
28. WORLD CULTURES’ CONSCIOUS GROWTH & DEVELOPMENT
Awakening the Soul of Power: How to Live Heroically and Set Yourself Free
Christian de la Huerta
Soulful Hero Media
CHOOSING EARTH: Humanity’s Great Transition to a Mature Planetary Civilization
Duane Elgin
Self Published
Original Politics: Making America Sacred Again
Glenn Aparicio Parry
Select Books
Resonate: Zen and the Way of Making a Difference
Ginny Whitelaw
Koehlerbooks
29. RISING TO THE MOMENT ~ 2020
Birds of All Feathers: A Guide to Doing Diversity and Inclusion Right
Michael Bach
Page Two Books
Radical Belonging: How to Survive and Thrive in an Unjust World
Lindo Bacon PhD
BenBella Books
The Future Earth: A Radical Vision for What’s Possible in the Age of Warming
Eric Holthaus
HarperOne
Facing the Climate Emergency: How to Transform Yourself with Climate Truth
Margaret Klein Salamon, with Molly Gage
New Society Publishers
CHILDREN'S CATEGORIES
30A. CHILDREN’S PICTURE BOOKS / FICTION
The Bread Pet: A Sourdough Story
Kate DePalma, and Nelleke Verhoeff, Illustrator
Barefoot Books
Bedtime for Sweet Creatures
Nikki Grimes, and Elizabeth Zunon, Illustrator
Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Lundi the Lost Puffin
Eric Newman
Travel Step by Step
The Sweet Dreams Express: A meditative bedtime journey
Kristin Pierce, & Alexsandra Szmidt, Illustrator
Inner Compass Books /Self
30B. CHILDREN’S PICTURE BOOKS / NON-FICTION
What Does It Mean to Be American?
Rana DiOrio, & Elad Yoran, Nina Mata, Illustrator
Sourcebooks / Little Pickle Press
The Power of Positivity: ABC’s of a Pandemic
Ruth Maille
Self Published
I Believe in You
Eunice & Sabrina Moyle
Workman Publishing
31A. CHILDREN’S ILLUSTRATED / FICTION
Safe In Starry Arms
Christie Lea
Tellwell Talent
Lizzi Light the Star Fisher
Gwen Mariani
Leaning Rock Press
Everybody Loves Grace: A True Story of Grace’s Adventure to Pennsylvania
Katy McQuaid
Everybody Loves Grace Publishing
Hazel Mist, Hypnotist
Kristin Pierce, & Abbey Bryant
Inner Compass Books /Self
31B. CHILDREN’S ILLUSTRATED / NON-FICTION
Nurse Florence, Help I’m Bleeding
Michael Dow RN MS, & Sandra Islas, Illustrator
lulu.com
Earth Hour: A Lights-out Event for Our Planet
Nanette Heffernan, & Bao Luu, Illustrator
Charlesbridge Publishing
It Is Not a Fish: An Ancient Folktale of the Indigenous People of the Chittagong Hill Tracts (Bangladesh)
Beth Walker, & Maung Nyeu
Our Golden Hour
32. MIDDLE GRADES / FICTION
Second Dad Summer
Benjamin Klas
One Elm Books /Red Chair Press
Moojag and the Auticode Secret
N.E. McMorran
Spondylux Press
The Soluna’s Way
Anna Hodges Oginsky
All Heart Press
Desert Song: A Girl in Exile, a Trickster Horse, and the Women Rising Up
Rivera Sun
Rising Sun Press
33. MIDDLE GRADES / NON-FICTION
Vancouver Island Wildlife: A Photo Journey
Catherine Babault
Why Not Publishing /Self
The Screaming Hairy Armadillo, & 76 Other Animals with Weird, Wild Names
Matthew Murrie, Steve Murrie; & Julie Benbassat, Illustrator
Workman Publishing
How to Be a Person: 65 Hugely Useful, Super-Important Skills to Learn before You're Grown Up
Catherine Newman
Storey Publishing
Stories of the Saints: Bold and Inspiring Tales of Adventure, Grace, and Courage
Carey Wallace, & Nick Thornborrow, Illustrator
Workman Publishing
Angelina’s Opinions
Angelina Wang
Tyldoweb Publishing
34. YOUNG ADULT / FICTION
The First Robot President
Robert Carlyle Taylor
Reflection Bay Press
The Parkour Club
Pam Withers, & Arooj Hayat
Self Published
Far Less
Kathy Wollenberg
Humboldt State Univ. Press
35. YOUNG ADULT / NON-FICTION
Generation Brave: The Gen Z Kids Who Are Changing the World
Kate Alexander, & Jade Orlando, Illustrator
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Every Penguin in the World
Charles Bergman
Sasquatch Books
The Spectrum Girl’s Survival Guide: How to Grow Up Awesome and Autistic
Siena Castellon
Jessica Kingsley Publishing
Sky Gazing
Meg Thacher
Storey Publishing
