Nautilus 2023 Winner PDF

2023 NAUTILUS WINNERS

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 Sarazin
GCP 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 (Smal 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 CollectionLeave
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
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 Movement Made Us
David J. Dennis Jr.
HarperCollins

The Ones Who Remember: Second-Generation Voices of the Holocaust
Rita Benn, Julie Goldstein Ellis, Joy Wolfe Ensor, Ruth Wade
City Point Press

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

16b. MEMOIR & PERSONAL JOURNEY (LARGE PUBLISHER) | 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

HDearest 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

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

Life Re-Vision: A Journey to Rediscover Your Core, Reinvent Yourself, and Renew Your Future Vision
Anamaria Aristizabal
Succulent Publishing

Stepping Out of the Shadows: Naming and Claiming the Medial Woman Today
Roberta Bassett Corson , Jeanie Tomanek- cover art
Mandorla Books

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

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