Independent Press Award / New York City Big Book Award

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Michael Pronko, author of Azabu Getaway • 2023 Independent Press Award Winner in Mystery

Gini Grossenbacher, author of Madam in Lace • 2023 Independent Press Award Distinguished Favorite in Historical Fiction

Publisher’s Letter

Shadow War

Innocent: Confessions of a Welfare Mother

Women, We’re Only Old Once

A.M. Adair, author of Shadow War • 2023 Independent Press Award Winner in Action/Adventure

Raven Howell, Children’s Author • 2023 Independent Press Award recipient

2023 ANNOUNCEMENT INDEPENDENT PRESS AWARD

Grady Whill and the Templton Codex

Nurse Florence® series

Michael Dow, author of the Nurse Florence® series • 2023 Independent Press Award Winner in Children’s Educational Series

Mattison Mouse Counts

Jayne M. Rose-Vallee, author of Dinosaurs Living in MY Hair! children’s book series • 2023 Independent Press Award Distinguished Favorite in Book Cover Design Children’s Picture Books

Giant Banana Over Texas

We Hardly Knew Them, How Homeless Mentally Ill People Became Collateral Damage

A Sky of Infinite Blue-A Japanese Immigrant’s Search for Home and Self

What Seems True

Kyomi O’Connor, Author of A Sky of Infinite Blue - A Japanese Immigrant’s Search for Home and Self • 2023 Independent Press Award Winner in Death & Dying

Trine Rising; Book 1 of 3: The Kinderra Saga

Trine Revelation; Book 3 of 3: The Kinderra Saga

Trine Fallacy; Book 2 of 3: The Kinderra Saga

Birth of the Fae: Kingdom Come, Book 4

Italian Love Cake

Love, Life, and Lucille: Lessons Learned from a Centenarian

Shane Svorec, author of Broken Little Believer: Finding Purpose in All the Pretty Painful Pieces • 2023 Independent Press Award Winner in Inspirational

Day of Days: September 11, 2001 - A Novel of the Fire Service

Forgiving Nero

Madam in Lace

Running on Broken Legs: My Journey to Joy

Broken Little Believer: Finding Purpose in All the Pretty Painful Pieces

Frank Napolitano, author of Day of Days • 2023 Independent Press Award Distinguished Favorite in Historical Fiction

Profiles in Gay Courage: Leatherfolk, Arts, and Ideas

Jack Fritscher, author of Profiles in Gay Courage: Leatherfolk, Arts, and Ideas • 2023 Independent Press Award Winner in LGBTQ

The First Harm

My Alternate Universe: Anxiety, Autism, and Adventure in a Parallel Reality

Answering Lincoln’s Call: War in America

Where Eagles Never Flew

QL 4

Tom Harvey, author of Answering Lincoln’s Call: War in America and Seeing the Elephant: One Man’s Return to the Horrors of the Civil War • 2023 Independent Press Award Distinguished Favorite in Military Fiction

Dragony Rising: A Frank Nagler Novel - Book 5

The Bishop’s Palace

When Mortals Play God: Eugenics and One Family’s Story of Tragedy, Loss, and Perseverance

Helena P. Schrader, author of author of Where Eagles Never Flew • 2020 Independent Press Award Distinguished Favorite Author Military fiction

Michael Daigle, author of Dragony Rising • 2023 Independent Press Award Distinguished Favorite in Mystery

Khan: A Maine Coon

Dinosaurs Living in MY Hair! 3 An Underwater Adventure

Dinosaurs Living in MY Hair! 2

Dinosaurios Vivendo en Mi Cabello! 2

Terrific Toddlers! Simple Solutions Practical Parenting

Roberto de Haro, author of Twist of Fate and The Trailing Ghost mystery

A Few Short Plays to Save the World

Steve Harper, author of A Few Short Plays to Save the World • 2023 Independent Press Award...