Introducing our top notable titles for the 2022 Shelf Unbound Competition for Best Independently Published Book.
2003: THE TIME-LOOP DEVICE by David Cornish, MD
A LEAF IN THE STREAM: A NOVEL IN THREE PARTS BASED ON ACTUAL EVENTS by Stephan Foust
A RECYCLED MARRIAGE by Rosemary Mairs
A SPYING EYE: A HENRIETTA AND INSPECTOR HOWARD NOVEL by Michelle Cox
AIR BOAT: LOVE IS AN ADVENTURE by Jacek Waliszewski
ALZHEIMER’S FANTASY IN THE KEY OF G: A MEMOIR by Kirsten Levy
AMERICAN AIRMAN, A MEMOIR OF A WOUNDED VETERAN by Jonathon Benjamin
ANNIHILATION by Kaylin McFarren
ARTIST: AWAKENING THE SPIRIT WITHIN by Jocelyn Jones
AZABU GETAWAY by Michael Pronko
BABYLON LAID WASTE – A JOURNEY IN THE TWILIGHT OF THE IDOLS by Brigitte Goldstein
BINGE by Anne Pfeffer
BLACK DOVE by Carrigan Richards
BLACK GOD MOTHER THIS BODY by Raina Leon
BLACKWASH: THE UNTOLD STORIES OF REVERSE RACISM by Rodney Cloud Hill
BLOOD FOR THE FISHER KING by Endy Wright
COURTESY BOY: A TRUE STORY OF ADDICTION by Mike Matson
CROSSING THE PRESSURE LINE by Laura Anne Bird
CURVES AND ANGLES: A MYSTICAL APPROACH TO THE ORDINARY WORLD by Charles Rawlings
DEAD LETTERS FROM PARADISE by Ann McMan
DELPHIC ORACLE, U.S.A. by Steven Mayfield
DEPARTURES by E. J. Wenstrom
DEVIL’S LEDGER: A FEMALE SLEUTH FINANCIAL THRILLER WITH INTERNATIONAL ESPIONAGE by Lorraine Evanoff
DIPPED IN IT, A MEMOIR by Bethany Harvey
DISAPPEARED: HOW A PEOPLE WHO ONCE LIVED IN A SMALL CARIBBEAN VILLAGE VANISHED WITHOUT A HISTORICAL TRACE TO HUMANKIND by Martin Matthew, Ph.D.
DRAGONY RISING by Michael Stephen Daigle
EITHER PEACE OR WAR by Graydon McWilliams
EMBRACE GRACE; NEW MEDICINE FOR A WOUNDED WORLD by Arlene Mccain, MD
ERNIE’S BLEACHERS by Tim Pareti
ETERNAL DARK by Rubie Woodland
ETHICALLY CHALLENGED: PRIVATE EQUITY STORMS U.S. HEALTH CARE by Laura Olson
EVER VIGILANT, TALES OF THE VIETNAM WAR by Michael Hebert
EVERYTHING by Andrea Cohen
FIND A PLACE FOR ME: EMBRACING LOVE AND LIFE IN THE FACE OF DEATH by Deirdre Fagan
FROM THE FLOOD: A MEMOIR by Suzanne Jones
GETAWAY by Glen Pourciau
GLOBAL VICE by Andrew J Rafkin
GRADY WHILL AND THEE TEMPLETON CODEX by Carole P. Roman
HARRIET: A JANE AUSTEN VARIATION by Alice McVeigh
HEY JUDE by Kathleen Stone
HOUSE BOY by Lorenzo DeStefano
HUNTING GROUND: THE FORGOTTEN STORY OF CAZADERO by John Michael McCarty
IMMORAL ORIGINS by Lee Matthew Goldberg
IMMORTAL NORTH by Tom Stewart
IN THE CLOSET: A TRIAD by Geri Gale
IT ISN’T A GHOST IF IT LIVES IN YOUR CHEST by Joan Houlihan
JUST ONE SPARK by Brandy Bruce
KERNELS by Mary Behan
KICK BALL SLAY: AN INTRODUCTION TO WEST COAST SWING… AND A MURDER MYSTERY by Doug Dorsey
LACIE’S SECRETS by Tullan Holmqvist and Theresa Sorkin
LOST IN BEIRUT: A TRUE STORY OF LOVE, LOSS AND WAR by Ashe and Magdalena Stevens
MADMAN IN THE WOODS: LIFE NEXT DOOR TO THE UNABOMBER by Jamie A Gehring
MANDRILL P.I. VOLUME 1: ROOK TAKES THE QUEEN by Christopher Brimmage
MASS CONFUSION: WHY I REJECTED THE CHURCH FOR SO LONG AND WHAT CHANGED by Susan R. Dolan
MAVERICK by Fernando Rover Jr.
MILOS EYES by Lissa Bachner
MOTION: THE ART OF MOVING FORWARD BY CREATING CHANGE by Aileen Sideris
ON LONESOME ROADS by Dan Flanigan
ORCHID BLOOMING by Carol Van Den Hende
PANDORA’S EYES by James M. Corkill
PHARONI by Colin Dodds
READY, SET, OH by Diane Josefowicz
REQUIEM FOR A QUEEN by Kaylin McFarren
RESTORATION by Sam Bradbury
SALT & LIGHT; THE COMPLETE JESUS by Jonathan Dean
SEARCHING FOR JIMMY PAGE by Christy Alexander Hallberg
SECRETS IN THE MIRROR by Leslie Kain
SOUTH OF HEAVEN by Patti Frye Meredith
SQUEEZE PLAYS by Jeffrey Marshall
STORIES FROM ECUADOR: A COLLECTION BY TYREL NELSON by Tyrel Nelson
STUMBLING THROUGH ADULTHOOD: LINKED STORIES by John Sheirer
SURVIVING THE SECOND TIER by M.K. Lever
SUZANNE by Sheryll O’Brien
TELEVISION, A MEMOIR by Karen Brennan
THE ALGERIAN DREAM: YOUTH AND THE QUEST FOR DIGNITY by Andrew G. Farrand
THE ATHEIST AND THE AFTERLIFE—AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY: A TRUE STORY OF INSPIRATION, TRANSFORMATION, AND THE PURSUIT OF ENLIGHTENMENT by Ray Catania
THE BETRAYAL by Doug Dorsey
THE BLACK BAG OF DR. WILTSE, MURDER ON THE PRAIRIE by Betty Brandt Passick
THE BLACKEST BLUE by Luna Wright
THE CASH-FLOW BREAKFAST CLUB by Omni Casey
THE ECONOMIC CONDITION OF BLACK AMERICA IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: A HISTORICAL AND EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS by Germinal G. Van
THE EMPATHY ACADEMY by Dustin Grinnell
THE HAPPINESS UPGRADE: ONE SMALL STEP UP TO A HAPPIER LIFE by Gabrielle Lichterman
THE ISLAND MOTHER by Jon Cohn
THE LAST PROFESSIONAL by Ed Davis
THE LONG ROAD HOME by Ella Anderson
THE LOVELY AND DANGEROUS LAUNCH OF LUCY CAVANAGH by Stacy Peterson
THE MEMORY OF COTTON by Ann K. Howley
THE MERCENARY NATURALIST: THE TROPICAL ADVENTURES OF AN ITINERANT ECOLOGIST by Doug Reagan
THE MOMENTS BETWEEN DREAMS by Judith F. Brenner
THE SANTORINI SETUP by Becky Jean Bohan
THE SOURCE OF SMOKE by V. L. Adams
THE THINGS WE LEFT SLEEPING by Kathryn Lund
THE VILLAGERS by Derek Owens
THE VISCOUNT WITHOUT VIRTUE by Katherine Grant
THE WORLD IS YOUR STUDIO: TRAVEL STORIES BY IRENE AND FRANKLIN MCMAHON by Irene and Franklin McMahon
WAY TOO FAST: AN AMERICAN RECKONING by John J. Farmer, Jr.
WHEN WE TALK OF STOLEN SISTERS by Jessica Mehta
WITNESS TO THE CRUCIFIXION by David Benjamin
YOU, ME, WE. WHY WE ALL NEED A FRIEND AT WORK (AND HOW TO SHOW UP AS ONE! by Morag Barrett, Eric Spencer, and Ruby Vesely
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Article originally Published in the December / January 2023 Issue: 2022 Indie Best Award Winners.