2020 Reader's Choice Contest Winners
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Gold Winner
Written in Water
The swinging sixties – a time of peace, love, violence and revolution. In 1962, as the Cold War erupts in sudden crisis over Cuba, Cordelia, Beatrice and Rosalind are fourteen. Dubbed by their English teacher the three witches from Macbeth, they have already recognised one another as outsiders, with no idea that their alliance will turn out to be a lifelong friendship.
Silver Winner
Sparky
Sparky is a newly-hatched dragon with a problem: he can't breathe fire. Not wanting to stand out from all the other dragons, he leaves the nest and sets off on an adventurous journey to solve his problem.
Bronze Winner
A Year in the Life of Leah Brand
Leah’s nightmare began the day the dog died. A few years earlier a fatal car crash took the lives of Leah’s beloved husband and their two babies, leaving her disabled.
Silver Winner
Undead
Doyle Cerberus has never loved anyone. But a chance encounter with a beautiful woman sets his cold dead heart on fire. He can’t help but watch her every move.
Bronze Winner
Exodus
A woman who has lost everything she loved. A dangerous secret that someone will do whatever is necessary to keep buried. The ER staff called Clare Thibodeaux the “Ice Lady”. No one knew the reason why she wouldn’t let anyone get close to her.
Gold Winner
How can he win with the odds stacked against him? Prince Hamish has no interest in fulfilling his duty of marrying. Not to a woman, at least.
Silver Winner
The Prescient
Vampire detective Nick knows a few seers. One of those seers, an antisocial male with the annoying habit of painting things before they happen, appears at Nick’s work, claiming he has something to show him. That something turns out to be his latest creation, a mural of a bomb going off in downtown New York.
Bronze Winner
Chronicles of Fen: Cernuin
He made the gods mortal, breaking the laws of magic. Now the world pays for his crimes. Fen, a powerful mage and rare harpy, spent thirty years as a prisoner. In that time he concludes how to amend his actions and save the world from the rage of the gods.
Gold Winner
Sparky is a newly-hatched dragon with a problem: he can't breathe fire. Not wanting to stand out from all the other dragons, he leaves the nest and sets off on an adventurous journey to solve his problem.
Silver Winner
The Shimmer
The time has come for Sparkle to set off on her magical quest across the shimmer. The feisty, young unicorn wants do good and help those she meets, but she finds her new magical powers are not easy to control. Will she do enough to please the queen, and gain her full unicorn powers?
Bronze Winner
The Mouse in the Hammock
A little mouse who sleeps in a Christmas Tree hammock scurries around the house at night doing good deeds to prepare the house for Christmas.
Gold Winner
The swinging sixties – a time of peace, love, violence and revolution. In 1962, as the Cold War erupts in sudden crisis over Cuba, Cordelia, Beatrice and Rosalind are fourteen. Dubbed by their English teacher the three witches from Macbeth, they have already recognised one another as outsiders, with no idea that their alliance will turn out to be a lifelong friendship.
Silver Winner
Irma's Endgame
When newspaper headlines screamed in large bold print that one of the world’s leading heart-transplant surgeons, Peter Dayton, was arrested for the death of one of his transplant patients, shock waves were felt around the world.
Bronze Winner
A Sorry Affair
Jen and Mack are the perfect couple; meeting at university, moving in together and engaged to be married. Then, one day, Abbi turns up on their doorstep and throws a huge spanner in the works of their seemingly well-oiled relationship. Jen and Mack are the perfect couple; meeting at university, moving in together and engaged to be married. Then, one day, Abbi turns up on their doorstep and throws a huge spanner in the works of their seemingly well-oiled relationship.
Gold Winner
Doctoral student Hannah Wagganer has big dreams of leaving her hometown of Glen Arbor behind to teach at a large university. That is, until Jasper Morgan, the new mail carrier, arrives in town.
Silver Winner
Love's Full Circle
Kayden James may have missed out on her happy ever after. But, as a successful marriage and family therapist, at least she can help other people find theirs. Now that her career has taken off, Kayden is finally ready to put the past behind her. . . until it strolls into her office unexpectedly one day.
Bronze Winner
Stories that Intrigue
STORIES THAT INTRIGUE is a book of six connected delightful and upbeat short stories about the trip to London, Switzerland, France, and New York taken by the main characters Julia, Stephanie, and Sam.
Gold Winner
A book the whole family can enjoy. Take a journey and discover Bulgarian folk tales, legends, and mythology.
Silver Winner
The Ghost Wisdom
Life needs a reference!Do we have it? Can we try?The Ghost Wisdom is a mystical journey that takes the reader through relevant revelations to live life with purpose and success.
Bronze Winner
The Greatest Movement in Human History
Changing the world is a skill. Right now, we’re bad at it…but we can learn how to be good at it.
Gold Winner
Challenger (Horses and Souls Book 1)
Would you ride your precious horse too hard, just so you can beat your best friend? Joanna did, driven by the ghost of her highly competitive mother. Remorse and fear engulf Joanna when she finds her best friend, Diane had disappeared on that same day. Joanna walks away from everything to do with horses to run the county show with her Dad.
Silver Winner
Judas Kiss
Delaney Murphy is learning what it really means to be the daughter of the Devil and that not everyone appreciates her father's kinder, gentler side.
Bronze Winner
Reborn
Sold into servitude, Lexil must deal with brutal punishments, back-breaking labor, and the loss of every freedom. When a young child she has befriended faces a horrible fate, Lexil must intervene to protect her, no matter what the risk.
Montenegro Book One: Cemetery Candles
Victor Montenegro is a respected diplomat, a revered illusionist, and a treasure hunter who is applauded and envied for his uncanny ability to find historical treasures.
Milijun
When aliens take Laura’s beloved son, a terrifying new future threatens to tear her world apart. Why have they taken him and what do they want from her?
The Clumsy Gnome
Tom is a jolly, clumsy and wonderfully mixed up gnome who lives with his fellow gnomes in their very happy tree home in Raisin House Garden.
Blindside
Whomever said it was all downhill after 40 were most definitely wrong. For Maggie Lynch, divorced at 42, life was just taking her in a different direction. The only thing missing was a little romance, but she was in no rush.
A Hole in One
Never one to let a few wayward balls spoil a good walk, join us in a short stroll along the back nine at Fairweather Fields.
Overcoming the Odds
This is my story of triumphs over cancer, life-threatening brain surgery - twice and obesity!
The Legend of Ailish
The legend of Ailish begins in the year 3256, two thousand years before we learned of her in The Dark Masters. Recalled to The Island by the Eight Sorceresses of Nevaeh, Ailish, Queen Mother of Morvene and the most powerful sorceress in Nevaeh, must say goodbye to her children and leave everything behind, as she ventures into the unknown.
Congratulations to all of our finalists whether they received a medal or not. The competition was tough and all of our entries were amazing books by some great authors. Why not add them to your TBR list. And come back next year, so we can do it all again!
