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2011 HONORABLE Mention for Writing
2007 Finalist for Parenting
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Parenting Children with Health Issues
2006 SILVER Winner for Literary
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Fire With Fire
2005 GOLD Winner for Mystery
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The Grail Conspiracy
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Cracked
First in an intense trilogy from Barbra Leslie, "Cracked" introduces Danny Cleary, a paradoxically strong and intelligent young woman hooked on crack cocaine. Intent on escaping the pain and depression of an emotional divorce by smoking...
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A Constant Longing
If a movie were made of Halima Alaiyan’s dramatic life of dislocation, disappointment, and transformation, it would challenge credulity. In 1948, when she was barely a year old, her village, Ibdis in Palestine, was destroyed by Israeli...
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Dancing Backward in Paradise
by Emily Asad
"Dancing Backward in Paradise" by Vera Jane Cook is a charming rags-to-riches story with a heartwarming ending, memorable characters, and a riveting plot that will make the reader forget the outside world. It’s 1967. The world is...
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Avalon Bay
While the small sleepy settlement of Avalon on Catalina Island, California, seems an unlikely place for a terrorist act, the Avalon Jihad’s mission—to kill thousands of Americans on ferry boats—is one of a number of simultaneously...