The NHWP Literary Awards are being announced at an event on Saturday, October 5 from 4 to 6 pm at St. Anselm College, Roger and Francine Jean Student Center. It is now up to readers to cast their vote for the 2019 Readers’ Choice Awards once in each category. You can review all competing books below. When you are ready to vote, visit: https://forms.gle/jP1cwiLvS5P2GAXU9
Voting will close September 28 at midnight. We will announce the winners at the New Hampshire Literary Awards on October 5th.
| Book Cover | Title | Author | Synopsis |
|---|---|---|---|
| MIDDLE GRADE YOUNG ADULT | |||
 | In the Valley of the Dragons | Nancy M. Donovan | A girl and a young dragon become friends and travel to a magical place where they have adventures in a land where nature is still pure. |
 | Bound by Ice | Sandra - Niel Wallace | Follows the journey of George Washington De Long and the crew of the USS Jeannette, who departed San Francisco in the summer of 1879 hoping to find a route to the North Pole. |
 | Patriot Papers | JJ Prior and Whippie Prior | This fun and colorful presentation of the most significant documents that founded our country sheds new light on THE PATRIOT PAPERS. |
 | The Burnt Sunset | Chris Ledoux | The latest in an epic dystopian apocalyptic fantasy series |
 | The Curse of Halim | Alfred M. Struthers | Third book in a series - When 12-year-old Nathan Cole discovers a shred of paper in the curious bookcase hidden away in his attic, he is pulled into a tangle of unanswered questions that grows more complex at every turn. |
 | Blood Brother - Jonathan Daniels | Rick Wallace and Sandra N. Wallace | An exploration of what led Daniels to the moment of his death, the trial of his murderer, and how these events helped reshape both the legal and political climate of Lowndes County and the nation. |
| CHILDRENS PICTURE | |||
 | Hooray I Farted | Shana Chartier | Giggle with your children as you read through this rhyming book about that silliest of sounds: farts! Learn all about animals while laughing through pages of that universally funny form of humor, and try not to toot along! |
 | The Elephants Euphonium | Bonnie Fladung | Learn about the last of the big tuskers and discover all kinds of information about the wildlife of southern Africa. The lively, rhyming text introduces Zulu words and is supplemented by maps and facts about elephant behavior. |
 | The Perfect Pillow | Eric Pinder | In his strange new room on his big new bed, Brody tosses and turns, holding his stuffed dragon named Horst. His parents can't help him fall asleep, so he has no choice to go out and search for a better bed. |
 | Between The Lines | Sandra Neil Wallace | Discover the remarkable true story of NFL star Ernie Barnes—a boy who followed his dreams and became one of the most influential artists of his generation |
 | Sam Fisherwoman; The Reel Story | Maggie Kemp | A young girl goes fishing from the family dock on her own and solves problems as they arise. Colorful potato print collages illustrate the delightful tale of this engaging little girl and her quest for independence. |
 | Shadow Catchers | Janis Hennessey | Poor Max is afraid of his own shadow! Colby tries hard to get Max to come play in the sunshine. Seeing children play Shadow Catchers encourages him to leave the shade. |
 | Flashlight Night | Matt Forrest Esenwine | Three children use a flashlight to light a path around their backyard at night; in the flashlight’s beam another world looms. |
| FICTION | |||
 | Welcome to the Universe | MD Tabat | Welcome to the Universe picks up where Welcome to the Galaxy left off. Because of the fortuitous discovery that Humans are the only other species in the galaxy immune to the deadly effects of Flock, the catalyst that makes interstellar travel possible |
 | Welcome to the Galaxy | MD Tabat | an urban science fiction story set in the very near future and begins when a travelling, snake-oil-style, junk dealer named Quane, arrives on Earth. |
 | Raven Tell a Story | Anne Donaghy | Seventeen-year old Tessa Ravenwing turns her back on her village in the Alaskan mountains, on the role of healer and storyteller that she has been raised to step into, and chooses instead to become a resistance fighter against Orion, a questionable private defense contractor. |
 | The Backwards K | JJ Hebert | Featuring relatable characters facing heartfelt struggles, The Backwards K is for anyone who believes winning begins with having the courage to take a swing. |
 | Ascending - The Vardeshi Saga Book 1 | Meg Pechenick | Twenty-five years ago the Vardeshi came to Earth. Then they vanished without a trace. Graduate student Avery Alcott always knew they would return. When they do, she’s the only one who can speak their language. |
 | Plum Springs | Dan Lawton | A coming of age story about nine year old Rusty Travis. Rusty learns about the harshness of life, and also its beauty. |
 | Telling Sonny | Elizabeth Gauffreau | Two weeks before Sonny is to be married, the father he barely knew is killed in a single-car accident, an apparent suicide. |
| Cover Not Available | Generating Influence | Ekard Popache | Synopsis Not Available |
 | Beautiful Invention | Margaret Porter | Hollywood Beauty. Brilliant inventor. The incredible story of a remarkable and misunderstood woman -screen actress Hedy Lamarr |
 | The Rocketdyne Commission | Michael Davidow | For the powerful final chapter of The Henry Bell Project, his award-nominated saga of American presidential politics, author and lawyer Michael Davidow takes on the rise of the American right wing: from the death of John Kennedy to the election of Ronald Reagan. |
 | The Twins | RL Napolitano | Former CIA operative for twenty-five years, Michael Lott has left the Company and is teaching in a small New England college where he has written a novel that tells the story of a group of wealthy businessmen who are coerced by a Senior White House official into funding a terrorist attack. |
 | Hey Ma, Your Husband is Dead | Rick Peoples | Beatrice gleefully learns that her exiled second husband, Fred, has finally dropped dead. Her euphoria and celebration plans are short lived once she realizes that since they had never divorced, it will be up to her and her adult children to clean up another one of his messes. |
 | The Oracle Files: Escape | Masheri Chappelle | Elizabeth Beeson Chase. Cursed by her mother at age six, Elizabeth is forced to battle Malachai, an angry West African ghost, as she rises from slave to Quaker, to "Blue Vein" Socialite, in the harsh Black and White world of 1850 New York. |
 | Resin | Amy Virginia Evans | Fifty-six year old married Juliet Grant believes the story of her life has been written until she meets Charles Westfall, a charismatic hermit living deep in the winter woods near her Massachusetts home. |
| NONFICTION | |||
 | Ciao Italia | Mary Ann Esposito | Beloved PBS chef Esposito shares traditional authentic Italian recipes and a look into Italian culture. |
 | Spanning Time New Hampshire's Covered Bridges & The Old Man of the Mountain | Irene DuPont | A photographic collection of covered bridges throughout New Hampshire. Also included - a tribute section to the former Old Man of the Mountain rock profile in New Hampshire's Franconia Notch State Park. |
 | The White Mountain | Dan Szczesny | An exploration into the history and mystique of New England's tallest mountain. But Mount Washington is more than just a 6,288-foot rock pile; the mountain is the cultural soul of climbers, hikers, and tourists from around the world. |
 | A Tale of Two Rivers | Sue Mcphee | A heartwarming, eye-opening memoir takes the reader on a journey of love and courage as the author joins a group of women caring for orphaned babies in Romania. |
 | Through the Eyes of a Soldier | Robert Simmonds | Framed around the “Record of Events” of Battery L, a Regular Army unit, which was in service before, during and after the war. Their history—what they saw, read, or heard announced in General Orders—covers almost the entirety of a far-flung war. |
| POETRY | |||
 | Water Ways | O'Daly Graustein | A poetic exploration of New Hampshire’s many waterways. |
 | Woman Prime | Gail C. Dimaggio | Woman Prime is about the fundamental human wish to settle into an authentic self, a “prime” identity. It follows one woman through her roles—child, adult, wife, mother—and shows how she must remake herself through each new stage. |
 | Sleep in a Strange House | Jessica Purdy | In dreams and out of them, this brutally frank confrontation with the work of parenting (parenting both one’s self and one’s children) talks back to those who would reduce mothering to a series of quaint conditionals. |
 | For Lack of a Calling | Mark DeCarteret | A collection of poems, charged with wit and uncanny insights into our quotidian, linger on all that’s unstill: the sea, deer, the self. |
 | A Camouflage of Specimens and Garments | Jennifer Militello | This captivating book stitches together a plethoric identity so as to examine the disguises we all wear. |
 | Ever After | Dianalee Velie | Poems take on the lives, extrapolated from their fairy tale settings, of such as Cinderella as she attends a high school reunion, Lewis Carroll's Alice as she joins a substance abuse meeting, and Carlo Collodi's Pinocchio as he launches his career in--what else--politics. |
 | Beating The Bounds | Liz Ahl | The collection investigates the ritual walking of the boundaries of a town every seven years. |
 | Hallowed: New and Selected Poems | Patricia Fargnoli | Featuring selections from Patricia Fargnoli's four previous books along with twenty-four new poems, here is a celebration of poetic endurance, filled with quietly distinctive cadences and images closely seen, now freshly understood. |
