congratulations to our 2018 literary and nancy pearl contest winners
Nancy Pearl Winners
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Literary/Mainstream
Summer Dance
By Nan Rossiter
When Liam Tate was seven years old, his uncle Cooper opened his heart and his Nantucket home to him. In the intervening decades, Liam has found both love and loss on the island, and since learning of his son Levi’s existence, a new kind of happiness. Yet one piece of his family history remains elusive—the long-ago romance between his uncle and Sally Adams. Now Sally has a revelation that sets the whole town abuzz: She’s publishing a book about what happened during the summer when she and Cooper first met, painting a picture so vivid it feels like yesterday . . .
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Genre
Catching Epics
By Halie Fewkes
Ebby didn’t know she was the new Human Epic until the day she was captured, stuck with the new Escali Epic, Vack, and told to be friends with him. They’re the two most powerful kids in the world, destined to be enemy combatants like every Epic before them, but they've been imprisoned together in hopes they might resolve some of their differences. Vack would rather push Ebby out a window than befriend her, while Ebby thinks Vack is a barbarian who might eat her, and the result is chaos. Allie and Archie are thrown into the fray when they’re asked to help a team of brutal hunters find and rescue Ebby. Archie makes recovering the Epic a priority, but Allie couldn’t be pulled any harder in the opposite direction. Rescuing a little girl sounds like the right thing to do, but leaving Ebby in the hands of the Escalis has a different appeal. If Ebby and Vack existed to do more than fight one another, they could change the course of the entire Human Escali war.
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Memoir
The Chicken Who Saved Us
By Kristin Jarvas Adams
Eight-year-old Andrew is autistic and bilingual. He speaks English–and Chicken. With words limited by autism, Andrew lives in a fantastic world where chickens talk and superheroes come alive. But when he tells his pet chicken Frightful that his body is trying to kill him, it launches Andrew’s family and an entire medical community into a decade-long quest for answers.
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Literary Contest Winners
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Mainstream:
1st Place:
"The Exile" by Gregory Phillips
2nd Place:
"Paine Unbound" by Heather Lockman
3nd Place:
"Hold on to Me" by Rachael Spavins
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Middle Grade:
1st Place:
"What the Seahorse Told Me" by Mary Knight
2nd Place:
"Presley Pina and the P.E.A" by Donna Barba Matney
3nd Place:
'The Signal' by Robert Land
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Historical - Sponsored by Pam Binder:
1st Place:
"Crescent City" by Kim O’Brien
2nd Place:
"The Last Whippoorwill" by Mary Stafford
3nd Place:
"One Day a Warrior" by Thomas Womack
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Nonfiction/Memoir - Sponsored by Donna Conrad:
1st Place:
"Mango Rash: Survival Lessons in the Land of Francidani and Fanta" by Nan Sanders Pokerwinski
2nd Place:
"Climbing the Waters" by Sarah Conover
3nd Place:
"The Lake Effect" by Rachel Greenley
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Romance/Women's Fiction - Sponsored by Gerri Russell:
1st Place:
"The Art of Scandal" by Suzanne Turner
2nd Place:
"The Reluctant Traveler" by Anna Collins
3nd Place:
"Change in Plans" by Karen Kroll
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Poetry:
1st Place:
"Choose Your Own History and Hope: Nicole Nemioukoue, November 20th 1653", "The Fall of '16", "Continentall Rift" by Leslie Frank
2nd Place:
"Burden" by JR Rogers
3nd Place:
"Walking the Elk River Road" by Bill Ransom
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Mystery/Thriller - Sponsored by Robert Dugoni:
1st Place:
"The Short Sellers" by Michael Cox
2nd Place:
"Firewall" by Stephen Wallenfels
3nd Place:
"Threshold" by Daniel Waters
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Short Story:
1st Place:
"New Pajamas" by Deanna Todd-Goodson
2nd Place:
"The Man Who Never Slept" by Rachel Barnard
3nd Place:
"Rest Stop Blues" by Patti Hulvershorn
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Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Paranormal:
1st Place:
"A Dark Shadow Against the Sun" by Hemant Nayak
2nd Place:
"Shadows" by Joshua Corneil
3nd Place:
"As Luck Would Have It" by Jason Mueller
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Childrens:
1st Place:
"Sophia’s Secrets" by George Johnson
2nd Place:
"Fifi the Elephant: Outside Person" by Kimberly Christensen
3nd Place:
"Pill Bug Hill" by Christina Wilsdon
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Young Adult
1st Place:
"Indra’s Net" by Debra Carlson
2nd Place:
"Sunk" by Maggie Adams
3nd Place:
"The Arc of Ehdin" by Laura Reeves & Claire Bethke
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Adult Short Topics: Sponsored by Behler Publications
1st Place:
"Be the Good You Wish to Feel" by Erin Hillert
2nd Place:
"As If We Had a Choice" by Mary Koch
3nd Place:
"Children’s Children: Why Black Dolls Matter" by Karen Kurtz
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