2019 MEDALIST BOOKSTORE

Here are the results of the 2019 Independent Publisher Book Awards Regional categories, representing the year's best titles published in this important division of independent publishing.

Listed below are the Best Regional Fiction and Best Regional Non-Fiction medalists with cover scans and purchasing links for each title.

To view the General, E-Book and Outstanding Book of the Year medalists, click the links in the sidebar.

Congratulations to all!

REGIONAL CATEGORIES

NORTHEAST – BEST REGIONAL FICTION
GOLD: Come, Bos

by Lucille Benoit
 
(Stillwater River Publications)
 

 

 

 

 

SILVER: Secrets Haunt the Lobsters’ Sea


by Charlene D’Avanzo
 
(Maine Authors Publishing)
 

 

 

 

BRONZE: Frost Heaves


by T. Stores
 
(Green Writers Press)
 
US NORTHEAST – BEST REGIONAL NON-FICTION
GOLD: Out in Blue Fields: A Year at Hokum Rock Blueberry Farm

by Janice Riley & Stephen Spear
 
(Schiffer Publishing)
 

 

 

 

SILVER: Red Scare in the Green Mountains: Vermont in the McCarthy Era 1946-1960


by Rick Winston
 
(Rootstock Publishing)
 

 

 

 

BRONZE: A Road Through Time: Manhattan to the Adirondacks on New York State’s First Road


by Richard Figiel
 
(Silver Thread Books)
 
MID-ATLANTIC – BEST REGIONAL FICTION
GOLD: Crazy About Kurt

by Will Link
 
(Self-Published)
 

 

 

 

 

SILVER: The Strongman and the Mermaid: The Donora Story Collection Book Two


by Kathleen Shoop
 
(Self-Published)
 

 

 

 

BRONZE: Fathers’ Day


by HJ Brennan
 
(Wing & a Prayer Books)
 
MID-ATLANTIC – BEST REGIONAL NON-FICTION
GOLD: The Stephen Decatur House: A History

by James Tertius de Kay, Michael Fazio, Osborne Phinizy Mackie, Katherine Malone-France
 
(White House Historical Association)
 

 

 

SILVER: Lee Chapel at 150: A History


by R. David Cox
 
(Mariner Publishing)
 

 

 

BRONZE: Congressional Procedure: A Practical Guide to the Legislative Process in the Congress


by Richard A. Arenberg
 
(TheCapitol.Net, Inc.)
 
SOUTHEAST – BEST REGIONAL FICTION
GOLD: An Unfinished Sunset: The Return of Irish Bly

by Will Irby
 
(MacGuffin Books)
 

 

 

 

SILVER: Mourning Dove


by Claire Fullerton
 
(Firefly Southern Fiction)
 

 

 

 

 

BRONZE: Heed the Apocalypse


by Waights Taylor Jr.
 
(McCaa Books)
 
 
SOUTHEAST – BEST REGIONAL NON-FICTION
GOLD: The Faces of Local Food: Celebrating the People Who Feed Us


by Charlotte Caldwell

(Farcountry Press)

 

 

 

SILVER: Our Prince of Scribes: Writers Remember Pat Conroy


edited by Nicole Seitz and Jonathan Haupt
 
(University of Georgia Press)
 

 

 

 

BRONZE: Kentucky’s 120 Counties: A Postcard Album (1900-1925)


by Carl Howell and Robin Milby
 
(Butler Books)
 
SOUTH – BEST REGIONAL FICTION
GOLD: Valeria Vose

by Alice Bingham Gorman
 
(She Writes Press)
 

 

 

 

 

SILVER: While You Were Gone


by Sybil Baker
 
(C&R Press)
 

 

 

 

 

BRONZE: South of Little Rock

by George Rollie Adams
 
(Outskirts Press)
 
SOUTH – BEST REGIONAL NON-FICTION
GOLD: Andrea’s Cooktales: A Keepsake Cookbook


by Andrea LeTard

 

(Susan Schadt Press)

 


 

SILVER: Novel Sounds: Southern Fiction in the Age of Rock and Roll

by Florence Dore

(Columbia University Press)

 

 

 

 

 

BRONZE: 100 Insects of Arkansas and the Midsouth: Portraits & Stories


by Norman and Cheryl Lavers

 

(Et Alia Press)
 

GREAT LAKES – BEST REGIONAL FICTION 
GOLD: Robert’s Rules

by J. F. Riordan

 

(Beaufort Books)

 

 

 

 

SILVER: The Clubhouse Thief


by James Janko

 

(Western Michigan University)

 

 

 

 

BRONZE: Still Waters


by Barbara E. Bull

 

(Cherry Point Publishing)

 
GREAT LAKES – BEST REGIONAL NON-FICTION
GOLD: Wonderous West Shore


by Todd and Brad Reed

(Todd & Brad Reed Photography)

 
SILVER: Illinois Across the Land

by Lee Mandrell and DeeDee Niederhouse-Mandrell

 

(Indiana University Press)

 

 

BRONZE: Under the Radar Michigan: The Next 50


by Tom Daldin, Jim Edelman & Eric Tremonti

 

(Scribe Publishing)

 
MIDWEST – BEST REGIONAL FICTION
GOLD: The Witness Tree

by Amy Pendino

 

(Wise Ink Creative Publishing)

 

 

 

 

SILVER: I Am Mrs. Jesse James


by Pat Wahler

 

(Blank Slate Press)

 

 

 

 

BRONZE: Once Upon A Sparrow


by Mary Avery Kabrich

 

(Open Wings Press)

 
MIDWEST – BEST REGIONAL NON-FICTION
GOLD: Pacing Dakota

by Thomas D. Isern

 

(North Dakota State University Press)

 

 

 

 

SILVER: Operation Snowbound: Life behind the Blizzards of 1949


by David W. Mills

 

(North Dakota State University Press)

 

 

 

 

BRONZE: German Awakening: Tales from an American Life


by Amy Hallberg

 

(Wise Ink Creative Publishing)

WEST-MOUNTAIN – BEST REGIONAL FICTION
GOLD: In the Company of Like-Minded Women

by Elaine Russell

 

(Self-Published)

 

 

 

 

SILVER : Hopi Tea: A Murder Mystery

by Kent F. Jacobs

(Sunstone Press)

 

 

 

 

 

BRONZE: Traveling Light: a novelita


by Candelora Versace

 

(Self-Published)

 
WEST-MOUNTAIN – BEST REGIONAL NON-FICTION

GOLD: Utah Canyon Country: 20 Must-See Sites and Short Hikes

by Laurie J. Schmidt

(Pleasant Creek Press)

 

 

 

 

 

SILVER: Defining the Times: Barack H. Obama

by Patricia Duncan

(IJABA Publishing)

 

 

 

 

BRONZE (tie): 

In the Chasms of Water, Stone, and Light: Passages Through the Grand Canyon


by John Annerino

 

(Schiffer Publishing)

 

 

Four Corners USA: Wonders of the American Southwest

by Jim Turner; photography by Larry Lindahl

(Rio Nuevo Publishers)

 
WEST-PACIFIC – BEST REGIONAL FICTION
GOLD: The Secret Life of Mrs. London

by Rebecca Rosenberg


(Lake Union Publishing)

 

 

 

 

SILVER: Undergrowth

by Ellen King Rice; illustrated by Duncan Sheffels

(Self-Published)

 

 

 

 

 

BRONZE: Burying My Dead


by Bettie Lennett Denny

 

(Brooklyn Street Press)

 
WEST-PACIFIC – BEST REGIONAL NON-FICTION
GOLD: Past/Forward: The LA Phil at 100

by Julia Ward, Robin Rauzi, Derek Traub
 

(Los Angeles Philharmonic Association)

 
 

 

SILVER: A Wild Promise: Prince William Sound

by Debbie S. Miller; photography by Hugh Rose

 

(Braided River / Mountaineers Books)

 

 BRONZE (tie): 

Painters of the Northwest: Impressionism to Modernism, 1900-1930

by John Impert

(University of Oklahoma Press)

 
Seattle Now & Then: The Historic Hundred

by Paul Dorpat & Jean Sherrard

 

(Documentary Media) 

CANADA-EAST – BEST REGIONAL FICTION
GOLD: The Luminous Sea

by Melissa Barbeau

 

(Breakwater Books)

 

 

 

 

SILVER: One for the Rock


by Kevin Major

 

(Breakwater Books)

 

 

 

 

BRONZE: Celtic Knot: A Clara Swift Tale

by Ann Shortell

(Friesen Press)

 
CANADA-EAST – BEST REGIONAL NON-FICTION
GOLD: Betrayal of Trust: Commander Wyatt and the Halifax Explosion

by Joel Zemel


(New World Publishing)

 

 

 

 

SILVER : No Poverty Between the Sheets


by Pauline Kiely


(Passionate Pen Publishing)

 





BRONZE: Treasures of the CNE: Memorabilia and Tales from the Canadian National Exhibition

by Lee Shimano


(Friesen Press)

 
CANADA-WEST – BEST REGIONAL FICTION
GOLD: Fat Cats: Book Four in the Dyed in the Green Series

by George Mercer


(Self-Published)

 





SILVER: Hider/Seeker: Stories

by Jen Currin


(Anvil Press)

 

 

 

 

BRONZE: Lure: Is Humanity the True Cancer?


by Jeff Marschall


(Self-Published)

 
CANADA-WEST – BEST REGIONAL NON-FICTION
GOLD: Claiming the Land: British Columbia and the Making of a New El Dorado

by Daniel Marshall


(Ronsdale Press)

 





SILVER: That is Not Me: A Journey of Perception

by L.J. Nelson


(Friesen Press)

 





BRONZE: Larry’s Last Resort: A True Story

by Susan Riley


(Gower Point Press)

 
AUSTRALIA/NEW ZEALAND – BEST REGIONAL FICTION
GOLD: The Nam Shadow

by Carole Brungar


(Carole Brungar Publishing)

 





SILVER: Tasman: An Innocent Convict's Struggle for Freedom

by Paddy Eger


(Tendril Press)

 







BRONZE: Pongo: Hands Through the Forest

by Sue Feenstra


(Ocean Reeve Publishing Pty Ltd)

 
AUSTRALIA/NEW ZEALAND – BEST REGIONAL NON-FICTION
GOLD: Australia’s EXTRA. Ordinary. West.

by Clare McAleney & Carmen Jenner


(Creatavision Publishing)

 

 

 
SILVER: Women of a Certain Age

Edited by Jodie Moffat, Maria Scoda & Susan Laura Sullivan


(Fremantle Press)

 





BRONZE Lina’la: Portraits of Life at Litekyan

by Richard Flores Taitano Micronesian Area Research Center


(University of Guam Press)

 
EUROPE – BEST REGIONAL FICTION
GOLD: Straight Circles

by Jackie Bateman

 

(Anvil Press)

 





SILVER: In Servitude

by Heleen Kist


(Pollok Glen Publishing)

 






BRONZE: Remnants


by Stan Poel

 

(Heritage Beacon Fiction)

 
EUROPE – BEST REGIONAL NON-FICTION
GOLD: Holodomor: Silenced Voices of the Starved Children


by Lesa Melnyczuk and Phil Webster

 

(Carina Hoang Communications)

 
SILVER: Finding Monte Cristo: Alexandre Dumas and the French Atlantic World

by Eric Martone


(McFarland & Company Publishing)

 





BRONZE: Under the French Blue Sky: Diary of a Grand Tour

by Nicole Marie Davison

 

(Capra Cyclista)