Award-Winning Fiction - 2010 Independent Publisher Book Awards
Discover the 2010 Independent Publisher Book Awards' winning fiction titles. Explore acclaimed books that earned top honors in this prestigious literary competition.
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The Gem Merchants
by Ray Ferguson
Mark Branson has achieved what every gem dealer dreams of. He is on the scene at the time and place of a major gem strike. …
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Illuminations
by Eva Hoffman
The award-winning Hoffman, former senior editor at the New York Times and the author of several highly regarded works of nonfiction (e.g., Exit into History), …
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Knife Song Korea
by Richard Selzer
A tumultuous year in the life of a young surgeon during the Korean War.
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Matterhorn
by Karl Marlantes
Young Marine lieutenant and platoon commander Waino Mellas and his battalion learn about life, loss, and the horrors of war during their thirteen-month tour in …
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The Book of Fathers
by Miklos Vamos
When in 1705 Kornell Csillag's grandfather returns destitute to his native Hungary from exile, he happens across a gold fob-watch gleaming in the mud. The …
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Expecting Goodness & Other Stories
by C. Michael Curtis
When renowned fiction editor C. Michael Curtis moved from Boston to a small college town to accept a distinguished chair in the English Department, he …
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Once the Shore
by Paul Yoon
Ethereal stories set on a South Korean island introduce a haunting new voice in international fiction.
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How the Indians Buried Their Dead
by Hilary Masters
The fourteen stories in Masters’s third collection are set in New England, upstate New York, and various European locales. They range from a late-blooming romance …
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Stonewiser
by Dora Machado
Banished and on the run, Sariah must find a way to carry out the stone's mystifying legacy. As the war excalates and the rot destroys …
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Thank You, Death Robot
by Mark R. Brand
If you run, it will catch you. If you hide, it will find you. If you resist, it will destroy you. A jaded ex-wife prepares …
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The Wheel of Nuldoid
by Russ Woody
When a student in Warren Worst's sixth-grade class is kidnapped by two creatures and taken deep into the earth, Warren and his neighbor Lily follow …
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The Sword of Medina
by Sherry Jones
Before dying, Muhammad leaves his jeweled sword to A'isha, telling her to use it in the jihad to come. But what if the jihad is …
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The Afflicted Girls
by Suzy Witten
Witten presents a startling new theory of the Salem Village witch-hunts, which is certain to put this 300-year-old unsettled mystery to rest. Part parable, part …
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The Factory Voice
by Jeanette Lynes
Wrapped around the stories of these four women, is a mystery. Something''s gone wrong with the Mosquitos being built for the war effort -- they …
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Our Promised Land
by Michael Darkow
Two generations of families--one Israeli and one Palestinian--fight for their survival and their own piece of the Promised Land.
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Personal Demons
by Gregory Lamberson
While battling a cocaine addiction, Jake Helman starts a high-pressure position as the director of security at a controversial genetic-engineering company. As Jake delves deeper …
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The Picture of Contented New Wealth
by Tariq Goddard
In the brilliant red doom of a Hampshire Sunset Brigit Conti can hear a voice behind her ears that is not her own. Bed-bound, and …
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Geometry of God
by Uzma Aslam Khan
Khan (Trespassing, 2004, etc.) fuses the romantic, the spiritual and the political in her story of two sisters in 1980s and '90s Pakistan. The same …
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The Big Wake-up
by Mark Coggins
The critically acclaimed A Corpse in the Koryo brought readers into the enigmatic workings of North Korean intelligence with the introduction of a new kind …
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Death of a Bronx Cop
by Tom Walker
A fourth-generation New York cop whose great-grandfather was on the force during the Civil War Draft Riots of 1863, and author of Fort Apache: New …
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Pope Annalisa
by Peter Canova
What forces were at work when the unthinkable became reality and an African nun was elected the first female pope? Amid conflicting prophecies of destruction …
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Offerings
by Christine Sunderland
Jack's haunted by fears of the past. Madeleine holds a powerful secret. And Rachelle is running away. For the last seventeen years, her husband, Jack, …