IndieReader Discovery Awards 2020 Entrants
Added as our experts review them, find the latest from the 2020 IndieReader Discovery Awards, leading up the big winners announcement in May!
Chronicling one of the most devastating natural disasters in recent history by way of gripping, first-hand accounts, Ashley Conner’s MEMOIRS OF MICHAEL: The Hurricane Project,…
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IR VERDICT: WHAT DEATH TAUGHT TERRENCE, by Derek McFadden, is an engaging what-if novel about a dying man’s encounter with God and His panel to…
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IR VERDICT: Samuel Miles Morley’s new novel AFTER THE BALL mixes horror, mystery, and suspense. Set in the 1970’s, a patient of psychiatrist Jon Schertz…
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IR Verdict BLOOD IN THE WATER by Rick Outzen is the story of an alcoholic newspaper publisher who gets drawn into a complicated and dangerous…
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IR VERDICT: Past trauma affects future progress as an intrepid scientist’s dream simulation project threatens to envelop him in a permanent fugue state in Andrew…
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THE NEWTON CODE by Liam Fialkov is a conspiracy-charged blockbuster of a novel that begins with Michael compromising his family’s safety to get to the…
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IR VERDICT: NEVER TURN YOUR BACK ON THE TIDE is an amazing memoir about a man who believed he had the perfect life and partner…
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IR VERDICT: Engrossing and educational, REMEMBERING SHANGHAI is the story of a family’s third daughter growing up during the revolution of the ’40s and ’50s.…
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IR VERDICT: Anyone who works in education or mental health knows that awareness of self and others is a critical component of success in all…
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IR VERDICT: Doug Wilhelm’s STREET OF STORYTELLERS follows an American high school boy’s impressions and experiences while visiting a pre-al Qaeda Afghanistan. Unwittingly caught up in ethnic tension…
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IR VERDICT: POLK GULCH is a romping San Francisco rock n’ roll novel featuring Wally, a jaded man in love with the lead singer of…
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IR VERDICT: MORE THAN HALFWAY THERE by David Hartshorn is the story of one New Hampshire man’s mid-life crisis. Told with raw emotion and (sometimes…
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IR VERDICT: THE NEWTON CODE by Liam Fialkov is a conspiracy-charged blockbuster of a novel that begins with Michael compromising his family’s safety to get…
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