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NEW YORK BOOK FESTIVAL NAMES “OPPOSITION RESEARCH” FOR TOP HONORS
NEW YORK_ The 2020 New York Book Festival has named a fast-paced political novel as the winner of its annual competition honoring books worthy of greater attention from the world’s publishing capital.
Author Rick Robinson’s Opposition Research (Headline Books) explores politics' dirty little secret. Digging up buried skeletons can bring an opponent's campaign to a dead standstill. Former United States Senator Richard Thompson just can't get politics out of his blood. Following his last stint on Capitol Hill, Thompson and his close circle of friends are embarking on a new endeavor -- running a consulting firm that specializes in opposition research.
But when their digging uncovers lethal information, it places Thompson and his crew on a dangerous ride spanning from Little Italy to California and back to the nation's capital. In between, winning or losing a campaign becomes overshadowed by life and death itself.
Other winners in the competition:
GENERAL FICTION
WINNER: Opposition Research - Rick Robinson
RUNNER-UP: CILLA - Janos Toldy
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
- Treasure of the Blue Whale - Steven Mayfield
- Goodbye Orchid – Carol Van Den Hende
- Up in IRISH Brooklyn – Norman Keifetz
- The Figure - Ken Kirkberry
- The Pearl Harbor Conspiracy - Joyce Schwartz
- The Wondrous Apothecary – Mary E. Martin
- The Wuhan Plague - James Crew Allen and Richard Bonte
- Seat 24H – Rosemary Rudland
- The Last Moon – DeAnn Lubell
- Bloodline – Lisa Jagmohan
- The Agent – Marsha Roberts
- The Legend of See Bird – Karl Stewart
- Purgatory - Candy O’Connor
- Once in a Blood Moon – Dorothea Hubble Bonneau
- Ravelled - Seph Gannon
- Artificial Light - D. Dupree
- Chief Among Us - L.A. Noble
- Enough – CD Tony Hylton
- Anthropocene - Dean Gessie
- Pure Innuendos - Loodie
WILD CARD
WINNER: Bread Bags & Bullies: Surviving The ‘80s - Steven H. Manchester
RUNNER-UP: Vestal Virgin: Chosen For Rome - Katherine Spada Basto
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
UNPUBLISHED
WINNER: Harbor Heist - R. David Fulcher
RUNNER-UP: Lay Off or Lie Dead! – Joseph Idigo
PHOTOGRAPHY/ART
WINNER: The Undersea Art of Indonesia – Charles Rawlings
RUNNER-UP: Art & Creaky Bones – Sheila Reid
BIOGRAPHY/AUTOBIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
WINNER: Diary of a Broken Mind - Anne Moss Rogers
RUNNER-UP: God and Love on Route 80 – Stephen G. Post
HONORABLE MENTION:
- The Immigrants – Herbert Ausubel
YOUNG ADULT
WINNER: Fly, Fly Away - Pamela Bauer Mueller
RUNNER-UP: The Redemption – Lauren Hudson
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
- Vestal Virgin: Chosen For Rome - Katherine Spada Basto
- Praise Petals – Lisa A. McCombs
- Right Now Is Worth It – Thomas Corrigan
- Teens and the Job Game – Beverly Slomka
- Everything All At Once – Ivy Cayden
POETRY
WINNER: Vidas Ajenas – Issamary Simmons
RUNNER-UP: The Tearing Apart - Luisa Kolker
HONORABLE MENTION:
- Blu Diamonds – Kevin Hollingsworth
BUSINESS
WINNER: Ascending Davos – Meghan Fitzgerald
GENERAL NON-FICTION
WINNER: Climate Change and the Voiceless – Prof. Randall S. Abate
RUNNER-UP: Hollywood’s Victory Lap: The Films of 1940 - Anthony G. Puzzilla
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
- This Ain’t My Life - Bilal Alaji
- A Yearn to Discern - Rhonda Maco
- A Grand Madness – Dianne Ebertt Beeaff
- Conscious Leadership: Thrive in the New Worlds Business Eco-System - Mike Handcock with Landi Jac
- Rock On: Mining For Joy in the Deep River of Grief - Susan Casey
- En busca de un Manana Mejor - Blanca De La Rosa
- Only the Lucky Grow Old - Kristine Fontaine
- Hollywood’s Victory Lap: The Films of 1940 - Anthony G. Puzzilla
- Home Now – Cynthia Anderson
- Con Artist Dating – Millie Osbourne
- Romance…Push on the Button! – Paul Gaughan
- Explore Yourself With 100+ Keys – Veera Surampudi
- The Emerging Healer - Chevonna Gaylor
- The 100 Greatest Scenes in Motion Picture History - Anthony G. Puzzilla
- Hospital Trains and Vessels During the Civil War - Anthony G. Puzzilla
CHILDREN’S BOOKS
WINNER: New York City Counting 1 to 20 – Kip Cosson
RUNNER-UP: The Christmas Feast: A Fishy Tale – Diana Pishner Walker
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
- Chicks and the City – Matt Browning with Ashley Teets
- Figley’s Little White Lie – Suzanne Cotsakos
- Welcome to Chuckle Giggle Nu – Keith Johnson
- The First Birthday Party Ever! – Keith Johnson
- How the Dog Saved the Squirrel from the Hawk - D.L. Luke
- A Rainbow Every Day - Fiona Smart
- Angel’s Forever Home - Rita Gigante, Bobbie Sterchele-Gigante & Donna McDin
SPIRITUAL
WINNER: Vestal Virgin: Chosen for Rome - Katherine Spada Basto
RUNNER-UP: Conscious Leadership: Thrive in the New Worlds Business Eco-System - Mike Handcock/Landi Jac
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
- What’s So Special About Today? – Kelsey Clark
- Just Be Held – Hank Leo Jr.
- God and Country – United We Stand! – Joseph Bylinski
- When Angels Fly - S. Jackson, A. Raymond, M. Schmidt
HOW-TO
WINNER: From Shrink to Think – Daniel Guilfoyle
RUNNER-UP: Math Discovery Through Keychain Karnival – Kaionta R. Dabney
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
- Writer Wellness – Joy E. Held
- Awakening From Fear – Stephanie Skupin
COMPILATIONS/ANTHOLOGIES
WINNER: Smitten With Shellfish – David Ritchey
RUNNER-UP: 1 Women Wronged – Toby Fesler Heathcotte
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
- Voices from the Pandemic – Don Helin
SCIENCE FICTION
WINNER: The Darkness – Robbi Sommers Bryant
RUNNER-UP: Pauper King - E. Stuart Marlowe
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
ROMANCE
WINNER: The Last Lumenian - SG Blaise
RUNNER-UP: Broken - Lisa Jagmohan
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
- The Avalar: Daughter of the Air - Teresa Sulsona
- Say Goodbye and Godnight - David Ruggerio
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