NEW ENGLAND BOOK FESTIVAL NAMES “BREAKING BREAD” FOR TOP
HONORS

BOSTON_The story of a man who traded a finance career in New York City for an
entry-level baker position in rural Vermont is the grand prize winner of the
2017 New England Book Festival.

Martin Philip’s Breaking Bread: A Baker’s Journey Home in 75 Recipes
(HarperCollins) is part narrative, part cookbook. It is an exploration of
craft and love, an examination our communion with food and the intimate act of
baking, all It portrayed in dozens of photographs and hand-drawn illustrations.
Philip’s rise to head baker inspires us to take risks, make bold choices, bake
bread and share it with those we love.

Philip and other winners, runner-ups and honorable mentions in the competition
will be honored at a private reception on Feb. 10 in Boston.

Other winners in the competition:

REGIONAL LITERATURE

HONORABLE MENTIONS:

• Legends of the Grail – Ayn Cates Sullivan

BIOGRAPHY/AUTOBIOGRAPHY

HONORABLE MENTIONS:

• Upwards: The Story of the First Woman to Solo….- Laurie Apgar Chandler
• My Sister’s Mother: A Memoir of War, Exile and… – Donna S. Urbikas
  
  
• Oh, No, Charlie. Not Again! – Don Landy
• My Sister, My Daughter, and Me – Shirley Rose Webb

WILD CARD

HONORABLE MENTIONS:

• Days to the Gallows – Katherine Basto
• Hop on the Next! – Rosemary Rudland
• Vulture Bend – Don Stansberry
• Rosemary for Remembrance – Nikki Broadwell
• Suddenly Single: A Life
  After Death – Miriam Russell
• Gaia’s Majesty – Mission Called: Women in Power – Roger B. Burt
• Forever Yours – Dr. James Twerell

CHILDREN’S BOOKS

HONORABLE MENTIONS:

• The Little White Light – Judy Ann Lowe
• Fairy Tales For Life – Linda Champion
• The Pumpkin Wizard – Derek Dextraze
• Feronia: The Little Girl Who Learned To Fly Free – Nola Hennessy
• Dilby R. Dixon’s The Dilbonary – Tony J. Perri
• Max and Charlie Help A Hero – Kim Roderiques/KM Ginter
• An Army of Ants, A Colony of Bats..- Sherry Meinberg
• Jet Dreams – Wanda Hackett
• Crazy Crab – Mark Evans
• Sir Walter Farluba – Donna LeBlanc

GENERAL NON-FICTION

HONORABLE MENTIONS:

• My Cells Made Me Do it – Robin R. Hayes
• Let Us Watch Richard Wilbur – Robert Bagg and Mary Bagg
• Great Horned Owlets Rescue – Cheryl Aguiar
• A Bat in the Belfry – B.A. Ellis
• Among the Reeds – Tammy Bottner
• My Father’s War – Charley Valera
• Ones & Twos: The History of First and Second NFL..- Rich Little
• Banquet of Consequences – Paul Sanders
• Police Wife – Alex Roslin
• Shielded Suffering – A.J. Nystrom <li>Post-Traumatic Stress – Not A Life
  Sentence – Nola Hennessy
• Urgent Care: 10 Cures for America’s Ailing…- Minda Wilson
• Seven Essential Things Needed for Relationships…- Todd Corabi
• Moving Beyond the Unspoken Grief – Louisa Yim
• Suddenly Single – A Life After Death – Miriam Russell
• Don’t Miss The Picture Focusing on the Frame – Val P
• Mommy, How? How is a Rainbow Made? – Anagha Modak

GENERAL FICTION

HONORABLE MENTIONS:

• American Pathfinder – Frank B. Mitchell Jr.
• No Loose Ends – Thomas Hall
• Don Quixote Goes To Yale – Eytan Halaban
• Siren Song Har Meggido 2.0 – Ian T. King
• That Summer in Normandy – Rosemary Rudland
• Black Cherry – Henrietta D. Elmore-Smith
• Going All In – Wayne J. Keeley
• Through Grandfather’s Eyes – Raymond Leo Blain
• Impending Fate – William Messenger
• Looking Glass Friends – E.L. Neve
• Maddie & Sayara – Sanjyot Dunung
• Tidal Kin- Lee Doty
• Kill List – Richard Hatin
• Terminal Secret – Mark GIlleo
• A Dolphin and a Pilot – Steven Lane Smith
• Wilderhall – Jeanne Farewell
• Never Summer – Tim Blaine
• The Audacity of Goats – J.R. Riordan
• Road Kill & Other Oddities – Niles Reddick
• Rhodes the Movie-Maker – M.M. Gornell
• In The Waters of Time – Bette Lischke
• The Search For Zarahemia – Terry Neal
• Brutus – Leonard V. Sacks

BUSINESS

HONORABLE MENTION:

• Your Exit Map: Navigating the Boomer Bust – John F. Dini

YOUNG ADULT

HONORABLE MENTIONS:

• Broken Chords – Jessica Bayliss
• Dreamscape – Kerry Reed
• Captured – Miriam Nesset
• Myth and Punishment – Anoop Chandola
• The Last Cherry Blossom – Kate Burkinshaw
• John! Episode One – AD 27 – Rollin Bruno
• The Scroll of Suratican – Vincent James

HOW-TO

HONORABLE MENTIONS:

• Unleash Your Inner Super-Powers – Jacqui LeTran
• Above All Else – Nancy D. Butler

SPIRITUAL/RELIGIOUS

HONORABLE MENTIONS:

• Miracle on Hammertown Road – Jim Bay & Mic Ruzich
• Faces of the Mother: A Journey, A Collaboration… – Sharon Ann Rose
• Some Thoughts on God and Other Things – Jerome Gleich
• Perfecting and Reforming Personal Religion – Linwood Jackson Jr.

SCIENCE FICTION

HONORABLE MENTIONS:

• Drone World – James Kochanoff
• Burnt Mountain: The Monster Within – Cheryl Campbell
• Ishtaq: The Second Vial – Thomas G. Fournier

POETRY

HONORABLE MENTIONS:

• The Heronry – Mark Jarman
• Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick Hidden Treasures – Stephen Durkee
• The Awakening Book of Poems – Sharika K. Forde
• Let The Night Sing – Lopamudra Banerjee

PHOTOGRAPHY/ART

RUNNER-UP: In Place of Another – Jane Tuckerman

UNPUBLISHED STORIES

RUNNER-UP: Puritan Glory – Cynthia Morrison

COMPILATIONS/ANTHOLOGIES

WINNER: The Thursday Night Club – Steven Manchester

COOKBOOKS

WINNER: Breaking Bread – Martin Philip