2025 Awards – Medical

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2025 best book awarded to authors on the subject of Medical.

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Winner

The Cancer Parent's Handbook, What Your Oncologist Doesn't Have Time to Tell You

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Author:

Laura DeKraker Lang-Ree

How is your book helping others?

TCPH was written to help parents of kids with cancer who are thrown into the terrifying, overwhelming world of childhood cancer, one where there’s no manual, just shock, medical jargon, and impossible decisions. It's the first guidebook of its kind, and is desperately needed by the 400,000 families diagnosed this year.
I began writing TCPH when my own child was in treatment to help parents navigate their new normal. It contains practical tips, clever tactics, and the honest advice they need to survive the marathon of pediatric cancer while maintaining their role as a strong parent. From how to advocate with your care team, to wrangling hospital schedules, to carving out moments of self-care, it’s compassionate guidance and actionable strategies from someone who’s lived it.

Written in collaboration with oncologists and nurse practitioners, with a foreword by Dr. Dahl. Reviews say TCPH helps parents feel seen, less alone, more in control, and most importantly, supported beyond measure.

Book available for purchase:

amazon.com

Winner

Healthcare by Design: A Handbook for Changemakers

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Author:

Barry M. Katz

Co-Author Names

Simon Mawer, Kara Harrington, Rob Lister, Schirin Lucie Richter and Svava María Atladóttir

How is your book helping others?

This practical guide serves as a valuable resource for healthcare professionals seeking to apply design methods to improve healthcare delivery. Healthcare by Design presents a practical, step-by-step guide for healthcare professionals seeking to address challenges such as regulation, safety, complexity, and culture, which affect patients and families, clinicians, and healthcare organizations.

Written by experienced design professionals with specific expertise in healthcare, Barry Katz, Simon Mawer, Kara Harrington, Rob Lister, Schirin Lucie Richter, and Svava Maria Atladóttir, the book draws upon recent developments in design theory and extensive industry experience. Understanding that design is as much about mindsets as methods, it provides practitioners with tools that will guide changemakers in ways to frame questions and identify opportunities, build teams, and create institutional support, and to scale their solutions throughout their respective organizations.

Book available for purchase:

utppublishing.com

Finalist

Transforming Healthcare Through Negotiation: A Guide to Success in Medicine, Care Delivery, and the Business of Health

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Author:

Stacey B Lee

How is your book helping others?

Transforming Healthcare Through Negotiation fills a critical gap: healthcare professionals face high-stakes conversations every day but receive little training in negotiation. This book empowers them to stop feeling powerless in difficult workplace situations and become confident, collaborative problem-solvers. Built on the HEAR™ Framework—developed at Johns Hopkins—it includes practical tools like the Healthcare Negotiation Mapping Tool and real-world case studies. Readers learn to secure resources, manage conflict, and implement changes where others hit barriers. Results include $3.1M in cost savings, biotech licensing breakthroughs, and major improvements in care delivery. Most importantly, readers report stronger patient outcomes, reduced burnout, and renewed fulfillment in their work. They become the people others turn to when tough negotiations arise—leaders who bridge divides across clinical, operational, and business priorities.

Book available for purchase:

amazon.com

2025 Awards – Mind, Body and Spirit

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2025 best book awarded to authors on the subject of Mind, Body, Spirit.

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Winner

Brave New You: Strategies, Tools, and Neurohacks to Live More Courageously Every Day

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Author:

Mary Poffenroth

How is your book helping others?

Brave New You helps people transform their relationship with the everyday fears we all experience by sharing science backed tools to navigate challenges with courage and clarity. Drawing from decades of research in biology and psychology, Dr. Mary Poffenroth turns complex science into simple, actionable steps anyone can use to manage stress, make braver choices, and create meaningful change. It offers practical tools for navigating real world fears, such as career changes, professional risks, or economic uncertainty. Brave New You empowers readers to turn fear into an ally and a catalyst for growth, resilience, and creative problem solving.

Book available for purchase:

a.co

Winner

Jesus and Therapy: Bridging the Gap Between Faith and Mental Health

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Author:

Tabitha M Yates

How is your book helping others?

The book emphasizes the importance of combining spiritual beliefs with mental health practices. By addressing mental health within a faith context, Jesus and Therapy contributes to reducing the stigma often associated with mental illness. The concept of holistic healing, which includes emotional, mental and spiritual well-being, is a central theme.

Book available for purchase:

a.co

Finalist

The Biology of Trauma: How the Body Holds Fear, Pain, and Overwhelm, and How to Heal It

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Author:

Aimie Apigian MD

How is your book helping others?

This groundbreaking book breaks down the latest research to reveal how trauma impacts our bodies on a cellular level and offers an empowering path to whole-body healing.

With a decade of clinical research, approachable storytelling, and real-life examples, The Biology of Trauma will show you:
How the body absorbs scarring experiences and overwhelm
Ways to identify commonly overlooked trauma symptoms like lethargy, fogginess, and unexplained worry
Recognize how emotional pain stored in the body affects overall health on a cellular level, even for people with functionally successful lives
Prevent trauma-induced changes in your biology that suppress the cycle of recovery
Work with your nervous system to safely heal—without risk of retraumatization

Perfect for both individuals seeking personal growth and health professionals improving their practice, The Biology of Trauma will help you gain deep insights into your own mind, body, and healing journey..

Book available for purchase:

amazon.com

Finalist

The Cancer Parent's Handbook, What Your Oncologist Doesn't Have Time to Tell You

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Author:

Laura DeKraker Lang-Ree

How is your book helping others?

TCPH was written to help parents of kids with cancer who are thrown into the terrifying, overwhelming world of childhood cancer, one where there’s no manual, just shock, medical jargon, and impossible decisions. It's the first guidebook of its kind, and is desperately needed by the 400,000 families diagnosed this year.
I began writing TCPH when my own child was in treatment to help parents navigate their new normal. It contains practical tips, clever tactics, and the honest advice they need to survive the marathon of pediatric cancer while maintaining their role as a strong parent. From how to advocate with your care team, to wrangling hospital schedules, to carving out moments of self-care, it’s compassionate guidance and actionable strategies from someone who’s lived it.

Written in collaboration with oncologists and nurse practitioners, with a foreword by Dr. Dahl. Reviews say TCPH helps parents feel seen, less alone, more in control, and most importantly, supported beyond measure.

Book available for purchase:

amazon.com

2025 Awards – Nutrition and Diet

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2025 best book awarded to authors on the subject of Nutrition and Diet.

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Winner

Veggie Smarts: A Doctor and Farmer Grows and Savors Eight Families of Vegetables

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Author:

Michael T. Compton

How is your book helping others?

Veggie Smarts inspires people to get smart about vegetables, so that meals will be more delicious and health will be optimized. It helps the reader eat vegetables smartly, while cultivating curiosity about how they are grown on farms and can be grown at home. Beyond nutrition advice and ample quirky scientific facts about many of our veggies (like why some people are genetically prone to despise broccoli and kale, how onions make us cry, why beans make us fart, and how beets can make our pee pink), Veggie Smarts is a doctor's personal account of leaving behind the big city for an old stone house and a fertile field in the Hudson Valley. It's about his journey in building a small-scale, organic-certified vegetable farm. It elevates readers' understanding of how nearly all of our veggies come from just eight families of flowering plants, from among more than 400: the Brassicas, the Alliums, the Legumes, the Chenopods, the Aster Greens, the Umbellifers, the Cucurbits, and the Nightshades.

Book available for purchase:

amazon.com

Finalist

Eat to Beat Depression and Anxiety: How to Eat Your Way to Better Mental Health with Nutritional Psychiatry Techniques

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Author:

Drew Ramsey MD

How is your book helping others?

A revolutionary prescription for healing depression and anxiety and optimizing brain health through the foods we eat, including a six-week plan to help you get started eating for better mental health. Depression and anxiety disorders are rising, affecting more than fifty-eight million people in the United States alone. Many rely on therapy and medications to alleviate symptoms, but often this is not enough. The latest scientific advances in neuroscience and nutrition, along with our understanding of the mind-gut connection, have proven that how and what we eat greatly affects how we feel—physically, cognitively, and emotionally.

Book available for purchase:

amazon.com

2025 Awards – Psychology

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2025 best book awarded to authors on the subject of Psychology.

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Winner

The Biology of Trauma: How the Body Holds Fear, Pain, and Overwhelm, and How to Heal It

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Author:

Aimie Apigian MD

How is your book helping others?

This groundbreaking book breaks down the latest research to reveal how trauma impacts our bodies on a cellular level and offers an empowering path to whole-body healing.

With a decade of clinical research, approachable storytelling, and real-life examples, The Biology of Trauma will show you:
How the body absorbs scarring experiences and overwhelm
Ways to identify commonly overlooked trauma symptoms like lethargy, fogginess, and unexplained worry
Recognize how emotional pain stored in the body affects overall health on a cellular level, even for people with functionally successful lives
Prevent trauma-induced changes in your biology that suppress the cycle of recovery
Work with your nervous system to safely heal—without risk of retraumatization

Perfect for both individuals seeking personal growth and health professionals improving their practice, The Biology of Trauma will help you gain deep insights into your own mind, body, and healing journey..

Book available for purchase:

amazon.com

Winner

Recovering from Emotional Trauma: Essential Tools to Help Calm Your Emotions, Heal Your Sense of Self, and Strengthen Relationships

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Author:

Todd Berntson

How is your book helping others?

Emotional trauma impacts the lives of just about everyone. This book helps those who have experienced emotional trauma heal from their wounds so they can live the life of success they were meant to live. This book is also a critical resource for managers, clinicians, or family members to help support those who struggle with the effects of emotional trauma.

Book available for purchase:

amazon.com

Winner

The Rehab Playbook

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Author:

Jaime W. Vinck

How is your book helping others?

We are in a mental health crisis – addiction, overdoses, depression and suicides are all on the rise. According to NIDA 2021 Data, 46.3 million people have a substance use disorder, yet only 6.3 % (2.9 million), get the care they need. The Rehab Playbook was written to reach the other 43 million.

Why are treatment and recovery elusive for so many? There are several reasons, including limited financial resources, lack of understanding of benefits, stigma and cultural implications. Another reason is fear – fear of the unknown, fear of facing one's inner demons and fear of the treatment process itself. The Rehab Playbook addresses those fears and provides clarity on what treatment is and isn't.

The Rehab Playbook demystifies treatment by providing those struggling with practical tools for finding quality care, an informative and compassionate perspective, and most importantly hope. The industry veteran author has been hands on in the fight against addiction for two decades.

Book available for purchase:

amazon.com

Finalist

See Me: Street Poetry from Vinnies

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Author:

Jordan Grantham

How is your book helping others?

See Me is a ground-breaking new publication of poetry which celebrates the voices, creativity and humanity of a special group of individuals who have been assisted by the St Vincent de Paul Society.

As Australia's first anthology to showcase the work of poets with lived experience of homelessness and marginalisation, the collection offers striking new portraits of everyday life and common humanity.

This special limited first edition publishing of See Me: Street Poetry from Vinnies is a beautifully designed hardcover book, primarily intended to honour the extraordinary writers and humans in the group.

Featuring the works of over a dozen new poets, the writers in See Me will challenge and inspire you with their openness, joy and imagination.

Book available for purchase:

gleebooks.com.au

2025 Awards – Self-Care

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2025 best book awarded to authors on the subject of Self-Care.

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Winner

Addiction Is A Family Disease

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Author:

Arthur D Dielhenn

How is your book helping others?

At its core, "Addiction Is A Family Disease" is a pathway to understanding and/or recovering from the damage addiction inflicts on addicts, their families, friends, and employers. All are affected, some more severely than others, but all deserve the opportunity to heal, to leave chaos, guilt, and shame behind, no longer burdened or entrapped. Armed with a new gratitude for life all can re-build, contribute, love, laugh, and thrive again.

Book available for purchase:

amazon.com

Finalist

The Rehab Playbook

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Author:

Jaime W. Vinck

How is your book helping others?

We are in a mental health crisis – addiction, overdoses, depression and suicides are all on the rise. According to NIDA 2021 Data, 46.3 million people have a substance use disorder, yet only 6.3 % (2.9 million), get the care they need. The Rehab Playbook was written to reach the other 43 million.
Why are treatment and recovery elusive for so many? There are several reasons, including limited financial resources, lack of understanding of benefits, stigma and cultural implications. Another reason is fear – fear of the unknown, fear of facing one's inner demons and fear of the treatment process itself. The Rehab Playbook addresses those fears and provides clarity on what treatment is and isn't.
The Rehab Playbook demystifies treatment by providing those struggling with practical tools for finding quality care, an informative and compassionate perspective, and most importantly hope. The industry veteran author has been hands on in the fight against addiction for two decades.

Book available for purchase:

amazon.com