

Hammes, Hammes Performance Improvement Group * Bands of a Small Hurricane, Shan Leah, The Postmodern Press * At The Corner of Fantasy and Main, Matt Mason, The Old Mill Press * Ashur’s Tears, Bill Riley, Brown Books Kids * Aria for Murder, Erica Miner, Level Best Books * Archangel: The Book of Mammon, Black Mike, Audere * Anamnesis, Denise O'Hagan, Recent Work Press

* Amazing Animals, Pamela Heck, Westgate Circle Press * Alzheimer's Canyon, Jane Dwinell & Sky Yardley, Rootstock Publishing * Airplane Stories and Histories, Norman Currey, Inks and Bindings * A Therapist’s Garden, Erik Keller, Black Rose Writing * A Sky of Infinite Blue, Kyomi O'Connor, She Writes Press * A Sacred Duty, Rhona Weaver, Two Oaks Press * A Rebel's Outcry, Jeffrey Gee Chin & Fumiko Carole Fujita, Little Tokyo Historical Society * A Peculiar Kind of Immigrant's Son, Sergio Troncoso, Lee & Low Books

* A Man in Winter, Katie Marie, Brigids Gate Press * A Life Worth Living, Patricia Jenkins Burns, Dorrance Publishing * A Japanese Boy Sees A New Light, Shu Shimizu, PartridgeSingapore * 20 Effective Habits for Mastery at Work, Cindy Wahler (Please click here to view the Montaigne Medal Finalists, da Vinci Eye Finalists, First Horizon Award Finalists, or Medal Provocateur Finalists.) They are the Eric Hoffer Book Award Category Finalists. This is a general list of books that reached the top judges, yet were not given specific category honors. We do not list their specific categories. Below are the current and previous category finalists in alphabetical order by book. There are typically 1-6 books per category remaining as finalists that nearly rose to category honors. Finalists are selected by category scoring and considered for honors. We consider this a distinction of its own merit and, in 2008, began officially announcing these titles. The Arrow Garden is a delicately-wrought tale of truth, selfhood, and acceptance, which transcends time in its lyrical exploration of what it means to live.Eric Hoffer Book Award Gold Seal © The Eric Hoffer ProjectĪfter our rigorous first round of judging, less than 10% of the nominees become category finalists. To visit the past or the future, even in imagination, is to change it. Setting out on a hike to a mountain village shrine, away from the charred city, she begins a life to which she is not sure she is entitled, a life which feels like living on the other side of the sky. In wartime Tokyo, Tanaka Mie finds herself wandering the burned-out ruins of her dead parents' fire-bombed home with only hazy recollections of how she survived. When lonely and socially isolated translator, Gareth, takes up traditional Japanese archery in 1990s Bristol, he learns that to study Kyudo is to reach out, to another culture, another time, other people… But when one of them reaches back, two lives that should never have touched become strangely entangled.
