Foreword Reviews Names Spouse Calls and Stories Around the Table Book of the Year Award Finalists
(St. Paul, MN) — Award-winning independent publisher Elva Resa Publishing is pleased to announce that two of its titles have been recognized as finalists in the 17th Annual Foreword Reviews’ INDIEFAB Book of the Year Awards.
Spouse Calls: Messages From a Military Life by Terri Barnes is a finalist for BEST ESSAYS of the Year.
Stories Around the Table: Laugher, Wisdom, and Strength in Military Life, with contributions from more than forty military family writers, is a finalist for BEST ANTHOLOGY of the Year.
Each year, the Book of the Year Awards highlights outstanding books from independent publishers and university presses. In the next three months, a panel of more than 100 librarians and booksellers will determine the winners based on their experience with readers and patrons. Foreword Reviews will celebrate the winners during a program at the American Library Association Annual Conference in San Francisco on Friday, June 26 at 6 p.m.
Spouse Calls: Messages From a Military Life is a collection of the best military life columns by respected journalist Terri Barnes, based on her popular weekly Spouse Calls column in Stars and Stripes. Through poignant personal stories, incisive interviews, and emotive reflections, Terri gives readers an inside look at the day-to-day hardships, victories, and many ways military life shapes, challenges, and enriches its families. Topics include motherhood, faith, friendship, family ties, war, current events, sacrifice, and post-traumatic stress disorder.
Stories Around the Table: Laughter, Wisdom, and Strength in Military Life, written by more than forty military family members and edited by Barnes, serves up true vignettes from military life’s everyday and extraordinary moments. From tragic to humorous, these candid conversations shed insight on many aspects of life from a military perspective: friendship, depression, marriage, parenting, careers, children with special needs, infertility, mobile life, overseas assignments, deployment, reunion, finances, PTSD, grief, faith, and more. For a menu and full list of authors, visit StoriesAroundTheTable.com. Proceeds are shared with Operation Homefront.
Both books are available in bookstores, military exchanges, and direct: www.MilitaryFamilyBooks.com.
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ELVA RESA PUBLISHING LLC is an independent publisher based in St. Paul, Minnesota, whose mission is to make a positive difference in people’s lives. Its primary imprint specializes in books for and about military families. www.ElvaResa.com, www.MilitaryFamilyBooks.com