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  • The 2024 I&I Book Awards Spotlight for Instruction & Insight Non-Fiction

    The 2024 I&I Book Awards Spotlight for Instruction & Insight Non-Fiction

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    We are Delighted to Celebrate the 2023 Winners of the Instruction and Insight Award!

    • Wendela Whitcomb Marsh – Relating While Autistic: Fixed Signals for Neurodivergent Couples
    • Andy Chaleff – The Connection Playbook: A Practical Guide to Building Deep, Meaningful, Harmonious Relationships
    • Dr. Kelly Rabenstein – Psychological Secrets for Emotional Success
    • Jennifer M Sukalo – Claim Your SWAGGER: Stop Surviving and Start Thriving

    The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2023 I&I Awards is:

    Eating Together Being Together:
    Recipes, Activities, and Advice from a Chef Dad and Psychologist Mom

    by Julian C.E. Clauss-Ehlers and Caroline S. Clauss-Ehlers

    blue and gold badge recognizing Eating Together Being Together by Julian C E Clauss-Ehlers and Caroline S Clauss-Ehlers for winning the 2023 Instruction and Insight Grand Prize

    These know-how smarty authors will be celebrated in their own posts soon enough! In the meantime, we’re here to cheer on some of our favorite books that have come in for review!

    THE DOCTOR’S VOICE
    By Dr. Pietro Emanuele Garbelli

    Dr. Pietro Emanuele Garbelli speaks out on serious professional issues faced by modern healthcare workers, in The Doctor’s Voice.

    Doctors deal with overwhelming stress, leading to burnout, illness, many of them leaving the profession, and even a higher-than-average rate of suicide. The Covid19 pandemic both heightened and helped illuminate some of the causes of this stress, prompting author Garbelli to write this book as a set of advice for his colleagues and as advocacy for broader changes in hospitals and other healthcare systems.

    Garbelli highlights a common disconnect in communication—administrators and higher-ups telling doctors what to do while those doctors don’t have much opportunity to bring up the problems they encounter day-to-day.

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    RECONFIGUREMENT™
    By E. Alan Fleischauer

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    A guide to achieving financial freedom in retirement, E. Alan Fleischauer’s bestseller Reconfigurement™ reveals a roadmap guided by the Mantra, “Navigate, Customize, and Thrive.”

    Advances in medicine, nutrition, and longevity planning now offer unparalleled possibilities to live longer, higher-quality lives. However, looming over this rosy image is a genuine concern: the financial ramifications of a longer retirement term. More alarming is that a sizable portion of the American populace is not harnessing their 401(k) retirement plans.

    In light of this scenario, can traditional investment programs with fraying safety nets, such as pensions, remain viable? Reconfigurement combines the emotional fulfillment of making retirement dreams a reality with practical guidance that rejects the notion of a set retirement age of 65. This work’s personal tales and sound financial guidance entice readers away from the constraints of traditional retirement approaches.

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    ABOVE THE DIN (Diary of the HepC Wonder Drugs)
    By Labar Laskie

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    Labar Laskie closely explores the experience of chronic HepC in her unique memoir, Above the Din.

    These days, Hepatitis C infection is curable with a simple treatment that lasts only a few months. In 1999, when author Labar Laskie receives her diagnosis, she sees no good option. The only possibility for a cure lies in a treatment with dismally low success rates and poses a significant danger. Not wanting to jeopardize her life, Labar embarks on a fifteen-year-long search for an alternative cure, hoping to find a wonder drug. Her waiting ends in 2014 when she begins her three-month-long treatment of two pills daily while keeping a journal of each day’s progress.

    She goes through a string of doctors, many urging her to do the toxic treatment.

    Read more here!

    THE SOUND Of The FUTURE: The Coming Age of Voice Technology
    By Tobias Dengel with Karl Weber

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    The Sound of the Future: The Coming Age of Voice Technology by Tobias Dengel with Karl Weber presents elaborate insight into the evolution of voice technology, showing it to be the next big innovation in the tech world.

    Dengel begins by stating that long-distance vocal communication was unattainable for a long time, and now can seamlessly liberate humans from familiar but ‘clumsy’ tools such as keyboards, knobs, pedals, buttons, and levers. It has been well articulated by various news quarters that voice recognition is gaining a reputation and growing usage with the rise of artificial intelligence and intelligent aids, such as Amazon’s Alexa and Apple’s Siri. This technology has for the first time allowed consumers to interact with technology simply by conversing with it, facilitating hands-free propositions, reminders, and other simple duties.

    This technology is presently in a major shift, as numerous industries worldwide are incorporating it into their daily routines and procedures.

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    A PATH To EXCELLENCE
    By Tony Jeton Selimi

    On the belief that life isn’t just the random cards one is dealt, A Path to Excellence by Tony Jeton Selimi offers a blueprint—the octagon of excellence—to succeed personally, professionally, and spiritually.

    Transcending the pitfalls and spontaneous stumbling blocks along the path of life can open the door to self-actualization and progression. As someone who experienced bullying, sexual abuse, early disability, and homelessness, Selimi sets on to become a beacon of light to the hopeless and marginalized.

    Within each soul lies a bud of genius waiting to blossom. This book focuses on purpose, vision, and persistence to clear the way to that fullest potential. Affirming challenges as immutable truths of life, Selimi employs Buddhist teaching and personal anecdotes to encourage a head-on confrontation with one’s struggles and promotes a feeling of gratitude. As a blend of philosophical wisdom and practical experience, the initial chapters help readers acknowledge their current life situation, perceiving challenges as epochs of potential.

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  • The HEARTEN 2021 CIBA WINNERS for Uplifting & Inspiring Non-Fiction

    The HEARTEN 2021 CIBA WINNERS for Uplifting & Inspiring Non-Fiction

    The Hearten Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Uplifting & Inspiring Non-Fiction and Memoir. The Hearten Book  Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (CIBAs).

    Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring true stories about adventures, life events, unique experiences, travel, personal journeys, global enlightenment, and more. We will put books about true and inspiring stories to the test and choose the best among them. See our full list of Non-Fiction Divisions here. 

    The 2021 HEARTEN Book Awards First Place Category Winners and the HEARTEN Grand Prize Winner were announced by Judy Gaman on Saturday, June 25, 2022 at the Hotel Bellwether and broadcast via ZOOM webinar.

    This is the OFFICIAL 2021 LIST of the HEARTEN BOOK AWARDS First Place Category Winners and the HEARTEN Grand Prize Winner.

     

    Join us in celebrating the following authors and their works in the 2021 CIBAs.

    • Fred Guttenberg – Find the Helpers
    • Linda Morrow – Heart of This Family – Lessons in Down Syndrome and Love 
    • Lisa Dailey – Square Up: 50,000 miles in search of a way home 
    • Labar Laskie – Above the Din: Diary of the HepC Wonder Drugs 
    • Diane Trull & Meredith Wargo – DAWGS: A True Story of Lost Animals and the Kids Who Rescued Them
    • Meg Nocero – Butterfly Awakens: A Memoir of Transformation Through Grief  

    The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2021 HEARTEN Awards is:

    DAWGS: A True Story of Lost Animals and the Kids Who Rescued Them

    by Diane Trull & Meredith Wargo

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    2021 Heart Grand Prize Badge for DAWGS by Diane Trull and Meredith Wargo

     

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    The 2022 HEARTEN Book Awards winners will be announced at CAC23 on April 29, 2023. Save the date for CAC23, scheduled April 27-30, 2023, our 10 year Conference Anniversary!

    Submissions for the 2022 HEARTEN Book Awards are open until the end of November. Enter here!

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    A Note to ALL the WINNERS: The coveted CIBA Blue Ribbons will be mailed out starting in August. We will contact you with an email to verify your mailing address and other items. We thank you for participating in the 2021 Chanticleer International Book Awards!

  • ABOVE THE DIN (Diary of the HepC Wonder Drugs) by Labar Laskie – Memoir, Hepatitis C Cure, Insightful and Transformative Non-Fiction

    ABOVE THE DIN (Diary of the HepC Wonder Drugs) by Labar Laskie – Memoir, Hepatitis C Cure, Insightful and Transformative Non-Fiction

     

    Labar Laskie closely explores the experience of chronic HepC in her unique memoir, Above the Din.

    These days, Hepatitis C infection is curable with a simple treatment that lasts only a few months. In 1999, when author Labar Laskie receives her diagnosis, she sees no good option. The only possibility for a cure lies in a treatment with dismally low success rates and poses a significant danger. Not wanting to jeopardize her life, Labar embarks on a fifteen-year-long search for an alternative cure, hoping to find a wonder drug. Her waiting ends in 2014 when she begins her three-month-long treatment of two pills daily while keeping a journal of each day’s progress.

    She goes through a string of doctors, many urging her to do the toxic treatment.

    Labar tries every alternative treatment under the sun, but only if they don’t pose any known adverse effects. Eventually, she meets Dr. Right, who supports her choice to pursue other treatments. They work together on her care for over a decade. During this time, Labar and her young daughter become hooked on flying trapeze. The activity helps her manage the mental strain of her chronic illness. These precious moments with her daughter make the journey to recovery doable.

    Above the Din‘s short, easy-to-read chapters come accompanied with illustrations by Lona Powell.

    Humor and honesty abound in this story despite the grim topic of severe chronic disease. Labar’s years of research and connecting with people like her provide valuable insight and knowledge. Beyond that, she does an excellent job of including disclaimers about not being a medical professional herself and for people to do their own research. Her purpose for writing this story is to help others find strength, hope, and inspiration.

    As Labar’s story progresses, the past and present intermingle.

    Her early days dealing with shock and fear juxtapose her abundant present-day knowledge and wonder drug treatment. The best example of this comes in the chapter where Labar learns the extent of her liver disease. The treatment is working. This takes the uncertainty of the end of her Hepatitis C story away and enables her to focus on the journey itself.

    Something positive comes out of her Hepatitis C diagnosis: through trapeze, Labar learns to overcome her fears and stand up for herself instead of just going along with the opinions of others to keep the peace. Hopefully, Hepatitis C will be outdated one day, but these critical lessons Labar learns along the way are universal.

     

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