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In Search of Falling Stars, H.H. Nininger's memoir won Best Biography in the 2025 Independent Press Awards. The book was edited by Jim Banks.

Astronaut Susan Kilrain has won the Creative Child Magazine 2024 Book of the Year Award for her book An Unlikely Astronaut.

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We are pleased to announce that our children's picture books received 8 Purple Dragonfly Awards for excellence in a variety of categories. Congratulations to the authors of An Unlikely Astronaut, Bobby the Bear Helps Build a Nest, and The Little Red Puppy with a Big Idea.

West Bank's "Standing Strong" video has been named a winner in the 45th Annual Telly Awards. The Telly Awards honors excellence in video and television and is judged by leaders from video platforms, television, streaming networks, production companies. Bookpress is honored to receive the award.

The Academy of Interactive and Visual Arts has named Bookpress as a winner of an Award of Excellence (Financial Services) and an Award of Distinction (Corporate Image) for the West Bank’s new video, STANDING STRONG, during their 30^th Annual Communicator Awards event in New York.

Susan Kilrain's "An Unlikely Astronaut" wins First Place for the Children's Picture Book category and Will (Keeps) Holmes' "WillPower" wins First Place for the Biography/Memoir category. This is the first time Bookpress has won two categories in the same year.

Astronaut Susan Kilrain's book, "An Unlikely Astronaut," has won the Maxy Award for the Best Children's Book. Thousands of books are entered each year into the Maxy's so this is a very special honor. To read more about the purpose and history of the Maxy Awards, click here.

Author Joe LeValley has been invited to be part of a panel discussion on May 31, 2024. The title of the panel is CONFLICT, CLOCK OR CRUCIBLE: What Makes a Good Thriller. LeValley is a six-time mystery/thriller author of the award-winning Tony Harrington series.

"Musical Chairs" has been named a Reviewer's Choice Silver Winner for Best Memoir/Autobiography/Biography. The book follows author 76-year-old James Mitchell as he sets out to learn and play the orchestra.

Joseph LeValley's sixth novel, "Three Weeks in Winter," has won a Literary Global Award for being the best Mystery/Thriller.

"An Unlikely Astronaut" wins a Mom's Choice Gold Medal Award for its incredible, inspiring story. The book also features our "Click-n-See" interactivity which helps brings Astronaut Kilrain's story to life.

Will (Keeps) Holmes and co-author Danny Beyer both discuss Will's new memoir which releases in October.

Two of our recent children's picture books, Joni's Wish and My Silly Granny, both win multiple Purple Dragonfly Awards for excellence.

Author John Houle was honored by the Speaker of the House, Joseph Shekarchi, and was recognized on the House floor by Representative Joseph McNamara for his new novel, "The King-Makers of Providence."

Author Jon Phillips received a Mom's Choice Gold Award for his children's book, "Joni's Wish." The book focuses on a child with disabilities and how an act of kindness changed his world.

A Certificate of Special Recognition was issued by Daniel J. McKee, Governor of the State of Rhode Island, to acknowledge Author John Houle for the launch of his political novel, "The King-Makers of Providence," on February 8, 2023.

Author Terri Leedom was awarded the 2023 Book of the Year Award from Creative Child Magazine for her debut book, "My Silly Granny." This book was inspired by her mother's struggles with dementia and strives to help young children understand the disease.

Two recent children's books, Astronaut Al Travels to the Moon by Apollo 15 astronaut Al Worden and Messages on the Moon by Jill Friestad-Tate have both won Purple Dragonfly Awards for Best Historical Non-Fiction Children's Picture Book (Astronaut Al - First Place / Messages - Second Place) from amongst hundreds of entries. They were also both honorable mentions for Best Overall Children's Book.

Two recent children's books, Astronaut Al Travels to the Moon by Apollo 15 astronaut Al Worden and Messages on the Moon by Jill Friestad-Tate have both won Mom's Choice Awards Gold Medals for excellence.

Author Joe LeValley has been named a finalist for an Eric Hoffer Award for his second novel, Cry from an Unknown Grave.

Steve Wolgemuth has won both a Book Excellence Award and was named a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Award. The Crucial 12 is a leadership book that details the 12 questions that leaders at all organizations should be asking of their marketing people.