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Find Happiness through Negative Thinking by Larry Gotterer

Winner
Humor/Comedy/Satire
2022 Best Book Awards

NEGATIVE THINKERS APPLAUD IT.
POSITIVE THINKERS WANT TO BURN IT.

Whether you're a fan of glass-half-full or glass-half-empty, this funny self-help satire—which has been described as "laugh-out-loud comic brilliance"—will crack you up until your face hurts. It's the perfect book or gift for women, men, adults, or any other unclassified species of human that falls into categories such as:

  • Frustrated optimists who are going crazy, thanks to the negative results they get with positive thinking.
  • Struggling pessimists who've discovered that expecting the worst has its advantages.
  • Confused optimistic pessimists and pessimistic optimists who are unable to stop overthinking everything, and ultimately end up not knowing what to think.

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Against My Better Judgment by B.T. Polcari

Finalist
Humor/Comedy/Satire
2022 Best Book Awards

When freshman year at the University of Alabama draws to a close, Sara Donovan finds herself grappling with the same old question--listen to her head or follow her heart. What she ends up doing is purchasing an Egyptian souvenir funerary mask, and after a mysterious phone call, she's certain a ring of antiquities smugglers are operating in Tuscaloosa. With finals never far from her mind and her return to 'Bama hanging in the balance, she should be studying. Instead she launches her own investigation to prove her mask is indeed a stolen artifact, and not a cheap trinket. When it comes time to snoop, Sara is more than ready, or at least she was until a hot new teaching assistant moves in next door. Suddenly she learns things are never as they seem. Ever.




Beet Life: A Health & Lifestyle Guide To Show Your Life Who's Boss by: Your Girl @Beets_By_Beth: Beth Gethard by Tyler Holme

Finalist
Humor/Comedy/Satire
2022 Best Book Awards

Beet Life is an absurdly funny satire of health & lifestyle culture and social media influencers written by Tyler Holme from the perspective of a fictional health & lifestyle blogger known on Instagram as @beets_by_beth.

After receiving over 100 followers on Instagram, Beth has decided to do what every extremely successful social media influencer does when they amass a huge following: write a self-help book full of unsolicited life advice for whoever will read it!

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HERE WE GO LOOP DE LOOP by William Jack Sibley

Finalist
Humor/Comedy/Satire
2022 Best Book Awards

A COWBOY, AN HEIRESS, HER BROTHER'S HUSBAND ... AND A BADASS 72 MERCURY MONTEGO.

This is the story of a her loving a him - who's in love with another him - and that other him enduring an unrequited love for the original her. With a small-town Texas appreciation, this book is replete with humor, adversity, and the tenacity of survivors unwilling and unable to acknowledge defeat. Here We Go Loop De Loop by William Jack Sibley has greed, lust, sexuality, spiritual enlightenment, more lust, xenophobia, and the meaning of a life worth living, all woven into a single, outrageous knot in the insulated town of Rita Blanca, Texas. The author, a fifth-generation Texan and a resolute seeker of wisdom, truth, and the occasional virtuosic lie, with humor and reflection, has wrought a story of humanity through characters doing the best they can - just not terribly well.




Scream Queen by Wray Cotterill

Finalist
Humor/Comedy/Satire
2022 Best Book Awards

At 23, Vera Horowitz's life is going nowhere until she stumbles into the path of a speeding tractor-trailer and screams for her life. Her otherworldly scream does not escape the attention of Jake, a handsome Hollywood horror movie director.

Thus, begins Vera's new life of playing the victim at Falchion Films. But Vera is no victim, as Jake sees when she stands up to Barry, the misogynistic producer. Pretty and petite, Vera draws a depraved fan base and the jealousy of two aging "scream queens." Jake falls for Vera, but her innocence makes him question why he makes movies that debase women. Their love grows until Vera learns disturbing facts about his past and breaks up with him. Heartbroken, Jake vows to get her back.

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The Outlaw Gillis Kerg…Physics, Lust and Greed Series Book 4 by Mike Murphey

Finalist
Humor/Comedy/Satire
2022 Best Book Awards

In the mid-21st Century, a top-secret consortium of corporations and governments have made time travel possible, only to realize that intruding on the past has been a terrible mistake.

At the program’s outset, a thousand scientists, engineers and support staff were confined to a subterranean complex where a corporate contributor specializing in artificial intelligence equipped apartments with Happy Home Companion software.

Time traveler Marta Hamilton had little enough tolerance for other people intruding in her life, much less a software Dear Abby, so Marta bullies her Happy Home Companion into silence.

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