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    2023Ames Award Winners   After reviewing many outstanding books, the judges have named their choices for the winners of the Ames Awards for 2023. The books were scored according to industry standards with added emphasis on their inclusion of courageous faith. The winner of the General Fiction category Christmas at Cranberry Cove June Foster The winner of the Historical Fiction category Addy of the Door Islands Judy DuCharme The winner in the Nonfiction category Tire Tracks Nancy Beverly The winner in the Young Adult category The Year of the Bear Douglas J. Lanzo The winner in the Children's Middle-Grade Book category I Want a Water Buffalo for Christmas Judy DuCharme The winner in the Children's Picture Book category Our God is Bigger Than That! Michelle Medlock Adams, Eva Marie Everson The winner in the Devotional - Women category Faith-Pump Beth Duewel, Rhonda Rhea, Kaley Rhea, Karen Porter, Karen Sargent, & Tina Yeager The winner in the Devotional-Grief/Suffer

  2023 Finalists After reviewing many outstanding books, the judges have named their choices for finalists in the Ames Awards. The books were scored according to industry standards with added emphasis on their inclusion of courageous faith. The finalists in the fiction category are; Addy of the Door Islands, Judy DuCharme At Home in Cranberry Cove, June Foster Christmas at Cranberry Cove, June Foster Fountains and Secrets, Lisa E. Betz The Former Things, Allen Steadham Heroes' Might, Jake Tyson Paper Dolls, Kara Hunt When Legends Rise, Daphne Self Year of the Bear, Douglas J. Lanzo. The nonfiction finalists Debriefing, Tez Brooks GodPrints: Finding Evidence of God in the Shattered Pieces of Life, Jenny Leavitt Learning to Be Me Without You, Paula Freeman The Pursuit of Marriage Oneness, Dr. H. Irving Wilson Shattered, Stirred & Shaken, Michele McCarthy, Tire Tracks, Nancy Beverly. The children's book finalists are; The Beautiful Story With