Twenty books from four nonfiction categories advanced to the semifinal round of the BookLife Prize Nonfiction Contest. Selected by Publishers Weekly and BookLife staff, the semifinalists are as follows:
Business/Personal Finance
Concerning the Nature and Structure of Concept
The Snowman's Guide to Personal Finance: A Simple Approach to Managing Your Money
What is Water? How Young Leaders Can Thrive in an Uncertain World
Memoir
FIERCE: Essays by and About Dauntless Women
Girl with Spiral Notebook: A Writer's Memoir of New York Life
River Queens: Saucy Boat, Stout Mates, Spotted Dog, America
When the Creator Moves Me: A Story About Music, Resistance, and Creative Activism
Self-Help/Relationships
Mindful Mamas and Papas: A Mindful Living Playbook for the Whole Family
Nourish: How to Heal Your Relationship with Food, Body, and Self
Read Me: A Parental Primer for "The Talk"
Your Living Legacy: How Your Parenting Style Shapes the Future for You and Your Child
Inspirational/Spiritual
Finding Hildegard: Healing Through Medieval Wisdom
The Spiritual Gardener: Insights from the Jewish Tradition to Help Your Garden Grow