Four UL Press titles have earned gold and bronze medals in the Independent Publisher Book Awards.
Gold winners are:
Generating Hope by Geoff Gjertson, which documents the BeauSoleil solar home designed and built by a team from UL Lafayette for the 2009 Solar Decathlon in Washington, D.C.; and
You Dont Know Me by James Nolan, a collection of short stories about New Orleans.
Generating Hope earned the top award in the Architecture category, while You Dont Know Me was cited in the South Best Regional Fiction category.
Bronze winners are:
The Irish in New Orleans by Laura D. Kelley, a history of the Irish in New Orleans illustrated with photographs; and
The Public Art of Robert Dafford by Philip Gould, a vivid depiction of the renowned artists work through text and photography.
Kelleys book was judged in in the South Best Regional Non-Fiction category; Goulds was in the coffee table books category.
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The IPPY Awards, launched in 1996, are intended to increase recognition to deserving, but often unsung, titles produced by independent authors and publishers. Established as the first awards program open exclusively to independents, over 3,000 IPPYs have been awarded to authors and publishers around the world.