Award Winning Novel
BREW Readers' Choice Award 2025-2026 Finalist Reader Views Reviewer's Choice Awards, Hist Fiction - Gold Award The Tyler R Tichelaar Award for Best Historical Fiction 2023 Incipere Award - 1st Place Historical Fiction 2023 IAN Awards - Hist Fiction Finalist BREW Fiction Book Excellence Award - Military Romance of the Year 2022 Hemingway CIBAs - Finalist BookFest Awards 2023 - 1st Place Literary Titan Silver Award NABE Pinnacle Book Achievement Best Book Award - Fiction National Indie Excellence Awards Finalist in Military Fiction 2023 Wishing Shelf Best Book Cover Award - Silver 2023 NYC Big Book Award Distinguished Favorite - Hist Fic 2023 Firebird Book Awards - 1st Place 2023 Best Book Awards - Finalist 2023 American Writing Awards - Finalist Autumn 2023 Readers’ Choice Book Awards - Finalist Best Adult Book 2023 Royal Dragonfly Book Awards - 1st Place Historical Fiction The Shelf Unbound 2023 Best Indie Book Finalist Author Shout Reader Ready Awards - Recommended Read Global eBook Awards - Bronze Historical Fiction Outstanding Creator Awards: *Overall Best Fiction 3rd Place, *Historical Fiction 1st Place, *Military Fiction 1st Place, *Romance 1st Place, and *Best Book Cover OnlineBookClub.org - 1st Place Historical Fiction The Difference Maker Award The Narrative Voyager Award |
A World War II historical fiction novel capturing the heartbreak of a German-American soldier torn between heritage and patriotism, for readers who enjoy Kristin Hannah and Anthony Doerr.How does a man show his love – for country, for heritage, for family – during a war that sets the three at odds? What sets in motion the necessity to choose one over the other? How will this choice change everything and everyone he loves?
Jacob Miller, a first-generation American, grew up in New Berlin, a small German immigrant town in Ohio where he endured the Great Depression, met his wife, and started a family. Though his early years were not easy, Jacob believes he is headed toward his ‘happily ever after’ until a friend is sent to an internment camp for enemy combatants, and the war lands resolutely on his doorstep. In An Enemy Like Me, Teri M Brown uses the backdrop of World War II to show the angst experienced by Jacob, his wife, and his four-year-old son as he left for and fought in a war he did not create. She explores the concepts of xenophobia, intrafamily dynamics, and the recognition that war is not won and lost by nations, but by ordinary men and women and the families who support them. |
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Teri M. Brown is an award-winning American novelist, inspirational speaker, and podcast host dedicated to exploring the raw, unfiltered corners of the human experience. With a professional background rooted in business content writing and self-help publishing, she successfully transitioned into commercial fiction after winning the Anita Bloom Ornoff Award for Inspirational Short Story in 2017. Since then, her deeply empathetic, character-driven narratives have earned dozens of prestigious literary awards, establishing her as a powerful voice in contemporary and historical storytelling.
Known for her trademark ability to construct relatable, beautifully flawed characters, Brown focuses her narratives on universal themes of resilience, generational family conflict, and personal reinvention. Beyond the page, she is an avid adventurer who famously completed a 3,102-mile tandem bicycle trek across the United States to raise funds for charity—an experience that continues to fuel her creative philosophies on grit and marital teamwork. As the host of the Online for Authors podcast, she actively mentors aspiring writers, speaks at national literary events, and delivers motivational talks on overcoming midlife challenges and creative breakthroughs. When she isn’t writing or touring, Brown, who now lives at the NC coast, can be found traveling, mentoring within writer communities, playing word games, bumming on the beach, singing in the shower, hunting for bargains, or playing bridge. She continues to connect deeply with an expansive global audience by writing authentic, accessible prose that challenges readers to embrace both the humor and the hardships of life. |
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