Distinguished Favorite" Winner for New York City Big Book Awards 2024.
Regal Summit Book Award Winner 2024.
Independent Author Book Award Winner 2024.
The Book Fest First Place Award Winner.
International Impact Book Award Winner 2024.
Winner for Eric Hoffer Best Self - Published Press Award 2020.
Winner for Eric Hoffer First Horizon Award 2020.
Finalist for Eric Hoffer Grand Prize Short List 2020.
Finalist for Eric Hoffer Da Vinci Eye Award 2020.
Finalist for Eric Hoffer Montaigne Medal Award 2020.

More than a memoir, A Single Desperate Prayer is a riveting account of one resilient girl’s life in a Crimean ghetto, replete with equal amounts of tragedy and triumph.
Told through the eyes of a child, the listener witnesses Ludmila’s growth and maturation as she starts from practically nothing, learns how to beg in the streets, loses all of what little she had, is left to the wolves, and then saved by grace—all before her fifteenth birthday.

Witness the miracles that her single prayer brought to life. Without being preachy—because children certainly aren’t—Ludmila lets you see what happens when you open yourself up to the power of faith. You’ll be on the edge of your seat; you’ll laugh; you’ll cry. You’ll get angry at the injustice, and you’ll champion our heroine. You can’t help but love and celebrate Ludmila as she learns how the forces of good work in a world that seems totally dark, and how a heart transformed can withstand anything.