Award Winning Books
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Poe-Land: The Hallowed Haunts of Edgar Allan PoeEdgar Allan Poe was an oddity: his life, literature, and legacy are all, well, odd. In Poe-Land, J. W. Ocker explores the physical aspects of Poe's legacy across the East Coast and beyond, touring Poe's homes, examining artifacts from his life--locks of his hair,...
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The ContestYoung readers from all backgrounds will delight in the story of Rosy, a humorous, spirited, dark-haired, girl who being half-Mohawk is the first and only Native to enter an Anne of Green Gables look-alike contest. Convinced that being "kindred-spirits" and well versed in everything...
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The Sweetness of Water Lib/EIn the spirit of The Known World and The Underground Railroad, a profound debut about the unlikely bond between two freedmen who are brothers and the Georgia farmer whose alliance will alter their lives, and his, foreverIn the waning days of the Civil War,...
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Machiavelli for Women: Defend Your Worth, Grow Your Ambition, and Win the WorkplaceFrom the NPR host of The Indicator podcast and correspondent for Planet Money comes a guide for how today's women can apply the principles of 16th-century philosopher Niccol Machiavelli to their work lives and finally shatter the glass ceiling once and for all--perfect for...
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Where There's Smoke ...: Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man, a MemoirOne of the most iconic villains in the history of television, the enigmatic Cigarette Smoking Man fascinated legions of fans of the 1990s' hit TV series, The X-Files. Best known as "Cancerman," he was voted Television's Favourite Villain by the readers of TV Guide....
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This Other EdenIn 1792, formerly enslaved Benjamin Honey and his Irish wife, Patience, discover an island where they can make a life together. Over a century later, the Honeys' descendants and a diverse group of neighbors are desperately poor, isolated, and often hungry, but nevertheless protected...
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Chop Chop: The Kids' Guide to Cooking Real Food with Your FamilyWinner of the International Association of Culinary Professionals Cookbook Award in the Children/Youth/Family category, ChopChop offers simple, healthy, and delicious dishes for children and parents to make together. Cooking at home helps kids stay healthy, builds family relationships, and teaches math, science, and cultural...
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Eagle of Delight: Portrait of the Plains Indian Girl in the White HouseA quick-reading biography (for ages 10 to 110) that explores the history and mystery of, Who Was Eagle of Delight (Hayne Hudjihini), and why is her portrait in the White House? In 1821, a teenage Otoe Indian girl with "the Mark of Honor" journeyed...
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Gumbo: A Celebration of African American WritingA literary rent party to benefit the Hurston/Wright Foundation of African-American fiction, with selections to savor from bestselling authors as well as talented rising stars. Not since Terry McMillan's Breaking Ice have so many African-American writers been brought together in one volume. A stellar...
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Remembering BabylonWinner of the IMPAC Award and Booker Prize nominee In this rich and compelling novel, written in language of astonishing poise and resonance, one of Australia's greatest living writers gives and immensely powerful vision of human differences and eternal divisions. In the mid-1840s a...
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Different Hours: PoemsA wise and graceful new collection by one of our major, indispensable poets (Sidney Lea). The mysteries of Eros and Thanatos, the stubborn endurance of mind and body in the face of diminishment--these are the undercurrents of Stephen Dunn's eleventh volume. I am interested...
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Have a Nice ConflictHow to successfully navigate and prevent conflict From the publishers of the popular Strength Deployment Inventory, Have a Nice Conflict follows one man's fight to rescue his sinking career. Sales manager John Doyle would consider his career a success--he's his company's top revenue driver,...
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Practicing to Walk Like a HeronIn Practicing to Walk Like a Heron multiple-award-winning Michigan poet Jack Ridl shares lines of well-earned wisdom in the face of a constantly changing world. The familiar comforts of life-a warm fire in winter, a lush garden in summer-become the settings for transcendent and...
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A Furious Sky Lib/E: The Five-Hundred-Year History of America's HurricanesAuthor: Eric Jay DolinPublisher: HighBridge AudioPublished: 09/08/2020Binding Type: CDISBN: 9781665116428Award: Kirkus Prize - FinalistAbout the AuthorDolin, Eric Jay: - Eric Jay Dolin is the author of several books of history, including Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America, which was chosen as one of...
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Watch of the LordIf you long for revival in the church or seek personal renewal, God will meet you on your knees. The Holy Spirit of God invites you to enter a place of breathtaking holiness and awesome glory by experiencing the Watch of the Lord. There...
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Going There Lib/EFor more than forty years, Katie Couric has been an iconic presence in the media world. In her brutally honest, hilarious, heartbreaking memoir, she reveals what was going on behind the scenes of her sometimes tumultuous personal and professional life - a story she's...
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Love It, Don't Leave It: 26 Ways to Get What You Want at WorkHow long has it been since you've said that about your work? What are you waiting for? Your organization to care? Your boss to go? Your colleague to stop being a jerk? Someone to hand you an exciting new assignment? More money? This book...
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Aging ArtfullyLiving to 100? "Old age is hot right now...they don't know what to do with us " says Isabel Ferguson, one of the women featured in Amy Gorman's "Aging Artfully, 12 Profiles of Visual & Performing Women Artists Aged 85-105." Based on interviews of...
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House of Fields: Memories of a Rural EducationAnne-Marie Oomen uses a wealth of vivid language and personal details to bring scenes from her childhood on a family farm to life in House of Fields. Yet the focus of this book shifts away from the daily activities of the farm, which Oomen...
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"That Fiend in Hell": Soapy Smith in LegendAs the Klondike gold rush peaked in spring 1898, adventurers and gamblers rubbed shoulders with town-builders and gold-panners in Skagway, Alaska. The flow of riches lured confidence men, too-among them Jefferson Randolph "Soapy" Smith (1860-98), who with an entourage of "bunco-men" conned and robbed...
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