Award Winning Books

The poems in Best Barbarian roam across the literary and social landscape, from Beowulf's Grendel to the jazz musician Alice Coltrane, from reckoning with immigration at the U.S.-Mexico border to thinking through the fraught beauty of the moon on a summer night after the...

Winner of the 2023 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Long-listed for the 2023 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceA Slate Top Ten Book of the YearA TIME Best Fiction Book of 2022 Named a Best Book...

Follow three women from three eras in the Pacific Northwest as they discover a place where miracles really happen--based on true stories. 1901: Plagued by loneliness on the Big Muddy Ranch, a sheepherder's wife awaits the outcome of her husband's trial for murder. He...

"We all set our sights on the Great American Novel. . . . [Thomas Maltman] comes impressively close to laying his hands on the grail." --The Boston Globe The intertwining story of three generations of German immigrants to the Midwest--their clashes with slaveholders, the...

LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD!A WILLIAM C. MORRIS AWARD FINALIST! The Chosen meets Adam Silvera in this irreverent and timely story of worlds colliding in friendship, betrayal, and hatred. Hoodie Rosen's life isn't that bad. Sure, his entire Orthodox Jewish community has just...

As one of the country's foremost restaurant reviewers, Mimi Sheraton set the standard for food writing and criticism. In this engrossing memoir, the doyenne of food criticism explains how she developed her passion for writing about food and wine, sharing the secrets of her...

Winner of the Georgia Author of the Year Award for Young Adult Fiction A Georgia Center for the Book "Books All Young Georgians Should Read" Selection In the best Southern literary tradition, A Yellow Watermelon explores poverty and racial segregation through the eyes of...

The debut novel from the "Munro-esque" (Houston Post) author of Disasters in the First World, Here Lies is Olivia Clare Friedman's visceral and portentous look at mourning, memory, and motherhood in an alternate Louisiana ravaged by climate change. Louisiana, 2042. Spurred by the effects...

This beautifully designed book tells the story of a little girl named Sophie, who learns that it's okay to be angry.Everybody gets angry sometimes. For children, anger can be very upsetting. Parents, teachers, and children can talk about it. People do lots of different...

As Davis Love III walked the fairways of the Oakland Hills Country Club, in contention during the final round of the 1996 U.S. Open Championship, he had a powerful ally on his side. For the rest of the nation the day may have been...

​In 1969 Bernice Sandler was finishing her doctorate in Education at the University of Maryland, teaching part-time at the university, and trying to secure a full-time position. Despite her excellent credentials, it became clear she wasn't even being considered. But why? she wondered. "Let's...

The whole community comes together to help Sharonda and Mama build their houseAuthor: George Ella LyonPublisher: Atheneum BooksPublished: 10/20/2009Pages: 48Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.01lbsSize: 11.36h x 8.82w x 0.47dISBN: 9780689875892Audience: Ages 4-8Accelerated Reader:Reading Level: 2.8Point Value: 0.5Interest Level: Lower GradeQuiz #/Name: 133614 / You and...

Death Makes Great TV.Frankie Percival is cashing in her chips. To save her brother from financial ruin, Frankie--a single stage performer and mentalist who never made it big--agrees to be assassinated on the most popular television show on the planet: Death Warrant. Once she...

If you could change who you are, would you? Should you? Fifteen-year-old Jamie Bates has a simple strategy for surviving high school: fit in, keep a low profile, and above all, protect his biggest secret-he's gay. But when a classmate discovers the truth, a...

Leading a professional service firm is difficult enough in good times, and it is all the more risky in difficult ones. In Leading Firms: How Great Professional Service Firms Succeed & How Your Firm Can Too David Kuhlman, a highly respected management consultant to...

A mother who cannot face her future.A daughter who cannot escape her past. Lady Elisabeth Kerr is a keeper of secrets. A Highlander by birth and a Lowlander by marriage, she honors the auld ways, even as doubts and fears stir deep within her....

Foster science learning with quick, fun, meaningful activities for kindergarten through 6th grade. Increase students' excitement about science, deepen content knowledge, and enhance science skills. The topics and activities in this book are based on "A Framework for K 12 Science Education," the foundation...

In The Colored Car, Jean Alicia Elster, author of the award-winning Who's Jim Hines?, follows another member of the Ford family coming of age in Depression-era Detroit. In the hot summer of 1937, twelve-year-old Patsy takes care of her three younger sisters and helps...

In this work, change specialist Holman reframes how we deal with chaos and change, and explains to leaders how to turn upheaval into opportunity and renewal.Author: Peggy HolmanPublisher: Berrett-Koehler PublishersPublished: 09/06/2010Pages: 264Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.90lbsSize: 9.10h x 6.06w x 0.68dISBN: 9781605095219Award: Nautilus Award -...

Written with the raw honesty and poignant insight that were the hallmarks of her acclaimed bestseller A Widow's Story, an affecting and observant memoir of growing up from one of our finest and most beloved literary masters.The Lost Landscape is Joyce Carol Oates' vivid...