Award Winning Books

A story about a small town's surface appearance and the truths submerged below from the New York Times bestselling author of The Rules of Magic. People tend to stay in their place in the town of Haddan. The students at the prestigious prep school...

National Book Award nominee The magic of Savvy meets the complexity of When You Reach Me in this blithe magical puzzle. --The Wall Street Journal Told in multiple viewpoints, A Tangle of Knots is a magnificent puzzle. In a slightly magical world where everyone...

In this towering story about a man pitting himself against the sea, against society, and against himself, Robert Stone again demonstrates that he is "one of the most impressive novelists of his generation" (New York Review of Books). Inviting comparison with the great sea...

Photobiography of early twentieth-century photographer and schoolteacher Lewis Hine, using his own work as illustrations. Hines's photographs of children at work were so devastating that they convinced the American people that Congress must pass child labor laws.Author: Russell FreedmanPublisher: Clarion BooksPublished: 03/23/1998Pages: 104Binding Type:...

Abducted from Africa as a child and enslaved in South Carolina, Aminata Diallo thinks only of freedom--and of the knowledge she needs to get home. Sold to an indigo trader who recognizes her intelligence, Aminata is torn from her husband and child and thrown...

ONE OF THE MOST LOVED NOVELS OF THE DECADEA long-lost book reappears, mysteriously connecting an old man searching for his son and a girl seeking a cure for her widowed mother's loneliness.New York Times Bestseller Winner of the William Saroyan International Prize for Writin...

Drawing on a vast range of Japanese sources and illustrated with dozens of astonishing documentary photographs, Embracing Defeat is the fullest and most important history of the more than six years of American occupation, which affected every level of Japanese society, often in ways...

Stephen Swan is amazed when he hears that the uncle he thought had been killed in the Blitz is actually alive. For nearly four decades, Eldritch Swan has been locked away in an Irish prison and now, at last, has been released. Shocked and...

When Annie discovers she's pregnant by her boyfriend, she's devastated. She has never felt so alone. With no one she can talk to, she pours her heart out to her diary, confiding her feelings of panic, self-doubt, and the desperate hope that some day...

"Outrageous, heartwarming, wonderfully sensual...I loved it "--Jayne Anne Krentz"For sheer fun, nobody beats Nobody's Baby But Mine." --Detroit Free PressGenius physics professor Dr. Jane Darlington desperately wants a baby.But finding a father won't be easy. Jane's super-intelligence made her feel like a freak when...

The name has haunted my sleep and made my awake hours uneasy for as long as I can remember. Other children whisper that he is part man and part animal -- wild and blood-thirsty. But I know Weasel is real: a man, an Indian...

Discover the true story of P.T. Barnum, the man who created the world-famous Barnum & Bailey Circus, as featured in the movie The Greatest Showman The award-winning author of The Lincolns: A Scrapbook Look at Abraham and Mary, Amelia Lost, and Our Eleanor brings...

Now in paperback -- the enormously popular essays Fannie Flagg called "as charming and welcome as an early spring down home."Author: R. Scott BrunnerPublisher: Villard BooksPublished: 05/08/2001Pages: 172Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 8.64h x 5.60w x 0.47dISBN: 9780375757679Award: Mississippi Authors Award - WinnerAbout the AuthorR....

An acclaimed journalist and novelist explores the legacy and future of American liberalism through the history of his family's politically active history George Packer's maternal grandfather, George Huddleston, was a populist congressman from Alabama in the early part of the century--an agrarian liberal in...

In this award-winning young adult series from Madeleine L'Engle, author of A Wrinkle in Time, Vicky Austin experiences the difficulties and joys of growing up. This wasn't the first tie that I'd come close to death, but it was the first time I'd been...

Inspired by the author's work in a girls' rehabilitation center. Ray called it skating when we did the crazy things . . . Hot-wiring a fancy car for a joyride after midnight. Boosting stuff from stores . . . Sixteen-year-old Dallas loves the rush,...

Long-listed for the 2018 Man Booker PrizeShort-listed for the 2018 Gordon Burn PrizeShort-listed for the 2018 Goldsmiths Prize Inspired by the real-life murder of a British army soldier by religious fanatics, Guy Gunaratne's In Our Mad and Furious City is a snapshot of the...

"World-class nail-biter . . . Allison] Brennan is in the groove with this one."--Lee Child Six years ago, Lucy Kincaid was attacked and nearly killed by an online predator. She survived. Her attacker did not. Now Lucy's goal is to join the FBI and...

Author: Christopher KimballPublisher: Little Brown and CompanyPublished: 10/01/1996Pages: 464Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 2.19lbsSize: 10.37h x 7.44w x 1.21dISBN: 9780316493710Audience: Young AdultAward: James Beard Foundation Book Awards - NomineeReview Citation(s): Publishers Weekly 07/15/1996 pg. 66Booklist 09/15/1996 pg. 196Library Journal 10/15/1996 pg. 85Library Journal Prepub Alert 06/15/1996...

This stunning companion to Kate Atkinson's #1 bestseller Life After Life, one of the best novels I've read this century (Gillian Flynn), follows Ursula's brother Teddy as he navigates an unknown future after a perilous war. He had been reconciled to death during the...