Award Winning Books

A counterintuitive approach to fostering greater innovation, collaboration, and engagement Most of us assume our success relies on a network of friends and close contacts. But innovative thinking requires a steady stream of fresh ideas and new possibilities, which strangers are more likely to...

Double Gold Medal Winner: The Benjamin Franklin Awards for Best Biography and Best CoverThe World War II US Marine-turned-painter who helped popularize South Pacific and Tiki art and later the plight of endangered speciesRaised in Central California, American artist Ralph Burke Tyree was the...

Call Me Home has an epic scope in the tradition of Louise Erdrich's The Plague of Doves or Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping and braids the stories of a family in three distinct voices: Amy, who leaves her Texas home at 19 to start a new...

Edith's War, a novel, tells one woman's heart-wrenching, yet ultimately heart-warming, story of love, hardship, passion and motherhood when she encounters the internment of Italians during Liverpool's Blitz of World War II. In early summer of 1940 young newly-wed, Edith Maguire, meets Carlo, the...

Tom Spanbauer's first novel in seven years is a love story triangle akin to The Marriage Plot and Freedom, only with a gay main character who charms gays and straights alike. I Loved You More is a rich, expansive tale of love, sex, and...

In Fire Birds�Valuing Natural Wildfires and Burned Forests, award-winning science author Sneed B. Collard III challenges society�s negative views toward natural forest fires. By focusing on the research of biologist Richard Hutto, Collard reveals the complex relationships between fire and thriving plant and animal...

Winner of the Gold IPPY Award fore Best Anthology and the Eric Hoffer Award for Best Book about Culture Award-winning 27 Views of Hillsborough is an anthology about life in a small Southern town. Something other than history has drawn dozens of writers to...

Here at the end of the Cenozoic Era with the life systems withering away, a surprising creativity appears, a kind of mystical balancing act. The world's spiritual traditions are entering into deeply engaged conversations through which the riches of each are ignited in new...

A gentle rain began to tap at the aluminium roof of the truck topper as Joe's day drifted into darkness. So was this any improvement over a motel room? It made him think about what he'd left behind. That warm bed, the couch in...

A Native American legend tells how Sky God helped Rattlesnake to defend himself. Ages 4-8Author: Joe HayesPublisher: Roberts Rinehart PublishersPublished: 10/01/1993Pages: 32Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.23lbsSize: 9.96h x 7.99w x 0.15dISBN: 9780943173894Audience: Ages 4-8Award: Grand Canyon Reader Award - Winner

Some children can walk into a room and feel "the vibe" instantly in their body. Others may tune into an unspoken family conflict, or tell someone to be careful before stumbling into an unknown situation. These may seem to be the normal human qualities...

2011 Governor General's Literary Award for Children's Text Nominee Independent Publisher Book Award Silver Medalist, 2011 2011 Skipping Stones Honor Award winner On the 2011 USBBY Outstanding International Books honor list Ann Conner Brimer Award for Children's Literature finalist, 2011 2011 Snow Willow Award...

Twelve-year-old Ambrose is a glass-half-full kind of guy. A self-described "friendless nerd," he moves from place to place every couple of years with his overprotective mother, Irene. When some bullies at his new school almost kill him by slipping a peanut into his sandwich...

An exciting, fact-based, old-fashioned tale of adventure at sea, winner of a Newbery Honor for young readers in 1936. When his father loses his fortune at sea, a boy, Enoch Thacher, signs up with a famous shipbuilder and takes a record-breaking trip around Cape...

A prairie chicken dancing to the beat, a Red-Winged blackbird flashing his snazzy wing patches to attract a female, a grouse growing its own "snowshoes," and American robins traveling north in the spring share at least one characteristic--they all call Minnesota home at some...

The facts and fiction of an infamous New England murder When the winter ice melted in April 1850, residents of Saco, Maine, made a gruesome discovery: the body of a young girl submerged in a stream. Thanks to evidence left at the scene, a...

"Honoree Jeffers is an exciting and original new poet, and the Gospel of Barbecue is her aptly titled debut work. These poems are sweet and sassy, hot and biting, flavored in an exciting blend of precise language and sharp and surprising imagery that delights....

We the Corporations chronicles the astonishing story of one of the most successful yet least well-known "civil rights movements" in American history. Hardly oppressed like women and minorities, business corporations, too, have fought since the nation's earliest days to gain equal rights under the...

For the past eighty years, three generations of the Dickey family have passed down the Art of Great Barbecue. Want to smoke the best burnt ends? Curious how to "grab, squish, and tickle" the perfect pulled pork sandwich? Interested in what Pit Masters eat...

With an inspiring sense of wonder and a focus on Jesus Christ, Anne Graham Lotz brings clarity and understanding to the book of Revelation. Lotz takes the reader step-by-step through John's eyewitness account of God's plan for our future, emphasizing our hope in Jesus...