Award Winning Books

Christopher Merkner is a Shirley Jackson for the contemporary Midwest, where the ties of family and community intersect darkly with suburban American life. In these stories, an enraged village gaslights unsuspecting vacationers and a young man delays a impending confession, fondling the nostrils of...

One World Vegetarian Cookbook starts in your backyard--buying produce at your local farmers' market or perhaps growing your own vegetables and herbs--then reaches around the world to bring the diversity and delight of vegetarian dishes into your kitchen. Whether you have only a window...

No Equal Justice is the seminal work on race- and class-based double standards in criminal justice. Hailed as a shocking and necessary book by The Economist, it has become the standard reference point for anyone trying to understand the fundamental inequalities in the American...

From Mark Slouka, San Francisco Chronicle: Ken Lamberton would like you to believe his book, Wilderness and Razor Wire, '' is about the smell of creosote and rain on the wind, about hawkmoths dipping from the wells of cactus. Don't believe him. Don't be...

War can be addictive. So testifies journalist David Axe who's been there, in the middle of the action in Iraq. The high is potent no matter how much you know how dangerous it is... Here's Axe's journal of dealing with his addiction, the high,...

In a city full of giants, can one tiny girl find her way home? She is a girl three inches tall with eyes like drops of dew. Her clothes are cut from handkerchiefs and stitched with spider silk. For half her life, she has...

In this hilarious story about outwitting a bully, it turns out that someone small can be more powerful than someone big! Lion bullies all the other animals until finally they can't take it anymore. They post an ad, asking for help. One animal after...

When everyone that Justin depends on lets him down, he begins discovering himself with the help of a new friend and some newly found talents. Alone. That's how thirteen-year-old Justin feels these days. His older brother Duane has left home, enlisting in the Army,...

In this moving coming-of-age novel set in rural New Mexico, the young protagonist, Flavio, is torn between the seductiveness of progress and new technology and his loyalty to village traditions so steadfastly preserved by his grandfather, El Grande."Author: Floyd MartinezPublisher: Arte Publico PressPublished: 07/01/1997Pages:...

Recently divorced, Palma, a forty-three-year-old Latina, takes stock of her life when she reconnects with her gangster younger cousin recently released from prison. As she checks out her other options, her sexual obsession with her cous' ignites but their family secrets bring them together...

Honored as one of 10 Favorite Books of 2014 --Dwight Garner, The New York Times Honored as a Standout Book of 2014 --American Poet magazine"Belieu oscillates between dark humor, self-consciousness, and pointed satire in a fourth collection that's equal-opportunity in its critique. In the...

The new poetry collection by Tony Hoagland, the award-winning author of What Narcissim Means To Me and Donkey GospelIn Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty, Tony Hoagland is deep inside a republic that no longer offers reliable signage, in which comfort and suffering...

Mark Bibbins finds damaged glamour at the fringes of respectability in this exceptional debut collectionI was bornwith capable eyes, a moveable heartand time to spare.--from "Euphorium"In his restless and unpredictable debut, Mark Bibbins offers a virtuosic poetry. Lovers struggle to connect; groupies, hustlers, and...

In this hilariously written and illustrated story, three children turn their family's weekly Sunday visit from Aunt Essy, Aunt Chanah and Uncle Sam on its head. And in the end, they all have a ball. Every Sunday Aunt Essy, Aunt Chanah and Uncle Sam...

Governor General's Literary Award nominee 2008 - Children's Literature, Text category Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children's Book Award Winner, 2009 2010 Skipping Stones Honor Award Winner - Multicultural and International Awareness Books category Golden Oak Award winner, 2009 Canadian Children's Book Centre Awards 2009...

Everything went well enough at first when Cousin Clara unexpectedly came to stay with Lester's family. Clara didn't make unsavory noises or rearrange Lester's Lost and Found collection. All she did was sit and knit. However, things quickly take a turn when Clara presents...

No one believes Larf exists, and he likes it that way. Larf, you see, is a sasquatch, the only sasquatch in the world (or so it seems). He has a very pleasant, and very private, life in the woods, where on any given day...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2019 AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A bad dream leads to a strange poetic pilgrimage through Japan in this playful and profound Booker International-shortlisted novel. Gilbert Silvester, eminent scholar of beard fashions in film, wakes up one day from...

In this stunning, Lambda Literary Award-winning debut novel, Amber Dawn subverts the classic hero's quest adventure to create a dark post-feminist vision. Sub Rosa's reluctant heroine is a teenaged runaway named Little; she stumbles upon an underground society of ghosts and magicians, missing girls...

Traditional horror has often portrayed female characters in direct relation to their sexual role according to men, such as the lascivious victim or innocent heroine; even vampy, powerful female villains, such as the classic noir "spider women," use their sexual prowess to seduce and...