Award Winning Books

Ivy In Bloom captures the weariness of a young girl tired of a long winter. ""I stare out the window,"" she says on the first spread of brown and gray, ""looking for birds or flowers / or even warm showers / but I don't...

Narrated by a cat-loving little girl, this story is a hysterical romp through a family's pet adoption dilemma. Poor Dad does not like cats, and he voices his opposition to the steady stream of stray cats that always seem to wind up on his...

I Will Bite You! is Eisner Award winner Joe Lambert's debut short story collection for weird kids of all ages.Along with several new short stories, I Will Bite You! collects the rare, self-published mini-comics work of Eisner Award winner Joe Lambert. A Los Angeles...

Fusing pornography and postfeminist theory, transcript and tell-all, these playful, penetrating poems and stories reach off the page in search of what it is to be known, both to the masses and to the Other. Gertrude Stein's work is co-opted and re-seen in an...

Winner of the John Esten Cook Award for Southern Fiction. Winner of numerous national awards and an Amazon bestselling author, Jessica James has received critical acclaim for this page-turning story of honor, self-sacrifice, and enduring love. Praised by both historians and romance readers since...

This book provides the tools architects need to synthesize and reuse complex data, solve problems early in the design-build process, save costs, and increase profits and productivity. Using virtual information models and the latest technology, Jernigan is able to streamline decision making, improve project...

MARCH WITH ME tells the coming-of-age story of two girls, one black and one white, within the stting of the civil rights movement in Birmingham, Alabama and the separate cultures of the south. The girls mature and pursue the same profession until one fateful...

Engage your readers and boost your impact Do you write--a little or a lot--for a socially responsible organization, business, or program? Wish you had an accessible writing coach to help you quickly craft potent pieces that move your readers to act? This feisty one-stop-shop...

This biography tells the story of one of America's most successful media moguls. Merv Griffin has interviewed some of the greatest characters in American history, including Martin Luther King, Jr. and Joan Crawford, as well as developing the game shows 'Jeopardy ' and 'Wheel...

A Connecticut heiress. A Florida cowboy. Her secret. His heart. And the very special family she's come home to find. Kara Whittenbrook is an unlikely heiress. Down-to-earth and lovably quirky, she's never fit in with the stogy Whittenbrook clan of Connecticut. Growing up at...

Tudley, a pond-living painted turtle, adopts other animals' behaviors--simply because he doesn't know he can't He flies like a bird, sings like a katydid, hops like a frog, and glows like a firefly. All the while, he uses his special behaviors to help other...

These thirty-seven poems are eccentric in the true meaning of the word-off-center. Their titles, bearing the names of weeds, flowers, herbs, trees, are merely points of departure. How hard can it be," the poet asks, "to lie down in the green / mussed bed...

When a plague wipes out most of humanity, fifteen-year-old Eric sets out to find his father. Sixty years later, Eric starts another long journey in an America that has long since quit resembling our own, but there are shadows everywhere. Shadows of what the...

Now readers have a new reason to be afraid. One hundred new reasons Bram Stoker Finalist for Best Collection of 2004.Author: Michael a. ArnzenPublisher: Raw Dog Screaming PressPublished: 04/30/2004Pages: 160Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.48lbsSize: 8.44h x 5.50w x 0.41dISBN: 9780974503127Award: Bram Stoker Awards - NomineeThis...

Explaining why women between the ages of 35 and 50 often experience significant changes in mood, weight, sex drive, and general well-being due to hormonal imbalances, this guide shows women how to regain control of their hormones--and their lives--and feel good again through natural...

It's bedtime, but before Felicia goes to sleep she wants to hear her favorite story, the story of how she was adopted by Mama Nessa and Mama Linda. And so Felicia's parents tell her how they flew off in a big silver airplane to...

This commemorative edition contains for the first time Seton's drawigns of American Indian motifs, a selection of photographs illustrating his life, inforamtion abouthis role as founder of the Boys Scouts of America.Author: Ernest Thompson Seton, Julia M. SetonPublisher: World Wisdom BooksPublished: 04/01/2005Pages: 134Binding Type:...

Seven Turning Points identifies the pivotal stages when nonprofits must reasses the way they operate and make fundamental changes or risk decline.Author: Susan GrossPublisher: Fieldstone AlliancePublished: 03/06/2009Pages: 120Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 9.90h x 6.90w x 0.40dISBN: 9780940069732Award: Benjamin Franklin Award - FinalistReview Citation(s): Reference...

The truth behind the pop music we love most.Author: Kim Cooper, David SmayPublisher: Feral HousePublished: 06/01/2001Pages: 344Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.55lbsSize: 10.03h x 7.05w x 0.91dISBN: 9780922915699Award: Firecracker Alternative Book Award - NomineeReview Citation(s): Booklist 09/15/2001 pg. 175Library Journal 09/15/2001

Fiercely devoted to the margins of life in the generation after the devastating first wave of the AIDS epidemic, this cathartic collection of poems explores illness, travel, contagion, the meaning of home, identity, tainted purity, and the bits of life that contain them and...