Award Winning Books

A Mom's Choice Gold Award Winner, What Does It Mean to Be Present? is the perfect introduction to mindfulness for kids and learning empathy at all ages.Being present means...Noticing when someone needs helpWaiting patiently for your turnFocusing on what's happening nowFollow a group of...

Author: Alejandro VarelaPublisher: Astra HousePublished: 02/06/2024Pages: 320Binding Type: PaperbackISBN: 9781662601996Award: National Book Awards - FinalistAbout the AuthorAlejandro Varela (he/him) is based in New York. His work has appeared in The Point magazine, Boston Review, Harper's Magazine, The Rumpus, Joyland magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, and...

Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Winner for Young Adult Fiction, 2014Realm Award Winner for Best Speculative Fiction of the Year, 2016 There is no cure for being who you truly are.... In a cottage high atop Llanfair Mountain, sixteen-year-old Clara lives with her sister, Maren,...

"A gut-wrenching, wildly inspiring story about overcoming the most daunting obstacles through steely tenacity, sheer will, and a great big dose of motherly love." --Jeannette Walls, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Glass Castle An inspirational and powerful memoir from the United...

Author: Shannon GibneyPublisher: Dutton Books for Young ReadersPublished: 01/09/2024Pages: 256Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.48lbsSize: 9.30h x 5.70w x 0.70dISBN: 9780593112014Audience: Young AdultAward: Michael L. Printz Award - Honor BookAbout the AuthorShannon Gibney is an author and university professor. Her novel See No Color, drawn from...

"Phayer offers exactly what was needed. . . . A fair and even-tempered account of a volatile subject." --Kirkus Reviews"An important addition to the literature of the Holocaust." --Publishers Weekly"Very valuable . . . a fine and judicious book." --István Deák, The New York...

Instant New York Times and Indie Bestseller! This house eats and is eaten . . . "A riveting debut from a remarkable new voice! Trang Thanh Tran weaves an impressive gothic mystery in which Jade's father is determined to restore a decrepit home to...

"The most winning junior detective ever in teen lit. (Take that, Nancy Drew!)" --Midwest Children's Book Review Sammy's softball team is in contention for the Junior Slugger's Cup, and all she wants to do is hunker down behind the home plate and catch strikes....

Winner of the 2014 Brittingham Prize in Poetry, selected by Naomi Shihab Nye The word "tyrant" carries negative connotations, but in this new collection, Joanne Diaz tries to understand what makes tyranny so compelling, even seductive. These dynamic, funny, often poignant poems investigate the...

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! - A Today Show #ReadWithJenna Book Club Pick"Sparkling." --The New York Times"An utterly charming and deeply moving portrait of the joys--and the guilt--of trying to find your own way in life." --Celeste Ng, #1 New York Times bestselling...

With a warm yet political humor, Ukraine's most famous novelist presents a balanced and illuminating portrait of modern conflict. Little Starhorodivka, a village of three streets, lies in Ukraine's Grey Zone, the no-man's-land between loyalist and separatist forces. Thanks to the lukewarm war of...

In her coming-of-age memoir, refugee advocate Luma Mufleh writes of her tumultuous journey to reconcile her identity as a gay Muslim woman and a proud Arab-turned-American refugee. Now in paperback. With no word for "gay" in Arabic, Luma may not have known what to...

An Israeli and a Palestinian girl struggle to maintain their friendship in the face of conflict; Noa, an Israeli Jew, and Maha, a Palestinian Muslim, are two very different teenage girls--who may not be so different after all. They've become good friends, but after...

I love Brooklyn. And I don't think it's only because I was born and raised there. Now, in middle-age, I appreciate it more than ever. I wish I still lived there but ... that's a whole story of its own! The idea of this...

*Winner of the Rome Prize for Literature 2018-19*Bard Fiction Prize 2014*The Believer Book Award Finalist*One of the Best Books of 2013 --Complex Magazine, Book Riot, Slate, The L Magazine, NPR's 'On Point', SalonMazoch discovers an unreturned movie envelope, smashed windows, and a pool of...

Bestselling author Joy Dawson shares the keys to releasing the full glory of heaven--from the unification of the Body to spiritual revival and awakening.Author: Joy DawsonPublisher: Chosen BooksPublished: 01/07/2014Pages: 144Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 8.46h x 5.59w x 0.34dISBN: 9780800795825Award: Christian Retailing's Best - FinalistAbout...

Promise Boys is a blockbuster, dark academia mystery about three teens of color who must investigate their principal's murder to clear their own names. This page-turning thriller is perfect for fans of Karen McManus, Jason Reynolds, Angie Thomas, and Holly Jackson. The prestigious Urban...

July Fourth: New York CityHundreds of thousands line the banks of the East and Hudson Rivers awaiting the nation's largest fireworks display. Soon the sky will explode in cascading showers of silver and gold. Everywhere, faces will turn skyward in wide-eyed wonder.Then the sky...

Praise for Mystics & Miracles "These wonderful stories . . . are fascinating reading. There is much to ponder here--and much to strengthen our faith."--Catholic Parent "Bert Ghezzi combines a wonderfully engaging style with real spiritual substance that feeds the soul."--Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M....

An urgent, magnetic collection of poems which attempt to understand and heal human darkness.Author: Dana LevinPublisher: Copper Canyon PressPublished: 10/01/1999Pages: 96Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.34lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.64w x 0.28dISBN: 9780966339536Award: Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize - NomineeReview Citation(s): Publishers Weekly 08/30/1999 pg. 80About the AuthorDana...