Award Winning Books

A beautiful tale of the painted turtle Makinauk, his animal friends, and their discovery of new lands and long-lasting friendship.Author: Kathy-Jo WarginPublisher: Sleeping Bear PressPublished: 04/01/1999Pages: 48Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.12lbsSize: 11.38h x 9.36w x 0.40dISBN: 9781886947122Audience: Ages 4-8Accelerated Reader:Reading Level: 5.2Point Value: 0.5Interest Level:...

Training is still the top strategy to help employees perform at their best. Discover how to be an efficient and poised trainer for your organization with this thoroughly revised, user-friendly book.Successful organizations depend on expert training to keep them viable, but leaders aren't always...

"What you've got to remember about us Bengalis," a good friend once told Simon Parkes, "is that we're only really interested in three things: educating our children, reading books, and food." Bengalis have a passion for good food--its authenticity, its freshness, its part in...

Part of the Jewish Encounter seriesNovelist and critic Jonathan Wilson clears away the sentimental mists surrounding an artist whose career spanned two world wars, the Russian Revolution, the Holocaust, and the birth of the State of Israel. Marc Chagall's work addresses these transforming events,...

On January 30, 1933, hearing about the celebrations for Hitler's assumption of power, Erich Ebermayer remarked bitterly in his diary, "We are the losers, definitely the losers." Learning of the Nuremberg Laws in 1935, which made Jews non-citizens, he raged, "hate is sown a...

Fully-Reproducible Kids' Bible Lessons for Preschoolers (Ages: 2-5). Features 8 all-inclusive lessons with over 60 flexible Bible activity options. Perfect for Kids Sunday School, Christian Home School Curriculum, Kids Church, and more! Length: 96 pages.Packed with puzzles, games, crafts, and awesome Bible stories, these...

The pioneering new editor of Poetry magazine is "a poet we will reckon with over time."--Kirkus ReviewsAuthor: Christian WimanPublisher: Copper Canyon PressPublished: 05/01/2005Pages: 96Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.42lbsSize: 9.06h x 6.11w x 0.36dISBN: 9781556592201Award: Society of Midland Authors Award - Honorable MentionReview Citation(s): Publishers Weekly...

From biomechanist and bestselling author Katy Bowman comes her eagerly anticipated guide to getting kids―from babies to preteens―and their families moving more, together, outside.2021 INDIE Awards Gold Winner (Family & Relationships category) Katy Bowman is my go-to expert on the importance of movement for...

Just out of high school in 1977, her personal life already a mess, Tracy Crow thought the Marines might straighten her out. And sure enough, in the Corps she became a respected public affairs officer and military journalist--one day covering tank maneuvers or beach...

A ground-breaking anthology that will bring fresh understanding to the American experience of poetry, beauty, the body, and disability.Beauty is a Verb is a ground-breaking anthology of disability poetry, essays on disability, and writings on the poetics of both. Crip Poetry. Disability Poetry. Poems...

From award-winning novelist Arthur Herzog comes a true-crime story of rich and poor, murder and retribution in a town rooted in self-denial. In Salisbury, Connecticut, the lavish weekend homes of wealthy New Yorkers stand only a short distance from the dilapidated houses of the...

This book gives 101 things you can do to make the world a better, brighter place.Author: Deborah UnderwoodPublisher: RaintreePublished: 07/01/2011Pages: 56Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 9.40h x 6.40w x 0.40dISBN: 9781410938985Audience: Ages 9-12Award: Moonbeam Children's Book Award - Gold Medal WinnerReview Citation(s): Hornbook Guide to...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE - "The Brothers Grimm meet Black Mirror meets Alice in Wonderland. . . . In seven remixed fairy tales, Link delivers wit and dreamlike intrigue."--Time Finalist for the Kirkus Prize - "Thought-provoking and wonderfully told ....

A Boston Globe-Horn Book Award finalist!Inspired by the author's own childhood, this stunning novel in verse, the sequel to the award-winning #1 bestseller Inside Out and Back Again, picks up two years after Hà and her family arrive in Alabama as refugees from the...

Award-winning author Linda Williams Jackson pulls from her own childhood in the Mississippi Delta to tell the story of Ellis Earl, who dreams of a real house, food enough for the whole family--and to be someone. It's 1967, and eleven-year-old Ellis Earl Brown has...

The Early Chickasaw Homeland: Origins, Boundaries and Society examines the life of Chickasaws in their original Homeland, before removal to Indian Territory during the first half of the nineteenth century. John P. Dyson draws on extensive research and knowledge of Chickasaw language for insight...

Shortlisted for the 2023 Booker Prize and the 2023 Nero Book Award for FictionWinner of the 2023 An Post Irish Book Award for Novel of the YearFinalist for the 2023 Kirkus Prize for Fiction A Top 10 Best Book of 2023 by The New...

Few chefs in America have won more acclaim than Suzanne Goin, owner of Lucques restaurant. A chef of impeccable pedigree, she got her start cooking at some of the best restaurants in the world-L'Arp ge. Olives, and Chez Panisse, to name a few-places where...

In an unnamed New York-based company, the employees are getting restless as everything around them unravels. There's Pru, the former grad student turned spreadsheet drone; Laars, the hysteric whose work anxiety stalks him in his tooth-grinding dreams; and Jack II, who distributes unwanted backrubs-aka...

Based on a true story, the author provides a captivating and crystal clear window into the lives of some of the early settlers on the plains of South Dakota. In 1911, sixteen year old Grace has the same hopes and dreams as any other...