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8 starred reviews ∙ William C. Morris Award Winner ∙ National Book Award Longlist ∙ Printz Honor Book ∙ Coretta Scott King Honor Book ∙ #1 New York Times Bestseller Absolutely riveting --Jason ReynoldsStunning. --John GreenThis story is necessary. This story is important. --Kirkus...

Winner: John Brinckerhoff Jackson PrizeWinner: Kniffen AwardWinner: Missouri History Book Award Think of Kansas City and you'll probably think of barbecue, jazz, or the Chiefs. But for James Shortridge, this heartland city is more than the sum of its cultural beacons.In Kansas City and...

The first Catherine Le Vendeur mystery to appear in trade paperback, The Wandering Arm is an absorbing, richly authentic adventure. Heaven has a way of playing with mortals. When the mummified arm of St. Aldhelm is stolen from the Salisbury Cathedral in England, Catherine...

After twelve-year-old Annika, a foundling living in late nineteenth-century Vienna, inherits a trunk of costume jewelry, a woman claiming to be her aristocratic mother arrives and takes her to live in a strangely decrepit mansion in Germany.Author: Eva IbbotsonPublisher: Puffin BooksPublished: 04/06/2006Pages: 416Binding Type:...

FINALIST FOR THE 2023 PEN/FAULKNER AWARD. NOMINATED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE, THE 2022 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION, THE 2022 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE JOHN LEONARD PRIZE, THE 2023 PEN/JEAN STEIN OPEN BOOK AWARD, THE 2023 PEN/BINGHAM PRIZE, THE 2022 STORY PRIZE, THE 2023...

Sometimes the Best Bond for a Job is a Jane ... Jane Bond."What's the story on Bond?""Your man is a homicidal depressive paranoiac," the doctor reported."I know that. I want to know what's wrong with him!And be straight with me, man. No medical mumbo...

Rhyming text describes how desert animals live around the clock.Author: Anthony FredericksPublisher: Rio Nuevo PublishersPublished: 10/01/2011Pages: 32Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.07lbsSize: 10.60h x 9.28w x 0.44dISBN: 9781933855707Audience: Ages 4-8Accelerated Reader:Reading Level: 2.1Point Value: 0.5Interest Level: Lower GradeQuiz #/Name: 166333 / Desert Night Desert DayAward: Grand...

2022 ECPA CHRISTY AWARD: Finalist - First Novel2021 AMERICAN FICTION AWARDS: Winner - Literary Fiction, General Fiction, Cross-Genre Fiction; Finalist - Religious Fiction2021 BEST BOOK AWARDS: Winner - Inspirational Fiction; Finalist - Cross-Genre Fiction2021 FOREWORD INDIES: Silver Winner - Religious Fiction; Finalist - General...

The creators of the award-winning An Egg Is Quiet and A Seed Is Sleepy have teamed up again to create this gorgeous and informative introduction to the world of butterflies. From iridescent blue swallowtails and brilliant orange monarchs to the worlds tiniest butterfly (Western...

In the 1930s, photographer Dorothea Lange traveled the American West documenting the experiences of those devastated by the Great Depression. She wanted to use the power of the image to effect political change, but even she could hardly have expected the effect that a...

Pluck brings together the spirit of courage, taking of roads-less-traveled, and living with a mindset focused on possibility that we can all call upon to improve everyday life. It inspires hope and collaboration, as well as meaningful change and actions.Alfred Sadler and Blair Sadler,...

A New York Times bestseller, Jonathan Auxier's The Night Gardener is a Victorian ghost story with shades of Washington Irving and Henry James. More than just a spooky tale, it's also a moral fable about human greed and the power of storytelling. The Night...

Runner-Up for the best HOBBY and CRAFT BOOK 2023, IBPA Book Awards.The New Spruce Forge Manual of Locksmithing: A Blacksmith's Guide to Simple Lock Mechanisms is a totally revised and expanded version of the original work from 1999. This new hardcover edition, at 304...

In this stunning novel, Andrew W.M. Beierle brings to life characters at once unthinkably foreign and utterly real. Frank and fearless, sexy and witty, First Person Plural is a masterfully rendered, powerfully imaginative work, as complex and as extraordinary as the bonds of love....

From her humble beginnings to the bright lights of network television, Hattie Kauffman weaves a story both heartbreaking and redemptive. Nationally recognized for her high-profile interviews and coverage of disasters and triumphs that affected millions, Kauffman candidly shares the experiences that made her into...

What to read next is every book lover's greatest dilemma. Nancy Pearl comes to the rescue with this wide-ranging and fun guide to the best reading new and old. Pearl, who inspired legions of litterateurs with "What If All (name the city) Read the...

In this carefully reasoned and thoroughly researched analysis, Stanley Grenz asks: are same-sex relationships a viable, God-given way of giving expression to our sexuality? He reviews scientific research, the history of Christian teaching on homosexuality, the issue of biblical authority today, and the practical...

The Compelling, Tragic Story of a Great Cheyenne Chief As white settlers poured into the west during the nineteenth century, many famous Indian chiefs fought to stop them, including Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, and Geronimo. But one great Cheyenne chief, Black Kettle, understood that...

"This healthy collection of new poems and selections from seven previous volumes is remarkable for its generosity of spirit, manifested in a warm surrealism that is often turned with humor toward his own past as a way of understanding the recurrent questions of growing...

"The best living Italian crime writer."-Il Manifesto An unscrupulous womanizer, as devoid of morals now as he once was full of idealistic fervor, returns to Italy, where he is wanted for a series of crimes. To earn himself the guise of respectability, he is...