Award Winning Books
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Distant Shores, Silent ThunderNo matter how much we plan, life--and people--have a way of surprising us. For Doctor KT O'Bannon, a near-fatal tragedy derails a career and disrupts everything she thought she knew about herself and her future. Battered and nearly broken, she turns for solace to...
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Close Enough to Hear God Breathe: The Great Story of Divine IntimacyTHERE ARE A THOUSAND VOICES TELLING ME WHO I AM, OR WHO I SHOULD BE. I WANT TO HEAR WHAT GOD HAS TO SAY. I WANT TO KNOW THAT HE'S REALLY THERE. I WANT TO KNOW THAT IN THE WHOLE GRAND, TANGLED SWEEP OF...
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Chiral MadChiral Mad is an anthology of psychological horror containing twenty-eight short stories by established authors and newcomers from around the world. All profit from sales of this anthology go directly to Down syndrome charities. Featuring the imaginations of Jack Ketchum, Gary Braunbeck, Gene O'Neill,...
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Bee LifeDiscover the cleverness of bees as they celebrate with the elements and thrive in the wild. Join the busy honeybee on her daily journey, and on the way, learn about everything from honey making to pollination. Bee Life provides readers with both a storyline...
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Savage Art: A Biography of Jim ThompsonAuthor: Robert PolitoPublisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupPublished: 10/01/1996Pages: 560Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.35lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 1.40dISBN: 9780679733522Award: National Book Critics Circle Award - WinnerReview Citation(s): New York Times 01/19/1997 pg. 28About the AuthorRobert Polito is a poet, essayist, and critic whose works include...
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Priceless: Curing the Healthcare CrisisIn the groundbreaking book Priceless, renowned healthcare economist John Goodman reveals how patients, healthcare providers, employers, and employees are all trapped in a dysfunctional, bureaucratic, healthcare system fraught with perverse incentives that raise costs, reduce quality, and make care less accessible. Unless changed, these...
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Minneapolis in the Twentieth Century: The Growth of an American CityFlavored with contemporary newspaper quotations and illustrated with period images, this political history inspires greater understanding of a preeminent American city.Author: Iric NathansonPublisher: Minnesota Historical Society PressPublished: 11/15/2009Pages: 224Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.10lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.30w x 1.00dISBN: 9780873517256Award: Minnesota Book Award - Finalist
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Jay Defeo: A RetrospectiveJay DeFeo (1929-1989) was part of a vibrant community of avant-garde artists, poets, and musicians in San Francisco during the 1950s and 1960s. Her circle included Wallace Berman, Joan Brown, Bruce Conner, Wally Hedrick, Edward Kienholz, and Michael McClure. Although best known for her...
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360-Degree Preaching: Hearing, Speaking, and Living the WordWith 360-Degree Preaching, veteran preacher Michael Quicke brings expository preaching to a postmodern world. He has witnessed the transforming power of preaching firsthand for more than thirty years and seeks to encourage students and pastors as he teaches them the art of preaching. Quicke...
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Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of RaceAmerica's racial odyssey is the subject of this remarkable work of historical imagination. Matthew Frye Jacobson argues that race resides not in nature but in the contingencies of politics and culture. In ever-changing racial categories we glimpse the competing theories of history and collective...
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Touch of FrostMy name is Gwen Frost, and I go to Mythos Academy -- a school of myths, magic and warrior whiz kids, where even the lowliest geek knows how to chop off somebody's head with a sword and Logan Quinn, the hottest Spartan guy in...
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Motorcycles, Sushi and One Strange BookFrom bestselling author Nancy Rue comes a YA contemporary novel that combines coming-of-age drama with a rom-com series of adventures as one girl deals with her complicated family and first love. Jesse Hatcher is used to keeping everything together--from trying to manage her thoughts...
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The Wind Blows, the Ice Breaks: Poems of Loss and Renewal by Minnesota PoetsIn their many voices, the poets of Minnesota explore love, loss and grief. Their poems spring from the chaos of death and disease, violence and lost innocence, leading us toward a message of deep love, the kind that holds out and holds on.Author: Ted...
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The RomanticsPankaj Mishra is one of the most promising talents of his generation, and this stunning, universally praised novel of self-discovery heralds a remarkable career.The young Brahman Samar has come to the holy city of Benares to complete his education and take the civil service...
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The Good and Evil Serpent: How a Universal Symbol Became ChristianizedA pathbreaking study of the serpent's symbolic meanings from 40,000 BCE to the present day In a perplexing passage from the Gospel of John, Jesus is likened to the most reviled creature in Christian symbology: the snake. Attempting to understand how the Fourth Evangelist...
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The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks (National Book Award Finalist)The hilarious and razor-sharp story of how one girl went from geek to patriarchy-smashing criminal mastermind in two short years, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of We Were Liars and Genuine Fraud. * National Book Award finalist * * Printz Honor...
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Spanish DaggerWhile harvesting yucca plants to make paper, China Bayles finds a body-cause of death: unknown. It seems that the simple lives of many residents of Pecan Springs hide complex and dangerous pasts. And now, while also unraveling secrets that hit close to home, China...
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Saints and VillainsA sweeping novel of a true-life hero--Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the German theologian and Nazi resister--in the tradition of "Schindler's List".Author: Denise GiardinaPublisher: Random House Publishing GroupPublished: 02/09/1999Pages: 512Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.15lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.10w x 0.70dISBN: 9780449004272Accelerated Reader:Reading Level: 6Point Value: 31Interest Level: Upper GradeQuiz...
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Ultimate Betrayal"Filled with unexpected twists, unconventional allies and a master-mind villain who makes hired killers look like kindergarten teachers. "Ultimate Betrayal" is Joseph Badal's best book yet. A must-read for anyone with a craving for a fast-paced, action-packed, beautifully constructed thriller."-Anne Hillerman, author of "Spider...
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The Last Communist Virgin"Wang Ping is a fearless, phenomenal writer."--Louise ErdrichAuthor: Wang PingPublisher: Coffee House PressPublished: 04/01/2007Pages: 218Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 7.40h x 5.00w x 0.50dISBN: 9781566891950Award: Minnesota Book Award - WinnerReview Citation(s): Publishers Weekly 01/15/2007 pg. 31Kirkus Reviews 03/01/2007 pg. 193Library Journal 03/15/2007 pg. 66Kliatt 07/01/2007...
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