Award Winning Books

"After a surprise attack on a hunting party leaves Chula, a Chickasaw boy living in the Homeland during the turbulent eighteenth century, without his beloved father, Chula finds himself thrust into the challenging world of a Chickasaw warrior. Haunted by his father's restless spirit,...

Now, more than ever, during and after the Pandemic, recent graduates will need a stable, dependable employer - the US Federal government is hiring and they WANT to hire new graduates. There is a CLIFF of retirements in government and the government is hiring....

Named a most anticipated book of 2021 by The Guardian The MillionsAn aesthetic and existential coming-of-age novel exploring the apprenticeship of a young female painter In Maylis de Kerangal's Painting Time, we are introduced to the burgeoning young artist Paula Karst, who is enrolled...

Five New Yorkers must come together in order to defend their city from an ancient evil in the first book of a stunning new novel by Hugo Award-winning and NYT bestselling author N. K. Jemisin.Every great city has a soul. Some are as ancient...

Unlike Jehovah's Witnesses, who deny the Trinity by demoting Jesus to a mere man, the "Jesus Only" churches deny the Trinity by claiming that there is only one God, and that Jesus is the Father and the Holy Spirit. "Jesus Only" churches not only...

*Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Biography* *Winner of the 2020 National Book Critics Circle Award* *Winner of the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography* A vivid, deeply researched work of history that explores the life of an unconventional woman during the first half...

The #1 New York Times bestseller and a USAToday bestseller A timely, crucial, and empowering exploration of racism--and antiracism--in America This is NOT a history book.This is a book about the here and now. A book to help us better understand why we are...

Hurricanes menace North America from June through November every year, each as powerful as 10,000 nuclear bombs. These megastorms will likely become more intense as the planet continues to warm, yet we too often treat them as local disasters and TV spectacles, unaware of...

A 2020 National Book Award Long List Selection A Shelf Awareness Best Book of 2020 A Reading Group Choices Best Book of 2020 A Mighty Girl Best Book of 2020 In a stunning novel set in the 1980s, a girl with heavy secrets awakens...

The waterfront is where it all began for San Francisco. It's where untold numbers of adventurers and fortune-hunters first stepped foot upon the land that embodied possibility. It's where ships from around the world, carrying sea-faring gold seekers, maritime traders, free-spirited mavericks, and hopeful...

On the morning of June 25, 1876, a force of 700 men from the 7th US Calvary led by General George Armstrong Custer attacked an Indian encampment on the banks of the Little Big Horn River. Unbeknownst to Custer, he faced the combined might...

*Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist.*A Best Book of 2015 --NPR, BuzzFeed, Vanity Fair, Flavorwire, Largehearted Boy"Rhythmic, hallucinatory, yet vivid as crystal. Gerard has channeled her trials and tribulations into a work of heightened reality, one that sings to the lonely gravity of the...

Winner: 29th Annual IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award, Children's Picture Book (4-7 years) "It's been a long, busy day in the starry Milky Way. Sleepy, setting Sun calls out, 'Bedtime, everyone...'" Rhyming text and whimsical illustrations provide an enchanting read-aloud and a celebration of the...

One of the most prominent names in modern Russian literature.--Publishers WeeklyDay after day the Russian asylum-seekers sit across from the interpreter and Peter--the Swiss officers who guard the gates to paradise--and tell of the atrocities they've suffered, or that they've invented, or heard from...

For the first time in more than twenty years, legendary Maine artist and author Dahlov Ipcar has a new book. Dahlov Ipcar's Farmyard Alphabet is her first board book, pairing her fresh, original verses with timeless illustrations from eleven of her books, many of...

Ninety-nine men entered the cold, dark tunnels of the Consolidation Coal Company's No.9 Mine in Farmington, West Virginia, on November 20, 1968. Some were worried about the condition of the mine. It had too much coal dust, too much methane gas. They knew that...

New York Magazine's The Year in Books pickThe Millions' A Year in Reading pickSalon.com's Writers Choose Their Favorite Books The middle American coming-of-age has found new life in Ryan Van Meter's coming-out, made as strange as it is familiar by acknowledging the role played...

In A Sense of Place, journalist/travel writer Michael Shapiro goes on a pilgrimage to visit the world's great travel writers on their home turf to get their views on their careers, the writer's craft, and most importantly, why they chose to live where they...

Author: Chip Wood, Babs Freeman-LoftisPublisher: Center for Responsive Schools IncPublished: 07/11/2011Pages: 260Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.55lbsSize: 9.91h x 8.41w x 0.66dISBN: 9781892989437Award: Independent Publisher Book Awards - Bronze Medal WinnerThis title is not returnable

Adventure, Romance, Mad Science Agatha has finally made it to her ancestral castle, but so has a whole crowd of her friends -- and enemies Worse, the lives of two them are in danger, unless she can get the Castle's power source back up...