Award Winning Books

Celebrate the Festival of Freedom with the new Koren Pesah Mahzor. Rabbi Sacks, renowned translation and commentary clarify the prayers and explore the themes of the festival, from slavery to nationhood, and from exile to freedom.Author: Jonathan SacksPublisher: Koren PublishersPublished: 03/04/2013Pages: 1287Binding Type: HardcoverWeight:...

Premiado en Estados Unidos en los 2013 Moonbeam Children's Book Awards Es cierto que hay familias diferentes. La mía, por ejemplo. Ser distinto es genial! Yo soy un pollito y mi mamá es una gata. Y me encanta! Pocos comprenden que para mí tener...

Winner of the 2021 Edgar Award for Best First Novel In this "beautifully written, thoughtful page-turner" (Chloe Benjamin, New York Times bestselling author of The Immortalists) from "the next big voice in crime fiction" (Susan Scarf Merrell, author of Shirley), two young women become...

William C. Morris Award for YA Debut Novel Finalist, American Library Association (ALA) Amelia Bloomer Project - Feminist Task Force, American Library Association (ALA) Best Teen Books, Kirkus ReviewsRani's fully present as MC Sutra, "Call my solution a female revolution / retribution in the...

Chris Thompson thought his youthful dreams of being a secret agent had long ago been put to rest. He has a wife and child, a stable job with the US Customs Department, and aside from a minor incident involving outsourcing American apple pie production...

Numbering 4,000 select officers and men, Combat Team 370 was part of n Europe during World War II the 92nd Infantry Division, the only all-Negro division to fight in Europe during World War II. In Black Warriors: The Buffalo Soldiers of World War II,...

"Her story could be told in other people's things. The postcards and the photographs. A garnet ring and a needlepoint of the homestead. The aprons hanging from her kitchen door. Her soft, faded, dog-eared copy of Little House in the Big Woods. A closet...

In this long-awaited new installment of the legendary Kate Delafield mystery series, Kate is forced to confront her most formidable opponent: herself.Five months into mandated retirement from LAPD, her long term on-again off-again relationship with Aimee Grant off again, hopelessly dependent on the only...

The best-selling Spectrum series continues with this twenty-first lavishly produced annual. Challenging, controversial, educational, and irreverent, the award-winning Spectrum series reinforces both the importance and prevalence of fantastic art in today's culture. With exceptional images by extraordinary creators, this elegant full-color collection showcases an...

Award-winning author Paul Goble examines the construction, art, and significance of the tipi to the Plains Indians in his newest book, entitled Tipi: Home of the Nomadic Buffalo Hunters. Through a re-telling of the old-timer's stories, Goble shows how the tipi was more than...

Features selections of photographs and tribal stories recorded and preserved by the author in his 20-volume masterpiece, The North American Indian, offering the reader a bridge through time to the last generation of Indians from the Buffalo Days of pre-reservation life.Author: Gerald HausmanPublisher: World...

Matewan Before the Massacre provides the first comprehensive history of the area, beginning in the late eighteenth century continuing up to the Massacre.Author: Rebecca J. BaileyPublisher: West Virginia University PressPublished: 09/01/2008Pages: 224Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.10lbsSize: 9.00h x 5.90w x 1.00dISBN: 9781933202280Award: IndieFab awards -...

A bestseller that is the first artist-friendly screenwriting guide to success by an Oscar nominated Hollywood insider whose productions have grossed more than a billion dollars. Riding the Alligator is different from other screenwriting books in that it takes a non-dogmatic approach to finding...

Uncompromising, hypnotic and darkly humorous, Other Electricities charts a new and strange direction in American fiction. "Like Franklin's discovery of the electricity we do know, Monson's luminous, galvanized book represents a paradigm shift. The frequencies of the novel have been scrambled and redefined by...

Brother David Steindl-Rast takes us on a journey to discover the wisdom preserved in common sense sayings that have been passed down through generations. These timeless words reflect the shared values cherished by people all over the world."When you drink from a stream," says...

B.H. Fairchild's The Art of the Lathe is a collection of poems centering on the working-class world of the Midwest, the isolations of small-town life, and the possibilities and occasions of beauty and grace among the machine shops and oil fields of rural Kansas.Author:...

Poetry. Bilingual, translated from the Italian and with an introduction by Stephen Sartarelli. Poems written between 1900 and 1954, by a lyric poet who fashioned an art in which the life and the work mirror and sustain each other (from the Introduction), Let us...

Mo is a monster who just got a mustache. A big, black, beautiful mustache. Everybody likes Mo's mustache. Now Knot, Dot, Nib, Tutu, Bob, Bill, and Ben all have mustaches too. In fact, soon EVERYBODY has a mustache Why is everyone copying Mo? And...

Defiance, faith, and triumph in a heartrending novel about daughters and mothers On a miserable November day in 1967, two women disappear from a working-class town on the Fraser River. The community is thrown into panic, with talk of drifters and murderous husbands. But...

New York Times Bestseller"Julie Lythcott-Haims is a national treasure. . . . A must-read for every parent who senses that there is a healthier and saner way to raise our children." -Madeline Levine, author of the New York Times bestsellers The Price of Privilege...