Award Winning Books

Winner of the Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award, But a Storm is Blowing From Paradise emerges at a time when science is discovering more and more about the mystical particles that make up our universe and our bodies. From tidal forces and prairie burns to...

Fighting on a secret front of World War II Paul and Marie's bucolic French country town is almost untouched by the ravages of WWII, but the siblings still live in the shadow of war. Their father is a Prisoner of War, kept hostage by...

All she wants is for her husband to fall in love with her. While Lilly Lapp has loved handsome, headstrong Jacob for years, she wouldn't compete with Sarah King, the woman Jacob was determined to marry. But when Sarah marries another, Jacob spontaneously agrees...

"There are few things I love more than curling up with a Jenny B. Jones cast of characters. Save the Date was no exception." --Kristin Billerbeck, author of The Theory of Happily Ever AfterThe only thing scarier than living on the edge is stepping...

Madison Lansford and Shannon Fletcher met when they were ten years old. Madison--daughter of wealthy parents and Shannon, daughter of their live-in maid and cook--became fast friends, yet both knew their place in life. There was never a doubt that they would become lovers...

A unique approach to using numerology to identify life challenges and karmic lessons to heal emotional and physical problems - Provides a clear method for identifying challenges specific to your birthday and name - Details 185 health conditions and how to address the causes...

As seen on the cover of the New York Times Book Review, where it was described as "gloriously unsettling... evoking Toni Morrison, Haruki Murakami, Angela Carter, Edgar Allan Poe, Gabriel Garc a M rquez, Chris Abani and even Emily Dickinson," and already one of...

You're the main character. Your only goal: SURVIVE!It's supposed to be a fun camping trip with your family. But when your sister and you get caught in a terrible thunderstorm, your relaxing vacation becomes an endless struggle to stay alive! Do you have what...

Author: Christie WatsonPublisher: Other Press (NY)Published: 05/10/2011Pages: 448Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.10lbsSize: 8.20h x 5.40w x 1.40dISBN: 9781590514665Accelerated Reader:Reading Level: 4.2Point Value: 16Interest Level: Upper GradeQuiz #/Name: 150727 / Tiny Sunbirds, Far AwayAward: Costa Book Awards - WinnerReview Citation(s): Booklist 04/01/2011 pg. 29Publishers Weekly 03/28/2011Library...

Winner of the 2011 Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel PrizeLamb traces the self-discovery of David Lamb, a narcissistic middle aged man with a tendency toward dishonesty, in the weeks following the disintegration of his marriage and the death of his father. Hoping to regain some faith...

In an effort to make sense of the deaths in quick succession of several loved ones, Kathleen Dean Moore turned to the comfort of the wild, making a series of solitary excursions into ancient forests, wild rivers, remote deserts, and windswept islands to learn...

The Radio Theatre production of Amazing Grace provides a prequel view to events featured in Amazing Grace, the movie. It offers listeners a more in-depth and personal story of each of the main characters--William Wilberforce (an evangelical Christian politician), John Newton (author of "Amazing...

Christianity Today Book Award WinnerThe digital revolution has ushered in a series of sexual revolutions, all contributing to a perfect storm for modern relationships. Online dating, social media, internet pornography, and the phenomenon of the smartphone generation have created an avalanche of change with...

Eight-year-old Zulviya, her sister and her cousin, her mother and her grandmother... they all belong to the loom. For generations the women of Zulviya's family have earned their living by weaving rugs by hand. The rugs are valuable and the women are proud of...

Delly Porter has a happy life. She needs new shoes, but doesn't really mind because she loves the soft, silky feel of the dirt road beneath her bare feet. She's a good artist, too, even if she has to make her own art supplies....

Holly's family lives a simple life in northern Michigan, enjoying the bounty of the earth and very much in step with the rhythm of the changing seasons. But times are hard and a cold winter is coming. Without a warm coat, Holly might not...

The first translation of Julio Cort zar's genre-jumping meta-comic/novella, featuring Cort zar himself, Susan Sontag, and Octavio Paz in a race to prevent international bibliocide.Octavio Paz: If you love art, do something, Fantomas Fantomas: I will, you can depend on it.First published in Spanish...

The story of Salish Indian Walking Coyote and his efforts to save the vanishing buffalo herds from extinction in the United States during the 1870s and 1880s.Hetcha hey Hetcha ho Hetcha hey yeh ho Walking Coyote gently lifted the frightened buffalo calf and sang...

An "immaculately written, trenchantly honest, hugely compelling" novel from the Giller Prize-winning author of Stranger (Globe and Mail). When Morris Schutt, a prominent newspaper columnist, surveys his life over the past year, he sees disaster everywhere. His son has just been killed in Afghanistan,...

New York Public Library's "100 Best Children's Books of the Past 100 Years" Jane Addams Honor Book Maine Library Association Lupine Honor Book ALA Amelia Bloomer Project Award Book Bank Street Best Children's Books List (Starred) Association of Children's Booksellers Best Book The critically...