Award Winning Books

Broken hearts, scattered dreams, postpunk politics, and postmodern cut-up collages spiral and flow in award-winning poet Daphne Gottlieb's latest collection of startling new works that explore survival after personal or communal disasters and the renewal that follows. Whether she's writing about unanticipated outcomes ("After...

"In Hillman's world, the surer you become about who you are, the more vulnerable you get."--The San Francisco Bay Guardian"Hillman's writing is sexy because it's smart and refuses to simplify things."--Fabula MagazineHillman's utterly unabashed memoir...showcases both the personal, embodied realities of intersex, and the...

There are three things that Amy loves most in the world: Jo, her wife of 15 years; spending time with her closest friends; and her cabin in the woods. When she invites her friends to join her and Jo in their mountain hideaway, she...

Love has a way of derailing the best of plans. Wynter Thompson, divorced with a young child, struggles to balance the demands of her surgical residency with the responsibilities of motherhood--and between the two, discovers there is little time left for anything else. She...

Winner of the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers Contest, Mariano's Crossing will transport readers to the early days of settlement in the Colorado Rockies. Mariano Medina, former mountain man and friend to the likes of Kit Carson, has changed with the times and made a...

This title is the second in our series of annual collections of the best travel writing. Many of these stories are original while some have appeared in other Travelers' Tales titles or elsewhere. But the common thread connecting them is fresh, lively storytelling and...

Shy, intellectual, and living in rural Oregon, Triinu Hoffman just doesn't fit in. She does her best to hide behind her dyed hair and black wardrobe, but it's hard to ignore the bullying of Pip Weston and Principal Pinn. It's even harder to ignore...

Winner of the Gival Press Novel Award.: 2012 Independent Publisher Book Award-Bronze Medal for Best Regional Fiction: Mid-WestAuthor: Peter LeachPublisher: Gival PressPublished: 09/01/2014Pages: 238Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.70dISBN: 9781928589617Award: Independent Publisher Book Awards - Bronze Medal Winner

Rosemary McCarney, President and CEO of Plan International Canada, has followed up the her popular picture book Every Day is Malala Day with a book for middle grade readers, also inspired by her international development work. Working with Plan, Rosemary helped craft its Because...

Children ask a lot of questions. Spiritual questions can become the best conversations.This beautiful book helps children and parents embark, together, on an imaginative journey in search of God. Bright and evocative photographs inspire children to connect the story to their own lives, and...

From modest beginnings to the 1963 Hugo Award for Best Fanzine, Xero was a fascinating and controversial convergence of writers, artists, and a burgeoning fan community. Collected here from Pat & Dick Lupoff's legendary fanzine are an array of excellent essays, memoirs, and ongoing...

A virtuoso performance of postmodern daring, Mr. Dalloway offers a rich augmentation of Virginia Woolf's classic novel.It is June 29, 1927 Richard and Clarissa Dalloway's thirtieth anniversary and also a day of historical significance. Richard has arranged a surprise party for his wife. As...

Multiple Sclerosis: The History of a Disease won a 2005 ForeWord Book of the Year Silver Medal! The basic facts about multiple sclerosis are well known: it is the most common neurologic disease of young adults, usually beginning with episodic attacks of neurologic symptoms,...

Alicia is a smart, confident and gorgeous prostitute in Havana. She is not a street-walker. Rather, she displays her wares on bicycle, seducing men through the irresistible pull of her fine derrière. John King, her new client, is a Canadian businessman with a striking...

This Lambda Literary Award nominee is a book of fierce, original poetry by one of San Francisco's leading poets and performers. Educated without being didactic, lyrical without being doggerel, passionate without being over the top and sexy without being prurient, Why Things Burn is...

A Q&A guide for mother-daughter conversations about female health and sexuality, this book targets both daughters and mothers. Start Talking contains more than 113 questions girls ask including questions about periods, sex, relationships, guys, eating, exercise, body development, along with similar questions verbalized by...

The post-impressionist Pierre Bonnard painted, among other things, dozens of paintings of windows. Starting there, this extended poem--part art criticism, part history--considers the phenomenon of glass, revealing the strength and fragility of our age in the minimalist style that has won Cole Swensen such...

Hilarious story told without words, only assorted grunts and noises. How a competitive relationship between a crocodile and a monkey turns into a supportive one.Author: Airlie AndersonPublisher: Child's Play InternationalPublished: 04/01/2013Pages: 32Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.10lbsSize: 9.00h x 11.50w x 0.40dISBN: 9781846436031Audience: Ages 4-8Award: Independent...

Autistic Planet is a magical world where all trains run exactly to time, where people working in offices have rocking chairs, and where all kids dream of winning the chess World Cup. Join us on a journey to this alternative reality, where being different...

The Polymers is a bold new work from one of our most ambitious poetic minds. Structured as an imaginary science project, the varied pieces in this collection investigate the intersection of poetry and chemicals, specifically plastics, attempting to understand their essential role in culture....