Award Winning Books

For more than thirty years, Kevin Phillips' insight into American politics and economics has helped to make history as well as record it. His bestselling books, including The Emerging Republican Majority (1969) and The Politics of Rich and Poor (1990), have influenced presidential campaigns...

New York Times BestsellerBalzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress is an enchanting tale that captures the magic of reading and the wonder of romantic awakening. An immediate international bestseller, it tells the story of two hapless city boys exiled to a remote mountain village...

Tomi was born in Hawaii. His grandfather and parents were born in Japan, and came to America to escape poverty. World War II seems far away from Tomi and his friends, who are too busy playing ball on their eighth-grade team, the Rats. But...

In 1836, the murder of a young prostitute made headlines in New York City and around the country, inaugurating a sex-and-death sensationalism in news reporting that haunts us today. Patricia Cline Cohen goes behind these first lurid accounts to reconstruct the story of the...

New York Times Notable Book of 2015 Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of 2015 Finalist for the 2015 Kirkus Prize for Fiction Winner of a Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize Hailed by The New York Times for its "wildly ambitious...dazzling use of language" and "mesmerizing...

In this Caldecott Medal-winning picture book, the true story of Wilson Bentley and his singular fascination with snowflakes is rendered in rich prose and gorgeous artwork, perfect for the holidays, snow days, and everyday.Wilson Bentley was always fascinated by snow. In childhood and adulthood,...

To the residents of her small southern city, second-hand store owner Spyder Baxter is crazy. But her friends and followers know better. Something lives within Spder's brain. Something powerful. Something wonderful. Something dangerous. Pray it never escapes.Author: Caitlin R. KiernanPublisher: Penguin Publishing GroupPublished: 01/01/2008Pages:...

From the acclaimed author of Imagine Me Gone and the Pulitzer Prize finalist You Are Not A Stranger Here, a stunning, masterful portrait of our modern gilded age. At the heart of Union Atlantic lies a test of wills between a retired history teacher,...

"One of the new tiger cubs has escaped from the reserve "When a tiger cub escapes from a nature reserve near Neel's island village, the rangers and villagers hurry to find her before the cub's anxious mother follows suit and endangers them all. Mr....

Visionary essays and images from the crucible of the Mexican Revolution.El Paso/Juárez served as the tinderbox of the Mexican Revolution and the tumultuous years to follow. In essays and archival photographs, David Romo tells the surreal stories at the roots of the greatest Latin...

Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award - American Library Association (ALA)A nonfiction picture book about the history of Puerto Rico and the Puerto Rican parrot, which was brought back from the brink of extinction.Above the treetops of Puerto Rico flies a flock of parrots...

Pura Belpré Author Award Honor - American Library Association (ALA)A Pura Belpré Author Honor Award winner Una Pura Belpré Premio de Autor Infantil (Libro de Honor) Maximillian's summer vacation resembles one of his beloved lucha libre movies: grudge matches, fantastic villains and the Guardian...

She was engineered for combat--in a world that is running out of time. "Very exciting . . . very impressive debut."--Mike Resnick Once Jenny Casey was somebody's daughter. Once she was somebody's enemy. Now the former Canadian special forces warrior lives on the hellish...

A fascinating new work from an internationally renowned poetAcclaimed for her visionary, incantatory verse and her experimental ethos, Anne Waldman's newest book-length poem is an allegory of a radical spirit in lockdown, dominated by "Deciders" and "Imposters" who threaten the future of poetry and...

Stonewall Book Award Honor - American Library Association (ALA)Sometimes the border is a mirror, sometimes it's an escape, and sometimes it's just the bridge you cross to go home.All borders entangle those who live on either side, resulting in many a tale. Take, for...

This collection of poems by Betsy Sholl offers revelations by weaving together seemingly unrelated events.Author: Michael NavaPublisher: University of Wisconsin PressPublished: 04/10/2014Pages: 368Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.20lbsSize: 8.30h x 5.70w x 1.30dISBN: 9780299299101Award: Lambda Literary Awards - FinalistReview Citation(s): Booklist 03/01/2014 pg. 24About the AuthorMichael...

Infidelity inspired Erin Belieu's third book--an angry, fast-paced, and lyrical tour-de-forceAuthor: Erin BelieuPublisher: Copper Canyon PressPublished: 10/01/2006Pages: 80Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.25lbsSize: 7.40h x 5.40w x 0.20dISBN: 9781556592515Award: L.A. Times Book Prize - FinalistReview Citation(s): Publishers Weekly 08/28/2006 pg. 31Library Journal 09/01/2006 pg. 150New York...

A ground-breaking anthology that will bring fresh understanding to the American experience of poetry, beauty, the body, and disability.Beauty is a Verb is a ground-breaking anthology of disability poetry, essays on disability, and writings on the poetics of both. Crip Poetry. Disability Poetry. Poems...

"Deeply-felt emotions that will keep readers turning the pages." --Susan Elizabeth Phillips, New York Times bestselling author Mili Rathod hasn't seen her husband in twenty years--not since she was promised to him at the age of four. Yet marriage has allowed Mili a freedom...

Longlisted for the National Book Award A Pura Belpr? Young Adult Author Honor Book In this stirring young adult novel-in-verse from award-winning author Margarita Engle, love and conservation intertwine as two teens go on a "transformative journey celebrating the power of overcoming personal struggles...