Award Winning Books

From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, the life and thought of Rav Kook, a forceful figure in Israel's religious and political life "Moving, invaluable, and indispensable . . . As a biography, Rav Kook: Mystic in a Time of Revolution is literature in its...

You can't outrun the RegistrationImagine it's legal to commit one murder in your lifetime?if you Register the victim and accomplish the kill within fourteen days. So when Lynell Mize stands in line to Register the man who abused her as a child, she's shocked...

Everyone Knows What a Dragon Looks Like is Jay Williams' book about a dragon's mission to save a believer. Because of the road sweeper's belief in him, a dragon saves the city of Wu from the Wild Horsemen of the north. With vibrant illustrations...

For fans of Gillian Flynn, Caroline Cooney, and R.L. Stine comes Whispers from the Dead from four-time Edgar Allen Poe Young Adult Mystery Award winner Joan Lowery Nixon. Only Sarah senses the horror. The minute she steps through the doorway of her family's new...

Author: Brian MurphyPublisher: Insight EditionsPublished: 06/17/2008Pages: 234Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 5.40lbsSize: 13.08h x 9.80w x 1.45dISBN: 9781933784526Award: IndieFab awards - WinnerAward: Benjamin Franklin Award - WinnerAbout the AuthorBrian Murphy is the co-host of the popular Murph and Mac morning radio show on KNBR 680 in...

The battle continues. The struggle of good versus evil continues as Bobby Pendragon follows Saint Dane to the territory of Zadaa. Saint Dane's influence has fueled the fire of discontent between two warring tribes: the Rokador and the Batu. This is also the territory...

In the Nebraska Sandhills, nothing is more sacred than the bond of family and land-and nothing is more capable of causing deep wounds. In Pamela Carter Joern's riveting novel The Floor of the Sky, Toby Jenkins, an aging widow, is on the verge of...

An epic love story in the vein of Cold Mountain and The Great Circle, about a young reindeer herder and a minister's daughter in the nineteenth century Arctic Circle In 1851, at a remote village in the Scandinavian tundra, a Lutheran minister known as...

Since her James Beard Award-winning first book, Sunday Suppers at Lucques, Suzanne Goin and her Los Angeles empire of restaurants have blossomed and she has been lauded as one of the best chefs in the country. Now, she is bringing us the recipes from...

In this witty picture book by award-winning bestselling author Barnett ("Extra Yarn"), a string of birds on a telephone wire plays a game of telephone, with the usual mixed up results. Full color.Author: Mac BarnettPublisher: Chronicle BooksPublished: 09/09/2014Pages: 40Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 8.25h x...

Following up on her best selling Reaching Out without Dumbing Down, Marva Dawn offers biblically grounded, experience-based insights to help churches navigate beyond today's destructive worship wars and to stimulate renewal in the worship and life of congregations. The first major section of the...

America's first true European soccer champion and the captain of the U.S. men's national team relates his journey from Hershey, Pennsylvania, to the pinnacle of world soccer. Pulisic's rise from his childhood in Pennsylvania to captain of the U.S. national team in the coming...

Mammoths and mastodons roamed the earth for more than a million years, and then suddenly went extinct. What was everyday life like for these colossal cousins of the modern elephant? What did they eat? How did they fit into their Ice Age landscape? Why...

The Holocaust and the Nakba ("Catastrophe," Palestinian Israelis' name for the War of Independence) both marked Israel's founding, and these two world-changing events continue to form the generations who have followed. This book shows how these complex histories play out in the lives of...

LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2019A brilliant collection of fictions in the vein of Roald Dahl, Etgar Keret and Amy Hempel. These are stories of what the world looks like from a child's pure but sometimes vengeful or muddled perspective. These are...

"A 'quacker-jack' addition to a duck- or fox-themed storytime." --BCCB "Large word bubbles make reading easy...Don't be outfoxed. Get quacking and buy this book." --School Library Journal Quack, quack--woof? A quick-thinking duck keeps a fox on his toes in this witty romp from a...

Mamo and LaMamo are twin brothers living in the small Nigerian village of Keti, where their domineering father controls their lives. With high hopes the twins attempt to flee from home, but only LaMamo escapes successfully and is able to live their dream of...

From one of our most accomplished novelists, a mesmerizing story about a mother and daughter seeking refuge in the chaotic aftermath of the Civil War--and a brilliant portrait of family endurance against all odds "A tour de force." --Tayari Jones, author of An American...

From 1884 to 1939, the Great Porter Circus makes the unlikely choice to winter in an Indiana town called Lima, a place that feels as classic as Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio, and as wondrous as a first trip to the Big Top. In Lima...

The award-winning book that gives readers a method for handling the increasingly-outrageous behavior of narcissists and high-conflict people at work. Increasingly, high-conflict people--especially narcissists and bullies--are showing up in the workplace. It's All Your Fault at Work addresses ways of managing the behavior of...