Award Winning Books

Worship is one of the most divisive Issues in churches today. Donald Hustad responds to the cataclysmic changes in worship styles over the last fifty years, examining the biblical elements of worship and offering a model for richer, God-honoring services. This provocative book is...

This genre-defying, Bram Stoker award-winning thriller follows a father desperate to salvage what's left of his family--even if it means a descent into violence. Buried in debt due to his young daughter's illness, his marriage at the brink, Mario reluctantly takes a job as...

In this eclectic anthology, more than 20 scientists, nature writers, poets, and Zen practitioners, attest to how paying attention to nature can be a healing antidote to the hectic and harrying pace of our lives. Throughout this provocative and uplifting book, writers describe their...

PULITZER PRIZE FINALISTONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARWINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE When feminist writer Susan Faludi learned that her seventy-six-year-old father--long estranged and living in Hungary--had undergone sex reassignment surgery, the revelation would launch her...

Learn the life-changing names of JesusNames matter. Did you know that more than 350 names and titles related to Jesus can be found in the Scripture? The vastness of His character and His work on the behalf of His people are revealed through His...

Author: Kai Bird, Martin J. SherwinPublisher: Knopf Publishing GroupPublished: 05/01/2005Pages: 736Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 2.45lbsSize: 9.36h x 6.60w x 1.65dISBN: 9780375412028Award: National Book Critics Circle Award - WinnerAward: Ambassador Book Awards - WinnerAward: Lukas Prize Project - FinalistReview Citation(s): Ingram Advance 05/01/2005 pg. 43Library Journal...

What do you get when you mix Tater Tots, ground beef, and cream of mushroom soup? Tater Tot Hot Dish, of course Retired Minneapolis Star Tribune "Taste" section editor--the delightful auntie every discerning foodie wants to call their own--Ann Burckhardt brings back the comfy...

Longlisted for the 2023 Booker Prize A taut, enthralling first novel about grief, sisterhood, and a young athlete's struggle to transcend herself. Eleven-year-old Gopi has been playing squash since she was old enough to hold a racket. When her mother dies, her father enlists...

In this wordless story that is both funny and sweet, a fox steals a hen away from her home. Bear, rabbit, and rooster give chase, but in a twist on the usual children's story, this fox is not a villain. Rather, he tenderly holds...

"T.L.C. is an adventure in word combinations and will entertain both kids and parents alike. At the end of a hard day, Mom is just looking for some T.L.C., Tender Loving Care. Watch while an imaginative little girl tries to give her mom T.L.C....

Success. Influence. Accolades. Winning. Legendary Football Coach Bobby Bowden has it all. As the all-time winningest coach in Division I football history, Coach Bowden has statues erected in his honor and national charities and awards named after him. Four generations of fans have heard...

Author: Andrea ArangoPublisher: Youth Large PrintPublished: 08/09/2023Binding Type: Library BindingWeight: 1.27lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.43w x 0.94dISBN: 9798885790871Audience: Ages 9-12Award: Golden Kite - Honor Book

BOOKER PRIZE NOMINEE - GMA BUZZ PICK - A dazzling story of modern Nigeria and two families caught in the riptides of wealth, power, romantic obsession, and political corruption from the celebrated author of Stay with Me, "in the lineage of great works by...

An uplifting account of the ambitious environmental experiment, Biosphere 2, and the extraordinary life of its creator, John Allen.The 2009 Winner of the Benjamin Franklin Award for Best Biography/Memoir, Me and the Biospheres is the definitive autobiography of John P. Allen, inventor of the...

Troy Hull has troubles. After the death of his parents, he left college to take up his family's traditional lobster-fi shing life. Now, thanks to poor fi shing, a misguided second mortgage, and the changing nature of his hometown, Troy fi nds himself faced...

With unprecedented access to Neil Gaiman's personal archives, author Hayley Campbell gives an insider's glimpse into the artistic inspirations and musings of one of the world's most visionary writers.Over the last twenty-five years, Neil Gaiman has mapped out a territory in the popular imagination...

Pura Belpré Illustrator Award, American Library Association (ALA) ALA/ALSC Notable Children's Books, American Library Association (ALA) Best Books, Kirkus Reviews Best Books of the Year, Center for the Study of Multicultural Children's Literature Skipping Stones Honor Award, Skipping Stones Magazine Bookstagang Best Books of...

Longlisted for the 2023 Booker PrizeIncluded in Granta's Best of Young British Novelists 2023 For readers of Shirley Jackson, Iain Reid, and Claire-Louise Bennett, a haunting, compressed masterwork from an extraordinary new voice in Canadian fiction. A young woman moves from the place of...

From the critically acclaimed author of Midnight at the Barclay Hotel comes a thrilling new middle grade mystery novel inspired by Alcatraz Prison. Tori, Marvin, and Noah would rather be anywhere else than on the seventh grade class field trip to Raven Island prison....

After a childhood cut short by war and the harsh strictures of Nazi Germany, sixteen-year-old Wilm is finally tasting freedom. In spite of the scars World War II has left on his hometown, Leipzig, and in spite of the oppressive new Soviet regime, Wilm...