Award Winning Books
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Swimming in the MoonA new historical novel from Pamela Schoenewaldt, the USA Today bestselling author of When We Were Strangers.Italy, 1905. Fourteen-year-old Lucia and her young mother, Teresa, are servants in a magnificent villa on the Bay of Naples, where Teresa soothes their unhappy mistress with song....
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Simone Weil: Attention to the RealHow can we articulate the intimate demand of the spiritual life and the struggle for solidarity? These two issues have often been treated separately; in Simone Weil: Attention to the Real, however, Robert Chenavier explores the work of Simone Weil (1909-1943) and demonstrates how...
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Mere AnarchyHere, in his first collection since his three hilarious classics Getting Even, Without Feathers, and Side Effects, Woody Allen has managed to write a book that not only answers the most profound questions of human existence but is also the perfect size to place...
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Calling Dr. LauraThe acclaimed debut graphic memoir by the author of Fetch: "a beautiful and innovative portrait" of young adulthood and confronting family secrets (NPR).When Nicole Georges was two years old, her mother told her that her father was dead. When she was twenty-three, a psychic...
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Burma: Rivers of FlavorIACP Award Winner Naomi Duguid's heralded cookbooks have always transcended the category to become "something larger and more important" (Los Angeles Times). Each in its own way is "a breakthrough book . . . a major contribution" (The New York Times). And as Burma...
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Behind the Curtain"A terrific yarn, full of smart detection and hip good humor" (Stephen King)Behind the Curtain is the second book in the Echo Falls mystery series by bestselling crime novelist Peter Abrahams, following the acclaimed Down the Rabbit Hole. Perfect for middle school readers looking...
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Yang the Third and Her Impossible FamilyYingmai Yang has changed her name to Mary now that she's learning how to "be American". It's hard since her family sticks to their Chinese customs. Still, Mary wants to be best friends with popular Holly Hanson and sees her chance when she adopts...
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The Hidden Lives of Congregations: Discerning Church DynamicsFaced with crisis, lack of direction, or just plain "stuckness," many congregations and their leaders are content to deal only with surface issues and symptoms--only to discover that the same problems keep recurring, often in different, and more serious, ways. In The Hidden Lives...
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ShardsIsmet Prcic's brilliant, provocative, and propulsively energetic debut is about a young Bosnian, also named Ismet Prcic, who has fled his war-torn homeland and is now struggling to reconcile his past with his present life in California. He is advised that in order to...
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Reinventing GiantsA compelling profile of an emerging Chinese competitor Chinese firms are reinventing their business models, their corporate cultures, and themselves, becoming global competitors who increasingly offer knowledge rather than cheap labour in their quest to join the ranks of the "world's best" companies. This...
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LinksFrom the internationally acclaimed author of North of Dawn, Links is a novel that will stand as a classic of modern world literature. Jeebleh is returning to Mogadiscio, Somalia, for the first time in twenty years. But this is not a nostalgia trip--his last...
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Hagar Before the Occupation/Hagar After the OccupationThis critically-acclaimed translation of Iraqi author Amal al-Jubouri contextualizes America's occupation of Iraq through the Qur'an's story of Hagar. Complementary pairs of poems portray life before and after the war. This work simultaneously mirrors Hagar's desperate running between Safa and Marwah, as we pace...
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Bold Spirit: Helga Estby's Forgotten Walk Across Victorian AmericaHelga Estby left Spokane Washington and walked to New York City on a $10,000 challenge. This remarkable story of hardship and suffering was long lost and only recently discovered by the author.Author: Linda Lawrence HuntPublisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupPublished: 01/11/2005Pages: 336Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.75lbsSize:...
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True ConfessionsFrom New York Times bestselling author Rachel Gibson comes True Confessions, one of her early fan favorites. When California girl Hope Spencer arrives in Gospel, Idaho, she gets more than she bargained for--including a long, lean sheriff by the name of Dylan Taber. And...
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The Essential Hits of Shorty Bon Bon: PoemsA suite of poems about a percussionist in 1970 Spanish Harlem music circles, from the author of The Crazy Bunch A National Book Critics Circle 2014 Finalist for Poetry Through dream song and elegy, alternate takes and tempos, prizewinning poet Willie Perdomo's third collection...
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The CanopyDeep in the lush and dangerous rain forests of Peru, Alexandra Pace and her team search determinedly for a cure for deadly diseases. One strain of the disease has already begun the process of ravaging Alexandra's own mind and body. Finding a cure is...
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Speaking of DyingThe church does not cope very well with dying. Instead of using its own resources to mount a positive end-of-life ministry for the terminally ill, it outsources care to secular models, providers, and services. A terminal diagnosis typically triggers denial of impending death and...
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Out of the Northwoods: The Many Lives of Paul BunyanEvery American has heard of the lumberjack hero Paul Bunyan and his big blue ox. For 100 years his exploits filled cartoons, magazines, short stories, and children's books, and his name advertised everything from pancake breakfasts to construction supplies. By 1950 Bunyan was a...
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Nose, Legs, Body! Know Wine Like the Back of Your HandBenjamin Franklin Digital Award Silver Seal of Excellence by IBPA, the Independent Book Publishers Association, in recognition of distinction and innovation in electronic book publishing. (2013) Wine should enhance life, not complicate it. But you stress at reading a wine list, right? And it...
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Growing Great Employees: Turning Ordinary People into Extraordinary PerformersHow to develop an all-star staff, even if you don't know the first thing about managing "Your employees are, like you and me, flawed and hopeful human beings whose success is at least partly dependent on your skill as a manager, human beings who...
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