Award Winning Books

Only eternal life is worthy of the name, writes Kilian McDonnell, O.S.B., in an elegy for a brother monk, and in his poetry one feels the working out of this life that begins with Adam and proceeds beyond our own span of time on...

Reluctant to be left alone again, each one of the cowed squatters refused point-blank to advance another inch toward the scene of unholy worship, so Inspector Legrasse and his nineteen colleagues plunged on unguided into black arcades of horror that none of them had...

As a boy growing up in eastern Oklahoma, Willard Stone spent much of his free time drawing. Admiring the work of Michelangelo and Leonardo Da Vinci, he dreamed of becoming a painter. When he was thirteen, a dynamite cap he was holding exploded and...

One of our country's first professional female athletes, Goldie Griffith didn't know how to ride when she got a job with a famous Wild West show, but she didn't let that stop her. She joined the small group of show cowgirls and learned to...

Flint offers a self-help manual for individuals who want to learn how to deal with emotional issues on their own. Professionals and laypeople will easily grasp both the theory and application of his Process Healing Method, a rapid and efficient means to problem-solve and...

Art Wolfe has been photographing nature and wildlife to wide acclaim for 25 years, but his most recent book takes a new approach. Recognizing the crucial interdependence between animal life and the environment, Wolfe focuses on this relationship. As he says, An animal ....

The Well-Fed Self-Publisher How to Turn One Book into a Full-Time Living Want to get published? Do it yourself-and make a living from it Here's the critically acclaimed, multiple-award-winning blueprint that built a full-time income from one book-newly updated and expanded Whether Newbie or...

The Kelee (pronounced "key-lee") is as old as humanity itself. It is an electrochemical field of energy that exists within us all. Everyone on the planet at some time or another has felt the energy of emotion well up from within the Kelee. The...

The fourth cookbook from the Junior League of Little Rock includes menus for special occasions with numerous wine pairings. Big Taste of Little Rock features full-color photography, slices of life, and insights into the places that make Little Rock one of the most livable,...

FINALIST 2008 Book of the Year Awards, Career Category, ForeWord Magazine A must read for anyone hoping to launch a nonprofit career! Nonprofits need talented, creative people with all types of skills and experiences. The Nonprofit Career Guide will help you find the best...

"Tea writes with a raw-hearted, wry but wide-eyed ebullience, rendering dyke bohemia with intense, gritty, glittering romanticism."--The San Francisco Bay GuardianBefore penning her contemporary classic Valencia, Tea wrote wonderfully honest narrative poems, which she self-published in small editions, now collected here for the first...

After sustaining a serious injury during an S/M scene, Po Childs checks herself into a psychiatric hospital where she recalls her life's most memorable incidents and unconventional relatives. After a poignant exploration of her family's curses and blessings, Po allows the healing process to...

The first collection by award-winning performance artist/poet Justin Chin. In Bite Hard, Chin explores his identity as an Asian, a gay man, an artist, and a lover. He rails against both his own life experiences and society's limitations and stereotypes with scathing humor, bare-bones...

Everybody has something to say. In an age when Twitter, blogs, and Tumblrs give millions the chance to write whatever is on their minds, it seems that we're finding plenty of avenues in which to share it. How, then, do we write what is...

When Sharon McCone receives the distressing news of her father's death, she immediately goes to San Diego to help her brother scatter their father's ashes and settle his affairs. But while going through his legal papers, Sharon uncovers a 1959 petition for the adoption...

In 1938 the discovery of a large, unusual fish turned the scientific community on end. Dubbed a 'living fossil', the discovery of a coelacanth in a South African river shocked scientists around the world who thought this type of fish had died out millions...

If you were asked how you know the Bible is true, do you have an answer? Over 29 issues addressed, including: Who made God; where did God come from? Has Noah's ark been found? Hasn't Bible text been changed over the years? Is Hell...

This groundbreaking book asks you to think outside the box as you consider new research by naval expert and mechanical engineer Tim Lovett. Presenting an innovative new study on Noah s ark, Lovett builds on traditional research into this historic event using the latest...

Of the many published accounts to come out of William Henry Jackson's long career, The Pioneer Photographer, first published in 1929, is widely accepted as Jackson's most trusted autobiography of his early pioneering days and his first eight years as the official photographer for...

With an afterword by LINDA M. MORRADiscovered in her papers in 2008, Jane Rule's autobiography is a rich and culturally significant document that follows the first twenty-one years of her life: the complexities of her relationships with family, friends and early lovers, and how...