Award Winning Books

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...

Author: Marie-Monique RobinPublisher: New PressPublished: 06/01/2010Pages: 372Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.50lbsSize: 9.20h x 6.00w x 1.40dISBN: 9781595584267Award: Helen Bernstein Book Award - FinalistReview Citation(s): Kirkus Reviews 03/15/2010Reference and Research Bk News 08/01/2010 pg. 110

A grandmother's love is forever in Star People, a picture book about remembrance and tradition from S. D. Nelson, award-winning author and member of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe. "A young Lakota Indian girl narrates the story of how she and her little brother,...

The mathematics behind some of the world's most amazing card tricks Magical Mathematics reveals the secrets of fun-to-perform card tricks--and the profound mathematical ideas behind them--that will astound even the most accomplished magician. Persi Diaconis and Ron Graham provide easy, step-by-step instructions for each...

New York Times bestselling author Tim Green has written an unforgettable story--inspired by interviews with real-life cancer survivors and insider sports experience--showing a brave boy who learns what it truly means to be unstoppable."Absolutely heroic, and something every guy should read." (National Ambassador for...

Tedd Arnold's hilarious HI FLY GUY, originally published in 2005, is now available in paperback with foil on the cover Boy and fly meet and so begins a beautiful friendship. Er, and so begins a very funny friendship. Using hyperbole, puns, slapstick, and silly...

In Why Should I Walk? I Can Fly, kids will learn that they too, can do hard things in this growth mindset book for kids!Children learn about the characteristics of robins in this bird book for kids 3-8, when a bird leaves its mothers...