Award Winning Books

For every budding scientist who would like to think beyond the smoking volcano, diorama, and colored graphs of the typical school science fair. I is for Idea explores the development of bicycles, zippers, toilets, computers, and many other inventions that we now take for...

Kelly's backyard is home to deer, cranes and an owl named Jackson. Now she shares her family's wildlife sanctuary with young readers.Author: Robbyn Smith Van FrankenhuyzenPublisher: Sleeping Bear PressPublished: 04/01/2006Pages: 32Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.11lbsSize: 11.28h x 9.34w x 0.47dISBN: 9781585362684Audience: Ages 4-8Accelerated Reader:Reading Level:...

No One Has to Die Alone offers meaningful insights and practical tools to rise above fear and make a difference in how we face the transition of death, dying, and bereavement.Caring for a terminally ill loved one can be the single biggest challenge of...

Raising Children Who Think for Themselves offers a new approach to parenting that has the power to reverse the trend of external direction in our children and help parents bring up empathetic, self-confident, moral, independent thinkers. Children who are externally directed make decisions based...

A master wildlife tracker's life is thrown into upheaval when she is tapped to hunt not the animals of America's Southwestern terrain, but her own troubled brother. Willa Robbins is a master tracker working to reintroduce the Mexican wolf, North America's most endangered mammal,...

The Girls of Grace conferences have inspired thousands of young women across the globe. Now, Make It Real, based on the 2005-2006 Girls of Grace conference theme, inspires each and every girl to see herself through God's eyes and be the person He wAuthor:...

Are Christians merely forgiven, or do they possess the righteousness of Christ? Recently the time-honored understanding of the doctrine of justification has come under attack. Many question how-or if-we receive the full righteousness of Christ. Martin Luther said that if we understand justification "we...

Everyone loves chocolate, right? But how many people actually know where chocolate comes from? How it's made? Or that monkeys do their part to help this delicious sweet exist? This delectable dessert comes from cocoa beans, which grow on cocoa trees in tropical rain...

In November 1885, impressionist painter Claude Monet vacationed in tretat, France, where he spent his days outside, painting scenes of the seaside village. One morning he rose early and carried all of his supplies and half-finished paintings out to the cliffs and rocky beach,...

Celebrated Jewish leaders from a broad spectrum of contemporary thought re-envision Jewish life, institutions and the future in the shadow of the 20th century, casting a vision for the next stage in the development of the ancient Covenant.Author: Edward FeinsteinPublisher: Jewish Lights PublishingPublished: 10/01/2008Pages:...

A critical and challenging look at reinventing the synagogue, as the centerpiece of a refashioned Jewish community. "America is undergoing a spiritual revolution: only the fourth religious awakening in its history. I plead, therefore, for an equally spiritual synagogue, knowing that any North American...

In a world often hurt by violence, this retold biblical story gives children and adults a starting point for discussing anger, its effects on those around us and how to express our emotions in positive ways.Author: Sandy Eisenberg SassoPublisher: Jewish Lights PublishingPublished: 10/01/2001Pages: 40Binding...

Don't toss those old sneakers into the garbage Fill them with potting soil and transform them into clever, eye-catching planters. This fun activity book features 40 inspiring projects that will have you turning faded blue jeans, worn-out sweaters, and grocery bags into beautiful and...

Tired of clocking in and losing out? Want to pursue creative, fulfilling work on your own time and also make a living in the process? My So-Called Freelance Life is a how-to guidebook for women who want to avoid the daily grind and turn...

Es Cuba is a poignant and passionate travel memoir about falling in love with a country and one of its compatriots. Aschkenas never strays from her acute awareness that there is no way to separate her foreignness (intensified by U.S.-Cuba relations) from the complex...

Barbara Sjoholm arrived in London in the winter of 1970 at the age of twenty. Like countless young Americans in that tumultuous time, she wanted to leave a country at war and explore Europe; a small inheritance from her grandmother gave her the opportunity....

Sliding into the Rabbit Hole... Would She Ever Return? On the surface, Alice Laxton seems no different from any other college girl: bright, inquisitive, excited about the life ahead of her. But for years, a genetic time bomb has been ticking away. Because of...

In the late 1960s, NASA proposed hardware and mission parameters for an extended Apollo program that never materialized. Decades later, the existence of ice beds at the lunar south pole was discovered by NASA's space probe Clementine and confirmed by the lunar satellite Lunar...

In 1975, the life of Cornell graduate student T.G. Shass is forever changed when he finds himself in possession of a mysterious and ancient artifact. Unable to remember how he acquired it and powerless to rid himself of it, T.G. is soon shaken not...

This work provides an in-depth look at the working process for creating digitally altered photography, printing it onto cloth, and making wall art quilts.- Alter photos and use them to create beautiful, original works of fabric art - 11 exercises show you how -...