Award Winning Books
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The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Nonfiction: Advice and Essential Exercises from Respected Writers, Editors, and TeachersUnmatched in its focus on a concise and popular emerging genre, THE ROSE METAL PRESS FIELD GUIDE TO WRITING FLASH NONFICTION features 26 eminent writers, editors, and teachers offering expert analysis, focused exercises, and helpful examples of what make the brief essay form such...
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Moby Dick Lib/EMelville's epic tale of one man versus a great white whale will delight Melville devotees as well as those who have yet to sail on this adventure in this mesmerizing new recording read by Jonathan Epstein. The mountain whose whale-like shape first gave Melville...
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Mario and the Hole in the Sky: How a Chemist Saved Our PlanetThe true story of how a scientist saved the planet from environmental disaster--now in paperback! Mexican American Mario Molina was a modern-day hero who helped solve the ozone crisis of the 1980s. Growing up in Mexico City, Mario was a curious boy who studied...
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Longing for Home: Volume 1Twenty-six-year-old Katie Macauley has placed all her hope in Hope Springs, a small town in the 1870 Wyoming Territory. But if she wants to return home to Ireland to make amends with her estranged family, she'll need to convince the influential Joseph Archer to...
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Life-Size Zoo: From Tiny Rodents to Gigantic Elephants, an Actual Size Animal EncyclopediaAuthor: Teruyuki KomiyaPublisher: Seven Footer PressPublished: 04/07/2009Pages: 48Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.55lbsSize: 14.60h x 10.20w x 0.50dISBN: 9781934734209Audience: Ages 4-8Accelerated Reader:Reading Level: 3.7Point Value: 0.5Interest Level: Lower GradeQuiz #/Name: 137036 / Life-Size Zoo: From Tiny Rodents to Gigantic Elephants, an Actual-Sized Animal EncyclopediaAward: Parents Choice...
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How Not to Kill Yourself: A Portrait of the Suicidal MindFINALIST FOR THE KIRKUS PRIZE FOR NONFICTION - A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK - An intimate, insightful, at times even humorous blend of memoir and philosophy that examines why the thought of death is so compulsive for some while demonstrating that there's always another solution--from...
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Gospel of the Lord: How the Early Church Wrote the Story of JesusBalanced, comprehensive survey of the critical questions involved in studying the four Gospels In this book, through a distinctive evangelical and critical approach, Michael Bird explores the historical development of the four canonical Gospels. He shows how the memories and faith of the earliest...
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Frontier Metropolis: Picturing Early Detroit, 1701-1838Despite its inland location, Detroit's origins as a French outpost make it older than many other cities of the eastern United States. Frontier Metropolis illustrates and describes all known images of Detroit in the pre-photographic era to provide a nearly complete visual chronology made...
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Freedom DuesRecipient of the 2021 Gold IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award, Historical Fiction category. 1729: Blair Eakins is a fifteen-year-old Ulster-Scot living in Ireland under the crushing weight of famine, poverty, and prejudice against his people. In search of a better future for himself and his...
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American Caliph: The True Story of a Muslim Mystic, a Hollywood Epic, and the 1977 Siege of Washington, DCOne of Publishers Weekly's Best Nonfiction Books of 2022 A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceThe riveting true story of America's first homegrown Muslim terror attack, the 1977 Hanafi siege of Washington, DC. On March 9, 1977, Washington, DC, came under attack. Seven...
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TripasWith Tripas, Brandon Som follows up his award-winning debut with a book of poems built out of a multicultural, multigenerational childhood home, in which he celebrates his Chicana grandmother, who worked nights on the assembly line at Motorola, and his Chinese American father and...
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The Warrior MaidenShe is expected to marry, cook, and have children--and instead she's sneaking off to war. Can she manage to stay alive, save her mother, and keep the handsome son of a duke from discovering her secret? The Warrior Maiden is a reimagining of the...
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The Actual & Truthful Adventures of Becky ThatcherBecky Thatcher has her side of the story to tell--and it's a whopper--in this creative spin on Mark Twain's beloved The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, complete with illustrations, that Publishers Weekly calls "a rewarding read on many levels" (starred review). Tom Sawyer's and Huckleberry...
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Ivan the TerrierIvan loves a good story. Like that one about the three bears or those three gruff billy goats. Where else can a dog find such playmates action fun... or a cookie? Ivan's own good story lands him just where he loves to be. In...
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Echo & LightningEcho & Lightning, by Duluth Poet Laureate Sheila Packa, uses the metaphor of bird migration and myth to examine ways we relinquish the self. The poems examine the physical ecstatic and devastating experience of Leda, Eurydice, Mary Magdelene, Mary mother of Jesus, Lot's Wife,...
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Eight Nights of FlirtingA Sydney Taylor Honor Book A sixteen-year-old girl is on a mission to find the perfect boyfriend this Hanukkah, but love might not go according to plan, in this charming winter romcom from the author of The Summer of Lost Letters. Shira Barbanel has...
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Doomed Legacy: Volume 9A sinister private detective agency, a shady shell corporation, and a dead friend-Rick Cahill is on his most dangerous mission yet Private investigator Rick Cahill has been running from his past and chasing the truth his whole life. But his past is relentless-and so...
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iGods: How Technology Shapes Our Spiritual and Social LivesToday the world is literally at our fingertips. We can call, text, email, or post our status to friends and family on the go. We can carry countless games, music, and apps in our pocket. Yet it's easy to feel overwhelmed by access to...
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Dorko the Magnificent"A young would-be magician gets lessons in both stagecraft and life from a crusty elder" (Kirkus Reviews) inNew York Times bestselling author Andrea Beaty's Dorko the Magnificent. Robbie Darko is a magician. An old-school, pull-a-rabbit-out-of-your-hat-style magician. Robbie loves magic and he's good at it--sort...
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The Truth about Truman SchoolWhen Zebby and Amr create the website thetruthabouttruman.com, they want it to be honest. They want it to be about the real Truman Middle School, to say things that the school newspaper would never say, and to give everyone a chance to say what...
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