Award Winning Books

This book is a four-generation family journey from repression and poverty in China to freedom and prosperity in the United States. Their lives overlap with many significant historical events taking place in China, such as the founding of Communist China in 1949, the Great...

Sofia is sick of looking exactly like her sisters. She wants to stand out And when school picture day comes around, Sofia thinks of the perfect way to make that happen.Author: Jacqueline JulesPublisher: Picture Window BooksPublished: 01/01/2015Pages: 32Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 10.00h x 5.50w...

Little Red Hot loves red hot chilli peppers. She eats them for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. When her grandmother catches a cold, Little Red makes her a hot pepper pie that will "knock those cold germs right out of her". But before Little Red...

Vicious interstellar conflict with an indestructible alien species. Bloody civil war over the last habitable zones of the cosmos. Political unrest, militaristic police forces, dire threats to the Solar System...Humanity is on the ropes, and after years of fighting a two-front war with losing...

2015 Kobo Emerging Writer's -- Winner, Fiction2015 Arthur Ellis Award -- Nominated, Best First Novel2012 Unhanged Arthur Award -- Winner, Best Unpublished First Crime NovelWhat do a necrophile, a missing boy, and an unsavoury P.I. have in common? Private detective Michael Drayton is about...

What's that in the grass? Help Inch and Roly solve an outdoor mystery in this sunshiny Level 1 Ready-to-Read story. Roly sees something in the grass, but she does not know what it is. Roly, Inch, Dragonfly, and Beetle try to identify it. Is...

When high school senior Gaby faked a pregnancy as a project to challenge stereotypes, she also changed her life. Discover this compelling memoir from an inspirational teenage activist, now a Lifetime movie. It started as a school project, but it turned into so much...

Feisty Lulu sets out to earn some cash in this illustrated chapter book from children's book legends Judith Viorst and Lane Smith. The stubbornly hilarious Lulu has decided it's time to buckle down and earn some cash. How else can she save up enough...

Arrrgh you ready for this jaunty collection of pirate poems and paintings? Ahoy mateys--it's time to hoist up the anchors and set sail with a pack of pesky pirates! In this hilarious collection of nineteen poems, readers will meet scoundrels, scalawags, and scurvy dogs...

Winner of the 2014 Will Eisner Award for Best Scholarly/Academic Work.Bringing together contributors from a wide-range of critical perspectives, Black Comics: Politics of Race and Representation is an analytic history of the diverse contributions of Black artists to the medium of comics. Covering comic...

"If Singletree's only florist didn't deliver her posies half-drunk, I might still be married to that floor-licking, scum-sucking, receptionist-nailing hack-accountant, Mike Terwilliger." Lacey Terwilliger's shock and humiliation over her husband's philandering prompt her to add some bonus material to Mike's company newsletter: stunning Technicolor...

From the award-winning champion of conscious eating and author of the bestselling Food Matters comes The Food Matters Cookbook, offering the most comprehensive and straightforward ideas yet for cooking easy, delicious foods that are as good for you as they are for the planet....

Sara Moulton may be a professional chef and television personality, but she's also a working mother who has to get dinner on the table for her husband and kids every night. In Sara Moulton's Everyday Family Dinners, she shares more than two hundred new...

You can't. God can. Life never lacks for improvement--in ourselves, in our relationships, in just about everything. But all our brave stabs at getting better, if they ever change anything, are incomplete at best, complete failures at worst. Sometimes much worse. Unless . ....

"Thorndike Pressª Large Print The Literacy Bridge."Author: Elizabeth AcevedoPublisher: Thorndike Press Large PrintPublished: 05/29/2019Pages: 380Binding Type: Library BindingWeight: 1.40lbsSize: 8.60h x 5.70w x 0.90dISBN: 9781432864583Audience: Young AdultAccelerated Reader:Reading Level: 5.2Point Value: 5Interest Level: Upper GradeQuiz #/Name: 195165 / Poet XAward: National Book Awards -...

When a mysterious figure appears in Three Pines one cold November day, Armand Gamache and the rest of the villagers are at first curious. Then wary. Through rain and sleet, the figure stands unmoving, staring ahead.From the moment its shadow falls over the village,...

The brilliant novel in the New York Times bestselling series by Louise Penny, one of the most acclaimed crime writers of our time.No outsiders are ever admitted to the monastery of Saint-Gilbert-Entre-les-Loups, hidden deep in the wilderness of Quebec, where two dozen cloistered monks...

The Holy Land has immense significance around the world. As the geographic heart and soul of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, millions visit the region each year. But since the fifth century BC, enthusiastic and curious people have needed a guide as they travel to...

In his beloved story The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien takes readers into a world unlike any other, yet so much seems familiar. As Bilbo journeys there and back again, glimpses of the spiritual are seen. The Christian World of The Hobbit does what no book...

Thomas B. Allen's expertise in military history and strategy is combined with Roger MacBride Allen's knowledge of technology to reveal a lesser-known yet fascinating side of the 16th president of the United States. Their authoritative narrative reveals Lincoln as our nation's first hands-on Commander-in-Chief,...