Award Winning Books

Ellen Hart was named the 2017 MWA Grand Master, the most distinguished lifetime achievement award offered in the mystery community. DeAndre Moore came to Minneapolis from St. Louis with a purpose, but things aren't going as he planned. When it becomes clear he's in...

Kate DiCamillo conjures a haunting fable about trusting the unexpected and making the extraordinary come true.What if? Why not? Could it be? When a fortuneteller's tent appears in the market square of the city of Baltese, orphan Peter Augustus Duchene knows the questions that...

The "how-not-to" leadership book There is a paradox in leadership: we can only succeed by knowing failure. Every accomplished leader knows there are minefields of failures that need to be navigated in order to succeed. Wouldn't it be great to have the insights to...

This book, in both English and Spanish, will introduce readers to a unique region that has been hidden in plain sight for far too long. Of the four deserts found in North America, the Chihuahuan Desert is the largest. Located in both the United...

Larry Edwards unmasks the emotional trauma of violent loss as he ferrets out new facts to get at the truth of how and why his parents were killed. In 1977, Loren and Joanne Edwards left Puget Sound aboard their 53-foot sailboat Spellbound, destined for...

"Winner of the 2012 Louise Bogan Award for Artistic Merit and Excellence."Author: David GroffPublisher: Trio House PressPublished: 01/01/2013Pages: 90Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.32lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.22dISBN: 9780985529215Award: Lambda Literary Awards - Finalist

The Key Peninsula floats quietly through time in Puget Sound but exists more like an island in the hearts of her residents. Descendants of the first peoples and pioneers mingle with newcomers washed ashore from distant cities in these stories of small town life...

In Ticket to Hollywood, the second of 11 comic novels featuring cab driver Brendan Murphy, a.k.a "Murph," a young woman on the way to a showing of The Great Gatsby leaves her purse behind in Murph's Rocky Mountain Taxi Cab #127--and then goes missing....

A GOOD GOODBYE: Funeral Planning for Those Who Don't Plan to Die provides the information, inspiration and tools to plan and implement creative, meaningful and memorable end-of-life rituals for people and pets. Just as talking about sex won't make you pregnant, talking about funerals...

An award-winning book of channeled messages from Mary Magdalene. Mary illuminates the path of living from the heart, covering topics rarely addressed in the spiritual world - uniting the Feminine and Masculine, emotional mastery, healing body shame, and the sacredness of sexuality. Clarifying commentary...

Found All Around: A Show-and-Tell of Found Poetry is a unique how-to poetry book that not only includes creative poems, but also illustrates the origin and process of each poem. Perfect for hesitant or proficient poets, found poetry is a form of poetry where...

This award-winning guide puts one of the most knowledgable motorcycle tour guides in Alaska in your pocket Updated in 2014 and the recipient of a Benjamin Franklin Award in the travel category, this witty, fun book brings to life the best roads and off-beat...

The orphan Nicholas learns of three girls being sold into slavery by their father. Inspired by Jesus, Nicholas sneaks over at night and throws a bag of gold for dowries through their window. It lands in a stocking. One daughter is wed, but the...

Winner of: 2015 Parents' Choice Award, Picture Book This picture book takes children of all ages on a trolley-ride dream adventureFeaturing the extraordinary illustrations of Caldecott Honoree, Marvin Bileck, this book is a dream caught on paper with the sense of magic and wonder...

When Odessa Blackburn is first left in Mississippi to negotiate a new life with her ostracized mother Ella Mae, the strains of family propaganda, puberty, and life away from her siblings make for compounded heartache. Odessa and Ella Mae must negotiate toward patience and...

"A lovely book... This is a collection of poems that help give meaning to our grief and remind us that we are not alone."--Minneapolis Star Tribune"This anthology is sure to find its way to bookshelves in churches and funeral homes. It's a perfect collection...

An intimate portrayal of one of history's most important and obscure figures, the Buddha, this chronicle reveals him not as a mystic, but a warm and engaged human being that was very much the product of his turbulent times. This biographical account traces the...

Growing up in a working class town on Long Island, Anthony D'Aries watched his father rebuild muscle cars, groove to rock 'n' roll, slice meat at the local deli, and bring roadkill back to life in his taxidermy workshop. Anthony, the impressionable younger son,...

Through astonishing images and the surprisingly touching words of its subjects, Sex Machines: Photographs and Interviews explores the new sex machine underground in America and the homespun inventors and users who propel it.After contacting an active but intensely private Internet community of sex machine...

"In Malambo . . . the Rimac proudly rubs elbows with the freedmen, the cimarrons, and smuggled slaves. . . It runs united to the other subterranean springs underneath Blanket Street, Weavers Lane, and under Jewish Street . . . and Swordmaker's Lanes." The...