Award Winning Books

The long-awaited fifth book in the immensely popular Women of Isis! Winner, GCLS Goldie Award! The year is 2095. Following a deadly plague, America has split into two civilizations: Elysium on the east coast and Freeland on the west, with a vast continent made...

In this first installment of a planned annual series of New Exploits of... novellas, authors put a new twist on the classic fairy tales Cinderella, The Little Mermaid, Snow White, and Beauty and the Beast. Fish Out of Water (Kallmaker); Nobody believed the curse...

Sabrina doesn't need love. She has fame as a brilliant violinist and unlimited options for female company. Then she meets Diana, who can free Sabrina from her memories of her first love Jorie - but Diana is deeply in love with Pam.Author: Karin KallmakerPublisher:...

When her rental car has a flat tyre, Liz Hardy stops at the Tillot farm for a car jack. Nora Tillot walks Liz out to the barn and, as they search for the jack, the two women begin a journey neither anticipated. As their...

Bilingual EditionTranslated from the French and with an introduction by John Ashbery "After I began translating Pierre Martory, that is, after I began to realize that his marvelous poetry would likely remain unknown unless I translated it and brought it to the attention of...

The much-anticipated anthology on Plato'sTimaeus--Plato's singular dialogue on the creation of the universe, the nature of the physical world, and the place of persons in the cosmos--examining all dimensions of one of the most important books in Western Civilization: its philosophy, cosmology, science, and...

This book is about a place, the Great Basin of western North America, and about the lifeways of Native American people who lived there during the past 13,000 years. The authors highlight the ingenious solutions people devised to sustain themselves in a difficult environment....

After all the bliss and generalized euphoria we might experience along our spiritual path, what's left are the karmic knots of conditioning that still need unraveling. Untying them is the work of spiritual warriors--that is, all of us. The seven factors of enlightenment are...

Appalachian Writers Association Book of the Year Award for FictionAuthor: Holly FarrisPublisher: Gival PressPublished: 09/01/2014Pages: 172Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.67lbsSize: 9.02h x 6.39w x 0.48dISBN: 9781928589389Award: Lambda Literary Awards - Finalist

In the same style as the highly successful "Why?, How?" provides kid-friendly explanations for nearly 100 everyday mysteries. Bright, playful illustrations complement the clear text and set the scenes for the common questions that kids ask.Author: Catherine RipleyPublisher: OwlkidsPublished: 05/15/2012Pages: 192Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.70lbsSize:...

RICHARD JOSEPH BARRON had sailed the world over, fought a war, and returned home to Newfoundland to raise three children with his beloved wife. His life had been full of adventure, and he shared his stories without malice or ego, whenever he was asked....

The universe shifts and changes: suddenly you understand, you get it, and are filled with wonder. That moment of understanding drives the greatest science-fiction stories and lies at the heart of Engineering Infinity. Whether it's coming up hard against the speed of light -...

In Let's Not Call It Consequence, Richard Deming's first full-length collection of poems, the poet brings together abstraction and precise images to explore the intensities and reversals of lyric thinking, that "infinitely stuttering thing." These poems searchingly engage the content and form of anger,...

This picture book is a small glimpse, from A to Z, of some of the sights and sounds of the Michif language and its speakers. The language of the Metis, Michif is a combination of French and Cree with a trace of other regional...

The national Finnish epic, 'The Kalevala' is one of the most important works of Finnish literature. It was originally compiled by Elias Lonnrot in the 19th century from ancient oral poetry. This English translation captures the magic and beauty for children and adults alike."Author:...

We live in a time of heightened environmental awareness, and this knowledge is creating a generation of children with feelings of eco-anxiety -- the world is doomed, isn't it? Maybe not. Not Your Typical Book about the Environment allays kids' fears by showing how...

The remarkable true story of a young girl named Edith and the French village of Moissac that helped her and many other children during the Holocaust. The town's mayor and citizens concealed the presence of hundreds of Jewish children who lived in a safe...

Forced to move every twelve days, what would happen to your life? 1927. Rembrandt is the only child in the tiny community of Three Farms. Soon his two aunts grow desperate for babies of their own. A man wearing a black top-coat and a...

The Manly Art of Seduction, How to Meet, Talk to, and Become Intimate with Anyone, by Perry Brass, author of How to Survive Your Own Gay Life, Angel Lust, Warlock, and Carnal Sacraments. Always waiting for someone else to make the first move? Traumatized...

Rooted in places like Watauga County, Goshen Creek, and Dismal Mountain, the poems in Ron Rash's fourth collection, Waking, electrify dry counties and tobacco fields until they sparkle with the rituals and traditions of Southerners in the stir of their lives. In his first...