Award Winning Books

A witty and irreverent look at the collision of two dangerous subjects -- live television and sex. "Sue, I have a question about vaginal odour." The young woman on the phone sounds earnest. On the television screen, the sixty-something host leans forward with the...

"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...

When 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...

This sophisticated and playful nonfiction picture book looks at US presidents! See America's presidents as never before--made of objects! Using everything from blue jeans to boxing gloves, Hanoch Piven "builds" the characters of eighteen of our nation's leaders. Revealing anecdotes accompany the creative collages...

Another powerful story in the Logan Family Saga and companion to Mildred D. Taylor's Newbery Award-winning Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry. A day of conflict and tragedy. Jeremy Simms watches from the porch of the general store as the weekly bus from Jackson...

Jolene's family was just Momma and Grandpa until big, loud Leroy Redfield started taking Momma dancing. Jolene refuses to call him anything but "Mister." Without a name, he isn't a real person to her. But then Jolene learns that Mister wants to marry Momma....

Rachael Hanel's name was inscribed on a gravestone when she was eleven years old. Yet this wasn't at all unusual in her world: her father was a gravedigger in the small Minnesota town of Waseca, and death was her family's business. Her parents were...

One of the most influential storytellers in Western literature, French poet Chr tien de Troyes helped to shape the ever-fascinating legend of King Arthur and the Round Table. Of Chr tien's five surviving romantic Arthurian poems, the last and longest is Perceval, an unfinished...

A smaller version of this updated and expanded book was published by The Smithsonian Institution in 1976 with the title, "Locks from Iran: Pre-Islamic to Twentieth Century." In 2019 and 2020 the author edited his original book adding new text and a great number...

Winner: 2017 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Awards, Gold, Multicultural 2017 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Awards, Silver, Art & Photography Oaxaca Stories in Cloth includes more than 175 sensitive, intimate, full-color portraits of traditional people of the Oaxacan hinterlands who continue to wrap themselves in the clothing...

Urgent It's happened again David Wisniewski has completed another daring raid into the vault of parent rules. Within these forbidden pages lurk the real reasons why grown-ups want you to brush your teeth, eat your breakfast, and clean under your bed. The truth has...

Now in paperback: The epic story of how, amid two World Wars, history's greatest physicists redefined reality--and ignited the atomic age "A new, exciting approach to the literature about this momentous era."--The Wall Street Journal There may never be another era of science like...

Inspired by the author's own childhood, this stunning novel in verse, sequel to the award-winning #1 bestseller Inside Out and Back Again, picks up two years after Hà and her family arrive in Alabama as refugees from the Viêt Nam War.Hà and her family...

Jesus' death and resurrection are undeniably central to the Christian faith. But how, precisely, is their significance to be understood? Concerned to reinvigorate the church's teaching on the cross, the resurrection, and salvation - the atonement - Peter Schmiechen here invites readers to rediscover...

From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, the life and thought of Rav Kook, a forceful figure in Israel's religious and political life "Moving, invaluable, and indispensable . . . As a biography, Rav Kook: Mystic in a Time of Revolution is literature in its...

You can't outrun the RegistrationImagine it's legal to commit one murder in your lifetime?if you Register the victim and accomplish the kill within fourteen days. So when Lynell Mize stands in line to Register the man who abused her as a child, she's shocked...

Everyone Knows What a Dragon Looks Like is Jay Williams' book about a dragon's mission to save a believer. Because of the road sweeper's belief in him, a dragon saves the city of Wu from the Wild Horsemen of the north. With vibrant illustrations...

For fans of Gillian Flynn, Caroline Cooney, and R.L. Stine comes Whispers from the Dead from four-time Edgar Allen Poe Young Adult Mystery Award winner Joan Lowery Nixon. Only Sarah senses the horror. The minute she steps through the doorway of her family's new...

Author: Brian MurphyPublisher: Insight EditionsPublished: 06/17/2008Pages: 234Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 5.40lbsSize: 13.08h x 9.80w x 1.45dISBN: 9781933784526Award: IndieFab awards - WinnerAward: Benjamin Franklin Award - WinnerAbout the AuthorBrian Murphy is the co-host of the popular Murph and Mac morning radio show on KNBR 680 in...

The battle continues. The struggle of good versus evil continues as Bobby Pendragon follows Saint Dane to the territory of Zadaa. Saint Dane's influence has fueled the fire of discontent between two warring tribes: the Rokador and the Batu. This is also the territory...