Award Winning Books

JUNIOR BENDER UNTANGLES ONE OF THE WEIRDEST MYSTERIES IN TINSELTOWN LA burglar Junior Bender has (unfortunately) developed a reputation as a competent private investigator for crooks. The unfortunate part about this is that regardless of whether he solves the crime or not, someone dangerous...

Actress Lorelei Crane and Detective Homer McBride team up again to investigate murder at Northwest Florida's famed Wakulla Springs. In this book, following Murder on the Prairie, Lorelei is at risk for her life. It's all about the waterAuthor: M. D. AbramsPublisher: Booklocker.comPublished: 10/03/2006Pages:...

Author: Rudyard GriffithsPublisher: Douglas & McIntyrePublished: 02/15/2009Pages: 216Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.90lbsSize: 8.60h x 5.70w x 0.80dISBN: 9781553651246Award: Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing - FinalistReview Citation(s): Quill & Quire 05/01/2009 pg. 35Choice 02/01/2010

Early in the last century a boy, Ivy Flowers, swam across Tar Bay to Hoopers Island to see a girl. In time, Shirley Flowers was born of the union that began with that swim. During the same period, Captain Augustus Elsworth Phillips, Jr. was...

What happens in Oasis, stays in Oasis.Lisette's father killed the King. His execution leaves Lisette alone, disgraced, and without the magic he intended to pass on to her. In Oasis, that's a problem. Glutted with enchanted performers, Oasis is a sin city where courtiers...

Winner of ForeWord Magazine's Architecture Book of the Year Award Exquisite examples of traditional dwellings are scattered throughout modern-day China. Chinese Houses focuses on 20 well-preserved traditional Chinese homes, presenting examples from a range of rural and metropolitan areas throughout China. The photographs of...

Worship is one of the most divisive Issues in churches today. Donald Hustad responds to the cataclysmic changes in worship styles over the last fifty years, examining the biblical elements of worship and offering a model for richer, God-honoring services. This provocative book is...

This genre-defying, Bram Stoker award-winning thriller follows a father desperate to salvage what's left of his family--even if it means a descent into violence. Buried in debt due to his young daughter's illness, his marriage at the brink, Mario reluctantly takes a job as...

In this eclectic anthology, more than 20 scientists, nature writers, poets, and Zen practitioners, attest to how paying attention to nature can be a healing antidote to the hectic and harrying pace of our lives. Throughout this provocative and uplifting book, writers describe their...

PULITZER PRIZE FINALISTONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARWINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE When feminist writer Susan Faludi learned that her seventy-six-year-old father--long estranged and living in Hungary--had undergone sex reassignment surgery, the revelation would launch her...

Learn the life-changing names of JesusNames matter. Did you know that more than 350 names and titles related to Jesus can be found in the Scripture? The vastness of His character and His work on the behalf of His people are revealed through His...

Author: Kai Bird, Martin J. SherwinPublisher: Knopf Publishing GroupPublished: 05/01/2005Pages: 736Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 2.45lbsSize: 9.36h x 6.60w x 1.65dISBN: 9780375412028Award: National Book Critics Circle Award - WinnerAward: Ambassador Book Awards - WinnerAward: Lukas Prize Project - FinalistReview Citation(s): Ingram Advance 05/01/2005 pg. 43Library Journal...

What do you get when you mix Tater Tots, ground beef, and cream of mushroom soup? Tater Tot Hot Dish, of course Retired Minneapolis Star Tribune "Taste" section editor--the delightful auntie every discerning foodie wants to call their own--Ann Burckhardt brings back the comfy...

Longlisted for the 2023 Booker Prize A taut, enthralling first novel about grief, sisterhood, and a young athlete's struggle to transcend herself. Eleven-year-old Gopi has been playing squash since she was old enough to hold a racket. When her mother dies, her father enlists...

In this wordless story that is both funny and sweet, a fox steals a hen away from her home. Bear, rabbit, and rooster give chase, but in a twist on the usual children's story, this fox is not a villain. Rather, he tenderly holds...

"T.L.C. is an adventure in word combinations and will entertain both kids and parents alike. At the end of a hard day, Mom is just looking for some T.L.C., Tender Loving Care. Watch while an imaginative little girl tries to give her mom T.L.C....

Success. Influence. Accolades. Winning. Legendary Football Coach Bobby Bowden has it all. As the all-time winningest coach in Division I football history, Coach Bowden has statues erected in his honor and national charities and awards named after him. Four generations of fans have heard...

Author: Andrea ArangoPublisher: Youth Large PrintPublished: 08/09/2023Binding Type: Library BindingWeight: 1.27lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.43w x 0.94dISBN: 9798885790871Audience: Ages 9-12Award: Golden Kite - Honor Book

BOOKER PRIZE NOMINEE - GMA BUZZ PICK - A dazzling story of modern Nigeria and two families caught in the riptides of wealth, power, romantic obsession, and political corruption from the celebrated author of Stay with Me, "in the lineage of great works by...

An uplifting account of the ambitious environmental experiment, Biosphere 2, and the extraordinary life of its creator, John Allen.The 2009 Winner of the Benjamin Franklin Award for Best Biography/Memoir, Me and the Biospheres is the definitive autobiography of John P. Allen, inventor of the...