Award Winning Books

How to successfully navigate and prevent conflict From the publishers of the popular Strength Deployment Inventory, Have a Nice Conflict follows one man's fight to rescue his sinking career. Sales manager John Doyle would consider his career a success--he's his company's top revenue driver,...

In Practicing to Walk Like a Heron multiple-award-winning Michigan poet Jack Ridl shares lines of well-earned wisdom in the face of a constantly changing world. The familiar comforts of life-a warm fire in winter, a lush garden in summer-become the settings for transcendent and...

Author: Eric Jay DolinPublisher: HighBridge AudioPublished: 09/08/2020Binding Type: CDISBN: 9781665116428Award: Kirkus Prize - FinalistAbout the AuthorDolin, Eric Jay: - Eric Jay Dolin is the author of several books of history, including Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America, which was chosen as one of...

If you long for revival in the church or seek personal renewal, God will meet you on your knees. The Holy Spirit of God invites you to enter a place of breathtaking holiness and awesome glory by experiencing the Watch of the Lord. There...

For more than forty years, Katie Couric has been an iconic presence in the media world. In her brutally honest, hilarious, heartbreaking memoir, she reveals what was going on behind the scenes of her sometimes tumultuous personal and professional life - a story she's...

How long has it been since you've said that about your work? What are you waiting for? Your organization to care? Your boss to go? Your colleague to stop being a jerk? Someone to hand you an exciting new assignment? More money? This book...

Living to 100? "Old age is hot right now...they don't know what to do with us " says Isabel Ferguson, one of the women featured in Amy Gorman's "Aging Artfully, 12 Profiles of Visual & Performing Women Artists Aged 85-105." Based on interviews of...

Anne-Marie Oomen uses a wealth of vivid language and personal details to bring scenes from her childhood on a family farm to life in House of Fields. Yet the focus of this book shifts away from the daily activities of the farm, which Oomen...

As the Klondike gold rush peaked in spring 1898, adventurers and gamblers rubbed shoulders with town-builders and gold-panners in Skagway, Alaska. The flow of riches lured confidence men, too-among them Jefferson Randolph "Soapy" Smith (1860-98), who with an entourage of "bunco-men" conned and robbed...

The year is 1989 and Mark Doty's life has reached a state of enviable equilibrium. His reputation as a poet of formidable talent is growing, he enjoys his work as a college professor and, perhaps most importantly, he is deeply in love with his...

Author: Vigdis HjorthPublisher: Verso FictionPublished: 09/05/2023Pages: 352Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 7.72h x 5.04w x 1.02dISBN: 9781804291849Award: Man Booker International Prize - NomineeAbout the AuthorVigdis Hjorth is the author of over a dozen prize-winning and bestselling novels. Will and Testament sold 150,000 copies in Norway...

In this historical fantasy novel, praised as a "rich, omen-filled journey that powerfully shows love and its limits*" and "propulsive, wise, and heartbreaking,"** Ziva will do anything to save her twin brother Pesah from his illness--even facing the Angel of Death himself. From Sydney...

Winner of a Michigan State History Award! Gold Medal Winner in the Independent Publisher Book Awards!Gold Medal Winner in the Midwest Independent Publisher Awards!Silver Medal Winner in the Foreword Indie Awards!Finalist in the Next Generation Indie Book Awards! "There is no equal justice for...

Butch Queens Up in Pumps examines Ballroom culture, in which inner-city LGBT individuals dress, dance, and vogue to compete for prizes and trophies. Participants are affiliated with a house, an alternative family structure typically named after haute couture designers and providing support to this...

From Newbery Honor-winning author Mary Stoltz comes a poignant and realistic story of brother pitted against brother during the Civil War. This chapter book is an excellent choice to share during homeschooling, in particular for children ages 6 to 8 who are ready to...

In her small town, dubbed "Dullsville," sixteen-year-old Raven -- a vampire-crazed goth-girl -- is an outcast. But not for long...The intriguing and rumored-to-be haunted mansion on top of Benson Hill has stood vacant and boarded-up for years. That is, until its mysteriously strange new...

Against long odds, the Anishinaabeg resisted removal, retaining thousands of acres of their homeland in what is now Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. Their success rested partly on their roles as sellers of natural resources and buyers of trade goods, which made them key players...

The hard times faced by steelworkers and miners in America's rust belt inform these poetic oral histories.Author: Mark NowakPublisher: Coffee House PressPublished: 10/01/2008Pages: 166Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.59lbsSize: 9.02h x 6.34w x 0.49dISBN: 9781566891639Award: Minnesota Book Award - FinalistReview Citation(s): Publishers Weekly 09/20/2004 pg. 59New...

A Schneider Family Book Award Honor Book for Teens"Raw and unflinching . . . A must-read!" --Marieke Nijkamp, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of This Is Where It Ends "[It] cuts to the heart of our bogus ideas of beauty." -Scott Westerfeld, #1 New...

Now, for the first time, the best of the Locus Awards for short fiction are gathered in one volume. Spanning the absolute finest in science fiction and fantasy short fiction for the last thirty years, this anthology is an indispensable guide to speculative fiction...