The author of the Walter Award-winning Man Made Monsters and the Caldecott Medal-winning Chooch******Helped delivers a thriller that reads like Holes for a new generation—a murder mystery interwoven with Cherokee history and culture.The hills of northeastern Oklahoma. 1968. Cynthia and her family have moved onto their grandfather's ranch ...

Michael L. Printz Award WinnerAmerican Indian Youth Literature Award WinnerFeaturing the voices of both new and acclaimed Indigenous writers and edited by bestselling Muscogee author Cynthia Leitich Smith, this collection of interconnected stories serves up laughter, love, Native pride, and the world’s best frybread.The road to Sandy June's Legendary Frybread Drive-In slips through every rez and alongside every urban N...

In the exotic, modern country of ANIMAIA, Arno Steele and his school friends battle to save their animal-friendly world from those determined to destroy it. Jungles, beaches, wild animals, dinosaurs, and a very mysterious school with equally odd teachers come together in this young adult fantasy of 104,000 words. Mild sci-fi and paranormal elements, and some challenging themes. Suitable for 12 years to adult.This story is complete and stands alone.Arno Steele can communicate...

Twelve-year-old Mary and her Cherokee family are forced out of their home in Georgia by U.S. soldiers in May 1838. From the beginning of the forced move, Mary and her family are separated from her father. Facing horrors such as internment, violence, disease, and harsh weather, Mary perseveres and helps keep her family and friends together until they can reach the new Cherokee nation in Indian Territory. Featuring nonfiction support material, a glossary, and reader response questions, this ...

A working time machine, a fortune in wartime gold, and a soldier caught between two centuries: Roger Johnson's high-velocity adventure races from a Civil War battlefield to a driverless future.Union artillery captain Daniel Hilton is guarding a fortune in wartime gold when a machine out of nowhere tears him from a Civil War battlefield and hurls him a century and a half into the future. There he becomes the captive of Jessica Rothman—a ruthless young tech heiress w...

All aboard for an exciting adventure!Ethan loves trains-big trains, small trains, fast trains, and old trains. So when Mom tells him they are going to the train museum, Ethan can hardly contain his excitement.At the museum, Ethan discovers a giant black steam engine and imagines himself as a real engineer. He climbs aboard, explores passenger cars, discovers a shiny red caboose, and sees a mail train where letters were once sorted while the train was moving.But the ...

Award-winning author Andrea L. Rogers presents a fresh new vampire romantasy where a girl who was only ever supposed to be a pawn for the rich and immortal, learns a blood-bound, centuries-old secret… and dares to change her destiny.For centuries, the vampires and the Renfeild family have had a deal. The Refield's offer up their first-born daughters and the vampires keep their family in wealth and power. This closed system allows the vampires to move through a world that might othe...

African American Political Thought offers an unprecedented philosophical history of thinkers from the African American community and African diaspora who have addressed the central issues of political life: democracy, race, violence, liberation, solidarity, and mass political action. Melvin L. Rogers and Jack Turner have brought together leading scholars to reflect on individual intellectuals from the past four centuries, developing their list with an expansive approach to politic...

In volume I of this series, we get to know our heroes, Gloria, Melissa, and Augustine, who work for a pharmaceutical company called MINERVA, which is staffed by an array of colourful characters with whom we have all worked (whether we like it or not) over the years. Despite their encounters with these awful people, like the office bore, the letch, and the bully, together they begin to uncover information that the company has tried to hide, and start to unpick MINERVA’s dirty secret. This b...

The Shape of Participation is a work of constructive theology addressed to theologians, seminarians, and thoughtful pastors. Owens engages and deepens recent popular discussions of church practices by approaching practices from the church Fathers' understanding of the church's participation in God. Through a wide-ranging engagement with theologians, both ancient and contemporary--including Cyril of Alexandria, Maximus the Confessor, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and Herbert McCabe--Owens argues tha...

Eugene Peterson may be the most influential theological writer in the church today. Yet because most of his career has not been in academia there is not much critical engagement with his work. Here some of the finest scholar-pastors we have describe the way Peterson has inspired and infuriated on the way to (hopefully) more faithful pastorates.

Thoughtful exploration of midlife spirituality through the prism of nature walksRoger Owens, facing a “dark night of the soul” as he turned forty and entered midlife, was encouraged by his spiritual director to think of it instead as a “threshold of discovery.” Rather than go on a grand adventure like walking the Appalachian Trail or the Camino de Santiago, he decided to mark his fortieth year by taking forty walks in a nearby nature preserve. With patience and att...