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Kikuyu Women, the Mau Mau Rebellion, and Social Change in Kenya
Kikuyu Women, the Mau Mau Rebellion, and Social Change in Kenya Cora Ann Presley 9781580730471 Nonfiction Black Classic Press Black Classic Press Based on rare oral data from women participants in the...
Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain’s Gulag in Kenya
Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain’s Gulag in Kenya Caroline Elkins 9780805080018 Nonfiction Holt McDougal Macmillan Publishers Imperial Reckoning is the winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize...
Whispers From Mother Earth; Celebrate the Skin You’re In
Whispers From Mother Earth; Celebrate the Skin You’re In Maryam Khalifah 9781963981049 Fiction Fair Share Publishing Fair Share Publishing Whispers From Mother Earth; Celebrate the Skin You’re In feat...
Black Earth Wisdom: Soulful Conversations with Black Environmentalists
Black Earth Wisdom: Soulful Conversations with Black Environmentalists Leah Penniman 9780063160903 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins A soulful collection of illuminating essays and interviews that expl...
Understanding the Purpose and Power of Prayer: How to Call Heaven to Earth
Understanding the Purpose and Power of Prayer: How to Call Heaven to Earth Myles Munroe 9781629119175 Nonfiction Whitaker House Whitaker House Learn to Pray—And Change the World // "You’re in Our Pra...
God’s Big Idea Tradepaper: Reclaiming Gods Original Purpose for Your Life
God’s Big Idea Tradepaper: Reclaiming Gods Original Purpose for Your Life Myles Munroe 9781459600386 Nonfiction ReadHowYouWant ReadHowYouWant There has never been a better time to be alive! God’s plan...
Black Earth Wisdom: Soulful Conversations with Black Environmentalists
Black Earth Wisdom: Soulful Conversations with Black Environmentalists Leah Penniman 9780063160897 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins A soulful collection of illuminating essays and interviews that expl...
The Way of the Earth: Poems
The Way of the Earth: Poems Matthew Shenoda 9780810145665 Poetry TriQuarterly Books Northwestern University Press A lyrical collection examines the quotidian beauty that surrounds us despite deep loss...
Everyday Mojo Songs of Earth: New and Selected Poems, 2001-2021
Everyday Mojo Songs of Earth: New and Selected Poems, 2001-2021 Yusef Komunyakaa 9780374604851 Poetry Farrar, Straus and Giroux Macmillan Publishers New and selected poems from the great Pulitzer Priz...
The Purpose and Power of the Holy Spirit: God’s Government on Earth
The Purpose and Power of the Holy Spirit: God’s Government on Earth Myles Munroe 9781641231350 Nonfiction Whitaker House Whitaker House Is Heaven on Earth Really Possible? When we struggle with defe...
The Lazarus Parable: A Revelation For The 21St Century
The Lazarus Parable: A Revelation For The 21St Century John Bonner 9780595693115 Nonfiction iUniverse Author Solutions For those who live there, Earth is both paradise and prison, a place for people t...
The Haitian Trilogy: Plays: Henri Christophe, Drums And Colours, And The Haytian Earth
The Haitian Trilogy: Plays: Henri Christophe, Drums And Colours, And The Haytian Earth Derek Walcott 9780374528133 Nonfiction Farrar, Straus and Giroux Macmillan Publishers Plays by the Nobel-laureate...
The Darker Face of the Earth: Completely Revised Second Edition
The Darker Face of the Earth: Completely Revised Second Edition Rita Dove 9781885266194 Poetry Story Line Press Red Hen Press The Darker Face of the Earth, the first full-length play by Pulitzer Prize...
This Bitter Earth
This Bitter Earth Thumper Book Review There are times in which a sequel does not reach or surpass the freshness and vitality of its predecessor. Times in which the original should be allowed to sta...
The Brightest Day: A Juneteenth Historical Romance Anthology
The Brightest Day: A Juneteenth Historical Romance Anthology Kianna Alexander, Alyssa Cole, Lena Hart, and Piper Huguley 9781519616470 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC
Here on Earth: Chronicles of Pain, Survival, Hope, and Love
Here on Earth: Chronicles of Pain, Survival, Hope, and Love Nkem DenChukwu 9781733141628 Nonfiction Eleviv Publishing Group Eleviv Publishing Group It is true we cannot control what happens to us or a...
Angels Among Us, Earth Angels
Angels Among Us, Earth Angels Ida Green 9781881165200 Nonfiction People Skills International People Skills International Angels Among Us, Earth Angels This book is written to acknowledge all the Angel...
The Blue, Beautiful World
The Blue, Beautiful World Karen Lord 9780593598450 Fiction Del Rey Del Rey As first contact transforms Earth, a team of gifted visionaries races to create a new future in this wondrous science fiction...
Saving Earth: Climate Change and the Fight for Our Future
Saving Earth: Climate Change and the Fight for Our Future Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich 9780374313050 Nonfiction Farrar, Straus and Giroux Books for Younger Readers Macmillan Publishers A timely and i...
One Shoe Marching Towards Heaven
One Shoe Marching Towards Heaven Bro. Yao 9781569026915 Poetry Africa World Press Africa World Press & The Red Sea Press The title, One Shoe Marching Towards Heaven, is a koan. Koans function as teach...
The Principle and Power of Kingdom Citizenship: Keys to Experiencing Heaven on Earth
The Principle and Power of Kingdom Citizenship: Keys to Experiencing Heaven on Earth Myles Munroe 9780768408683 Nonfiction Destiny Image Destiny Image Discover How to Live as a Citizen of God’s Unshak...
The Broken Earth Trilogy: The Fifth Season, the Obelisk Gate, the Stone Sky
The Broken Earth Trilogy: The Fifth Season, the Obelisk Gate, the Stone Sky N. K. Jemisin 9780316527194 Fiction Orbit Books Hachette Book Group This collectable boxed set edition includes all three bo...
Reclaiming God’s Original Purpose for Your Life: God’s Big Idea Expanded Edition
Reclaiming God’s Original Purpose for Your Life: God’s Big Idea Expanded Edition Myles Munroe 9780768441369 Nonfiction Destiny Image Destiny Image Why are you here? Have you ever wondered why you are...
Hydrology: The Study of Water (True Books: Earth Science (Paperback))
Hydrology: The Study of Water (True Books: Earth Science (Paperback)) Christine Taylor Butler 9780531282717 Nonfiction Scholastic Inc Scholastic Inc. Water is one of the most important substances on E...
Replenishing The Earth: Spiritual Values For Healing Ourselves And The World
Replenishing The Earth: Spiritual Values For Healing Ourselves And The World Wangari Maathai 9780307591142 Nonfiction Doubleday Religion Penguin Random House An impassioned call to heal the wounds of ...
The Wretched of the Earth
The Wretched of the Earth Frantz Fanon 9780802141323 Fiction Grove Press Grove Atlantic, Inc. A distinguished psychiatrist from Martinique who took part in the Algerian Nationalist Movement, Frantz Fa...
Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth: New Poems
Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth: New Poems Alice Walker 9780812971057 Poetry Random House Trade Paperbacks Penguin Random House In this exquisite book, Alice Walker’s first new collection ...
This Bitter Earth
This Bitter Earth Bernice L. McFadden 9780452283817 Fiction Plume Penguin Random House In This Bitter Earth, Sugar Lacey is on her way out of Bigelow, Arkansas, where she’d come to break with the ...
Frantz Fanon
Frantz Fanon 0000000120981385 A critically acclaimed biography of Fanon was published in 2024: The Rebel’s Clinic Born in 1925, Frantz Fanon was a pivotal figure in the African independence stru...
The River Between
The River Between Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o 9780435905484 Fiction Heinemann Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Christian missionaries attempt to outlaw the female circumcision ritual and in the process create a terrib...
I Will Marry When I Want (African Writers)
I Will Marry When I Want (African Writers) Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o and Ngugi Wa Mirii 9780435902469 Fiction Heinemann Houghton Mifflin Harcourt This is the renowned play which was developed with Kikuyu acto...
Black Photographers Annual, Volume 4
Black Photographers Annual, Volume 4 Joe Crawford 9780913564073 Nonfiction Another View, Inc. Another View, Inc. Beuford Smith, who cofounded The Black Photographers Annual with Joe Crawford, has mad...
Black Photographers Annual, Volume 3
Black Photographers Annual, Volume 3 Joe Crawford 9780913564042 Nonfiction Black Photographers Annual, Inc. Black Photographers Annual, Inc. “…a study of means, and styles, of confrontation — past, pr...
Black Photographers Annual, Volume 2
Black Photographers Annual, Volume 2 Joe Crawford 9780913564035 Nonfiction Black Photographers Annual, Inc. Black Photographers Annual, Inc. Beuford Smith, who cofounded The Black Photographers Annua...
The Black Photographers Annual 1973
The Black Photographers Annual 1973 Joe Crawford 9780913564011 Nonfiction Black Photographers Annual, Inc. Black Photographers Annual, Inc. Beuford Smith, who cofounded The Black Photographers Annual...
Facing Mount Kenya
Facing Mount Kenya Jomo Kenyatta 9780394702100 Nonfiction Vintage Penguin Random House Facing Mount Kenya is a central document of the highest distinction in anthropological literature, an invaluable ...
Jomo Kenyatta
Jomo Kenyatta 0000000121015234 Mzee Jomo Kenyatta, born in 1897, was a prominent leader of African nationalism. He studied anthropology at the London School of Economics. As the first native-born Pre...
Ten Steps to Promote Diversity in Children’s Literature
Ten Steps to Promote Diversity in Children’s Literature Troy Johnson Article Ten Steps to Promote Diversity in Children’s Literature by Wade Hudson This Diversity Books Pledge was developed after a...
The Oxford Handbook of Children’s Rights Law
The Oxford Handbook of Children’s Rights Law Jonathan Todres and Shani M. King 9780190097608 Nonfiction Oxford University Press, USA Oxford University Press Children’s rights law is a relatively young...
New List! Best-Selling Children’s Books
New List! Best-Selling Children’s Books Troy Johnson Article We've Just Added an Additional Category to Our Popular Best Sellers List—Children’s Books! Over the years, there has always been a gre...
Kinder Spirits: Children Helping Children in the Fight Against Hunger
Kinder Spirits: Children Helping Children in the Fight Against Hunger Vicki L. Hubbard 9780595135424 Nonfiction iUniverse Author Solutions Kinder Spirits is a childrens book catered for children of al...
Jayden’s Secret Ingredient
Jayden’s Secret Ingredient Mélina Mangal 9781631986024 Fiction Free Spirit Publishing Teacher Created Materials Jayden discovers the secret ingredient to trying something new. Jayden loves the outd...
Google Should Pay for Content We Produce Which They Use to Generate Revenue
Google Should Pay for Content We Produce Which They Use to Generate Revenue Troy Johnson Article When you ask Google Home’s Smart Assistant to “Name some African American websites,” Google pulls the...
Gift of Revelation’s Author Explains his Penchant for Spirituality and how he Overcame Challenges to Produce a Popular Line of Religious Fiction
Gift of Revelation’s Author Explains his Penchant for Spirituality and how he Overcame Challenges to Produce a Popular Line of Religious Fiction Robert Fleming Article Q. Where have you been after ...
Two Speeches by Malcolm X
Two Speeches by Malcolm X Malcolm X 9780873485913 Nonfiction Pathfinder Press Pathfinder Press "It’s impossible for a chicken to produce a duck egg…. The system in this country cannot produce freedom ...
Hidden Figures
Hidden Figures Margot Lee Shetterly 9780062363596 Nonfiction William Morrow HarperCollins Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the S...
Just Visiting This Planet: Merlin Answers More Questions About Everything Under The Sun, Moon, And Stars
Just Visiting This Planet: Merlin Answers More Questions About Everything Under The Sun, Moon, And Stars Neil deGrasse Tyson 9780385488372 Nonfiction Main Street Books Main Street Books In a companion...
Naomi V. Dunsen-White
Naomi V. Dunsen-White NONE Naomi V. Dunsen-White is a children’s book author and editor focused on promoting diversity and representation in children's literature. She utilizes her background as a fo...
Planet Earth
Planet Earth Christine Taylor Butler 9780531253564 Nonfiction Children’s Book Press Lee & Low Books Presents information about Earth, including its position, physical characteristics, rotation, and t...
Earth
Earth Christine Taylor Butler 9780531147603 Nonfiction Children’s Book Press Lee & Low Books Describes Earth, our planet and the third one from the sun in our solar system, and its geographical featu...
Earth Magic
Earth Magic Dionne Brand 9781553377061 Nonfiction Kids Can Press Corus Entertainment Inc Inspired by her childhood in Trinidad, acclaimed poet and writer Dionne Brand conjures the world of the Caribbe...
Brittney Brackett
Brittney Brackett NONE Brittney Brackett is a multifaceted professional with over 17 years of experience in acting, voice talent, and authoring children's books. She is the Operations Manager at b dy...
Pat Cummings
Pat Cummings 0000000067231736 Pat Cummings is an award-winning author and illustrator, known for creating over 30 children's books. She's worked on TV shows like Gullah Gullah Island and Cover to Cov...
Vegucation Over Medication: The Myths, Lies, And Truths About Modern Foods And Medicines
Vegucation Over Medication: The Myths, Lies, And Truths About Modern Foods And Medicines Bobby Price 9780999612408 Nonfiction Wise Old Owl Publishing Wise Old Owl Publishing At the height of medical t...
Cicely Tyson
Cicely Tyson Renée Watson 9780063219991 Nonfiction Amistad Books for Young Readers HarperCollins From New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Renée Watson and quilt artist Sherry Sh...
Scorched Earth: Poems
Scorched Earth: Poems Tiana Clark 9781668052075 Poetry Washington Square Press Simon & Schuster, Inc. The striking sophomore poetry collection from the award-winning author of the “beautiful, vulnerab...
Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde
Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde Alexis Pauline Gumbs 9780374603274 Nonfiction Farrar, Straus and Giroux Macmillan Publishers A bold, innovative biography that offers a new under...
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store James McBride 9780593422946 Fiction Riverhead Books Penguin Random House “McBride’s pages burst with life… This endlessly rich saga highlights the different ways in wh...
Prayer with Purpose and Power: A 90-Day Devotional
Prayer with Purpose and Power: A 90-Day Devotional Myles Munroe 9781641239493 Nonfiction West Virginia University Press West Virginia University Press Heaven Depends on You, and the Earth Needs You ...
The Royal Trials (Last Gate of the Emperor #2)
The Royal Trials (Last Gate of the Emperor #2) Kwame Mbalia and Prince Joel Makonnen 9781338665956 Fiction Scholastic Press Scholastic Inc. From Kwame Mbalia and Prince Joel David Makonnen comes an Af...
Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth
Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth Wole Soyinka 9780593320167 Fiction Pantheon Books Penguin Random House The first Black person ever to win the Nobel Prize in Literature gives u...
Dawn (Lilith’s Brood #1)
Dawn (Lilith’s Brood #1) Octavia E. Butler 9781538753712 Fiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group Dawn (previously Xenogenesis, Bk. 1) One woman is called upon to rebuild the future of ...
A Handful of Earth, a Handful of Sky: The World of Octavia Butler
A Handful of Earth, a Handful of Sky: The World of Octavia Butler Lynell George 9781626400634 Nonfiction Angel City Press Angel City Press Check out Lynell’s New York Times article on Octavia Butler “...
On Mother Earth
On Mother Earth Booker T. Washington 9781429096263 Nonfiction American Roots Applewood Books African-American educator, author, and leader Booker T. Washington addressed the students and staff at Tusk...
Beyond The Outer Limits-The Vanishing Wall
Beyond The Outer Limits-The Vanishing Wall Tommie Thomas and Judith Thomas 9780692986356 Nonfiction T & T Unique Publishing Company T & T Unique Publishing Company You have entered a new dimension bey...
She is Global, an Artist, a Movement—Malaika Adero is “Global I Aam”
She is Global, an Artist, a Movement—Malaika Adero is “Global I Aam” Patrick A. Howell Article
The Obelisk Gate (Book 2: The Broken Earth)
The Obelisk Gate (Book 2: The Broken Earth) N. K. Jemisin 9780316229265 Fiction FireFly Publishing FireFly Publishing 2017 Hugo Award Winner for Best Novel"Intricate and extraordinary." - New York Tim...
The Fifth Season (Book 1: The Broken Earth)
The Fifth Season (Book 1: The Broken Earth) N. K. Jemisin 9780316229296 Fiction FireFly Publishing FireFly Publishing "Intricate and extraordinary." - New York Times on The Fifth Season (A New York Ti...
Captives Of The Flame
Captives Of The Flame Samuel R. Delany 9781499399677 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Classic 1960’s Science Fiction from an established master! “ He was some place he had never been be...
Universe Down to Earth
Universe Down to Earth Neil deGrasse Tyson 9798228646377 Nonfiction Columbia University Press Columbia University Press This witty and amusing exploration of the physical universe explains fundamental...
The Darker Face Of Earth: A Verse Play
The Darker Face Of Earth: A Verse Play Rita Dove 9780934257749 Poetry Story Line Press Red Hen Press The Darker Face of the Earth, a play by the poet laureate of the United States, creates a human dra...
Cayla Bellanger DeGroat
Cayla Bellanger DeGroat NONE Cayla Bellanger DeGroat, a White Earth Band of Ojibwe member from Minnesota, is an expert in Indigenous history and federal Indian policy. She has a BA in American Indian...
Lori Nelson Lee
Lori Nelson Lee NONE Lori Nelson Lee, author of children's books like 'Hillary’s Big Business Adventure' and 'Danica Dramatica - Queen Me', introduces entrepreneurship to young readers. Her works are...
4th Annual AA Children's Book Fair
4th Annual AA Children's Book Fair Troy Johnson Article Toni Trent Parker, member of Black Americans in Publishing, will produce her fourth annual African American Children's Book Fair on Saturda...
378 Excellent Books, 77 Important Events
378 Excellent Books, 77 Important Events Troy Johnson Article Top 100+ Recommended Children’s Books Children book authors, industry professionals, and avid readers contributed their favorite chi...
A Celebration of Literature and Response: Children, Books, and Teachers in K-8 Classrooms (2nd Edition)
A Celebration of Literature and Response: Children, Books, and Teachers in K-8 Classrooms (2nd Edition) Marjorie R. Hancock 9780131109025 Nonfiction Prentice Hall Press Prentice Hall Press Reinforced...
BlackWash: The Untold Stories of Reverse Racism
BlackWash: The Untold Stories of Reverse Racism Rodney Cloud Hill 9798739834034 Fiction Independently Published Independently Published It is a psychological norm for individuals to not empathize with...
The Darkest Child: A Novel
The Darkest Child: A Novel Delores Phillips 9781569473788 Fiction Soho Press Soho Press Rozelle Quinn is so fair-skinned that she can pass for white. Her ten children are mostly light, too. They const...
Just Us Books
Just Us Books Just Us Books, Inc. Just Us Books, Inc. http://www.justusbooks.com Wade and Cheryl Hudson were parents on a desperate search for children’s books that reflected the diversity o...
Just Us Books, Inc.
Just Us Books, Inc. Just Us Books, Inc. Just Us Books Marimba Books Sankofa Books http://www.justusbooks.com Wade and Cheryl Hudson were parents on a desperate search for children’s books th...
Sera Latterell
Sera Latterell Sera Latterell is a self-taught artist inspired by children’s literature and storytelling. Creating art for the young and the young at heart fuels her passion. Sera began her arti...
Everything Grows
Everything Grows Raffi Cavoukian 9780593172650 Fiction Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House Raffi’s beloved song celebrating the earth is available for the first time in a boar...
For Gaza’s Children: Progressive Black, Brown, and Jewish Writers and Poets Speak Out
For Gaza’s Children: Progressive Black, Brown, and Jewish Writers and Poets Speak Out Haki Madhubuti, Marc Lamont Hill, and Keith Gilyard 9780883784378 Nonfiction Third World Press Third World Press W...
December eNewsletter Great New Children's Books and More
December eNewsletter Great New Children's Books and More Troy Johnson Article Great Children’s Books Coming Soon I’m always on lookout terrific for children’s books, even before they are a...
When Clowns Attack: A Survival Guide
When Clowns Attack: A Survival Guide Chuck Sambuchino 9781607747031 Fiction Ten Speed Press Penguin Random House "Now in a updated and expanded 28th edition, the Children’s Writer’s & Illustrator’s Ma...
Developmental Psychology of the Black Child
Developmental Psychology of the Black Child Amos N. Wilson 9780686241836 Nonfiction Africana Research Publications Africana Research Publications Are Black and White Children the same? Are ...
Andrea Davis Pinkney
Andrea Davis Pinkney 0000000083413599 Andrea Davis Pinkney is a bestselling author of children and young adult books, awarded multiple honors such as Coretta Scott King Awards and NAACP Image Award n...
Breakout
Breakout Dhonielle Clayton, Tiffany D. Jackson, Nic Stone, Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk, and Nicola Yoon 9780063217508 Fiction Quill Tree Books HarperCollins Trapped at a luxurious resort off the coa...
Stages: Poems
Stages: Poems Tramaine Suubi 9780063344952 Poetry Amistad HarperCollins In this breathtaking companion poetry collection, inspired by the evolution of our brightest star, Tramaine Suubi offers poems a...
Reel
Reel Kennedy Ryan 9781538769638 Fiction Forever Grand Central Publishing A Broadway actress has a chance at stardom when cast by a major Hollywood director, but the role of her dreams may cost her the...
Harlem Brew Soul: A Beer-Infused Soul Food Cookbook
Harlem Brew Soul: A Beer-Infused Soul Food Cookbook Celeste Beatty 9781631068515 Nonfiction Rock Point Books Carter-Krall Imprint Experience beer-infused soul food recipes from the founder of Harlem B...
Disaffected!: Access vs Apathy: Why Every Election is The Election of a Lifetime
Disaffected!: Access vs Apathy: Why Every Election is The Election of a Lifetime Sean Pittman 9781959694076 Nonfiction Inked Elephant Publishing House Inked Elephant Publishing House Sean Pittman'...
Can’t We Be Friends: A Novel of Ella Fitzgerald and Marilyn Monroe
Can’t We Be Friends: A Novel of Ella Fitzgerald and Marilyn Monroe Eliza Knight and Denny S. Bryce 9780063282902 Fiction William Morrow & Company HarperCollins Award-winning author Denny S. Bryce and ...
Lotus Bloom and the Afro Revolution (paperback)
Lotus Bloom and the Afro Revolution (paperback) Sherri Winston 9781547608492 Fiction Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Bloomsbury Publishing Longlisted for the National Book Award for Young People’s Literatur...
The Spark in You
The Spark in You Andrea Pippins 9780593380093 Fiction Random House Studio Penguin Random House This jubilant picture book filled with powerful affirmations celebrates the beautiful magic that makes ea...
Harlem After Midnight
Harlem After Midnight Louise Hare 9780593439289 Fiction Berkley Books Penguin Random House Named a Must Read by Ebony • Boston Herald • Book Riot • Bookish • Minneapolis Star-Tribu...
Lotus Bloom and the Afro Revolution
Lotus Bloom and the Afro Revolution Sherri Winston 9781547608461 Fiction Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Bloomsbury Publishing From the beloved author of President of the Whole Fifth Grade, a story about a ...
Reel: A Hollywood Renaissance Novel
Reel: A Hollywood Renaissance Novel Kennedy Ryan 9781732144378 Fiction Scribechick Media Scribechick Media Award-Winning Wall Street Journal bestselling author Kennedy Ryan launches a brand new series...
Think Black: A Memoir
Think Black: A Memoir Clyde W. Ford 9780062890573 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins Finalist for a 2020 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award In this thought-provoking and heartbreaking memoir, an award-winni...