Mark R Turner: 11 books

Book cover of From Here to Kingdom Come
by Mark R. Turner
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012

Here is a funny fable about Alice Wondrel, a lady who has taken on so much responsibility in her church that she has forgotten why she is doing it all. She is taken away in a whirlwind for an attitude adjustment through encounters with characters of biblical oddity. Grease is the mechanic in the local...
Book cover of You After All
by Mark R. Turner
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012

A strange tale about off beat people living on the edge in the middle of normal society. It is not clear when or where the story takes place, except that it seems rural. Poetry seems to be a normal mode of conversation for these people. Yet, their circumstances are very concrete in the life-and-death,...
Book cover of Marking the Journey: Holding the Past, Reaching Ahead
by Mark R. Turner
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017

Images in a variety of art forms, including photography, collage, digital painting and hand work, expand the poems with which they are paired. Mark R. Turner's 16 poems are drawn from a decade full of struggle, losses and hard-won victories. In his poetry and imagery he contemplates life's journey...
Book cover of Your Table of Creation
by Mark R. Turner
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017

This is an inspirational read about the creative process which can be supplemented by the printed, art journal style coloring book of the same title. Many people create and produce without giving time and place to all the aspects of their projects, such as thorough pre-production, or final release....
Book cover of The Lost Kids Spy Christmas
by Mark R. Turner
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012

An old crook by the name of Ananiah gives a bunch of street kids a secret hide-out home in some reasonable shacks high on the roof of a skyscraper. In exchange the kids run his "collection agency" as pick-pockets and shoplifters (thank you, Charles Dickens). They are very good at it. The cop on their...
Book cover of The Future Seed
by Mark R. Turner
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011

This is a short story about John and Margaret Posvar, farmers in the great American Midwest. They have kept alive the values of family and community sent down the ancestral line since their people came over from the Old World 300 years ago even though most of their neighbors have forgotten. The ancient...
Book cover of Beautify, Oh: fifty-one poems
by Mark R. Turner
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012

Fifty-one poems sifted from fourteen years of art making, theater, filmmaking and contemplation. Curiosities, childhood memories, events, deep space, history, theology, philosophy and life in the forest are capsulated in poems grouped under eight headings. Links are included to view films which feature...
Book cover of Give Us this Day
by Mark R. Turner
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2011

This is a short story about the people of the small, mountain town of Arborview under the pressure of isolation and threats when the metropolis down the hill is attacked by terrorists. Martial law and news reports of bio-terrorist events in the city frighten the population normally used to a quiet,...
Book cover of Pulling Back the Earth
by Mark R. Turner
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013

Glowing in the firelight Nina held her newborn and danced with her husband celebrating the birth among their people. Suddenly the demon they all feared stood before them. The young mother retreated as her husband attacked, but the demon killed him, snatched the baby and flew away. Nina left never...
Book cover of Think in Public

Think in Public

A Public Books Reader

by Judith Butler, Fred Turner, Lilly Irani
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2019

Since 2012, Public Books has championed a new kind of community for intellectual engagement, discussion, and action. An online magazine that unites the best of the university with the openness of the internet, Public Books is where new ideas are debuted, old facts revived, and dangerous illusions...
Book cover of Later Middle English Literature, Materiality, and Culture
by Mark Amsler, Craig E. Bertolet, John M. Ganim
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018

The essays in this volume consider the ways in which material and intellectual culture both shaped and were shaped by the literature of late medieval England. The first section, “Textual Material,” reflects on cultural and social issues generally referred to as the History of Ideas, and how those...
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