Nancy Turner: 15 books

Author Nancy Turner shares a riveting non-fiction narrative about Debbie Austin’s unusual life. So bizarre is her story that it sounds surreal, yet true. The lives of a mother, daughter and son weave heartbreak and pain through the pages and unfold deeper and darker family secrets.A Southern...

Volume 1: The History and Practice of Indigenous Plant Knowledge Volume 2: The Place and Meaning of Plants in Indigenous Cultures and Worldviews Nancy Turner has studied Indigenous peoples' knowledge of plants and environments in northwestern North America for over forty years. In Ancient Pathways,...

HOW MANY PEOPLE DO YOU KNOW WHO HAVE SURVIVED TWELVE ATTEMPTS ON THEIR LIFE AND LIVED TO TALK ABOUT IT? NANCY TURNER - ONE MOTHER OF A PORN STAR is One Mutha of a Story. A riveting, cutting-edge, TRUE story about abuse, addiction, suicide, cults, sex, angels, gays, crime, healing, porn and more.Officer...

Even Angels Cry When a Child is Abused. Book Two of "One Mother of a Porn Star" reveals that abuse is generational. Debbie Austin's family secrets rise into view one by one. Debbie seeks help from a psychotherapist to heal her family.A Southern Mom who had the True Grit to survive because nothing is stronger than a Mother’s Love.

Book 4 of 4 of the One Mother of a Porn Star series.HOW MANY PEOPLE DO YOU KNOW WHO HAVE SURVIVED TWELVE ATTEMPTS ON THEIR LIFE AND LIVED TO TALK ABOUT IT?Debbie Austin's true story allows readers to feel her terror when she and her children are in imminent danger.Miraculously,...

A moving, exciting, and heartfelt American saga inspired by the author's own family memoirs, these words belong to Sarah Prine, a woman of spirit and fire who forges a full and remarkable existence in a harsh, unfamiliar frontier. Scrupulously recording her steps down the path Providence has set her...

AIDS and cancer are neither random nor infectious diseases. Both are characterized by a proton deficit and a reversal of the chimeric/energetic cooperative trend of the eukaryotic nucleus with the mitochondrial endosymbiont. This pattern is not random. It is consistent with the evolutionary heritage...

One of Book Riot's top 100 Must-Read Books of American Historical Fiction! Nancy Turner burst onto the literary scene with her hugely popular novels These Is My Words, Sarah's Quilt, and The Star Garden. Now, Turner has written the novel she was born to write, this exciting and heartfelt story...

I turned and faced the road we'd come down, my face hard and set. The kids moved on without me. I could still see a slight glow and the murky, gray smoke reaching above the trees, where it spread to the south.... When I thought they were out of earshot, I took a deep breath. "You lied...

From the bestselling author of These Is My Words comes this exhilarating follow-up to the beloved Sarah's Quilt. In the latest diary entries of pioneer woman Sarah Agnes Prine, Nancy E. Turner continues Sarah's extraordinary story as she struggles to make a home in the Arizona Territory.** It...

Individualism: The Cultural Logic of Modernity explores ideas of the modern sovereign individual in the western cultural tradition. Divided into two sections, this volume surveys the history of western individualism in both its early and later forms: chiefly from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries,...

Sarah's Quilt, the long-awaited sequel to These Is My Words, continues the dramatic story of Sarah Agnes Prine. Beloved by readers and book clubs from coast to coast, These Is My Words told the spellbinding story of an extraordinary pioneer woman and her struggle to make a home in the Arizona Territories....

Philosophy in Multiple Voices invites transactional dialogue, critical imagination, and the desire to travel to enter those discursive spaces where the love of wisdom gets inflected through both lived embodiment and situational history. The text raises significant meta-philosophical questions around...

Reflecting on Service-Learning in Higher Education: Contemporary Issues and Perspectives examines forms of pedagogy such as service-learning, experiential learning, and problem-based learning in order to determine how students make connections between and among abstract academic concepts and real-life...