Taylor Trade Publishing: 611 books
Courtney's Legacy
A Father's Journey
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2001
In the fall of 1998, George Cantor and his wife sent off their bright, funny, enthusiastic, 18-year-old daughter, Courtney, to the University of Michigan as a freshman. Six weeks later, the university called Cantor to claim her corpse. Courtney fell from her sixth-floor dormitory window after being...
Five O'Clock Lightning
Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, and the Greatest Baseball Team in History, the 1927 New York Yankees
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
An entertaining read about the greatest baseball team, the 1927 New York Yankees, who beat up on American League rivals during the regular season and then swept the World Series. With verve, facts, and stories, Harvey Frommer evokes the Murderers' Row of Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Miller Huggins, Tony Lazerri, Bob Meusel, and more.
Down to Earth
Practical Thoughts for Passionate Gardeners
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2009
Down to Earth is a book that speaks to the soul of the passionate gardener of any experience level, exploring and detailing all the pleasures that gardeners enjoy from this hobby. Rochester encourages readers to garden for self-gratification. No hoeing, no tilling, no turning of piles. No chemical...
Then There Was No Mountain
A Parallel Odyssey of a Mother and Daughter Through Addiction
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2005
Sophie was a brilliant child by anyone's definition. Accomplished athlete, 4-H champion, recognized artist, and Western and English horsewoman. By the age of sixteen she had added one more "achievement" to her resume, this one ignominious: drug addict. Then There Was No Mountain describes the external...
Lest We Forget
Masterpieces of Patriotic Jewelry and Military Decorations
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
Since ancient times, memorable moments of military history have been commemorated with jewelry, medals, and symbolic accessories. In Lest We Forget: Masterpieces of Patriotic Jewelry and Military Decorations, Judith Price illuminates iconic military objects, exploring their origins and documenting...
200 Love Lessons from the Movies
Staying Moonstruck for Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Romantic movies—no matter how fluffy or fanciful—contain some kernel of truth about real-life love. These films are fictionalized accounts of the collective romantic experiences of everyone involved in the filmmaking process, so even average movies can provide spectacular insights for every stage...
Embracing A.D.D.
A Healing Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2015
Rather than treat ADD/ADHD as a disorder, Dr. Lynn Weiss celebrates this "brainstyle"—a diversity in thinking—and provides a caring, humanized perspective. Via insights and exercises and using her experience as a counselor and social scientist, Dr. Weiss harnesses the positives in ADD/ADHD...
Twinspiration
Real-Life Advice from Pregnancy through the First Year and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
A hybrid of prescriptive "how-to" guidebook and intimate diary, Twinspiration recounts with unabashed personal detail the tribulations and triumphs of a twin pregnancy and first year of life with twins. Incorporating a conversational, humorous tone throughout, Cheryl Lage provides a double...
by Henry Chappell, Author of The Callings and At Home on the Range with a Texas Hunter
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2001
Bobwhites in the Texas panhandle, prairie grouse in the Flint Hills of Kansas, Gambel's quail in New Mexico's arroyos, blue quail on the staked plains, and doves and Mearn's quail in Arizona. In these lyrical essays, Henry Chappell examines the bonds that exist between hunter, hunting dog, land, and...
by C. F. Eckhardt
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 1997
Cold facts and impersonal statistics may be the bacon of Texas history, but the tall tales and interesting side stories are the sizzle. In this book, C.F. Charlie Eckhardt presents some of the Texas history sizzle that is often ignored when pure historians write about the Lone Star State. He adds...
by Charles Finsley
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1999
A Field Guide to Fossils of Texas is the only definitive guide that presents a collection of the state's most common fossils and also shows the most important, noteworthy, and unusual specimens.
Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind
A Bestseller's Odyssey from Atlanta to Hollywood
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2011
Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind*: A Bestseller's Odyssey from Atlanta to Hollywood* presents the first comprehensive overview of how this iconic novel became an international phenomenon that has managed to sustain the public's interest for seventy-five years. Various Mitchell biographies and...
by Douglas Savage
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2014
On the first day of July 1863, Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia accidentally crossed swords with George Gordon Meade’s federal Army of the Potomac. They clashed at a tiny Pennsylvania crossroads called Gettysburg. Three days later, at least 22,000 Confederate men and boys were dead, wounded...
by Melinda Rice
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2001
Isabelina Montoya is happy in 1835 when her older sister, Feliciana, accepts the marriage proposal of a handsome Mexican soldier. At 11, Isabelina is old enough to help plan the wedding! But then Texas goes to war against Mexico, and Isabelinaís family is divided. Should they remain true to their...