Turner Publishing Company: 2181 books
The Art of Creative Nonfiction
Writing and Selling the Literature of Reality
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2007
A complete guide to the art and craft of creative nonfiction--from one of its pioneer practitioners
The challenge of creative nonfiction is to write the truth in a style that is as accurate and informative as reportage, yet as personal, provocative, and dramatic as fiction. In this one-of-a-kind...
Lost Causes
The Romantic Attraction of Defeated Yet Unvanquished Men & Movements
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1999
Lost Causes: The Romantic Attraction of Defeated yet Unvanquished Men and Movements, by George and Karen Grant, is a thoughtful look at several causes that captured the hearts of people, survived defeat, and ultimately out-lived their foes.
by Connie Goddard, Bruce Hatton Boyer, C Goddard
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1996
A fun-filled volume for Chicagoans, visitors, and anyone interested in Chicago, it is a collection of fascinating facts, wonderful quotations, and surprising history about famous biggests, longests, oldests, and firsts"". A useful, entertaining introduction to America's most livable great city.
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Character and Greatness of Winston Churchill
Hero in a Time of Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2004
Winston Churchill was one of the most extraordinary leaders of the twentieth century. What enabled him to stand so steadfastly when all those around him seemed to turn back in fear? What enabled him to inspire whole nations to endure the unendurable and to achieve the unachievable when all those around...
Eliot Ness
The Real Story
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2000
This is the definitive biography of the famous crimefighter, Eliot Ness.
Behind the Hollywood legend portrayed by Robert Stack and Kevin Costner is a fascinating and highly effective lawman whose courage and cunning helped the federal government bring down Scarface Al Capone in gangland Chicago.
Ness...
A Hemingway Odyssey
Special Places in His Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1999
A must-read for Hemingway enthusiasts in the centennial year of his birth, A Hemingway Odyssey contains never-before-published interviews with people who knew him and observations of the special places he frequented, thus revealing how powerfully the waters Hemingway loved influenced his writing from...
by Hank H. Cox
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2005
On the bright Sunday morning of August 17, 1862, four Sioux warriors emerged from the Big Woods northwest of St. Paul, Minnesota, on their way home from an unsuccessful hunt. When they came upon the homestead of Robinson Jones, a white man who ran a post office and general store and offered lodging...
by Jean Marie Stine
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2008
"If you follow only a third of Jean's advice, you'll have a successful book." --Jeremy Tarcher, Publisher Jeremy P. Tarcher, Inc.
"After Jean reworked my first draft, paperback rights sold for $137,000." --Timmen Cermak, M.D., author of A Time to Heal: The Road to Recovery...
Blood Lines
Vampire Stories from New England
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1997
The vampire stories in Blood Lines all take place in New England, where the sense of lineage and place is unmatched in any other region of America.
Southern Blood
Vampire Stories from the American South
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1997
Perhaps more than any region, the American South is haunted by the mythology of the vampire, returned from the dead to drain life from the living.
Murder Most Celtic
Tall Tales of Irish Mayhem
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2001
The Irish are deeply passionate about their kinsmen, their country, their culture, and their way of life, as this collection of mysteries so richly illustrates. Slow to anger and equally slow to forgive at times, the children of the Emerald Isle have had planty of experience on both sides of the law....
Paths to Victory
A History and Tour Guide of the Stones River, Chickamauga, Chattanooga, Knoxville, and Nashville Campaigns
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1999
Paths to Victory is the story of the Civil War in Middle Tennessee and northwest Georgia beginning with the battle of Stones River on December 31, 1862. Includes a series of driving tours that enable readers to see the battlefields and important sites.
Piercing the Heartland
A History and Tour Guide of the Fort Donelson, Shiloh, and Perryville Campaigns
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1999
Piercing The Heart and: A History and Tour Guide of the Fort Donelson, Shiloh, and Perryville Campaigns"", by Jim Miles, traces the history of the Civil War from the attack on Logan's Crossroads, through the battle of Shiloh, and the running war through Tennessee and Kentucky during the Perryville campaign. Includes driving tours.
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Dare to Lead
Proven Principles of Effective Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2004
I hope these insights will encourage and enlighten you on your way to excellence,"" says Baggett. ""Consider Dare to Lead your leadership compass, always available to help you get back on track when you find yourself veering off in the wrong direction."" Some of his pearls...