J Taylor: 261 books
by Barbara J. Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2016
"Powerful...Every page is saturated with the 1930s milieu as the sisters navigate the adversities of their reality on a sea rough with the unrealistic expectations of well-intended idealists both religious and secular. As if to highlight those expectations, Taylor periodically interrupts her...
by Barbara J. Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2014
Nominated for a 2014 Lime Award for Excellence in Fiction
Named a Best Book of Summer 2014 by Publishers Weekly
Named a Pick of the Week for the week of June 30th by Publishers Weekly
"An earnest, well-done historical novel that skillfully blends fact and fiction."
--Publishers...
On The Corinthian Spirit
The Decline of Amateurism in Sport
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2010
In January 1929, before 20,000 spectators, Norwich City of the Third Division South went down 0-5 in the third round of the FA Cup to an amateur side composed of ex-public school boys who disdained professional tactics in favour of instinct and teamwork. Within a decade, the Corinthians, the club...
Charlie Bear
What a Headstrong Rescue Dog Taught Me About Life, Love, and Second Chances
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2012
When B.J. Taylor first read about rescue dog Charlie Bear, she gazed at his photograph and knew right away he was the dog for her. She just hoped her husband, Roger, would agree. Thankfully, he did, and in the subsequent year, both B.J. and Roger soon discovered that Charlie Bear was brought into...
by S.J. Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 1990
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 1990
Short, unattractive, hobbling about Stalin's Moscow on a wooden leg, Walter Duranty was an unlikely candidate for the world's most famous foreign correspondent. Yet for almost twenty years his articles filled the front page of The New York Times with gripping coverage of the aftermath of the Russian...
Congress
A Performance Appraisal
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
With record low approval ratings (the lowest poll results since 1974) Congress is a failing institution in the eyes of many Americans. Is public opinion correct in judging the inefficacy of the legislative branch, or is the public mistaken in these harsh criticisms? Congress: A Performance Appraisal...
Orwell
The Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
Winner of the Whitbread Biography Award: A “profoundly moving [and] definitive” portrait of George Orwell, author of 1984 and larger-than-life literary genius (The Daily Telegraph).
It was not easy to bury George Orwell. After a lifetime of iconoclasm, during which he professed no interest...
Crossing My Jordan
With the Strength of a Woman, Not the Grief of a Child!
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2011
My life begun hard, and it seemed to just become more and more difficult throughout the years. I once lived a life like J.C. Dougard and Elizabeth Smart, but instead of one sexual predator, I had many. They had families to go home to, where I had none, I was forgotten about years, and years ago and...
by Kevin j. Taylor
Language: French
Release Date: January 16, 2014
Language: French
Release Date: January 16, 2014
Chantre américain de l'érotisme dessiné, Kevin J. Taylor adore mettre en scène des personnages aux formes généreuses, dotés d'organes démesurés, dans des actes répétés de copulation. Le décor ? Des escaliers d'immeuble, des banquettes arrières de voiture, des vestiaires sportifs, etc....
All the Stars in the Sky
Native Stories from the Heavens
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2012
The heavens — the sun, the stars, and the moon — have inspired, intrigued, and mystified us from the beginning of time. We’ve always searched for ways to comprehend their beauty and their meaning. Mohawk artist and author C. J. Taylor has drawn from First Nations legends from across North America...
After Bathing at Baxters
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
Eighteen tales featuring down-on-their-luck characters whose dreams will never come true, by Man Booker Prize–long-listed author D. J. Taylor
In the vein of Raymond Carver’s short prose, these eighteen stories sharply capture ordinary people desperate to escape their dead-end lives as they...
Occasions of Faith
An Anthropology of Irish Catholics
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
Devotional "occasions" or experiences by Irish Catholics form the foundation of this consummate anthropological study of Irish Catholicism. Lawrence Taylor's twenty years of field work in Banagh in south-west Donegal have yielded rich ethnographic material that is illuminated by wide-ranging...
The New Book of Snobs
A Definitive Guide to Modern Snobbery
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
'Hugely enjoyable' AN Wilson, Sunday Times
'Thoughtful, entertaining and enjoyable' Michael Gove, Book of the Week, The Times
Inspired by William Makepeace Thackeray, the first great analyst of snobbery, and his trail-blazing The Book of Snobs (1848), D. J. Taylor brings us a field guide...
Bright Young People
The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2009
Before the media circus of Britney, Paris, and our modern obsession with celebrity, there were the Bright Young People, a voraciously pleasure-seeking band of bohemian party-givers and blue-blooded socialites who romped through the gossip columns of 1920s London. Evelyn Waugh immortalized their slang,...