Turnbull: 227 books

In this lushly written follow-up to Almost French, Sarah Turnbull explores a new paradise: Tahiti. Having shared her story in her bestselling memoir, Almost French, Australian writer Sarah Turnbull seemed to have had more than her fair share of dreams come true. While Sarah went on to carve...

The Principles of Moral and Christian Philosophy presents the first masterpiece of Scottish Common Sense philosophy. This two-volume treatise is important for its wide range of insights about the nature of the human mind, the foundations of morals, and the relationship between morality and religion. The...

Through the true story of Wallace Turnbull, one of Haiti’s pioneers in development and missions, Say To These Mountains takes readers on a journey where grace and beauty shine into even the tightest crevices of brokenness, poverty, and loss. Over the course of 70 years, Wallace’s work changed...

Stand by for four exciting tales from the Martian past and future! Two Andy Andersen novellas as well as a short story and novella on the Alien Artifact timeline make up this collection of science fiction by the author of The Man Who Conquered Mars, Jupiter IV, Footprints in Red, and Zachary Dixon:...

Andy Turnbull takes our notions about early humanity and turns them on their heads. In place of the "savannah" model of civilization, he posits a waterfront existence, noting that even today the vast majority of humans live near a body of water. He goes on to describe the social structures...

Les gens de l’état-major ne doutent de rien ! « Tout serait tellement plus facile, disent-ils, si l’on pouvait d’une façon ou d’une autre... euh... neutraliser le général Kotoku Yaguchi. Peut-être qu’un petit commando, très réduit, composé d’hommes choisis pour des raisons particulières... »....

The Garden of Allah Hotel on Sunset Boulevard — Hollywood’s most infamous hotel during Hollywood’s most famous era. 1950s Hollywood saw the beginning of the end of everything: the Eisenhower Years and everything it represented, the restrictive Production Code, Hollywood’s golden-era...

What if home became a place of dread? Maliha Anderson returns to her family in French-owned Pondicherry, and it's worse than she expects. Her grandmother is trying to marry her off but that's nothing compared the suicide of an unknown woman in front of a family wedding party. Or that her rejected...

When revenge is sweet Harry and Sellie are at home when the building comes crashing down around them. With their father kidnapped they are in a race against time to catch the man who has ruined their home and stolen away their father.

1896 in a world where airships fill the skies. But the hippos are dying. In East Africa, sisters Harriet and Khuwelsa Edgbaston set off in their steam-powered ornithopter on the trail of butchered hippopotamuses and their stolen teeth. They are lead across the Serengeti in an adventure that more dangerous than any they've encountered before.

This is my first attempt at writing a book. I have always been told I tell a pretty good story so I thought I would try to put it to print. I’ve been told I sometimes master making a short story long and I would like to think I can on occasion make a long story short.Random Thoughts of a...

The world of the samurai, the legendary elite warrior cult of old Japan, has for too long been associated solely with military history and has largely remained a mystery. In this exciting new book, Stephen Turnbull, the world's leading authority on the samurai, goes beyond the battlefield to paint...

The fierce loyalty and self-sacrificing attitude of the Samurai have made them both a legend and a cult. Yet although their military prowess and skills in the martial arts have been studied exhaustively, an understanding of their belief system still eludes many. This original and exciting work examines...

In 1467 the Onin War ushered in a period of unrivalled conflict and rivalry in Japan that came to be called the Age of Warring States or Sengoku Jidai. In this book Stephen Turnbull offers a masterly exposition of the Sengoku Jidai, detailing the factors that led to Japan's disintegration into warring...