Taylor Publishing: 636 books
Shortened Seasons
The Untimely Deaths of Major League Baseball's Stars and Journeymen
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2007
Shortened Seasons recounts the stories of some of the baseball players who never made it back for the next game, who died with the suddenness of a walk-off homerun. For them, there was no next year. From Hall of Fame caliber players such as Roberto Clemente, Thurman Munson, and Ed Delahanty to players...
Know Your Rights!
Answers to Texans' Everyday Legal Questions
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2010
Richard Alderman, The People's Lawyer,T cuts through the legal jargon and helps you protect yourself, your family, and your property. This latest, updated edition gives you practical, easy-to-understand answers all kinds of everyday questions about divorce, child support, and child custody; credit,...
Harvard Beats Yale 29-29
...and Other Great Comebacks from the Annals of Sports
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2007
When Harvard came back from a 16-point deficit with less than a minute to go to tie Yale in their now-famous 1968 gridiron tilt, the headline in the Harvard Crimson the following Monda proudly boasted, "Harvard Beats Yale, 29-29." This and nineteen other improbable comebacks are the subjects of Wilner...
Who's #1?
100-Plus Years of Controversial National Champions in College Football
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2007
There's nothing quite as controversial in American sports as college football's national championship, making it common fodder for talk around the water cooler as well as loftier debates among professional journalists in the sports pages. Walsh takes a comprehensive view of over a century of controversy,...
The Duke, the Longhorns, and Chairman Mao
John Wayne's Political Odyssey
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
The year of change. The year of division. The middle of the 1960s, the great dividing line between what America had been, and what it became. All of it, in all its color, glory, and ugliness, came symbolically together on a hot, humid weekend in Austin, Texas.
The protagonist? None other John “Duke”...
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...