Sentences with phrase «nonfiction books about»

Most people read with kids, but don't forget to introduce nonfiction books about their interests, such as dinosaurs or sharks, she said.

Here's a list of my favorite Mexpat lit: fiction and nonfiction books about Mexico written by expat authors.

Sheila has published 17 nonfiction books about animals, six of which have been named best in their categories by the Dog Writers Association of America and the Cat Writers Association.

So if you write nonfiction books about cookery then your blog can be about cooking.

When we played, his child's heart would come into its own...» My husband prefers nonfiction books about Al Qaeda or the CIA, but nothing ventured, etc..

This morning's edition of BookPageXTRA is all about nonfiction books about books, authors and reading.

Maybe you write a whole slew of related books, whether they are fiction thrillers, or nonfiction books about real estate, business, or biographies.

Some of the greatest nonfiction books about science read like novels.

We review nonfiction books about publishing, writing and online marketing.

The tweet below is by a small press in San Francisco that publishes nonfiction books about innovations in business, work, and life.

In celebration of Women's History Month, we're covering nonfiction books about female trailblazers here.

Examples abound: Gardening books for preschoolers can lead to explorations of how plants get energy, and young children are naturally curious: a fictional story about a bear can lead to nonfiction books about mammals and hibernation.

Ms. McChesney used her grant funds to purchase nonfiction books about biomes, which she had her students read in their literature circles.

We'll see a balance between fantasy and friendship books and the nonfiction books about sharks, carnivorous plants and volcanoes that many kids love.

The students eventually decided as a group to open a Chinese restaurant, and the class spent several weeks reading fiction and nonfiction books about China to help them make decisions about their restaurant's decor, ambience, and menu.

Eco was a longtime professor at Europe's oldest university, the University of Bologna, and an expert in the field of semiotics who wrote more than 20 nonfiction books about how signs and symbols can be used to interpret cultural history.

She said it was one of the first nonfiction books about dating she'd read when she was trying to figure out how to get in a relationship.

She can read fiction and nonfiction books about chimps, including stories about researchers like Jane Goodall.

This is a nonfiction book about, yup, a zoo keeper's wife who together with her husband helped save over 300 people from Warsaw during World War II by hiding them in their zoo.

A strenuously sold yet inert string of anecdotes from a nonfiction book about a high - stakes undercover DEA operation, Brad Furman's The Infiltrator is all revving engines and no momentum.

If you're writing a serious nonfiction book about psychology, business, history, etc., your expertise and credibility will be critical.

The Electors began as a nonfiction book about presidential transitions, but it became clear to me that the real fun would be in telling a story that was sensationally possible, in fact could happen, under the right circumstances.

Or read a nonfiction book about the area and the industry like James Conaway's Napa or A Tale of Two Valleys: Wine, Wealth, and the Battle for the Good Life in Napa and Sonoma by Alan Deutschman.

My creative nonfiction book about the courageous youths who served in America's Civil War (many of them won Medals of Honor) titled YOUNG HEROES OF THE CIVIL WAR is a perfect vehicle for me to speak to Civil War Round Table groups.

Promoting a nonfiction book about negative gearing in real estate to kindergartens is not going to yield good results.

She earned her Ph.D. in Biological Psychology from the University of California at Berkeley and published a nonfiction book about animal intelligence, Clever as a Fox (Bloomsbury USA, 2001).

The Hollywood Reporter has, well, reported that Universal has optioned the rights to Larson's riveting nonfiction book about the first year of Nazi rule, with Tom Hanks to produce (and possibly star).

Whether it's a nonfiction book about nitro snail racing or packing a backpack to journey into middle earth, as an individual you have something to say or a story to tell.

She earned her Ph.D. in Biological Psychology from the University of California at Berkeley and published a nonfiction book about animal intelligence, Clever as a Fox (Bloomsbury -LSB-...]

She earned her Ph.D. in Biological Psychology from the University of California at Berkeley and published a nonfiction book about animal intelligence, Clever as a Fox (Bloomsbury USA, -LSB-...]

One of the authors I work with tried the funnel book approach on a small scale for a local nonfiction book about how a city park was created.

What It Is Like To Go To War by Karl Marlantes A powerful nonfiction book about the experience of combat and how inadequately we prepare our young men and women for the psychological and spiritual stresses of war.

Not exact matches

For a novel, it taught me more about the world than most nonfiction books I've read.

A.G. Mojtabai's nonfiction work, Blessed Assurance, won the 1986 Lillian Smith Award for the best book about the American South.

Ordinary Time by a. g. mojtabai doubleday, 223 pages, $ 17.95 A.G. Mojtabai's nonfiction work, Blessed Assurance, won the 1986 Lillian Smith Award for the best book about the American South.

Pick nonfiction books that talk about a single subject of interest to your child — owls, the ocean, puppies, the moon — especially if they have great illustrations.

About Blog The Emerald City Book Review is an eclectic book blog, with a focus on classic and literary fiction, fantasy, children's books, and nonfictBook Review is an eclectic book blog, with a focus on classic and literary fiction, fantasy, children's books, and nonfictbook blog, with a focus on classic and literary fiction, fantasy, children's books, and nonfiction.

Highlands Ranch, Colorado About Blog Terry has written more than 60 nonfiction books plus been published in more than 50 magazines.

After teasing a number of different ambitious projects in 2017 — including an adaptation of Fernando Morais» nonfiction book The Last Soldiers Of The Cold War: The Story Of the Cuban Five and a slightly re-cast version of Idol's Eye, his perpetually stalled Chicago mob thriller — Assayas ultimately went with a previously unannounced project about the French publishing industry as his next film.

Based on the nonfiction book compiled by Long Beach high school teacher Erin Gruwell from the writings of her economically - challenged and scholastically - underserved students taken from their diaries, Freedom Writers is a formula feel - good film about one teacher's near - quixotic quest to get her students to learn something about themselves, and about others, in order to not be swallowed up by the negativity surrounding them.

It's loosely based on a nonfiction book by British journalist Jon Ronson about the US military's top - secret plan to create a battalion of psychic soldiers in the wake of Vietnam.

Tracey Maurer, writer of over 100 nonfiction books, talked with students about how she does research, works with a publisher, and comes up with ideas for her texts.

When it comes to fiction versus nonfiction, the new Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for English Language Arts isn't «an either or thing,» says Marfè Ferguson Delano, a nonfiction children's book writer whose books often connect her young readers to novels on the subjects she writes about.

That's because the book — a nonfiction story about 19 Mexican immigrants who died while trying to cross the border in Texas 14 years ago — hit close to home.

The New Common Core standards, a set of reforms that will soon be adopted by most states, talk about nonfiction reading, but that category seems to include more memos, short speeches, brochures, and technical articles than anything like a complete history book.

By using this unique book report project idea, your students will enjoy being editors and designing their own newspapers based on the famous people that they have read about in their nonfiction books.

He shares some great tips about writing and marketing nonfiction books, Facebook marketing for fiction and nonfiction authors, and other great marketing tips and advice.

The success stories below about query letters that worked were provided by authors of all book genres (fiction, nonfiction, and children's books).

Before we got to our exclusive story about Amazon's KDP advertising program, we discussed tips on keywords, nonfiction primers for fiction books and a marketing plan that takes an hour a day.

One of the ways that you can draw readers in and establish a platform is through consistent blogging about your topic if you're nonfiction author, or about your writing and other books if you're a fiction author.