Sentences with phrase «nonfiction books by»

UP specializes in nonfiction books by previously published writers, but we are always interested in promising material, regardless of genre or prior publication history.

Her memoir, Crave: Sojourn of a Hungry Soul was named one of the best nonfiction books by black authors in 2015 by The Root online magazine.

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Purportedly telling the true story that inspired Moby Dick, Heart is based on a 2000 nonfiction book by Nathaniel Philbrick.

Paramount Pictures announced on Tuesday, October 28, 2014 that Academy Award ® - nominees Greg Kinnear and Djimon Hounsou and Academy Award ® - winners Renee Zellweger and Jon Voight will star in Same Kind of Different As Me, based on the best - selling nonfiction book by Ron Hall and Denver Moore with Lynn Vincent, author of the bestselling book Heaven Is for Real.

Based on the nonfiction book by Lisa Belkin, the upcoming miniseries is directed by Paul Haggis («Crash,» «In the Valley of Elah») and co-stars Catherine Keener, Jon Bernthal, Jim Belushi, Alfred Molina and Winona Ryder.

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.

Based on the nonfiction book by William Knoedelseder.

Adapted from a 2008 nonfiction book by Les Standiford, The Man Who Invented Christmas introduces Dickens in 1842, during his successful American tour — the star author of Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby, and The Old Curiosity Shop ushered onstage with confetti and kicking dancers.

Jason Hall («American Sniper») lets the story — which is based on an acclaimed nonfiction book by journalist David Finkel — unfold slowly, showing instead of telling what these men and their families are enduring.

Tom Hardy teams with Kathryn Bigelow and producer Megan Ellison on an adaptation of The True American, a nonfiction book by Anand Giridharadas.

Adapted and directed by Jason Hall («American Sniper») from a same - titled nonfiction book by David Finkel, this a major studio movie from Universal Pictures.

Save time and effort writing your next nonfiction book by downloading a free copy of my workbook, 99 Questions to Ask Before You Write and Self - publish a Brand - building Book.

This nonfiction book by the author of When Elephants Weep — which I initially picked up, full disclosure, because he used to be my mother's boyfriend, but I subsequently grew to love on its own merits — is an accessible, intriguing survey of the ways we elevate the human race over other creatures.

Not exact matches

«The Tipping Point» was named as one of the best books of the decade by Amazon customers, The A.V. Club, and The Guardian, and was Barnes & Noble's fifth bestselling nonfiction book of the decade.

So, knowing how easy it is to fool people with a false claim of being nonfiction, you expect me to just accept the claim of the Bible when you'd think me a fool for accepting a similar claim by any other book?

I challenge you to read a nonfiction book named A Divine Revelation of Hell by Mary Baxter from front to back.

And, on the «new nonfiction» table at my local book store, I've spotted both the schmaltzy — A Travel Guide to Heaven — and the scholarly — a 700 - page tome by an Ivy League professor, Life After Death: A History of the Afterlife in Western Religion.

In his book The Art of the Deal (Random House)-- Trump's autobiography which has been described by his ghostwriter as a «nonfiction work of fiction» — he claims his first wife, Ivana, was an alternate for the Czech ski team, yet the Czech Olympic committee says they have no record of this.

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.

You'll get printable vocabulary cards and nonfiction books with real photos, emergent readers that your learners can read and color all by themselves, clip cards, beginning reading games, printable math centers, activity pages, and more.

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.

The film, based on the nonfiction book Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand, showcases the parts of Zamperini's life that took place both immediately before and during WWII — with a bit of childhood flashbacks thrown in for story purposes as well.

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.

The book was written with the great nonfiction practitioner Tom Bissell, one of the millions sickly enchanted by the cockamamie charms of The Room.

Loosely inspired by Roland Barthes» nonfiction book A Lover's Discourse: Fragments — which dives into the absurd language of solitude and mythology that lovers and would - be lovers...

Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski for the episode «Manna From Heaven» from «The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story,» based on the nonfiction book «The Run of His Life: The People v. O.J. Simpson,» by Jeffrey Toobin

Inspired by the nonfiction book The Anatomy Of Violence: The Biological Roots Of Crime by Adrian Raine.

Angelina Jolie's upcoming film, «Unbroken,» based on the nonfiction book of the same name by Laura Hillenbrand, is being released during peak Oscar season on Dec. 25.

In the Heart of the Sea is based on Nathaniel Philbrick's nonfiction book, which explored two narratives of the sinking of the whaling boat Essex in 1820 — one from a hardy first mate, Owen Chase (Chris Hemsworth), and another from a cabin boy, Thomas Nickerson (played by Tom Holland as a youngster, and Brendan Gleeson in his advanced years).

Nominated for two Golden Globes, including a Best Actor nod for James Franco, who also directed and produced this dark comedy, «The Disaster Artist» is based upon a 2013 nonfiction book written by Greg Sestero and Tom Bissell.

Good Girl Work, (Millbrook Press, 1999), which relates stories of female child labor, was named by the ALA as one of the best nonfiction books published for young adult readers in 1999.

Gourley's award - winning books include two nonfiction books honored by the American Library Association (ALA).

BOOK THAT YOU OWN THAT YOU»D NEVER GIVE AWAY AND WHY: In fiction, it would be Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie and nonfiction would be Beyond a Boundary by C. L. R. James simply because they're my two favorite books.

Divided into reading levels and grouped by content - area themes, these nonfiction books feature colorful photos, direct text to image correlation, and high - interest content.

Overview: 10 comprehension questions to go along with the nonfiction book Saguaro Cactus by Paul and Shirley Berquist.

Keep students invested by varying texts (e.g., articles, chapter books) and genres (e.g., nonfiction, mystery, social studies).

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.

lists of nonfiction books I'd never heard of, produced by the likes of Publisher's Weekly, NPR, and the New Yorker, and stopping briefly by the business - specific books reviewed by strategy + business plus the December 2012 best - sellers offered up by 800 - CEO - READ, I decided to wander over to Goodreads to see what had shown up in their Choice Awards nonfiction category for 2012.

Nonfiction interests: memoir by writers who connect the events of their lives to readers through incredible storytelling; smart practical nonfiction with a unique hook and prescriptive elements; gift books with a strong hook and graphic elements (including humor and inspiration); history (narrative and quirky reference).

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Folding the Red into the Black is a book - length nonfiction essay by one of America's bestselling novelists, Walter Mosley; an alternative political manifesto in which he proposes to throw off «bureaucratic» demands in order «to praise and raise humanity to its full promise.»

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

The annual list of books compiled by a committee of the Young Adult library Services Association comprises nonfiction and fiction appropriate for ages 12 to 18.

After evaluation by reviewers, books in ongoing nonfiction series may be recommended without a review in the «Series Roundup,» with imprint information and citation to the last full series review given.

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Aside from a memoir here or a history book there, nonfiction tends to get overlooked by book clubbers in favor of the likes of Gone Girl and Where'd You Go, Bernadette.