Recent Posts Tagged With 'nonfiction'

• A Life In Ink: Tattoo Machine Tells Fascinating Tale Of Jeff Johnson

  Posted on Sunday August 2nd, 2009 at 07:50 in art, books, nonfiction, tattoo

  Tattoo Machine: Tall Tales, True Stories, and My Life in InkWant some absolutely fascinating information you'll absolutely never use? Tattoo Machine is the book for you. Let me add a qualifier or two. If you have one or two little "tats," you alread...

• Picking Cotton: Memoir Delves Into Pressing Social and Ethical Issues

  Posted on Saturday July 18th, 2009 at 15:11 in nonfiction, memoir, ethics, redemption, injustice

  Picking Cotton: Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption"Picking Cotton: Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption" sounds both horrifying and uplifting, and indeed that is the overall effect. It starts describing a young hard-working college student in ...

• Spring Writing Contest At Narrative Magazine

  Posted on Sunday June 28th, 2009 at 17:36 in magazine, contest, fiction, nonfiction, narrative

  Spring 2009 Story Contest at Narrative MagazineOur spring contest is open to all fiction and nonfiction writers. We’re looking for short shorts, short stories, essays, memoirs, photo essays, graphic stories, all forms of literary nonfiction, and e...

• The Bernie Madoff Story: New Book Explains Rise and Fall

  Posted on Saturday April 11th, 2009 at 07:33 in money, nonfiction, economics

  Catastrophe: The Story of Bernard L. Madoff, The Man Who Swindled the WorldEver play “Chutes and Ladders”?“Chutes and Ladders”, of course, was (and still is) a board game for small children. If you land on a square with a ladder, you move up ...

• Declutter Your Life and Mind: Detox Your Desk Provides Solutions

  Posted on Wednesday April 8th, 2009 at 08:48 in nonfiction, organization, managing

  Detox Your Desk: Declutter Your Life and MindMy desk is a mess.It’s not so much a factor of having too much stuff - virtually everything on it has a purpose. The problem is that I collect too many little pieces of paper and various other items and ...

• Pablo Escobar and the Medellin Drug Cartel: An Insiders View of the Most Powerful Colombian Drug Lord

  Posted on Wednesday March 4th, 2009 at 08:11 in drugs, nonfiction, colombia

  The Accountant's Story: Inside the Violent World of the Medellín CartelIf you speak a little Spanish and recently have spent a bit of time anywhere near the border, you've probably heard a narcocorrido, a ballad sung to danceable Norteño-style musi...

• The Best Business Books of All Time: A Single Source For All The Information

  Posted on Sunday March 1st, 2009 at 07:22 in business, Marketing, nonfiction

  The 100 Best Business Books of All Time: What They Say, Why They Matter, and How They Can Help YouBusiness expert Harvey Mackay recently wrote a review about an interesting new business book. Entitled The 100 Best Business Books of All Time: What The...

• The Secrets of Wealth: New Book Delves into Rich Life

  Posted on Sunday January 25th, 2009 at 07:40 in money, wealth, nonfiction

  Rich Like Them: My Door-to-Door Search for the Secrets of Wealth in America's Richest NeighborhoodsSuppose you wanted to write a book about “how the other half lives.” Well, make that how the 1-in-200 lives. You could dig up statistics on the wea...