Sims: 403 books
You've Got a Book in You
A Stress-Free Guide to Writing the Book of Your Dreams
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Writing a book is fun and easy--yes, FUN AND EASY--but it may not always feel that way. How do you find the time to write? How do you keep momentum? How do you deal with the horror of showing anyone a single sentence of your work-in-progress? The answers remain fun and easy, and author Elizabeth Sims...
The Adventures of Henry Thoreau
A Young Man's Unlikely Path to Walden Pond
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
Henry David Thoreau has long been an intellectual icon and folk hero. In this strikingly original profile, Michael Sims reveals how the bookish, quirky young man who kept quitting jobs evolved into the patron saint of environmentalism and nonviolent activism.
Working from nineteenth-century...
The Next Elvis
Searching for Stardom at Sun Records
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2014
An American institution, Sun Records has a history with many chapters -- its Memphis origins with visionary Sam Phillips, the breakthrough recordings of Elvis Presley, and the studio's immense influence on the sound of popular music. But behind the company's chart toppers and legendary musicians there...
Team of Vipers
My 500 Extraordinary Days in the Trump White House
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2019
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
"Sims’s vivid portrait of Trump shrewdly balances admiration with misgivings, and his intricate, engrossing accounts of White House vendettas and power plays have a good mix of immersion and perspective. The result is one of the best of the recent flood...
The Workplace Terrorist
A Passport to Keep You from Becoming a Workplace Hostage. Take the Sims’ Flight
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Terrorism is a serious thing at any time. For many people, its something they face every day. Try thinking of dealing with negative people as dealing with a terrorist. As over exaggerated as this may sound, the adverse effects a negative person can have on our lives can cause lifelong damage. In The...
Chloe Sims: The Only Way Is Up
My Story
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Say the name Chloe Sims and most people think of the hugely entertaining, bubbly and glamorous Essex girl on the hit TV show The Only Way is Essex. But there is more to Chloe than viewers see on the TV, and the drama doesn't stop when the camera stops rolling. Just two years ago, Chloe was a single...
Dracula's Guest
A Connoisseur's Collection of Victorian Vampire Stories
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Before Twilight and True Blood, even before Buffy and Anne Rice and Bela Lugosi, vampires haunted the nineteenth century, when brilliant writers everywhere indulged their bloodthirsty imaginations, culminating in Bram Stoker's legendary 1897 novel, Dracula.
Michael Sims brings together the...
by Earnest "Tex" Sims Sr.
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2012
The autobiography of Earnest Sims is about the childhood of Earnest Sims, an African-American rising from the cotton picking era to write.
Arthur and Sherlock
Conan Doyle and the Creation of Holmes
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
2018 Edgar Award Nominee
Shortlisted for the H. R. F. Keating Award from the International Crime Writers Association
From Michael Sims, the acclaimed author of The Story of Charlotte's Web, the rich, true tale tracing the young Arthur Conan Doyle's creation of Sherlock Holmes and the modern...
Frankenstein Dreams
A Connoisseur's Collection of Victorian Science Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
From Mary Shelley to H.G. Wells, a collection of the best Victorian science fiction from Michael Sims, the editor of Dracula's Guest.
Long before 1984, Star Wars, or The Hunger Games, Victorian authors imagined a future where new science and technologies reshaped the world and universe they...
by Samantha Sims
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
The working world of air traffic controllers is filled with extreme pressure and stress, and for women controllers, sexual harassment. It is an atmosphere author Samantha Sims was caught in during her more than twenty years as an air traffic controller at an air route traffic control center in Miami,...
Apollo's Fire
A Journey Through the Extraordinary Wonders of an Ordinary Day
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2008
It?s the oldest story on Earth. You relive it every day.
So much of our shared daily experience in the world is shaped by the sometimes dramatic, sometimes subtle effects of the Earth?s spin, its tilt on its axis, the alternation of light and darkness, the waxing and waning of the moon, the...
Chloe Sims: The Only Way Is Up
My Story
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Say the name Chloe Sims and most people think of the hugely entertaining, bubbly and glamorous Essex girl on the hit ITV show The Only Way Is Essex. But there is more to Chloe than viewers see on the TV, and the drama doesn’t stop when the camera stops rolling. Just two years ago, Chloe was a single...
Latvia Matters
The Adventures of a Large Man Who Stumbled Around in a Small Country
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2014
When Dale Sims received a Fulbright Scholarship to teach in the small country of Latvia, he left everything familiar and comfortable behind. His determination to do a good job of representing the United States of America presented a number of challenges, not the least of which were his own preconceived...