Blue River Press: 76 books
Once Upon A Time It Was Now
The Arts & Craft of Writing Historical Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
While a historian stands firmly planted in the present and looks back into the past, a historical novelist has a more immediate task: to set readers in the midst of bygone events and lead them forward, allowing them to live and feel the wonderment, fear, hope, triumph, and pain as if they were there.
Learning...
Dirty Trickster, Corporate Spy
A Watergate Saboteur Switches from Disrupting Campaigns to Spying on Employees
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Not until Dirty Trickster, Corporate Spy does a memoir exist by one of the principal Watergate saboteurs-provocateurs that exposes the full extent of the insalubrious side of politics and negative campaigning. And that is not all: After Watergate, Kelly became a corporate security consultant that...
by Elizabeth Zuckerman
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Benjamin Franklin was a natural leader and helped to write the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.
As one of America's most versatile of the Founding Fathers, Ben began his career in his brother's printing press. He wrote articles for The New England Courant, the first newspaper...
by Mel Proctor
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
I love the work, but I hate the business. Maybe you have said those words about your own job. But if you are a sportscaster, that phrase has probably become your mantra.
Known best as the longtime play-by-play voice of the Baltimore Orioles and Washington Bullets, Proctor also called games...
Clearing Hurdles
The Quest to Be The World's Greatest Athlete
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Only one man, the Olympic Gold Medalist in the decathlon, is officially deemed the World's Greatest Athlete. As an orphan who is never met his biological parents, as a recovering alcoholic, as the subject of a timelessly infamous advertising campaign, as the athlete of maybe the most publicized and...
Breakaway
The Inside Story of the Pittsburgh Penguins' Rebirth
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Breakaway transcends Americans passions for sports and casino gambling as it follows two professional hockey team owners who run the table from bankruptcy to a lucrative new arena and the most-storied trophy in all of sports.
Already the Pittsburgh Penguins were unconventional. One former owner,...
by Anthony Fredericks
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Ace Your Teacher Interview provides you with inside information on how to prepare for interviews, various interview formats, and how to handle tricky questions. Additionally, you will discover a creative range of inside information on what impresses interviewers and makes you stand out as a candidate....
by Robin Pauls
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
From 1882 to 2012 all the most notable milestones and moments are covered along with the many little known facts that provides hours of fun for readers to rekindle old memories, learn new tidbits and tales while enhancing their knowledge of Cardinals’ history, postseason play, superstars, players,...
by Todd Outcalt
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Most of the more than a quarter of a million women are diagnosed with breast cancer in the U.S each year will be married, or have a man who will fill the gap as support partner from diagnosis to treatment, and beyond. Author, Todd Outcalt, is a United Methodist pastor who has helped hundreds of people...
by Paul Freiberger
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Steve Wozniak grew up with an insatiable curiosity that his father, a programmer, helped fuel. After being accepted to the University of Colorado Boulder, Steve was quickly expelled for hacking into the college’s computer system. He then got a job at Hewlett-Packard where he met Steve Jobs. Together,...
St. Patrick Battalion
A Novel of The Mexican-American War
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
They were proud and doomed, Irish rogue cannoneers under a green silk banner, fighting against their former comrades-in-arms to defend Catholic Mexico against the invading U.S. Army.
Their choices were to win, die in battle, or hang as deserters. To the Mexicans they were heroic saviors, but...
Mike McCarthy
Nobody's Underdog
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Known nationally for winning a Super Bowl and receiving Coach of the Year honors while leading the Green Bay Packers, the Mike McCarthy story begins decades earlier in Pittsburgh, a city famed for its football prodigies.
Born in 1962 and raised in the Steel City Mike followed closely the great...
Seventy Summits
A Life in the Mountains
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
As a mountain climbing guide, it was Vern Tejass job to climb the tallest and most dangerous mountains in the world. Always rebellious, Tejas never met a challenge he couldnt overcome, even the daunting task of climbing Mount Everest. In fact, he climbed all of the tallest mountains on each of the...
Notorious 92
The most infamous murder from each of Indiana's 92 counties
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
With almost one murder every day of the year in Indiana, violent crime is no stranger to the Hoosier state and has not escaped the heartland of America. And while Indiana is the nations sixteenth largest state by population, it has often stolen national headlines with astonishing crimes that defy...