Ann M : 677 books

Flora, Ruby, Olivia, and Nikki start their own summer book club when well-loved books start appearing on their doorsteps in the fifth of Ann Martin's wonderful Main Street books. Flora and Ruby are about to start their second summer in Camden Falls. An element of mystery is instantly added when someone...

The Lord Jesus Christ said, “ . . . look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest” (John 4:35). However, one field is rarely looked on by the institutional church: the field of spiritually-indifferent men married to Christian women. While their wives have the greatest potential to...

I thought I had escaped having to write my autobiography at SMS. But no! I moved all the way back to California, and what do I find? My English teacher assigned the very same project. So here I am with lots of memories of both California and Connecticut. There was the time I met my future best friend...

Like the original Ward-based Critical Care, this second edition aims to guide practitioners in the initial management of critically ill adult patients within the ward setting. It should be of value to a wide range of healthcare professionals, including junior doctors, nurses, physiotherapists and students....

This groundbreaking volume explores the importance of economics and prosperity throughout Samuel Clemens’s writing and personal life. Mark Twain and Money: Language, Capital, and Culture focuses on an overlooked feature of the story of one of America’s most celebrated writers. Investigating...

Describes landmark free speech decisions of the Supreme Court while highlighting the issues of language, rhetoric, and communication that underlie them. At the intersection of communication and First Amendment law reside two significant questions: What is the speech we ought to protect, and...

So I gues this makes me an official SMS student--I'm writing my autobiography just like every other eight-grader here. This hasn't been easy. It's a big job, plus it's very emotional for me. Looking through all the family photos has made me remember some pretty difficult times. My family has been...

Ugh. So this is my autobiography. All the eighth-graders at SMS have to write one. Even though I'm not good at writing, it's been cool remembering when I was little. I have lots of good memories of growing up here on Bradford Court, across the street from my friends Kristy and Mary Anne. Like my sixth...

Karen wins the school spelling contest and begins calling herself "Queen Bee." Things get worse when she wins the county contest as well and gets her picture in the paper. But at the state spelling championship, Karen gets a lesson in h-u-m-i-l-i-t-y.

Bipolar disorder is not only one of the most difficult mental health issues to treat, but also one of the most stigmatized and misunderstood. For these reasons, a diagnosis of bipolar is a major turning point in a person’s life. Bipolar Disorder: A Guide for the Newly Diagnosedhelps readers process...

Mad Men*, Women, and Children: Essays on Gender and Generation*, edited by Heather Marcovitch and Nancy Batty, offers multiple perspectives on the representation of women and children in the popular AMC series, Mad Men. These essays explore the rich historical and social context portrayed in the series and connect the concerns and tumult of the sixties to the contemporary moment.

Textual Agency examines the massive proliferation of poetic texts in fifteenth-century Spain, focusing on the important yet little-known cancionero poetry – the largest poetic corpus of the European Middle Ages. Ana M. Gómez-Bravo situates this cultural production within its social, political,...

Vuelven las míticas aventuras de las chicas de «El Club de las Canguro» en nueva edición fresca y actualizada. En La gran idea de Kristy, primer volumen de la serie, las chicas fundan el Club. ¡No te lo pierdas! Kristy y sus amigas Claudia y Mary Anne trabajan por las tardes como...

Vuelven las míticas aventuras de las chicas de «El Club de las Canguro» en nueva edición fresca y actualizada. ¿Quién está tras esas extrañas llamadas que reciben las chicas mientras están trabajando? Ser una buena canguro no es nada fácil, y Claudia, la vicepresidenta del...