Bean: 220 books

Danielle Bean, editor of Catholic Digest, and Elizabeth Foss, an award-winning blogger, team up to offer daily doses of inspiration, wisdom, and hope for Catholic moms. Now back in print in response to high demand, Small Steps for Catholic Moms gives busy mothers a year's worth of sustenance: brief...

As many--young people especially--leave the traditional church in droves, they often still long for a genuine Christian community in which to practice their faith and share their spiritual journeys with others. They want to be faithful but struggle to find a place where they flourish. Whether...

When he asked her to keep house, she didn't realise that he meant forever.

For several decades, Mexican immigrants in the United States have outnumbered those from any other country. Though the economy increasingly needs their labor, many remain unauthorized. In Parents Without Papers, immigration scholars Frank D. Bean, Susan K. Brown, and James D. Bachmeier document the...

How far would you go if your friends turned up missing? These two guys use their training and experience to do a little looking for them selves. When the authorities reach a dead end they take over and are shocked at what they find. This turns into a simple story of greed and a couple of buddies trying...

Master Sergeant Bean recounts his experiences during the first Gulf war as an artillery specialist in Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm. Success of any war, conflict, or operations Soldiers must meet the enemy, defeat the enemy on the battlefield, and return home safely. Defending our nation...

This is a fictional book about a rogue government agency, the Department of Retirement Services, who have their own take on health care for seniors. When the wrong person loses a loved one the department gets noticed for what it is. What would you do if your love one died under mysterious circumstances?...

Diversion is as much a love story as anything. Life may not be perfect but it goes on and we try to stay on the good side as much as possible. Sometimes fate has a way of mixing things up and you don’t have much say in the matter. When a man loses his wife and baby daughter he withdraws away from...

This book highlights the important, yet often forgotten, roles that Jamaican women played in the World Wars. Predicated on the notion that warfare has historically been an agent of change, Dalea Bean contends that traces of this truism were in Jamaica and illustrates that women have historically been...

First published in 1976, this book examines rehabilitation within the penal system in Britain in the 1970s. It argues that the ‘rehabilitative ideal’ is not the only possible alternative to a penal policy but an option which has now become institutionalized and alien to traditional concepts of...

Viola Gentry of Rockingham County, North Carolina, learned to fly in 1924 and quickly achieved greater heights. In 1925, the aviatrix took her first solo flight. The following year, she flew under the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges, and in 1928, she established the first officially recorded women's...

Literacy leaders are working to provide highly effective, rigorous teaching and learning as they work with families, communities, individuals, and the system simultaneously. To do that, they need to wear many hats, serving as leaders, facilitators, designers, and advocates. In Cultivating Coaching...

How far would you go to help a trafficked person? These Buddies use their training and experience to just that. When they take action they are shocked at what they find. This turns into a story of greed and evil that some friends try to stop. This story concerns the evils of human trafficking. It...

Drawing from his own childhood experiences, Jonathan Bean takes the autobiographically inspired family he introduced in Building Our House through the special rhythms and routines of a homeschooling day. For young Jonathan and his sisters, Mom is the teacher and a whole lot more, and Dad is the best...