Marie Ryan: 35 books

Mrs Marie Ryan is a fully qualified chef and food technology teacher. She has taught high school students at all levels for 15 years on the methods and practices of food preparation and nutrition. Marie enjoys studying and practising a holistic approach to health, including an aphrodisiac intake to...

~~"Women, Men and Relationships" lets couples discover the keys to a happy and healthy relationship from the day they meet through years of married life together. Happiness shouldn't disappear from the relationship once the "I do's" have been spoken. When couples first...

If you are looking for inspiration, or if you are experiencing loneliness, emptiness, loss, or depression in your life, this is the book for you. It quickly raises the curtain on a typical family who has experienced a head on collision with unbelievable trauma and devastation. Then it leads you through...

Sixteen men were executed in the aftermath of the Easter Rising in Ireland, 1916: fifteen were shot and one was hanged. Their deaths changed the course of Irish history. But who were these leaders who set in motion events that would lead to the creation of an independent Ireland? Teachers, poets,...

Is there a significant difference between engagement with a game and engagement with a movie or novel? Can interactivity contribute to immersion, or is there a trade-off between the immersive "world" aspect of texts and their interactive "game" dimension? As Marie-Laure Ryan demonstrates...

Essays discuss the terminology, etymology, and history of key terms, offering a foundation for critical historical studies of games. Even as the field of game studies has flourished, critical historical studies of games have lagged behind other areas of research. Histories have generally been...

An examination of the emerging rural left, from environmentalists blocking pipeline construction to teachers on strike. In Left Elsewhere, volume editor and lead essayist Elizabeth Catte turns a skeptical eye toward “purple” politicians, such as West Virginia Democrat Richard Ojeda, who...

Narrating Space / Spatializing Narrative: Where Narrative Theory and Geography Meet by Marie-Laure Ryan, Kenneth Foote, and Maoz Azaryahu offers a groundbreaking approach to understanding how space works in narrative and narrative theory and how narratives work in real space. Thus far, space has traditionally...

This box set includes three full-length novels of erotic historical western romance written by Marie-Nicole Ryan. Enjoy the exciting stories of the Old West where these brave and sexy heroines and their stalwart and handsome lawmen find true love while fighting off dastardly villains and even a natural...

Wanted: Dead or alive. (Alive preferred, just sayin’.) When US Marshal Sam Dunaway comes to Kenton Valley, Texas, to prepare for a murder trial, the last person he expects to run into is his late wife Celine. The same woman who ran off with his life savings and supposedly died in a boardinghouse...

Over her not-so-dearly-departed husband’s grave, Natalia Montrose vows to bed the first suitable man she meets. Enter one Jared Fields who offers to assist in managing her inheritance. No thank you! Indeed, this passionate woman would rather keep control of her wealth while enjoying the virile...

Campus leaders describe how community colleges, publicly funded universities, and private liberal arts colleges across America are integrating sustainability into curriculum, policies, and programs. In colleges and universities across the United States, students, faculty, and staff are forging...

Now in its second edition, Rhetorical Criticism: Perspectives in Action presents a thorough, accessible, and well-grounded introduction to contemporary rhetorical criticism. Systematic chapters contributed by noted experts introduce the fundamental aspects of a perspective, provide students with an...

Stranded in Music City…alone on New Year’s Eve…in a freaking snowstorm. Is there a worse way to spend a holiday? FBI Agent Alex MacGregor is on his way to his next assignment in Chicago, but the weather has other ideas. He’s holed up in a low-rent motel waiting for the weather to clear. Enter...