Mary Ann: 472 books
The Journeys of Mary
Part Ii
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2012
At age four, Mary, the mother of Jesus of Nazareth, made her first journey. Mary traveled with her family to Jerusalem for her Presentation to the Temple. Some of the other journeys taken during her lifetime included trips to Jutta, Bethlehem, Matarea, and Heliopolis, as well as many other trips to...
I Am Hutterite
The Fascinating True Story of a Young Woman's Journey to Reclaim Her Heritage
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2011
In 1969, Ann-Marie’s parents did the unthinkable. They left a Hutterite colony in Canada with seven children, and little else, to start a new life. Overnight, the family was thrust into a society they did not understand and which knew little of their unique culture. The transition was overwhelming....
A World Made New
Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2001
A World Made New tells the dramatic story of the struggle to build, out of the trauma and wreckage of World War II, a document that would ensure it would never happen again. There was an almost religious intensity to the project, championed by Eleanor Roosevelt under the aegis of the newly formed...
Memories of an African Sun
A Memoir of Faith and Adventure at the Heart of the Last Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
Eight-year-old Mary Ann Simkins was about to embark on a new life in a faraway place. Traveling far from her familiar home, she was on a journey to a life of adventure through the wild bush of Africa, where she would stand face-to-face with a rhinoceros and run as fast as she could from a troop of...
by Mary Ann Kinsinger, Suzanne Woods Fisher
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
For a child, every day is a thing of wonder. And for six-year-old Lily Lapp, every day is a new opportunity for blessings, laughter, family, and a touch of mischief. As she explores her world, goes to school, spends time with her family, and gets into a bit of trouble with her friends, Lily learns what...
Art, Education, and African-American Culture
Albert Barnes and the Science of Philanthropy
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
A physician who applied his knowledge of chemistry to the manufacture of a widely used antiseptic, Albert Barnes is best remembered as one of the great American art collectors. The Barnes Foundation, which houses his treasures, is a fabled repository of Impressionist, post-Impressionist, and early...
by Mary Ann Caws
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2009
“Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure—that of being Salvador Dalí.”
He was a force unto himself, an icon of outrageousness, artistic brilliance, eccentricity, and unmistakable style. Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí y Domènech, Marquis of Pubol, was...
Robert Motherwell
With Pen and Brush
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Robert Motherwell was by far the most intellectual and articulate of the Abstract Expressionists. This book, written by a friend of the artist, the well-known writer and critic Mary Ann Caws, examines Motherwell’s way of thinking and writing in relation to his paintings. The artist, American by...
The Last of the Good Girls
Shedding Convention, Coming Out Whole
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2013
by Mary Ann Hoberman
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
Mary Ann Hoberman and Michael Emberley have added Aesop's fables to their bestselling and award-winning series! Rediscover familiar tales and find new favorites in this irresistible fifth YOU READ TO ME collaboration. These stories of classic characters-from wise ants and kind mice to sly foxes and...
The Honoured Guest
Anne Alger Craven, Witness to Sumter, in Her Words
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014
It is November, 1860. Anne Alger Craven leaves her home at Abingdon Square, Manhattan, prepared to enter the lion’s den that is Charleston, South Carolina; Anne is an abolitionist. In Charleston the penalty for supporting emancipation is execution.
But Anne is...
The Forum and the Tower
How Scholars and Politicians Have Imagined the World, from Plato to Eleanor Roosevelt
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
As Mary Ann Glendon writes in this fascinating new book, the relationship between politics and the academy has been fraught with tension and regret-and the occasional brilliant success-since Plato himself. In The Forum and the Tower, Glendon examines thinkers who have collaborated with leaders, from...
by Mary Ann McDonnell
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2015
Mary Ann McDonell's poetry offers humor and insight as it shares scenes of New York and shares her experience with aging and widowhood.
Agile Career Development
Lessons and Approaches from IBM
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2009
Supercharge Performance by Linking Employee-Driven Career Development with Business Goals How do you make career development work for both the employee and the business? IBM® has done it by tightly linking employee-driven career development programs with corporate goals. In Agile Career Development...