Mary Ann: 472 books

"Self Help Bible: A Healing Guide for Individuals with Common Problems" is a book that helps the individual that is faced with certain challenges to learn how to get started on the road to recovery. The challenge that the individual has could be anything from a drinking problem to a problem with self...

Even the most explicitly political contemporary approaches to Shakespeare have been uninterested by his tyrants as such. But for Shakespeare, rather than a historical curiosity or psychological aberration, tyranny is a perpetual political and human problem. Mary Ann McGrail's recovery of the playwright's...

In an irresistible fourth You Read to Me collaboration, Mary Ann Hoberman and Michael Emberley have added spooky tales to their bestselling and award-winning series--and it's a scary lot of fun. You've never met witches, zombies, ghosts, or ghouls like these before!

Then We'll Sing a New Song is a fascinating examination of how African religions have shaped belief and practices in America. Not just the story of the development of African American religions or the black church, this book tells the often-unrecognized, but important story of how African religions...

Authors Rev. Warren J. Savage and Mary Ann McSweeny extend their popular seasonal meditation series into Easter and Pentecost. Each day, focus on one scriptural theme by breaking open God’s Word. The reflection then makes us pause in our busy lives to consider what the Word has to offer us during...

Mags Blake, ihres Zeichens Gärtnerin, genießt den Mai in Cornwall. Sie bekommt den Auftrag, am Tag der offenen Tür in Shelter Gardens, einem Landschaftsgarten aus dem 19. Jahrhundert, Besucher herumzuführen. Alles kein Problem – doch dann gräbt Mags, durch die ungewöhnliche Färbung der Blüten...

Growing vegetables requires regionally specific information—what to plant, when to plant it, and when to harvest are based on climate, weather, and first frost. The Timber Press Guide to Vegetable Gardening in the Mountain States tackles this need head on, with regionally specific growing information...

We experience any number of losses through death, relationships, health, or community. Usually, we feel alone in our grief. It doesn’t have to be that way. Dr. Mary Ann Lippincott and grief counselor Susan H. Williams have designed a program called Passages …through grief, a healing process that...

Amy finds herself in the doldrums because it is tax season and the firm's accountant, Mr. Pickle Pickens, is due. He'll spend a few weeks making demands and making her work-life hell. What a surprise when a hunk by the name of Todd shows up at the firm instead. A delightful, delicious surprise. Instead...

During the 1960s in the heartlands of America—a region of farmland, conservative politics, and traditional family values—students at Indiana University were transformed by their realization that the personal was the political. Taking to the streets, they made their voices heard on issues from...

I dedicate this book to my Mother, Katherine Elizabeth Thren (Kay), who thoughts and phrases I have put on paper. She has been a spiritual guidance to all that have known her for so many years. My mother had a stroke about ten years ago that left her right side paralyzed; she left us August 28, 2000...

THE DANCIN' MAN is the story of an ambitious young man of modest means who marries into a legendary Southern family of wealth and power. His mother-in-law, the formidable Dolly, takes him--Ted-- into the family's cotton mill business and soon he is helping her run it. His position with her and the...

Much of the history of women, in religion as in other fields, is lost because it was overlooked or considered unimportant. It is therefore surprising that so many fragments of women's stories survive in the New Testament texts composed by men. Why did they include so many references to women and why...

In the past few decades the number of women entering graduate and professional schools has been going up and up, while the number of women reaching the top rung of the corporate and academic worlds has remained relatively stagnant. Why are so many women falling off the fast track? In this timely book,...