List 5 of books by Mary Beth

Better Than Before: How Polio Transformed My Father

by Mary Beth Smith
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2016

The pain of acute paralytic polio is horrific. It is the worst physical pain there is. As every nerve in the affected area dies it feels as if a dentist is drilling the nerve without novocaine. Nerve after nerve dies. Ghastly pain ensues. The pain can last for weeks. The patient must listen to the...

Barbara Jordan

American Hero

by Mary Beth Rogers
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2011

Barbara Jordan was the first African American to serve in the Texas Senate since Reconstruction, the first black woman elected to Congress from the South, and the first to deliver the keynote address at a national party convention. Yet Jordan herself remained a mystery, a woman so private that even...

72 Family Devotions for Spiritually Training Your Kids

by Kolby & Mary Beth King
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2012

Featuring 72 action-packed, easy-to-lead family devotions. Set aside a night or two each week for a "special time" where you and your kids can have family fun together and learn valuable lessons from God's Word. No advanced planning is needed. Anyone can do this. Just grab your special time...

Strategies for the C-Section Mom

A Complete Fitness, Nutrition, and Lifestyle Guide

by Mary Beth Knight, James Rosenthal
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2010

Whether your C-section is planned or you have one unexpectedly, you need to know about the risks, the recovery, and how to regain your fitness level postpartum--all while caring for a newborn. This book outlines exactly what a C-section entails, and offers you information, guidance, and advice on...

Children's Bible Lessons: The Real Meaning of Christmas

by Kolby & Mary Beth King
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013

Guide your children in discovering the real meaning of Christmas. These five Christmas lessons are engaging, fun and will challenge your students to know and follow Jesus. These resources hold to the truths of Scripture without compromise and keep kids and teachers coming back for more…

Arm Knitting

How to Make a 30-Minute Infinity Scarf and Other Great Projects

by Mary Beth Temple
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014

Discover the fun way to make a chunky-knit infinity scarf in just 30 minutes, using your arms instead of knitting needles. This book makes it easy to whip up simple and stylish scarves, cowls, wraps, and capes. Knitting expert Mary Beth Temple shows you how to master basic arm knitting techniques,...

Preserve Protect and Defend: The Presedency of Abraham Lincoln

by Mary Beth Smith
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018

As I was studying Lincoln I wondered why a pioneer child would want to learn to read, something no other child at that time wanted to do. These days children want to learn to read because their older siblings do it. Parents read. Their parents take them to the public library (children's section)....

Lyme

The First Epidemic of Climate Change

by Mary Beth Pfeiffer
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018

Lyme disease is spreading rapidly around the globe as ticks move into places they could not survive before. The first epidemic to emerge in the era of climate change, the disease infects half a million people in the US and Europe each year, and untold multitudes in Canada, China, Russia, and Australia. Mary...

1774

The Long Year of Revolution

by Mary Beth Norton
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2020

From one of our most acclaimed and original colonial historians, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, 2018 president of the American Historical Association, a groundbreaking book, the first to look at the critical "long year" of 1774 and the revolutionary change that took place from December 1773 to mid-April...

The Harmony of Goodness

Mutuality and Moral Living According to John Duns Scotus

by Mary Beth Ingham
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2012

Since the first publication of The Harmony of Goodness in 1996, much work has appeared in print on Scotus’ theological and philosophical vision including the gradual completion of the Vatican edition of Scotus’ Ordinatio. Various congresses and international gatherings continue to highlight the...

Plotting Motherhood in Medieval, Early Modern, and Modern Literature

by Mary Beth Rose
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017

This book explores the inconsistent literary representations of motherhood in diverse texts ranging from the fourth to the twentieth centuries. Mary Beth Rose unearths plots startling in their frequency and redundancy that struggle to accommodate —or to obliterate—the complex assertions of maternal...

The Ultimate Guide to Sea Glass

Finding, Collecting, Identifying, and Using the Ocean?s Most Beautiful Stones

by Mary Beth Beuke
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014

As the owner of one of the world's most elaborate sea glass collections, Mary Beth Beuke gets to talk about these prized ocean gems on a daily basis. Unfortunately, with each passing day, sea glass becomes more and more difficult to find, making the hunt more of a challenge to the seeker-especially...

Women of Faith

The Chicago Sisters of Mercy and the Evolution of a Religious Community

by Mary Beth Fraser Connolly
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014

When the Sisters of Mercy lost their foundress Sister Catherine McAuley in 1841, stories of Mother Catherine passed from one generation of sisters to the next. McAuley’s Rule and Constitutions along with her spiritual writings and correspondence communicated the Mercys’ founding charism. Each...

Children's Bible Lessons: Just LIke Jesus