Mary Elizabeth: 329 books

'Where is Miss Palliser?' inquired Miss Pew, in that awful voice of hers, at which the class-room trembled, as at unexpected thunder. A murmur ran along the desks, from girl to girl, and then some one, near that end of the long room which was sacred to Miss Pew and her lieutenants, said that Miss...

• Suicide is the leading cause of death among gay and lesbian youth • More than 10 million people are likely suffering from complicated grief in the US alone • Hundreds of Shared Death Experiences (SDE) have been collected since the 1800’s and these transformative experiences lead to a greater understanding and healing of grief.

In the fall of 1066, a thirteen-year-old Anglo-Saxon girl named Catla watches from afar as Viking raiders burn her village and imprison her family and the other villagers. No one sees her as she flees toward Aigber, the closest village, praying the people there will help. Catla must ignore her terror...

Titles in Barron's extensive Painless Series cover a wide range of subjects as they are taught on middle school and high school levels. These books are written for students who find the subjects unusually difficult and confusing--or in many cases, just plain boring. Barron's Painless Series authors'...

Help your children meet their guardian angels! Our guardian angels protect us, keep us company, and inspire us to pray and to perform acts of kindness. This charming board book explains God’s special gift of guardian angels to little ones ages 1–3. With Read-Aloud narration that lets kids explore...

"A unique and delightful way to explore the people, places, and sayings of the Bible. A fascinating tour of Scripture."--- Stephen J. Binz, biblical scholar and speaker, author of Lectio Divina Bible StudyThe understanding of and appreciation for the Word of God is essential to a life of faith. It can...

One of the core assumptions of recent American foreign policy is that China's post-1978 policy of "reform and openness" will lead to political liberalization. This book challenges that assumption and the general relationship between economic liberalization and democratization. Moreover,...

A fair slope of land in buttercup-time, just when May, the capricious, melts into tender June—a slope of fertile pasture within two miles of the city of Eborsham, whose cathedral towers rise tall in the blue dim distance—a wealth of hedgerow flowers on every side, and all the air full of their...

This is a story of one beautiful little girls journey down into Hell…on steroids. A chilling descent from early childhood sexual abuse, to alcohol and drug addiction, multiple incarcerations, prostitution, living on the streets in gang infested neighborhoods, and on and on. Essentially, a life sentence...

Plantation sites, especially those in the southeastern United States, have long dominated the archaeological study of slavery. These antebellum estates, however, are not representative of the range of geographic locations and time periods in which slavery has occurred. As archaeologists have begun...

A historical mystery which takes place in the 17th century, and involves a member of royalty who is accused of kidnapping a beautiful woman.

“The price,” he said heavily, “is five hundred for the set, if you insist on buying it… But I must tell you this, although I am sure you young people will laugh at me—or perhaps be even more intrigued by these…these devilish spoons! You see, they…” Mr. Sproull gulped. “They are supposed to be cursed.”

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"Eleanor's Victory" has a female "detective" protagonist and a complex mystery that Eleanor, the heroine, must unravel in order to find out who killed her father.