Mary Ellen: 220 books
Dogspell
The Gospel According to Dog
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
This playful yet substantial "dogmatic" book of theology addresses our central human longing to be deeply loved. This is also an incarnational theology, putting us in contact with a God who is willing to roll in the earth with us, dive in to rescue us, and whose tracks can be seen throughout...
World Epidemics
A Cultural Chronology of Disease from Prehistory to the Era of Zika, 2d ed.
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
In its expanded second edition, this chronology examines the effects of epidemic illness and death on human culture from 2700 bce to 2017. Entries summarize incidents of contagion across the globe, including symptoms, treatment, prevention and demographics, as well as biographical information on notable...
Dontcha Know?
A Cozy Mystery with Humor
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
It is April 2013. Gen Fletcher leaves her husband behind and heads to Little Beaver, Minnesota, to complete the school year for Evelyn Pretsler, a high school teacher who has mysteriously disappeared. As a young educator who does not like being told where she can go and what she can do, Gen has already...
Fast Facts About Pressure Ulcer Care for Nurses
How to Prevent, Detect, and Resolve Them in a Nutshell
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013
This Fast Facts will assist with improving outcomes for patients with pressure ulcers and strategies for decreasing pressure ulcer occurrence within a facility. Using the easy to read, quick-access Fast Facts style, the book presents guidelines for assessing, preventing, and treating pressure ulcers,...
Land of Opportunity
Immigrant Experiences in the North American Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2019
This book presents the experiences of immigrant children and their families in the US. We use the lens of Culturally Responsive Teaching (CRT), a pedagogy that recognizes the importance of including students' cultural references in all aspects of learning (Ladson-Billings, 1994). Teachers become culturally...
Immigrant Experiences
Expanding the School-Home-Community Dialogue
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2019
Using the lens of Culturally Responsive Teaching (CRT) a pedagogy that recognizes the importance of including students' cultural references in all aspects of learning (Ladson-Billings, 1994), this book presents empirical studies and personal stories, examples across immigrant and refugee experiences...
Jum & Muz
I Forget - a Caregivers View of Alzheimers
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2016
There are many things we cannot understand; fathomless questions that confront and confuse us, but the most baffling is the human mind. With that thought, I have tried to show my observations, interpretations and notes. I hope this book will remind us what a kind, sweet, considerate and compassionate...
Weight Wisdom
Affirmations to Free You from Food and Body Concerns
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
In this powerful guide, Kingsbury and Williams equip readers with simple reflections, vignettes, and everyday analogies that they have successfully used with their own clients to counter destructive feelings and shatter distorted ideas of food and weight. Pithy and positive statements replace compulsive,...
by Mary Ellen Renna M.D.
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Every parent will tell you it is no easy task raising a child in today’s society and many would love to have a manual available to look up a solution to the problems that arise each day. The 10 Steps to Almost Perfect Parenting offers a path that parents can take that will help guide them through...
Tinker Bell and Mirabel
Messages of Delight Between an Earth Spirit and Her Human Sister
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2016
About the Book Its about freedom. This uplifting little book with inspirational messages from an earth spirit to her human sister focuses on freedom from our hardwired conditioning of musts and shoulds. It will appeal to anyone questioning the meaning of their lives. The messages are delivered in...
Who Jinxed the C&G Ranch?
Peanut Butter Club Mysteries: Book 2
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2009
In the second volume of this exciting mystery series, the Haskell grandparents, Abby and Josh, take their four grandchildren and two friends to Medora in the beautiful North Dakota Badlands to help Aunt Gracie and Uncle Clyde run the C&G Ranch. But little do they know of the summer adventure that...
by Mary Ellen D'Agostino
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2013
In August of 2012 two adventurous ladies decided to become more fl uent in Spanish by immersing themselves in four weeks of language study in Antigua, Guatemala. Fueling their desire was their work with Spanish-speaking immigrants in Richmond, Virginia. These letters refl ect their challenges and...
by Alastair Gunn, Eliza Lynn Linton, Catherine Crowe
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Twenty ghostly tales from the supernatural masters of the Victorian age. Wimbourne Books presents the sixth in a series of rare or out-of-print ghost stories from Victorian authors. With an introduction by author Alastair Gunn, Volume 6 in the series spans the years 1854 to 1901 and includes stories...
by Alastair Gunn, Dinah Maria Craik, Catherine Ann Crowe
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2016
Twenty ghostly tales from the supernatural masters of the Victorian age. Wimbourne Books presents the first in a series of rare or out-of-print ghost stories from Victorian authors. With an introduction by author Alastair Gunn, Volume 1 in the series spans the years 1852 to 1901 and includes stories...