Marjorie: 555 books

Moscow Diary is the diary kept by Marjorie Farquharson during the period in which she established Amnesty International’s Information Office in Moscow, a unique venture during a fascinating period of change. In 1991,  Marjorie was the first westerner working on human rights with a permanent base....

Marjorie Barrett Logsdon, a teacher of high school English literature and composition, explores the experiences that led to her decision to transform her authoritarian pedagogical practice. Believing that sharing power with students is more conducive to writing-as-process (as opposed to wrtiing-as-product),...

Poet Marjorie Gunthardt has always felt strongly about something, whether it be the pain of losing a child to the blessing offered at breakfast. She has channeled these feelings into this two-volume book of high-spirited verse, addressing essential subjects that have given her life meaning. Her work...

The touching true story of a young 1920s ‘flapper’, who dreamed of becoming a chorus girl ‘Early that January, there was snow on the ground, and Victoria Carmen took a violent chill. I played Principal Boy in her place. At last! MARJORIE GRAHAM was all alone in electric lights outside...

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (August 8, 1896 – December 14, 1953) was an American author who lived in rural Florida and wrote novels with rural themes and settings. Her best known work, The Yearling, about a boy who adopts an orphaned fawn, won a Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1939 and was later made...

THIS IS NOT A CHILDREN’S BOOK. <p> Its accounts of fairy experiences, mostly from the twentieth century, have come from business men and women, housewives, journalists, clergymen, bus drivers, anglers, gypsies, school teachers, university professors, soldiers, artists, authors, poets, musicians,...

In A View from My Window, Marjories poems run the gamut from childlike innocence to adult maturity on through older age. Themes range from skepticism to deep faith, from playfulness to dead seriousness, from admonishing the wayward to acceptance of people in all condition of life. In the collection...

Marjorie Raskin takes readers through a lifetime coping with panic attacks that seemed to come from nowhere and shows how she was able, in her fifties, to manage her problems after confronting hidden feeling about being abused as a child in both overt and subtle ways. Her symptoms were treated...

Courtesy, they say, is the shortest distance between two people. So make what you communicate on social media more credible, captivating, compelling, compulsive, stimulating, intriguing, considerate, thought-provoking, exciting, engaging, and entertaining. In Oh, You Behave: Social Media Etiquette...

When her husband died so suddenly, leaving his affairs in such a muddle, and it dawned on everybody there was absolutely nothing left, what alternative was there but to accept her son’s invitation to make her home with him? A woman in her forties with no skills, no training, and no experience, there seemed no other way out. What choices does she have?

Easy-going Orley has until recently enjoyed a casual lifestyle, running an ageing caravan park in a less than salubrious resort town, surrounded by a family he loves and on whom he has largely depended. But nothing ever stays the same. When those foundations that have been his world are threatened...

This book ends Marjorie Brame Bennetts trilogy of Spiritual Thoughts: Spiritual Thoughts from the Heart, Spiritual Thoughts to Live By and now Spiritual Thoughts From God. It was her intent to provide as many heartwarming, spirit-filled experiences provided her through her Heavenly Father as she was...

This collection of lectures, first published in 1964, introduces the traditional methods used in the spiritual science of Adhyatma Yoga, the Yoga of Self-Knowledge. They were given at Shanti Sadan, centre of Adhyatma Yoga, by the late Warden Marjorie Waterhouse, a close pupil of the founder, Dr Hari...

More than 100 of the best soup recipes Boston has to offer accompanied by fun stories and beautiful full-color photography. Marjorie Druker is passionate about soups. She fell in love with soups when she first heard the story Stone Soup. After attending Johnston & Whales, Marjorie created...