Mary Rose: 66 books

If, like many people in today’s hectic world, you yearn for the more leisured pace of a gentler age, but find instead that an apparently infinite list of tasks has to be fitted into an ever-diminishing domestic day, then this is the books for you; a comprehensive collection of over a thousand invaluable...

This collection of health and beauty hints has been compiled by Mary Rose Quigg as a practical book of advice. The hints cover the care of the body from head to toe, beauty treatments, habit control, guidelines for diet and fitness, a common sense approach to first aid and using medicines and a glossary...

Throughout the many years as a country housewife and cooking for her family and friends Mary Rose Quigg adapted these recipes to give us this lovely collection. You will find that the dishes are easy to prepare and can be used for day to day cooking or for entertaining. Another added bonus is that...

This comprehensive collection of over one thousand hints and tips has been compiled by Mary Rose Quigg to give a very practical book for gardeners. All aspects of gardening are covered from flowers and houseplants to planting shrubs, vegetables, herbs and trees. The garden pests and tools chapters...

This comprehensive collection of over one thousand hints and tips has been compiled by Mary Rose Quigg to give a very practical book for DIY enthusiasts. This collection of valuable hints and tips includes information on decorating, plumbing, electrical work, carpentry, building and car maintenance....

This comprehensive collection of over one thousand valuable hints and tips has been compiled to help make day to day tasks more easily completed and with less expense. Over the years Mary Rose Quigg has accumulated hundreds of household hints and tips. Many of them came from her mother and friends,...

This collection of over one thousand useful hints has been compiled by Mary Rose Quigg to assist with the smooth running of a kitchen. Natural products are used wherever appropriate to encourage an environmentally friendly workplace. The range of hints in this book covers the care of kitchen appliances,...

Dont give up! Are you struggling to hold on to your faith? Authors Marianne and Mary Rose Takacs find themselves in such a place in 1998. During the spring, ten-year-old Mary Rose is experiencing mysterious health symptoms. In the summer, a terrifying diagnosis is given. Being warned by the physical...

A secret and desperate choice, made by young Imogene Sayle during the rigors of post-World War II England, triggers shockwaves through three generations of a family. Almost fifty years later Imogene’s daughter Penelope, married and living in California, learns of her mother’s illness and...

In her new collection, Earth, Mercy, Mary Rose O'Reilley sifts through the debris of human habitation -- pink thong sandals, curlers, broken televisions -- looking for a kind of junkyard grace: "Holiness enters again / turquoise fins, and the Cessna's carapace / lifts on its wind." The first...

Deciding that her life was insufficiently grounded in real-world experience, Mary Rose O'Reilley, a Quaker reared as a Catholic, embarked on a year of tending sheep. In this often hilarious book, O'Reilley describes her work in an agricultural barn and her extended visit to a Buddhist monastery in France,...

The wanderers are a free people who travel the world in their brightly colored horse-drawn wagons. Though most call the road their home, some settle down in the places that capture their hearts.Wynn's grandfather was one of those wanderers who had grown roots. He settled down and opened up...

Extraordinary marriages don't just happen. They flow from grace-filled, faithful, and fruitful covenants of love. Every marriage, and even preparation for marriage, has its ups and downs. In a world and culture that seems to isolate and criticize, authors Ryan and Mary-Rose Verret proclaim: you are...

Bethany Rose thought that she had the perfect life. To be blessed with her loving husband Steven and two beautiful children. But, one day fate took her to a new direction. Her life was about to change. The sorrow of her dad's passing in turn brought her a new beginning for her life's journey!