Elizabeth Jones: 82 books

Responding to current debates on the place of play in schools, the authors have extensively revised their groundbreaking book. They explain how and why play is a critical part of children’s development, as well as the central role adults have to promote it. This classic textbook and popular...

Being a single mother has often times been viewed in a negative perception and almost always associated with endless struggle. However, this revelatory new book by Mary Elizabeth Jones changes those preconceived notions and presents single motherhood in a more positive light.A Single Mother,...

Elizabeths oldest daughter, Jocelyn, was diagnosed with a rare, debilitating neurological disorder known as Rett syndrome. Since that instant, Elizabeth has been on the front lines of a battle to find a cure. Without the deep pockets of big pharmaceutical companies, she has orchestrated a grassroots...

The Phantom Cooks -- Marcia Lambert, Jean Turlington, and Peggy Doyle -- those three friends in a small seaside town in Southern Maine who run a part-time catering business -- are faced with their second mystery: local citizens being boiled alive. An old-time punishment for poisoners, boiling seems...

It’s 1915. WW1 has been raging for six months. Twenty-three year old miner Joe Mathieson lives in a small community on the east coast of Fife, Scotland. His life is joyless, his future bleak. Unlike his older brother, Fred, who enlisted in the army at the beginning of the war, Joe is apathetic to the...

First entry in the new Phantom Cooks Mystery Series, three friends in Maine start a small catering business, but when a severed thumb turns up in their potato leek soup the women spend more time trying to stay out of jail than in the kitchen as they solve this lighthearted murder mystery.

‘When was the last time you heard an all-girl band on the radio? Why don’t all-girl bands get attention they deserve?’ In Women Make Noise musicians, journalists, promoters and fans excavate the hidden story of the all-girl band: from country belles of the 20s–40s and girl groups of...

From USA Today bestselling authors Gin Jones & Elizabeth Ashby comes a small-town murder with big consequences... Someone has murder all sewn up. Keely Fairchild left her previous profession as a high-powered attorney to lead a quieter life as a certified quilt appraiser. But when she's...

From USA Today bestselling authors Gin Jones and Elizabeth Ashby comes a brand new mystery... It's Independence Day weekend, and Maria Dolores, the descendant of Danger Cove's first lighthouse keeper, is the new manager of the Lighthouse Farmers' Market. While she may be a bit uncertain about...

From USA Today bestselling authors Gin Jones and Elizabeth Ashby comes "fresh" new mystery... Labor Day weekend starts with a bang in Danger Cove when a dead body is found in the orchard of Maria Dolores' mentor and maybe-boyfriend, Merle! While it's clear the murder took place long...

From USA Today bestselling authors Gin Jones and Elizabeth Ashby comes a fall fiasco of epic proportions! Quilt appraiser Keely Fairchild just wants to have a quiet little Thanksgiving dinner at home with her boyfriend, but as the guest list grows, so do the distractions from meal preparations....

From USA Today bestselling authors Gin Jones and Elizabeth Ashby comes a hauntingly good mystery... It's Halloween, and Maria Dolores is hoping for a trouble-free weekend, the last one before the Lighthouse Farmers' Market closes for the winter. But her hopes are dashed when a state agricultural...

From USA Today bestselling authors Gin Jones and Elizabeth Ashby... The holidays can be a killer. Quilt appraiser Keely Fairchild is thrilled that the Danger Cove Quilt Guild has teamed up with the Historical Museum to make miniature quilts to decorate the museum's Christmas tree. To...

From USA Today bestselling authors Gin Jones & Elizabeth Ashby... For quilt appraiser Keely Fairchild, the opportunity to appraise more than a hundred quilts feels almost too good to be true. And then she learns the bad news: the quiltmaker was murdered and the police have no leads. Keely...