Mary Lou: 124 books

Award-winning teacher Mary Lou Walker presents 10 clear rules to making conversation rewarding and fulfilling in this casual compendium of wit and wisdom. Positing that conversation groups, or colloquies, make the perfect social antidote in today’s culture of tweeting and texting, she infuses each...

This is a great collection of true stories by Mary Lou Keller, who writes of her memories of bygone days when she was deeply involved in the life and times of a little Western village called Sedona. A natural-born storyteller, she captures the wonder and magic of the red-rock country she loves as...

Have you ever fantasized about taking time away from your overworked life? Nights uninterrupted by email? Days to pursue set-aside dreams? Do you promise yourself that “someday” you will get a break? Mary Lou Quinlan had those “someday” thoughts. But her hard-earned job as CEO of a...

This sketchbook is a collection of sketches of the west coast of Canada that landscape artist, Mary Lou Crerar, has done over the last several years from the sea and from the land. Some were done from a sailboat, others from commercial craft and pleasure boats.Contending with the speed of the boats,...

When she moved to Pakistan with her husband, artist Mary Lou Crerar had thought that her inability to speak Urdu was going to be a problem. But the main problem turned out to be culture. A sixty year old Canadian woman could not just get into her car and drive out to an area to paint by herself. Fortunately,...

This sketchbook is a collection of sketches of the Rocky Mountains done by Canadian landscape artist, Mary Lou Crerar. In her work, Crerar captured the vastness of the mountain landscape. Contending with cold weather and curious visitors, both human and animal, Crerar and four other intrepid artists...

The Prescott siblings — sister Leslie, brother Alan and sister Connie — have survived a miserable five years when their intelligent and loving parents fall into dementia and had to be cared for by their children. Now the parents have died and all three children have separately left New York and moved...

Easy lap-size quilt from strips, rectangles, and squares. Requires (5) one yard pieces. Tone-on-tones work best. 1 - light 1 - very light 1 - medium 1 - dark 1 - bright Size approximately 60" x 60". Easy to follow directions with illustrations. Tools: Sewing machine, scissors,...

*"Howdy, folks. This story starts back in 1886, in Henrietta, Texas. My name is Bob and I was six years old back then..." *Thus speaks Bob Crump, the author's father, as he begins to describe the family's move to settle Lubbock County on the High Plains of Texas in 1890. His family was...

“One of the great cartoonists of our time.” –New Yorker cartoonist Arnold Roth The remarkable story of one of America’s most prolific and beloved cartoonists, Al Jaffee, with dozens of original color illustrations. Jaffe’s career in cartooning stretches back to 1941—with early humor...

Ah travel! New scenery, exciting adventures, time alone with a loved one. Truth is, travel can make or break a relationship. Just negotiating when to leave for the airport can be tricky: she insists on arriving hours ahead of flight time, he likes the excitement of a photo finish. But as Mary-Lou...

Free quilt pattern for the book cover of Lulu. Open on a computer or laptop in an "Online Reading" format so you can print a copy.

Free quilt pattern for the cover of my book, Up The Ivory Staircase. Open the pattern on your computer in the PDF format below the authors profile.

Whether it's a delicate green tea or a bracing Assam black, a cup of tea is a complex brew of art and industry, tradition and revolution, East and West. In this sweeping tour through the world of tea, veteran tea traders Mary Lou Heiss and Robert J. Heiss chronicle tea's influence across the globe...