Mary Lou: 124 books

The Church of the Nazarene embraces American attachments to democratic rule, individual initiative, efficiency, and a strong sense of responsibility as "a city on a hill." It is also present in more than 150 world areas. These attributes are reflected in the astounding story of one of the founders...

Mentoring Today’s Nurses: A Global Perspective for Success provides guidance to faculty on how to mentor today’s students at all levels of the educational system. Authors Baxley, Ibitayo, and Bond provide a road map for educators struggling to successfully understand the patterns and expectations of students at all levels within a global society.

Make leisure time fun for all children and adults with autism spectrum disorders. Leisure time should be a part of the day that all look forward to enjoying. For many, it can cause anxiety and fear. This book provides comprehensive, structured strategies introducing meaningful leisure time to ASD...

FILE “M” FOR MURDER. . . . Champion of the mystery section at a small-town Minnesota library, Karen Nash is about to embark on a dream trip to London—a literary tour inspired by every murderous intrigue, wily suspect, and ingenious crime found in the pages of the British mysteries that...

In the years following Americas victory over Germany and Japan, the heady exhilaration of winning the war begins to fade in post-war Pittsburgh. The spewing filth of the steel mills and the stinging aftermath of the war take their toll on the Donatti family. Better jobs await them in California, and...

The end of the Pleistocene era brought dramatic environmental changes to small bands of humans living in North America: changes that affected subsistence, mobility, demography, technology, and social relations. The transition they made from Paleoindian (Pleistocene) to Archaic (Early Holocene) societies...

It is 1907 as Caroline Clemons watches her towns newest bachelor, Jake MacGregor, tie his horses to a post outside her window. Moments later as he enters her home to meet her eligible sisters, he mistakenly believes Caroline is a servant instead of one of Senator Chad Clemons daughters. Immediately...

From New Years Eve to Christmas Day, there are numerous holidays in the United States, celebrating everything from love on Valentines Day to the autumn harvest at Thanksgiving. USA Holidays presents a series of poems and illustrations sharing special elements of several holidays. It includes verses...

Poetry. "Sensuous, sensual, brave and insistent, Sanelli's work shows the enclosures we tend provide no refuge. Cruelty, violation, aging or sudden death aren't invaders; they've been under our feet all along: 'the world, suddenly, too over-exposed/ to see, too piercing to hear.' This gardener...

In the second novel in the “engaging” (Booklist) cozy library mystery series, Karen must work to clear her beau’s name after his ex-girlfriend is killed by a falling bookshelf while staying at his inn. The Case of the Killer Case? Ropes, revolvers, daggers, arsenic. . . . They...

[BookStrand Paranormal Romantic Suspense] When Jade Adams' abusive father dies she's finally free to return to the place she calls home. She lands a plum job working with childhood crush Sam Daniels. Sam is still as devastating as ever and he's showing an unexpected interest in Jade's...

Load your English language “teacher backpack” with teacher-tested, research-based strategies to enhance your teaching of English language, literature, and content. As students develop language through such strategies as Conga Line, Carousel, and Word Splash, they are engaged in positive, productive,...

Young children are invited to visit a rollicking and welcoming, inclusive classroom where children of differing abilities learn and play together every day. Come join the fun! Each student in this preschool classroom has a special need, but also a special gift to share. 

What happens, after the doctor delivers a death sentence? It is a heart-wrenching; love story, memoir about a man, that fights for life. With a history of heart and lung problems Tony visits his family Dr. before a planned trip to Maui, only to discover another nodule has appeared on his lung. The...