Mary Walker: 21 books
Creative Knitting
A New Art Form. New & Expanded Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2013
The first book to introduce knitting as an art form, this classic guide has been newly revised and expanded to offer even more suggestions and inspiration. Mary Walker Phillips shows how to use traditional stitches in original ways to produce highly decorative creations rather than strictly functional...
by Mary Walker Phillips
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2013
Mary Walker Phillips nearly single-handedly brought nineteenth-century counterpanes, or bedspreads, to the attention of modern knitters. This book is the product of her international searches of museums, private collections, and magazines, a quest that yielded a choice selection of 46 counterpane...
Half the Clouds
Women in the Kingdom of God
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
Christs last instructions to the church were to take the gospel to the ends of the earth. This Great Commission is a big job, and it will take all the soldiers of Christ working together selflessly to accomplish the task. Yet if half of the so great a cloud of witnesses spoken of in Hebrews consists...
by Mary Lou Walker, Matthew Calkins
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
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...
Circling Faith
Southern Women on Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2012
Circling Faith is a collection of essays by southern women that encompasses spirituality and the experience of winding through the religiously charged environment of the American South.
Mary Karr, in “Facing Altars,” describes how the consolation she found in poetry directed her...
by Mary Willis Walker
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2015
The author and heroine of The Red Scream return in a novel so terrifying, so filled with squirming suspense, it's bound for the bestseller lists. When Kirkus Reviews greeted Mary Willis Walker's last book, The Red Scream, with "welcome to the big time," they weren't kidding....
Light Shines in Harlem
New York's First Charter School and the Movement It Led
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
A Light Shines in Harlem tells the fascinating history of New York's first charter school, the Sisulu-Walker Charter School of Harlem, and the early days of the state's charter school movement. Told through the experiences of those on the inside—including a hero of the civil rights movement; a Wall...
Equity and Full Participation for Individuals with Severe Disabilities
A Vision for the Future
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2014
What key issues and challenges affect the lives of people with severe disabilities today's and what should tomorrow's professionals do to address them? Aligned with the core values and agenda of TASH, this visionary text prepares professionals to strengthen supports and services for people with disabilities...
by Mary Willis Walker
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2015
Texas-based crime reporter Molly Cates has just published her first book, describing the blood-curdling exploits of serial killer Louie Bronk. Now on death row, Louie's sentence is about to be carried out. Molly will be there as a witness, and she wants to write about it--the final...
A Maverick Traveller
The first in Mary Jane's series of worldwide travel adventures
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2018
BY THE AUTHOR OF A MAVERICK NEW ZEALAND WAY, FINALIST IN TRAVEL AT THE INTERNATIONAL BOOK AWARDS, 2018.
At twenty, Mary Jane left New Zealand for five years. A Maverick Traveller begins with an epic voyage on a Chinese junk named La Dame de Canton, and then goes on to describe her later adventures...
South Carolina Women
Their Lives and Times
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Covering an era from the early twentieth century to the present, this volume features twenty-seven South Carolina women of varied backgrounds whose stories reflect the ever-widening array of activities and occupations in which women were engaged in a transformative era that included depression, world...
After Montaigne
Contemporary Essayists Cover the Essays
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Writers of the modern essay can trace their chosen genre all the way back to Michel de Montaigne (1533–92). But save for the recent notable best seller How to Live: A Life of Montaigne by Sarah Bakewell, Montaigne is largely ignored. After Montaigne—a collection of twenty-four new personal essays...
by Mary Willis Walker
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2010
When crime reporter Molly Cates’s father died more than twenty-five years ago, the case was ruled a suicide, and Molly’s efforts to prove otherwise led to nothing but anguish and the breakup of her family. But now new information has come her way and she reopens the investigation–and a rush...
Let Nobody Turn Us Around
An African American Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2009
This anthology of black writers traces the evolution of African-American perspectives throughout American history, from the early years of slavery to the end of the 20th century. The essays, manifestos, interviews, and documents assembled here, contextualized with critical commentaries from Marable...
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