Mary Lou Carney's Books

Dr. Welch and the Great Grape Story

By: Mary Lou Carney

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Dr. Welch and the Great Grape Story

By: Mary Lou Carney

Dr. Welch, a devout Methodist, is inspired to develop a beverage for communion that is not alcoholic. His efforts ultimately lead to the creation of Welch Grape Juice Company.

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Boyds Mills Press

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1590780396

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9781590780398

The Truly Terribly Horrible Sweater...That Grandma Knit

By: Debbie Macomber,Mary Lou Carney

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The Truly Terribly Horrible Sweater...That Grandma Knit

By: Debbie Macomber,Mary Lou Carney

Cameron loves his grandmother. She knows just what makes him tick. That's why he can't figure out why Grandma would send him a sweater—a truly terribly horrible sweater—for his birthday. Cameron pours mustard on his sweater. He puts it on his dog (in the rain). He even tries to send it to the thrift shop. But nothing works. Now Grandma is coming for the holidays, and Cameron has to wear her gift to him. But what's he going to say when she asks what he thinks about the sweater she made? With a sure hand and a light touch, worldwide bestseller Debbie Macomber and her new writing partner, Mary Lou Carney, reveal that what Grandma knit into Cameron's sweater is the greatest gift of all. Debbie and Mary Lou have included simple knitting instructions and an original knitting pattern for Cameron's sweater. You can find them at the back of this book.

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Harper Collins

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0061650935

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9780061650932

Wrestling with an Angel

A Devotional Novel for Junior Highers

By: Mary Lou Carney

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Wrestling with an Angel

A Devotional Novel for Junior Highers

By: Mary Lou Carney

A collection of daily devotions tell the story of a guardian angel named Herbie who helps a young boy face many problems, including the separation of his parents.

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Zondervan Publishing Company

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031061421X

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9780310614210

How Do You Hug an Angel?

A Devotional Novel for Junior Highers

By: Mary Lou Carney

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How Do You Hug an Angel?

A Devotional Novel for Junior Highers

By: Mary Lou Carney

A collection of daily devotions tells the story of a guardian angel named Herbie who helps a young girl deal with the death of her mother, regaining her hearing, and going to middle school.

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Zondervan Publishing Company

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0310594111

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9780310594116

Angel in My Attic

Devotions for Junior High Girls

By: Mary Lou Carney

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Angel in My Attic

Devotions for Junior High Girls

By: Mary Lou Carney

A collection of daily devotions, accompanied by appropriate Bible verses, in which a junior high school girl discusses with her guardian angel troublesome aspects of Christian life for someone her age.

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Zondervan Publishing Company

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0310286115

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9780310286110

Bubble Gum and Chalk Dust

By: Mary Lou Carney

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Bubble Gum and Chalk Dust

By: Mary Lou Carney

Prayers and Poems for Teachers.

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0687039878

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9780687039876

Angel in My Backpack

Summer Camp Devotions for Junior Highers

By: Mary Lou Carney

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Angel in My Backpack

Summer Camp Devotions for Junior Highers

By: Mary Lou Carney

A collection of thirty daily devotions, in which a guardian angel named Herbie goes with a young boy to summer camp to help him have a good time and to teach him about God.

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Zondervan Publishing Company

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0310285011

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9780310285014

Bible Knock Knocks and Other Fun Stuff

By: Mary Lou Carney

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Bible Knock Knocks and Other Fun Stuff

By: Mary Lou Carney

Presents a collection of jokes, riddles, puns, and limericks focusing on Biblical characters and events.

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068703180X

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9780687031801

Medieval Women on Sin and Salvation

Hadewijch of Antwerp, Beatrice of Nazareth, Margaret Ebner, and Julian of Norwich

By: Mary Lou Shea

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Medieval Women on Sin and Salvation

Hadewijch of Antwerp, Beatrice of Nazareth, Margaret Ebner, and Julian of Norwich

By: Mary Lou Shea

Hadewijch of Antwerp (c.1200?-1240), Beatrice of Nazareth (1200-1268), Margaret Ebner (1291-1351), and Julian of Norwich (1343-1416/19) are best known for their mystical experiences and literary styles. Medieval Women on Sin and Salvation explores the reality that these women understood their encounters in primarily theological categories. It is well documented that Anselm of Canterbury's 1098 Cur Deus Homo was quickly and widely adopted by late medieval religious men. Given the deeply relational, somewhat unconventional, yet clearly orthodox interpretations of Anselm's theory expressed by Hadewijch, Beatrice, Margaret, and Julian, it would seem that nuns, beguines, and devout lay women were compelled by the same understanding of Atonement as the priests, monks, brothers, and lay men of the era. Unable to offer academic theological treatises, given the constraints of their age, these women managed to convey, through their writings, profoundly theological insights into the crucial Christian concepts of the natures of soul and sin, the Fall, and the Incarnation and its benefits, both for God and for humanity. This book offers valuable new insights and is suitable for upper division undergraduate classes and graduate courses in the history of Christianity/Medieval Christianity, theology, spirituality, and women's studies.

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Peter Lang

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1433109484

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9781433109485

Teacher Preparation in the United States

History, Current Conditions, and Policy

By: Kelly Kolodny,Mary-Lou Breitborde

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Teacher Preparation in the United States

History, Current Conditions, and Policy

By: Kelly Kolodny,Mary-Lou Breitborde

Starting in New England with academies, seminaries, institutes, and the birth of the state normal schools, Kelly Kolodny and Mary-Lou Breitborde explore the origins of teacher preparation in the United States as these schools expanded geographically, in substance and form, throughout the south and west.

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Emerald Group Publishing

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1800716877

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9781800716872

Elizabeth’s War

A Novel of the First Seminole War

By: John and Mary Lou Missall

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Elizabeth’s War

A Novel of the First Seminole War

By: John and Mary Lou Missall

The year is 1817, and Florida is on the brink of war. A young woman stands on the deck of a flatboat, anxiously watching the banks of the Apalachicola River. Not far away stands a Seminole warrior, eyeing the vessel from behind his concealment, choosing his targets carefully. Neither the woman nor the warrior can imagine how much their worlds are about to change. Inspired by the true story of Elizabeth Stuart, a young army wife taken captive by the Seminole during the Scott Massacre of 1817, Elizabeth s War takes the reader through the clash of empires that became known as the First Seminole War. The war is seen not only through Elizabeth s eyes, but those of her Indian captors, and of her husband and father, who are part of an avenging army bent on destroying the Seminole people. To stay alive among the Indians, Elizabeth will have to fight for her life, hoping she can survive long enough for Andrew Jackson s army to rescue her. Written by Seminole War historians, Elizabeth's War is a prequel to Hollow Victory, winner of the 2012 Patrick D. Smith Award for Fiction from the Florida Historical Society. Based on years of research into the Scott Massacre, Elizabeth's War concludes with a detailed history of the event and an overview of the First Seminole War.

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Florida Historical Society

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0981733727

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9780981733722

History of the Third Seminole War, 1849–1858

By: Joe Knetsch,John Missall,Mary Lou Missall

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History of the Third Seminole War, 1849–1858

By: Joe Knetsch,John Missall,Mary Lou Missall

This definitive account of the final war between the US government and Florida’s Seminole tribe “brings to life a conflict that is largely ignored” (San Francisco Book Review). Spanning a period of over forty years (1817–1858), the three Seminole Wars were America’s longest, costliest, and deadliest Indian wars, surpassing the more famous ones fought in the West. After an uneasy peace following the conclusion of the second Seminole War in 1842, a series of hostile events, followed by a string of murders in 1849 and 1850, made confrontation inevitable. The war was also known as the “Billy Bowlegs War” because Billy Bowlegs, Holata Micco, was the central Seminole leader in this the last Indian war to be fought east of the Mississippi River. Pushed by increasing encroachment into their territory, he led a raid near Fort Myers. A series of violent skirmishes ensued. The vastness of the Floridian wilderness and the difficulties of the terrain and climate caused problems for the army, but they had learned lessons from the second war, and, amongst other new tactics, employed greater use of boats, eventually securing victory by cutting off food supplies. History of the Third Seminole War is a detailed narrative of the war and its causes, containing numerous firsthand accounts from participants in the conflict, derived from virtually all the available primary sources, collected over many years. “Any reader interested in learning more about Indian wars, Army history, or Florida history will profit from reading this book,” as well as Civil War enthusiasts, since many of the officers earned their stripes in the earlier conflict (The Journal of America’s Military Past).

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Casemate Publishers

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1612005772

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9781612005775

The Imperial Executive in America

Sir Edmund Andros, 1637-1714

By: Mary Lou Lustig

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The Imperial Executive in America

Sir Edmund Andros, 1637-1714

By: Mary Lou Lustig

Andros also made significant attempts to increase the population and improve the economy of New York."--Cover.

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Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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0838639364

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9780838639368

New Orleans in the Fifties

By: Mary Lou Widmer

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New Orleans in the Fifties

By: Mary Lou Widmer

Photos and reminiscences of life the 1950s, part of the decade-by-decade series that vividly documents the Crescent City’s history. Remember when Mardi Gras was cancelled in 1951 in tribute to the men fighting the Korean War? Surely you were there for Elvis Presley’s visit to the Municipal Auditorium in 1956, and you must recall the first time you crossed the brand-new Greater New Orleans Bridge. How about the milk bottle on top of the Cloverland Dairy? For those who were there and those who wish they were, Mary Lou Widmer recalls these and many other images and events that define the decade. Packed with photographs, her remembrances will delight and entertain all who lived through this unique decade in New Orleans and fascinate anyone intrigued by the city’s past—from the tumult of integration to the worries about communism to the rapid growth of Gentilly, Metairie, and other suburbs.

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Pelican Publishing

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1455609501

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9781455609505

Encouraging Positive Behaviors in Today’s Kids

A New Guide for Behavior Problems and Other Concerns for Counselors, Teachers, and Other School Personnel

By: Mary Lou McCormick

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Encouraging Positive Behaviors in Today’s Kids

A New Guide for Behavior Problems and Other Concerns for Counselors, Teachers, and Other School Personnel

By: Mary Lou McCormick

A new guide for a new age is here to assist educators in dealing effectively with common problematic behaviors (such as Aggression, Defiance) and other concerns (such as Developing Empathy, Sexual Abuse Indicators) of today’s kids. It presents various interventions, strategies and activities compatible with the democratic principles of the larger society (No punishment, intimidation or threats allowed!). This handbook is provided to assist kids of all ages in developing skills in self-reliance, self-discipline, and self-determination, making them good decision-makers in matters that affect their lives…a gift that will last a lifetime!

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1475858043

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9781475858044

Catherine Spalding, SCN

A Life in Letters

By: Mary Ellen Doyle

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Catherine Spalding, SCN

A Life in Letters

By: Mary Ellen Doyle

At the age of nineteen, Catherine Spalding (1793–1858) ventured into what would become a lifetime of leadership with the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth (SCN)—one of the most significant American religious communities for women. As a cofounder and first superior of the order, she dedicated her life to developing and improving health care, services for orphans, and education on the early frontier. Her contributions had a lasting impact on Catholicism, the state of Kentucky, and the many people whose lives she touched. Mary Ellen Doyle supplements her definitive biography of the influential educator and humanitarian, Pioneer Spirit, with this meticulously edited and annotated volume. The collected correspondence illustrates Spalding's exemplary character and the scope of her day-to-day life as an administrator. Together, the letters reveal a new picture of Spalding's personality and drive, her insights, her trials, and her world as mother superior. The collection also gives readers a valuable glimpse of antebellum life in Kentucky and the wider south. Doyle presents the correspondence chronologically, following Spalding through key stages in her career from the founding of the SCN to her final years, as she turned to quieter cares. She provides essential historical context and information about Spalding's various correspondents, and she also analyzes the significance of letters missing from the collection. Catherine Spalding, SCN brings the SCN founder's words to a broader audience and offers readers new perspectives on both the world in which she lived and frontier faith.

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University Press of Kentucky

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081316897X

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9780813168975

The House of the Burgesses

By: Michael Burgess,Mary Wickizer Burgess

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The House of the Burgesses

By: Michael Burgess,Mary Wickizer Burgess

A facsimile reprint of the Second Edition (1994) of this genealogical guide to 25,000 descendants of William Burgess of Richmond (later King George) County, Virginia, and his only known son, Edward Burgess of Stafford (later King George) County, Virginia. Complete with illustrations, photos, comprehensive given and surname indexes, and historical introduction.

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Wildside Press LLC

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0893704792

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9780893704797

Women Warriors in History

1,622 Biographies Worldwide from the Bronze Age to the Present

By: Mary Ellen Snodgrass

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Women Warriors in History

1,622 Biographies Worldwide from the Bronze Age to the Present

By: Mary Ellen Snodgrass

History paints war out to be a man's business, but there is an army of women warriors who stand between the lines of history books, waiting to be seen. This biographical dictionary tells the story of the females who armed themselves against threats to self, family, home and country. Spanning 17 periods of world history, it compiles the daring deeds of 1,622 female fighters, from Bronze Age archers and Viking raiders, to helicopter pilots and commanders of aircraft carriers. Entries summarize heroes such as the Old Testament judge Deborah, Joan of Arc, Elizabeth I, Aisha, Mary Spencer-Churchill, Calamity Jane, Cleopatra VII, Molly Pitcher, Aung San Suu Kyi and-- surprisingly-- Julia Child. Included are the famous stands the unheralded scrappers and risk-takers took up in fierce crises.

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McFarland

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1476693056

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9781476693057

Introduction to Critical Care Nursing E-Book

By: Mary Lou Sole,Deborah Goldenberg Klein,Marthe J. Moseley

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Introduction to Critical Care Nursing E-Book

By: Mary Lou Sole,Deborah Goldenberg Klein,Marthe J. Moseley

Start here to master the concepts, technology, and procedures of critical care nursing! Introduction to Critical Care Nursing, 8th Edition prepares you to provide safe, effective, patient-centered care in a variety of high-acuity, progressive, and critical care settings. Evidence-based coverage includes realistic case studies and incorporates the latest advances in critical care. Disorders are conveniently organized by body system or special situation, and nursing management chapters include quick-reference nursing care plans. This clear, concise textbook will help you develop the knowledge and clinical reasoning skills needed for success in today's highly complex critical care environments. Critical Reasoning Activities are included throughout the text, promoting development of clinical nursing judgment to help you prepare for the Next-Generation NCLEX-RN® Exam. Emphasis on QSEN competencies enables you to gain the knowledge, skills, and attitudes needed to provide safe, high-quality health care in a variety of high acuity, progressive, and critical care settings. Evidence-Based Practice boxes illustrate how research evidence is used to address problems in patient care and includes nursing implications plus AACN’s new system for Levels of Evidence: A, B, C, D, E, and M. Universal Collaborative Plan of Care for the Critically Ill Patient addresses key aspects of collaborative/interprofessional care that apply to virtually all critically ill patients. Individual Plans of Care prepare you for clinical practice by describing patient problems, patient outcomes, and nursing assessments and interventions with rationales. Case studies challenge you to apply concepts to the real world, testing your clinical nursing judgment by asking questions about patient-specific cases with lab results. Clinical Alerts highlight potential problems and concerns to improve patient safety and clinical care. Laboratory Alerts emphasize the importance of laboratory test results to critical care nursing. Medication tables show the actions/usages, indications, dosages/routes, side effects, and nursing implications of medications commonly used in critical care settings. Coverage of cardiac assistive devices includes the ECMO device for extracorporeal life support, as well as other small, portable, bedside cardiac-assistive devices. Hemodynamic monitoring content now emphasizes the noninvasive methods of hemodynamic monitoring that are becoming more prominent. Coverage of infection control addresses the QSEN safety competency and helps provide patient protection against the growing threat of drug-resistant infections. Nearly 300 full-color photographs and drawings visually clarify key concepts and equipment for better understanding of today’s complex critical care environment.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0323759661

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9780323759663

Turning Texas Blue

What It Will Take to Break the GOP Grip on America's Reddest State

By: Mary Beth Rogers

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Turning Texas Blue

What It Will Take to Break the GOP Grip on America's Reddest State

By: Mary Beth Rogers

Successful Democratic Texas campaign manager Mary Beth Rogers explains how Democrats can punch holes in the big red political bubble that has covered the state for 25 years

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Macmillan

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125007908X

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9781250079084

Leading from the Middle

A Case-Study Approach to Academic Leadership for Associate and Assistant Deans

By: Tammy Stone,Mary Coussons-Read

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Leading from the Middle

A Case-Study Approach to Academic Leadership for Associate and Assistant Deans

By: Tammy Stone,Mary Coussons-Read

Pity the humble academic. Moving from a faculty position to an administrative office frequently entails gaining considerable responsibility-but ambiguous power. The hope of these two authors is that this volume will serve as a reference and a source of support for current associate and assistant deans and as a window into these jobs for faculty who may be considering such a role. Staff positions often come with detailed job descriptions and reporting lines, but the role of associate/assistant deans is often ill-defined and dependent upon the personality of the dean they serve. The authors thus begin their discussion with an examination of the relationship between these two positions, setting the tone for the rest of the book. Stone and Coussons-Read have structured as a series of modules that encompass different situations in which associate/assistant deans may find themselves, and the authors candidly give advice about how to handle the resulting challenges. Case studies illustrate the typical daily work required by this position, with each case followed by suggestions for effective responses. The authors also provide references to sources in which readers can dig more deeply into areas such as conflict management and communication styles.

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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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1442204664

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9781442204669

Too Tough to Hurt

By: Mary Lou Carney

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Too Tough to Hurt

By: Mary Lou Carney

Garren's guardian angel, Herbie, helps him face many problems including the separation of his parents.

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Zondervan Publishing Company

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0310286212

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9780310286219

The As It Happens Files

Radio That May Contain Nuts

By: Mary Lou Finlay

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The As It Happens Files

Radio That May Contain Nuts

By: Mary Lou Finlay

In the tradition of Peter Gzowski’s The Morningside Papers comes a book that celebrates the great stories and personalities behind As It Happens. For eight years, Mary Lou Finlay had the pleasure of being the co-host of one of CBC Radio’s most enduring institutions. On any given day she and Barbara Budd interviewed people on subjects varying from the Air India investigation to a man who invented a suit that would withstand an attack from a grizzly bear to a cheese-rolling contest in Cheshire. The As It Happens Files gives us the great stories – the hilarious eccentrics, the audience favourites, the poignant moments – that make up, for many Canadians some of the fondest, most vivid memories of the last decade.

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Vintage Canada

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0307373002

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9780307373007

There's an Angel in My Locker

Devotionals for Junior Highers

By: Mary Lou Carney

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There's an Angel in My Locker

Devotionals for Junior Highers

By: Mary Lou Carney

A collection of twenty-five daily devotions, in which a typical middle school student discusses with his guardian angel problems ranging from boredom with church to the death of a relative.

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Zondervan Publishing Company

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0310284716

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9780310284710

Wil Lou Gray

The Making of a Southern Progressive from New South to New Deal

By: Mary Macdonald Ogden

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Wil Lou Gray

The Making of a Southern Progressive from New South to New Deal

By: Mary Macdonald Ogden

In Wil Lou Gray: The Making of a Southern Progressive from New South to New Deal, Mary Macdonald Ogden examines the first fifty years of the life and work of South Carolina's Wil Lou Gray (1883-1984), an uncompromising advocate of public and private programs to improve education, health, citizen participation, and culture in the Palmetto State. Motivated by the southern educational reform crusade, her own excellent education, and the high levels of illiteracy she observed in South Carolina, Gray capitalized on the emergent field of adult education before and after World War I to battle the racism, illiteracy, sexism, and political lethargy commonplace in her native state. As state superintendent of adult schools from 1919 to 1946, one of only two such superintendents in the nation, and through opportunity schools, adult night schools, pilgrimages, and media campaigns—all of which she pioneered—Gray transformed South Carolina's anti-illiteracy campaign from a plan of eradication to a comprehensive program of adult education. Ogden's biography reveals how Gray successfully secured small but meaningful advances for both black and white adults in the face of harsh economic conditions, pervasive white supremacy attitudes, and racial violence. Gray's socially progressive politics brought change in the first decades of the twentieth century. Gray was a refined, sophisticated upper-class South Carolinian who played Canasta, loved tomato aspic, and served meals at the South Carolina Opportunity School on china with cloth napkins. She was also a lifelong Democrat, a passionate supporter of equality of opportunity, a masterful politician, a workaholic, and in her last years a vociferous supporter of government programs such as Medicare and nonprofits such as Planned Parenthood. She had a remarkable grasp of the issues that plagued her state and, with deep faith in the power of government to foster social justice, developed innovative ways to address those problems despite real financial, political, and social barriers to progress. Her life is an example of how one person with bravery, tenacity, and faith in humanity can grasp the power of government to improve society.

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Univ of South Carolina Press

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1611175690

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9781611175691

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