Cecily: 106 books

Five Star Readers' Favorite Award She had me RIVETED from page one. Interviews and Reviews This book does an excellent job of grounding the reader in the SPIRITUAL lives of the characters, intimating their spiritual discoveries in such a way as the reader can pick them up and apply them...

“When I was smaller I thought that at some point in my life I’d reach the top of the mountain. You know, the place where you’re finally happy. The night I got a standing ovation in the school play was the night I got to the top. The trouble was, no one ever told me that I’d have to hike back...

Jazmine Crawford doesn’t make decisions. She doesn’t make choices. She doesn’t make friends. Jazmine Crawford only wants one thing: to be invisible. For Jazmine, it’s a lot easier to take out her hearing aid and drift along pretending that nothing’s wrong than it is to admit that she’s...

Take this convenient book anywhere and embrace the hottest head-turning fashion accessory: the knitted hat. The clever designs of Weekend Hats will have enthusiastic knitters everywhere rejoicing in year-round hat style. Cecily Glowik MacDonald and Melissa LaBarre have brought you the best...

Cherish the gorgeous and timeless appeal of America’s northeast with this irresistible collection. Inspired by autumn, winter, and spring in new England (where the savvy knitter is never far from a sweater between September and March), New England Knits delivers 25 gorgeous patterns with classic...

The Fast and the Fabulous! Looking for knits that take only a little time but are big on style? Weekend Wraps features 18 designs that make short work of knitting gorgeous accessories. Cecily Glowik MacDonald and Melissa LaBarre, along with some of today's top design stars, have created a chic...

The Late Byzantine period (1261–1453) is marked by a paradoxical discrepancy between economic weakness and cultural strength. The apparent enigma can be resolved by recognizing that later Byzantine diplomatic strategies, despite or because of diminishing political advantage, relied on an increasingly...

This book covers a subject that has never previously been addressed, and yet it is both a fascinating and a provocative one: the representation of children in Byzantium. The visual material is extensive, intriguing and striking, and the historical context is crucially important to our understanding...

Painted Fires, first published in 1925, narrates the trials and tribulations of Helmi Milander, a Finnish immigrant, during the years approaching the First World War. The novel serves as a vehicle for McClung’s social activism, especially in terms of temperance, woman suffrage, and immigration policies...

What do you say when your friend’s baby dies? What do you say when her second baby is tragically stillborn? Is there any ‘right’ way to respond to grief? And when you’re the one who’s suffering, how do you get through the day? What do you say to the God you follow, the God who could have...

Sarah Amalfi and her best friend Samantha are headed to Tijuana looking for some summer fun after their high school graduation... but there’s something far more sinister looming over this road trip than an innocent shopping trip at Tijuana’s famous market place…Warnings from strangers,...

Lauren Daniels has reached a dead end in her life. She's single, unemployed, and unfulfilled. Until the night she meets a rich businessman in a bar. Then everything turns around. Now she has all the money, fun, and rough sex that she'll ever need. But is it worth giving up on her dreams? This...

ROMANTIC, WHOLESOME read. author Stacie Eirich A key aspect of the book is its defiance of the social standards of the period and it turns them upside down using SCRIPTURE. Will and Catherine quietly have some "aha" moments regarding those standards and I found the thing I valued most of about...

A fitting conclusion to a WONDERFUL, CLEAN HISTORICAL ROMANCE series. Rebellious Writing All the sighs! A BEAUTIFUL ending to a very MEANINGFUL series. I came to really care for the characters and felt invested in their happiness. These characters now feel like members of the family so it is...