Maria: 6239 books

« Je ferai de toi ma petite prostituée »  : elle n’est encore qu’une enfant quand son père annonce ses intentions à Maria. Sa mère, dépitée par la vie qu’elle mène, a décidé de quitter la maison, laissant Maria seule avec son père et ses frères et sœurs. C’est le début...

A warm and intimate look into the spiritual life of Maria von Trapp's famous Sound of Music family. In this best-selling work, Maria takes you beyond the thrilling story of her family's desperate and determined flight from Austria to her new life in America, as well as providing: A personal and...

According to Wikipedia: "Dinah Maria Craik (born Dinah Maria Mulock, also often credited as Miss Mulock) (20 April 1826 - 12 October 1887) was an English novelist and poet. She was born at Stoke-on-Trent and brought up in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire. After the death of her mother in 1845, Dinah...

Spanning 500 years of Brazilian history, Her Mother's Mother's Mother and Her Daughters chronicles a family of women, beginning in 1500 with the birth of Inaiá, daughter of a Tupiniquim warrior, and ending in 2001 with Inaiá's distant descendent, Maria Flor. As each new daughter takes the place...

Maria Rodale shares her top organic gardening secrets season-by-season in a guide that offers straight-forward, easy-to-follow gardening basics so that youcan enjoy a beautiful, bountiful, organic garden all year long! Spring explainshow to prepare for, plan, and plant your garden, as well...

Maria Rodale shares her top organic gardening secrets season-by-season in a guide that offers straight-forward, easy-to-follow gardening basics so that youcan enjoy a beautiful, bountiful, organic garden all year long! In Summer, you will find the best chemical-free bug solutions, easy organic...

Quanti ricordi possono essere contenuti in una valigia? In quella di Maria Alba Pezza può starci l'intera epopea di una famiglia - la sua - con le suggestioni di un passato ardimentoso e con la prospettiva di un futuro che non si rassegna a dimenticare. L'autrice sarebbe" una brigantessa",...

Edited by Zita Podany This book is a summary of Maria’s life. She survived the Nazi labor and death camps that plagued most parts of Europe during World War II. She had to learn to cope with death at an early age. In a short period of time, she lost her father and three brothers as she and...

Che cosa accade nel momento del nostro trapasso? Perchè Dio permette che tante anime soffrano, talvolta molto a lungo nel Purgatorio, prima di ammetterle nella gloria dei Cieli? Cos'è il Purgatorio? Chi sono le numerose anime che lo popolano e perchè si trovano in quel luogo di espiazione? Che...

Heather Maria Ramirez is a hot selling author and she has created another masterpiece. Yes, she has done it again. This book was a true classic in the making. This book of insane truth was created for and dedicated to, the fly and the innocent peeps in the world that get hated on just like she does,...

Out of a life well-lived, the story of one family's adventures from the majestic beauty of Austria across the Atlantic to American freedom. Immortalized on film in "The Sound of Music," Maria here allows the reader to really know who she was. The flight from danger to a new life in...

Un racconto fresco e accattivante della vita avventurosa di Maria Elisabetta Hesselblad (1870-1957), la fondatrice delle Brigidine. Segnata dall'ansia di divino e dalla volontà di essere sempre al servizio degli "ultimi", Elisabetta, nata in Svezia in una famiglia luterana, abbracciò il...

“Love? You can’t write about love; no one would understand it. People will be confused by the word love.” Maria heard those words repeatedly as she interviewed professors for her dissertation committee. Well – she did write about love, and we are glad she did! In this small book, Maria...

Born in 1875, the German lyric poet Rainer Maria Rilke published his first collection of poems in 1898 and went on to become renowned for his delicate depiction of the workings of the human heart. These translations by M.D. Herter Norton offer Rilke's work to the English-speaking world in an accurate, sensitive, modern version.