Marjorie: 555 books
Boom Town
How Wal-Mart Transformed an All-American Town Into an International Community
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
Investigating the personal stories behind the headquarters of the Wal-Mart empire, this examination focuses on the growth of Bentonville, Arkansas-a microcosm of America's social, political, and cultural shift. Numerous personalities are interviewed, including a multimillionaire Palestinian refugee...
The Legacy of John Waldie and Sons
A History of the Victoria Harbour Lumber Company
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2007
At the time of his death in 1907, John Waldie, founder of the Victoria Harbour Lumber Company, was identified as "the second largest lumber operator in Canada." A young Scottish immigrant who came to Wellington Square (now Burlington, Ontario) in 1842, he rose to prominence as a wealthy...
by Marjorie Maddox
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
Winner of the 1994 Sandstone Poetry Book Award.
by Marjorie Maddox
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
In these powerful stories, What She Was Saying softens the already thin line between hope and hopelessness, between perseverance and despair, between what can and cannot be said. A finalist for the Katherine Anne Porter and Eludia book awards—as well as a semifinalist for Black Lawrence Press’s...
by Marjorie Irish Randell
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012
Searching for Friday's Child is the story of one young man and the closeness he shared with his family...a closeness which held them all together throughout the harrowing days of World War II in spite of their separation by many geographical miles.
Howard Irish, graduated less than a year from Michigan...
Principals
Faces of Change
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2010
For school principals, there are many different routes to success, and there just as many ways to measure that success in a school. Principals introduces five high school principals with their own stories to tell about success and the challenges of managing mandated change. These personal portraits...
Radioactivity
A History of a Mysterious Science
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2011
This is the story of a new science. Beginning with an obscure discovery in 1896, radioactivity led researchers on a quest for understanding that ultimately confronted the intersection of knowledge and mystery. Mysterious from the start, radioactivity attracted researchers who struggled to understand...
Home Children Bundle
The Golden Bridge / The Little Immigrants / Mary Janeway / Nation Builders / Whatever Happened to Mary Janeway?
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2013
In the early years after Confederation in Canada, the rising nation needed workers that could take advantage of the abundant resources. Until the time of the Depression, 100,000 impoverished children from the British Isles were sent overseas by well-meaning philanthropists to solve the colony’s...
Edward W. Randell Sr.
His Flight Thru Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
From the time he was a little guy Edward Randell has an vivid interest in airplanes and flying. He realizes part of his dream when he begins taking flying lessons as a teenager. From there to flying over the highest mountains in the world he fulfills his dream. Still flying as an old man, still fulfilling...
The Ring and the Cross
Christianity and the Lord of the Rings
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2010
The conversation, sometimes heated, about the influence of Christianity on the writings of J.R.R. Tolkien has a long history. What has been lacking is a forum for a civilized discussion about the topic, as well as a chronological overview of the major arguments and themes that have engaged scholars...
Writing Lives in China, 1600-2010
Histories of the Elusive Self
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
This innovative collection explores the life stories of Chinese women and men between the seventeenth and twenty-first centuries. It draws on both biographical and autobiographical narratives and on perspectives taken from life writing theory to ask how lives were lived and written within and against the rules of the auto/biographical game.
The Road from Spink
A Retrospective on Growing up in the Rural Midwest During the Great Depression and World War Ii
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2005
M.L. Flados has a gift for making the meaningful and the mundane come alive in this retrospective of growing up Norwegian and Lutheran during the Great Depression.Her vivid narration of a former American lifestyle,is a remarkable sociological study of the dirty thirties and World War II..Follow the...
by Otto Palmer, Marjorie Spock
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1975
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1975
Much has been written by students of spiritual science on The Philosophy of Freedom, but the advantage of discovering what the author himself had to say about this most important and seminal work should be obvious. Not only were the words of the text chosen most carefully, but also its very structure...
by Marjorie Boulton
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
This title, first published in 1960, is intended primarily to increase the understanding of drama among those who do not have easy access to the live theatre and who, therefore, study plays mainly in print. The author’s emphasis is on Shakespeare, but most forms of drama receive some attention....