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  • In This Waning Light
    Elizabeth C. Burgess
    Elizabeth Burgess was lucky enough to have Dr. J.J. Van Noppen for English at Appalachian State Teachers College. (now University) He encouraged her to write.She did not take writing seriously until the early 1980’s when she returned from teaching in Baumholder Germany and was selected to attend The Writing Project at UNC-Pembroke. The project was based on the Berkeley, Califor...
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    20,18 €

  • Jody and the Backyard Bullies
    Elizabeth C Burgess
    Jody and his squirrel family live in the backyard at Grandma Cole’s house. Jody is born without a long bushy tail like other squirrels, but he is happy until the Bully Brothers call him ugly names and treat him roughly. Grandma Cole and the other animals in the backyard come to Jody’s aid along with his mother, brother, and sister. New rules are set by Grandma Cole about how th...
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    32,08 €

  • Desert Dreams
    Mary Elizabeth Burgess
    Willy falls in love with Native life first through an Elderhostel program, teaching Najavos how to read and write. Reluctantly, she returns home to visit her three children, Dusty, Stephanie, and Mike. Her pastor informs her of the need for teachers with a different tribe. There she meets Jim and Alice, pastor and nurse, supportive and jolly, workhorses like herself. Her grands...
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    22,94 €

  • Boy Wonders
    Mary Elizabeth Burgess
    He shouldn’t even have been born. His mother’s water broke when she was only eight months along. Yet the doctor delivered a healthy boy one month later by forceps. When he babbled in his crib or coach, the neighbor lady said he made sense to her. 'I declare I swear he’s talking in tongues.' Marietta dismissed this, saying to her husband 'Just Iris getting into the elderberry wi...
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    13,21 €

  • Nursing Tales from the ’Hood and Suburbia
    M. S. Mary Elizabeth Burgess B. S. / MSMary Elizabeth Burgess BS.
    The woman was distraught.'You’ve got to save this cat,' she said. 'But, ma’am, this is an ER.' 'I know--emergency.That’s why I brought him here.' 'We only work on people, ma’am. This is a hospital for people. We don’t treat animals,' he said kindly. She started to cry, not cry, but howl. 'I’m sorry about your cat,' the doctor said. She howled louder.'It’s not my cat,' she said....
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    13,36 €

  • Odyssey of Hope
    Mary Elizabeth Burgess
    In Holy Encounters, we listen to the other person’s pain--listen, just listen--and let God’s holy word breathe through us to speak words of comfort and healing to a fellow sufferer. Such holy moments prove that to be alive is to be blessed. Sooner or later suffering comes to us all. We may ask, 'Why?' But then we need to ask also, 'Why is there beauty?' 'Why is there redemption...
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    19,73 €

  • Ballad for Jimmy Ray
    Mary Elizabeth Burgess
    In this fictionalized account of the author’s only sibling, born crippled and with soft bones, many fractures and illnesses cause Rebekah to become her brother’s nurse, as Mama has to work because Papa died when the children were young.Jimmy Ray disdained going to doctors and hospitals after failed surgeries to correct his deformities and never told Mama how ill he was one summ...
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    17,66 €

  • The Immigrants
    Mary Elizabeth Burgess
    Celie, teacher of ESL students, works with Gioi from Vietnam, Daniyel from Israel, Suk from South Korea and others, convinced she learns more from them than they from her. She persuades Chau to relate his family’s escape from Vietnam, which he refuses to put into print. Celie will never look at a grain of rice in the same way again.What will happen to Valeria whose family cam...
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    17,74 €

  • 101 Poems and Philosophies for Geezers and Geezerettes
    Mary Elizabeth Burgess
    The neat thing about getting old is that you can flirt outrageously with anyone you want, and they don’t take you seriously. Or maybe they do! 101 Poems and Philosophies includes poems and mini-essays about growing older. Oh, what fun it is, arthritis, dementia, and enough anxiety to see you to the cemetery and beyond. In a serious vein, some pieces present hope for end-of-life...
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    17,58 €

  • Handbook of Hope
    Mary Elizabeth Burgess
    Grief/Consolation Written in short, to the point suggestions, Handbook of Hope provides practical, meaningful, and immediate aid for family and friends of loved ones who die by suicide. Sometimes classified as disenfranchised grief because society’s attitudes do not permit 'normal' mourning, suicide is one of the most difficult kinds of loss to cope with. Handbook of Hope is de...
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    14,67 €

  • Meadow Keep
    Elizabeth C. Burgess / Elizabeth CBurgess
    MEADOW KEEP is a journey into the world of herbs that have nourished, cured, and delighted mankind for centuries. Did you know that the Pied Piper of Hamelin actually lured the rats with dried valerian? His music was but a decoy. Did you know that William Wallace used blue dye from the woad plant to make war paint for his men to wear into battle? Queen Elizabeth of Hungary used...
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    14,83 €

  • The Twins’ Cafe
    Elizabeth C. Burgess / Elizabeth CBurgess
    The Twins’ Café is a work of fiction set around the January 1958 uprising of the Ku Klux Klan and the Lumbee and Tuscarora Indians of eastern North Carolina. The Indians were successful in fending off the Ku Klux Klan. This book provides a look into the lives of the characters during the 1940’s, 50’s and into the 1960’s. The Reyelle twins are prominent characters and members of...
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    17,23 €

  • Life And History Of Betty Bolaine, Late Of Canterbury
    Elizabeth Burgess
    ''Life and History of Betty Bolaine, Late of Canterbury'' is a book written by Elizabeth Burgess in 1832. The book is a biography of Betty Bolaine, a well-known character in Canterbury, who was infamous for her extreme parsimony and vice. The author describes Betty’s life in detail, from her childhood to her death, and explores the reasons behind her behavior. The book also she...
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    30,06 €

  • A Day In Cascilla
    Elizabeth C. Burgess / Elizabeth CBurgess
    Alice Mae and Charles Yates raise three children on their sorry small form in Hazen, Arkansas. When Alice finds out some huzzy across town 'is messing with her husband Charles' she pays her a home visit. That night she serves Charles a chunk of the woman’s red hair. When Alice dies leaving Charles to raise three children he decides to join a circus as a human fly. Charles i...
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    14,05 €

  • Prison Camp Road
    Elizabeth Burgess
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    11,58 €