LIBROS DEL AUTOR: mary peters

13 resultados para LIBROS DEL AUTOR: mary peters

  • Pursuing Happiness
    Mary Lou Peters Schram
    Although the pursuit of happiness is one of our inalienable rights, nowhere is it guaranteed that we will catch it. Mary Lou Peters Schram’s witty novel chronicles the lives of four women, all of a 'certain age,' all residents of Shady Acres, an adult community in California’s wine country, as each pursues her own particular vision of happiness. ...
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    24,50 €

  • Awesome Adventures of Miss Kitty and Her Woodland Friends
    MarySue Peters
    This book tells the adventures that befall Miss Kitty (a country cat with an aristocratic attitude) in one twenty-four-hour period. It touches on the importance of manners, fairness, and cleanliness. Follow her as she introduces you to a few of her dear woodland friends. Youll meet Petey Possum, Freddy Fox, and many more of her sweet, fun friends. She loves them all, even thoug...
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    13,40 €

  • Kimberly’s Tale
    Mary Peters
    Kimberly Miller keeps an ugly, dark secret to herself, and as a fourteen-year-old child she is too embarassed to speak up.Two years later, when Kimberley finally reveals she has been abused by her father, he's given his marching orders and moves out of the family home, leaving Kimberly to pick up the pieces and care for her younger teenage brother and her neurotic mother.Vu...
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    16,89 €

  • Rebecca Moving On
    Mary Peters
    Rebecca Taylor appears to be living the good life - nice home, beautiful 8-year-old twin daughters, and doing well as a hairdresser. Though she's far from content, and her life changes dramatically when she gives her husband his marching orders! But it's Rebecca who moves out of the family home, intent on making a better life for her children.Struggling to make ends mee...
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    18,47 €

  • Patsy the Bag Lady
    Mary Peters
    Patsy has a hard life, living on the streets, all her worldly goods in shopping bags… Suddenly everything changes when 10-year-old Amy takes pity on Patsy and persuades her mum to invite her home. Patsy’s a funny, likeable lady, but a bit smelly! And Amy’s family just can’t get used to Patsy’s pet rat – something, or someone has to go! Happily, Patsy finds more new friends – on...
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    14,98 €

  • Ollie the Orange Otter
    Mary Peters
    Recued and brought back to good health by his  friend Jack the fisherman, Ollie soon realises he isn’t quite the same as the other otters on the riverbank anymore. He’s always been a bit of a loner and rather shy but will his new orange coloured coat make him stand out and be treated differently ? Find out as you turn the pages of this beautifully illustrated book which will ke...
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    17,20 €

  • Neither Use Nor Ornament
    Mary Peters
    Brought up in care and by a far from loving foster family, Mary Peters tells her heartbreaking and truly inspirational story with honesty and candour, not to mention an ever-present sense of humour. Having battled with rheumatoid arthritis for most of her life, Mary tells how the stigma of being brought up in care has sometimes proved to be as much of a challenge as her illness...
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    17,37 €

  • Betsy, The Coalminer’s Daughter
    Mary Peters
    Times are hard in 1960's Wallsend, North Tyneside. Cola miner Fred Slater has lost his wife to cancer, leaving him to raise his 10-year-old son Tom and teenage daughter Betsy.Keeping a promise to her dying mother, to look after her brother and dad, Betsy has to grow up quickly... starting with her first job. Taken under the wing of her first boss, Betsy learns to juggle wor...
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    15,95 €

  • Millie and her Farm Friends
    Mary Peters
    Millie has a special gift - she can talk to the animals. And luckily for her she lives on a farm with a host of chatty creatures, including Mazie the pot-bellied pig and Daisy the cow, not forgetting her beloved West Highland Terrier, Lucky. But with her new pet hamster and two pygmy goats arriving, Millie has her hands full...much to Lucky’s dismay!A beautifully illustrated ...
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    17,50 €

  • Marcie
    Mary Peters
    Life hasn’t been kind to young Marcie Thomas. Devastated by the accidental death of her beloved brother and the blame that is put on her young shoulders by the parents who have never loved her, a surprise visit from her Uncle Sam raises questions in her mind. Eventually leaving the little village in South Wales where she was born, she heads for London in the hope of a brighte...
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    21,82 €

  • How to Use Value-Added Analysis to Improve Student Learning
    Kate Kennedy / Mary Peters / Mike Thomas
    A step-by-step guide to transforming student learning with value-added analysis Value-added analysis is the most robust, statistically significant method available for helping educators quantify student progress over time. This book provides a field-tested continuous improvement model for using value-added information to increase student learning in both the classroom and schoo...
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    46,18 €

  • Taddy and Her Husbands
    Mary Lou Peters Schram
    . past and future!Through three marriages, Taddy Breckinridge finds that no matter how she might change herself to adjust to a husband, there is no happily ever after. In the wealthy and cosmopolitan world of San Francisco and Marin County, while she is selling off her late husband’s artwork in order to eat, Taddy ponders her life and makes a decision to alter it.'Readers who e...
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    14,85 €

  • The 50’s Plus
    Mary Ann Peters
    Welcome to the 50’s/60’s Arena of Life.The 50’s Plus: To Work or Not To Work will give you an opportunity to reflect on your Career/Work Life.where you have been, where you are, and where you hope to be during the remainder of your work life. You will accomplish this through the reading of written essays and through short exercises designed to help you reflect on the content of...
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    7,39 €