Maggie: 1933 books

WHY ARE GIRLS as young as five years old concerned about their looks and addicted to shopping? WHY ARE YOUNG TEENAGE GIRLS having sex and binge-drinking, responding to chat-room predators, and bullying their peers via email and text messages? WHY ARE DEPRESSION, cutting and eating disorders on the...

What is it about fairies that enchants us so? Where do these elusive beings live, and what do they do? Why is it some see fairies and others do not? What's the truth about glamour? And why when they promise your dreams will come true, do fairies grant threewishes? Maggie Hamilton has spent...

We all love the idea of improving our lives, but who has the time or the energy?  What if you already had all the answers you seek? Don’t Take My Advice takes the strain and shows the easy road.  Coach and comedian Maggie Wood delves into her own life challenges, from discovering...

This is a record of all the work put in over many years by Princes Risborough Town Council to provide a new burial ground, the Stratton Memorial Garden. It describes the long search and the problems encountered trying to find a suitable site. After a number of abortive attempts, and, having resorted...

As soon as Clare met Andy, she knew he was the one. Four years later, he is her world and her future. Then, when a relationship crisis brings up baggage from Clare's past and destroys the trust she had in him, everything is turned upside down. Clare drives up the mountain to the resort where...

Mel is a lost girl - alone save for the speech team and drama friends she has.Her home isn't any better - she spends most of her time shielding insults from her dad and raising her brothers and sister. She's just counting down the days until she turns 18.Then Mel meets Peter,...

October Aubade If I slept too long, forgive me. A north wind quickened the window frames so the room pitched like a moving train and the pillow’s whiff of hickory and shaving soap conjured your body beside me. So I slept in the berth as the train chuffed on, unburdened by...

Eleanor Wiley and Maggie Oman Shannon have taken an ancient practice and made it new. A String and a Prayer recounts the history and symbolism of prayer beads, teaches basic techniques for stringing beads and a host of other objects into prayer beads, and offers a variety of prayers and rituals to...

A fascinating history of Britain's plant biodiversity and a unique account of how our garden landscape has been transformed over 1000 years, from 200 species of plant in the year 1000 to the astonishing variety of plants we can all see today. Thousands of plants have been introduced into Britain since...

If we look closely, the details of our day-to-day living are invaluable lessons of life. I took the format of Jesus’ parables and created nine stories of this age. The stories were inspired by the Almighty God, my family and friends. Through this book, I am sharing with you some of my knowledge...

Stepping Off the Treadmill was created to help the harried career professional discover a simpler way of life through relocating. Discarding the demands of the city for a more relaxed lifestyle is not a new concept. But it remains an overwhelming task that intimidates nearly everyone facing such an...

Soldiers in Revolt examines the understudied phenomenon of military mutinies in Africa. Through interviews with former mutineers in Sierra Leone, Burkina Faso, and The Gambia, the book provides a unique and intimate perspective on those who take the risky decision to revolt. This view from the lower...

Graduate schools churn out tens of thousands of PhDs and MAs every year. Yet more than half of all college courses are taught by adjunct faculty, which means that the chances of an academic landing a tenure-track job seem only to shrink as student loan and credit card debts grow. What’s a frustrated...

The harder you fight, the harder you fall when Opposites Attract... Lingerie for Felons – Ros Baxter If there's one universal truth, it's this: You're always wearing your worst underwear when you land in trouble. She is determined to make a difference in the world; he is all about...