Catalog Search Results
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"An electric debut novel about love, addiction, and loss; the story of two girls and the feral year that will cost one her life, and define the other's for decades. Everything about fifteen-year-old Cat's new town in rural Michigan is lonely and off-kilter, until she meets her neighbor, the manic, beautiful, pill-popping Marlena. Cat, inexperienced and desperate for connection, is quickly lured into Marlena's orbit by little more than an arched eyebrow...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Looking for creative and delicious ways to eat your vegetables? Now you can eat an array of colorful foods, eliminate cooking with tons of dishes and bowls, and get on board with the hot new trend: the veggie boat! Vegetable and fruit "boats" are a delicious and nutritious vessel for your meals. Stuffed! shows you how to stuff your favorite foods into most types of fruits and veggies. Each chapter is organized by vegetable, and you'll love the clever...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Interweaving biblical insights and personal narratives, this eloquently written book shows how God often uses suffering and desert experiences to form us into Christ's image. Marlena Graves shares her experiences of growing up poor in a house plagued by mental illness as a means to explore the forces God uses to shape us into beautiful people in the midst of brokenness. This book offers a window into suffering through the motif of desert spirituality,...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
In other places, it might seem trite or cliché to say that love is an essential component of cooking, food, and dining. But in the shadow of a still-fuming Vesuvio, the love of everyday life is palpable in Naples: that passion for life is the spirit that guides Neapolitan cuisine. You can taste it in everything. To truly know Napoli and Neapolitan food, you must not stay within its city limits. The entire region may be called Campania, but it is...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
One woman's story of survival from an abusive upbringing in a close-knit Mennonite community and her journey to forgiveness and reconciliation.
Marlena's childhood in Paraguay was full of contradictions. Her father was both a heroic doctor treating patients with leprosy, and an abusive parent. Her Mennonite missionary community was both a devoted tribe and a controlling society. And Marlena longed both to be accepted and to escape to somewhere new....
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the kitchen that brought us the I-have-never-seen-anything-yummier Grilled Cheese comes the it-just-got-yummier Macaroni & Cheese. The kid-friendly favorite is now being spotted at the trendiest restaurants around town, and this fantastic cookbook has it all. More than 50 classics range from the tried-and-true Yankee Doodle Dandy Baked Macaroni and Cheese, and quick to prepare specialties such as the yodel-worthy Alpine Macaroni with Appenzeller...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fernando first sees Marlena across the Piazza San Marco and falls in love from afar. When he sees her again in a Venice café a year later, he knows it is fate. He knows little English; she, a divorced American chef traveling through Italy, speaks only food-based Italian. Marlena thought she was done with romantic love, incapable of intimacy. Yet within months of their first meeting, she has quit her job, sold her house in St. Louis, kissed her two...
Author
Publisher
Allen & Unwin
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Seeking some peace and quiet from renovations at via Del Duomo, Marlena de Blasi escapes to the mountains of Tuscany where she meets the extraordinary Antonia, imperious matriach of four generations of strong-willed Tuscan women. The next volume of memoir from the author of the international bestseller A Thousand Days in Venice.
14) Underpants dance
Author
Publisher
Dial Books/Penguin
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Four-year-old Lily loves to show off her fancy pink underpants, but her older sister Marigold tells her she is not allowed to anymore.
Author
Language
English
Description
Toasted golden in a pan or browned to melty perfection under the broiler, grilled cheese is the ultimate comfort food - and a meal in itself. And, believe it or not, it just got better. Author Marlena Spieler has created 50 mouthwatering new takes on this from her favorite. Her tantalizing pairings range from hearty Sage Sausage and Jack Cheese with Preserved Lemon to Melted Alpenzell, Emmentaler, Pear, and Cumin. There are also plenty of new twists...
Author
Language
English
Description
The beautiful and the bizarre
Something watches from the corner of the room, peeking through a crack, existing within an impossible space-what does it want?
The ghost of a lover returns at the end of a lifetime, carrying a dark secret-what will she say?
A woman struggling with identity finds herself in the arms of a dangerous woman with a mysterious curse-what will she find?
The beautiful and the bizarre exist side by side in this collection of...
Author
Language
English
Description
Imagine yourself with Jesus, in a boat on the sea, as a sudden storm fills the other passengers with fear.
When the priest read this Gospel story in Mark 4, Marlena Graves didn't see herself as the terrified disciples, lacking faith. She wasn't Jesus, peacefully sleeping through the danger. She wasn't the wind or the waves. According to Graves, "I was the boat! And then it occurred to me that, like Jesus' mother, Mary, I, too, am a God bearer."
Journey...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Now, with God's help, I shall become myself."
These words from Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard resonate deeply with Marlena Graves, a Puerto Rican writer, pastor, and activist. In this book she describes the process of emptying herself that allows her to move upward toward God and become the true self that God calls her to. Drawing on the rich traditions of Eastern and Western Christian saints, she shares stories and insights that have enlivened...
Author
Publisher
Hermes House
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
The rich and varied history of the Jewish People is reflected in the glorious diversity of their food and cooking, and there are recipes here from all over the world, including an easy-to-follow guide to kashrut and kosher cooking.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
What is it like to be an Enneagram Nine?
Writer and speaker Marlena Graves reflects on this question in a spirit of honest self-assessment and with a desire for personal and spiritual growth. She draws wisdom from the deep wells of both counseling and spirituality using illustrations from both Scripture and life. Each reading concludes with an opportunity for further engagement such as a journaling prompt, a prayer, or a spiritual practice.
Any...