Bøker av Mary Collins

This book is a comprehensive guide to making friends as an adult. It covers a wide range of topics from understanding the importance of social connections, to understanding yourself and others, to building confidence and overcoming fear. The book also delves into specific strategies for finding common ground with others, navigating social situations, maintaining friendships, and building friendships through work and hobbies. Whether you are shy, anxious, or just looking to expand your social circle, this book provides practical tips and techniques for making and maintaining meaningful friendships!

An Actually Useful Guide to Rock Gardening" is a comprehensive guide that provides practical and easy-to-follow instructions for designing and maintaining a beautiful rock garden. Whether you have a small balcony or a large backyard, this guidebook is packed with expert advice and tips to help you create a garden that is both beautiful and low-maintenance.The guidebook starts with the basics of rock garden design and layout, including choosing the perfect location, preparing the soil, and selecting the right rocks and stones. It then delves into the details of plant selection and care, including how to choose plants that thrive in rock gardens, how to plant and space them, and how to care for them over time.Next, the guidebook covers essential information on maintenance and upkeep, including watering and irrigation, mulching, pruning and deadheading, fertilizing and soil amendment, and pest and disease control. The last chapter is dedicated to incorporating different styles and themes, such as Japanese rock gardens, Mediterranean rock gardens, and xeriscaping, as well as designing a rock garden in a small space.With clear, step-by-step instructions and beautiful photographs, this guidebook is the ultimate resource for anyone looking to create and maintain a rock garden. Whether you're an experienced gardener or a beginner, this guidebook is sure to inspire you and provide you with the knowledge and tools you need to create a beautiful and low-maintenance rock garden.

This comprehensive guide delves into the world of tarot, from the history and origins of the practice to advanced techniques for personal growth and manifestation. Learn how to choose and care for your deck, create a sacred space for reading, and interpret the major and minor arcana. Discover tips for self-reflection and self-improvement through tarot reading, as well as ethical guidelines for reading for others. Master advanced techniques such as reading card combinations and incorporating tarot with other divination tools. Incorporate tarot into your daily life with specific spreads for career, relationships, and personal growth, and track your progress with a tarot journal. Whether you're a beginner or an experienced reader, this book will deepen your understanding and connection to the tarot.

Unleash the full potential of your backyard by learning the art of mushroom gardening with our comprehensive guidebook. This book covers everything from choosing the perfect location, preparing the soil, and obtaining spawn or spores, to advanced techniques such as indoor cultivation and incorporating mushrooms into landscaping. Discover the many benefits of mushroom gardening, including pest control, improved soil health, and the ability to use mushrooms for medicinal purposes. Learn to care for your mushroom crops, harvest and store your mushrooms, and use them in a variety of recipes. This guidebook also covers common problems and solutions, advanced techniques, and even includes some uses for your mushroom harvest. Whether you're a beginner or an experienced gardener, this book is the perfect resource for growing and maintaining a successful mushroom garden!

The next compelling, heartfelt instalment in the lives of the Ten Bells Street girls, a wartime saga series from Mary Collins (pseudonym of bestselling crime writer, Barbara Nadel, author of the Inspector Ikmen series).

Surveys the jazz trumpeter's career from the formative years of jazz in New Orleans, through his club successes in Chicago after 1930, to his last European tour in 1954.

The next compelling, heartfelt instalment in the lives of the Ten Bells Street girls, a wartime saga series from Mary Collins (pseudonym of bestselling crime writer, Barbara Nadel, author of the Inspector Ikmen series).

When Tony’s best pal Cleo goes to heaven, the lively boxer dog knows he must find a new friend to make him happy again. But who will be Tony’s buddy? Follow his adventures as Tony meets a llama, an egret, a chihuahua, an alligator and others in his quest for his new best friend! This delightful story, based on true events, is more than a tale of animal friendship. Lonely Tony is also a useful tool for parents and educators to help children cope with experiencing loss and the journey of finding new friends.

A heartwarming story of survival and friendship, from an essential new voice in the genre

The author explores how Americans might make girls feel essential on the home front without denying them the right of self-definition. Few American parents expect their children to play an important role on the home front.