Books with author Marsha Parker

People are supportive and caring in Bear Valley Springs, but when you are a kid and you lose someone close to you it can take a lot more for you to feel like you can control what happens to you and those you love. Sometimes real healing means building confidence in your ability to help and protect others when you know bad things happen. How to do that is the issue.The Survivors Guild wasn’t planned, but once it came together, the people in it grew to trust each other and themselves. Self-defense training and grueling trials on the mountain help them each find their own talents and strengths so that, when there is an organized prison break in the next valley, the Guild members are on the mountain and able to respond. But this trial will test them more than they ever could have imagined. One of their own is taken hostage and they know they are her best chance for survival. They will have to pool their strengths and beat overwhelming odds to do it, but they will have help from the mountain itself.

Maizy and a group of BMX bike riders take on a vile kidnapper and use their bike skills to chase him down. The bikers known as the Green Ridge Riders become a neighborhood guardian squad as they train to keep each other safe and stop a local nightmare. Angel and Jan become Green Ridge Riders and the squad takes on a whole new tone. Join the riders in this new adventure as they struggle to adapt to all the changes and still figure out how to come out on top.

There is a watcher in the woods. Angel was abandoned in the woods by her stepfather and would probably not have survived if crazy old Verna hadn’t taken her in. She has learned to stay hidden, unseen by anyone, until she sees two children kidnapped and threatened by human traffickers. She rescues them and takes them to the safe place she learned about by watching Dash and his BMX riding friends. But now, who will rescue her? Hurt and locked in a filthy root cellar with other taken children, she has no idea that Maizy and her friends are hot on the trail. But will they be in time?Dash and Maizy work with the BMX friends to track and rescue the children in the hands of the traffickers. They must bring down the whole trafficking ring if they want to insure the safety of everyone involved so Maizy’s retired friends all get into the act and a very unusual partnership of the young and old turns out to be an effective way to maintain the safe place.

Bring the world to your sewing machine! A sumptuously illustrated survey of traditional clothing from across the globe--plus timesaving, innovative techniques for making and decorating garments--will absolutely enchant stitchers. Throughout, images, from richly colored photographs to vintage postcards, capture people in their authentic dress (many of which have now disappeared). Before beginning an actual project, examine the basics of construction that appear again and again in ethnic attire: unconstructed rectangles, pullover cloaks or tunics, sleeved shifts, pull-on pants, full skirts with aprons, yoked shirts, short vests, and a front-opening coat. Embellish them, using some of the exquisite techniques that make these garments so breathtaking, from weaving and braiding to beading, painting, and embroidering. The highlight: six popular folkwear outfits with instructions on pattern making, marking, cutting out pieces, and putting it all together--a Seminole skirt, Moroccan burnoose, Syrian dress, Polish vest, Tibetan coat and Japanese Kimono.

IT ALL BEGAN WITH A CHILDISH PRANK...For Randall and Justin summer on Sassaquin Pond is business as usual. Randall with his paper route and Justin kicking his battered old can. That is, until both encounter the old woman they believe to be a witch. Neither can confirm or deny their suspicions, but when all three lives are inextricably drawn together by a single event, everything changes. And not for the better! Who would've ever guessed a simple childish prank could have such dire consequences? WAY OF THE WITCH is an exploration into the minds and hearts of two lifelong friends, and the solitary shame that will bind them in dark and dangerous ways forever.