Books with author Mary Peterson

In this riveting, poignant memoir of three generations of women and the white dresses that adorned them—television producer Mary Pflum Peterson recounts a journey through loss and redemption, and her battle to rescue her mother, a former nun, from compulsive hoarding.As a successful television journalist at Good Morning America, Mary Pflum is known as a polished and highly organized producer. It’s a persona at odds with her tortured childhood, where she watched her emotionally vulnerable mother fill their house with teetering piles of assorted “treasures.” But one thing has always united mother and daughter—their love of white dresses. From the dress worn by Mary’s mother when she became a nun and married Jesus, to the wedding gown she donned years later, to the special nightshirts she gifted Mary after the birth of her children, to graduation dresses and christening gowns, these white dresses embodied hope and new beginnings.After her mother’s sudden death in 2010, Mary digs deep to understand the events that led to Anne’s unraveling. At twenty-one, Anne entered a convent, committed to a life of prayer and helping others. But lengthy periods of enforced fasting, isolation from her beloved students, and constant humiliation eventually drove her to flee the convent almost a decade later. Hoping to find new purpose as a wife and mother, Anne instead married an abusive, closeted gay man—their eventual divorce another sign of her failure.Anne retreats into chaos. By the time Mary is ten, their house is cluttered with broken appliances and stacks of unopened mail. Anne promises but fails to clean up for Mary’s high school graduation party, where Mary is being honored as her school’s valedictorian, causing her perfectionist daughter’s fear and shame to grow in tandem with the heaps upon heaps of junk. In spite of everything, their bond endures. Through the white dresses, pivotal events in their lives are celebrated, even as Mary tries in vain to save Anne from herself. Unflinchingly honest, insightful, and compelling, White Dresses is a beautiful, powerful story—and a reminder of the unbreakable bonds between mothers and daughters.

One of the most widely used series of methods for individual or like-instrument class instruction. Using a very well-rounded approach including scales, arpeggios, technical studies, studies for musicianship, articulation studies, solos, duets, and studies devoted to the special needs of each instrument, this series provides a fantastic wealth of material for all student musicians.

Peterson’s® Master the™ Catholic High School Entrance Exams 2021 is the comprehensive test-prep book for scoring high on Catholic high school entrance exams. This guide covers all test formats, test scoring, subject review, and types of questions for the most popular parochial school placement tests―the High School Placement Test (HSPT®) and the New York City Test for Admission into Catholic High Schools (TACHS). Step-by-step coaching for each type of question on the exams and numerous test-taking strategies allow students to feel confident in their abilities when test day arrives. Targeted reviews and up-to-date test information makes Peterson’s Master the Catholic High School Entrance Exams the ideal study guide for students looking to get into parochial school. 10 full-length practice tests―4 in the book and 1 online EACH for the HSPT® and TACHS―ALL with detailed answer explanations Diagnostic test for each exam to help determine strengths and weaknesses OVER 3,100 practice questions to help you earn your best possible score on the HSPT®, TACHS, SSAT, ISEE, CHSEE, and more. Bonus word list plus a list of synonyms and antonyms to help boost your test-prep confidence on the language arts sections of the exams. Expert test-prep strategies and thorough review of the verbal, math, reasoning, and quantitative sections Easy-to-use self-evaluation tools to track progress and set a timetable for study

Peterson’s® Master the™ Catholic High School Entrance Exams 2020 is the comprehensive test-prep book for scoring high on Catholic high school entrance exams. The book includes 10 full-length practice tests (3 in the book and access to 1 online EACH for the HSPT and TACHS) PLUS 2 Diagnostic Tests (1 for each exam) to help students determine their strengths and weaknesses. All of the tests (practice tests and Diagnostic) include detailed answer explanations and valuable test-taking information. Peterson’s Master the Catholic High School Entrance Exams covers all test formats, test scoring, subject review, and types of questions. Expert tips help guide students through the verbal and quantitative exercises, and students and parents will find up-to-date information about all of the tests. Step-by-step coaching for each type of question on the exam and numerous test-taking strategies allow students to feel confident in their abilities when test day arrives. Easy-to-use self-evaluation tools allow students and parents to track progress and develop a timetable for study.

A groundbreaking history of early America that shows how Boston built and sustained an independent city-state in New England before being folded into the United StatesIn the vaunted annals of America’s founding, Boston has long been held up as an exemplary “city upon a hill” and the “cradle of liberty” for an independent United States. Wresting this iconic urban center from these misleading, tired clichés, The City-State of Boston highlights Boston’s overlooked past as an autonomous city-state, and in doing so, offers a pathbreaking and brilliant new history of early America. Following Boston’s development over three centuries, Mark Peterson discusses how this self-governing Atlantic trading center began as a refuge from Britain’s Stuart monarchs and how―through its bargain with slavery and ratification of the Constitution―it would tragically lose integrity and autonomy as it became incorporated into the greater United States.Drawing from vast archives, and featuring unfamiliar figures alongside well-known ones, such as John Winthrop, Cotton Mather, and John Adams, Peterson explores Boston’s origins in sixteenth-century utopian ideals, its founding and expansion into the hinterland of New England, and the growth of its distinctive political economy, with ties to the West Indies and southern Europe. By the 1700s, Boston was at full strength, with wide Atlantic trading circuits and cultural ties, both within and beyond Britain’s empire. After the cataclysmic Revolutionary War, “Bostoners” aimed to negotiate a relationship with the American confederation, but through the next century, the new United States unraveled Boston’s regional reign. The fateful decision to ratify the Constitution undercut its power, as Southern planters and slave owners dominated national politics and corroded the city-state’s vision of a common good for all.Peeling away the layers of myth surrounding a revered city, The City-State of Boston offers a startlingly fresh understanding of America’s history.

Teens’ Guide to College & Career Planning With valuable input from teens, parents, and well-known experts, the Teens’ Guide to College & Career Planning knows how to talk to high school students about the important decisions for their plans after graduation. This user-friendly guide, with updated content by Justin Ross Muchnick (author of Peterson's The Boarding School Survival Guide), enables busy students to focus on the right information for them. Topics include: Am I heading to college? What to do with my life? What’s my career path? This is Your High School Roadmap to College and Career Success! Whether teens are planning to head to: a two-year or four-year college, a technical school, an apprenticeship, the military, directly into the workforce or even if they are still undecided, The Teens’ Guide to College & Career Planning is where they'll find information on the options available and which ones may best suit their skills, needs and dreams.

The truth is there are a ton of books out there on how to write resumes. Many of the books are quite good. But studying an entire book about writing resumes is like learning auto mechanics just to drive across town. Why bother? Instead, why not find a great resume that's already written and use the best parts for yourself? It's easy, cheap and saves you time better spent searching for that next great job.Since Kindle cannot properly display resume and cover letter formats I’m including a special link at the end of this publication where you can download your free PDF version of "Steal This Resume". This eBook is 913 pages long and contains over 500 job-winning resumes and cover letters formatted specifically to fit on regular-sized 8 ½ by 11-inch paper -- exactly the way you’d submit a hard copy to a prospective employer.As an added bonus I'm including three Special Reports you're sure to find useful. Special Report #1 contains resources listing over 100,000 jobs available right now. Special Report #2 discloses what the hottest jobs will be from now until 2020. And Special Report #3 reveals the very best locations for finding great jobs."Steal This Resume" is the perfect resource for job-seekers. Each of the over 500 resumes and cover letters is precision-crafted using persuasive phrasing and powerful language aimed at finding great employment. The hard work has already been done. All you need to do is search out the perfect phrase or paragraph or description and make it yours.Simple. And it's a ton easier than writing your own great resume from scratch. Much faster, too.The only way I can make this any easier is by coming over to your place and writing a resume for you. Which I'm happy to do but professional resume writers like me are very expensive. Now let me tell you a little secret no professional resume writer wants you to know: we all use the same power verbs and action adjectives and marketing phrases over and over again. Really. Think about it. When I'm writing a great resume for a new client I always refer back to my previous resumes and pull out the best words and phrases to use again. And why not? There are really only a limited number of words and phrases to use anyway. But once you know what they are and where to put them you can use them yourself with great success. And they're all in my 913-page eBook "Steal This Resume" just waiting for you.Picture it like strolling down a restaurant buffet where you can select the choicest words or phrases or descriptions and load them all onto your plate. Yours for the taking. And reasonably priced, too.You'll like the powerful wording and strong descriptions. Instead of spending valuable time and effort hunting for just the right word or phrase you can simply use what's already worked for someone else. See, I've already done the hard part for you. Each resume and cover letter in my 913-page eBook is powerfully engineered to present the job-seeker in the very best light for the very best job. That job-seeker could be you. Why shouldn't it be? So what are you waiting for? With so many others out hunting for good jobs time is critical.500 job-winning resumes and cover letters plus 3 Special Reports all for just $9.95. When you think about it that's less than two cents per sample. Holy Mackerel - I'm selling resumes for pennies! Now that's affordable.Order the Kindle version of "Steal This Resume" now and have it downloaded instantly. On the last page you’ll find the link to download the 913-page PDF version free. But don't delay. This is your future and now is the time to find the perfect job. And it all starts with your job-winning Resume. Order now.

In this riveting, poignant memoir of three generations of women and the white dresses that adorned them—television producer Mary Pflum Peterson recounts a journey through loss and redemption, and her battle to rescue her mother, a former nun, from compulsive hoarding.As a successful television journalist at Good Morning America, Mary Pflum is known as a polished and highly organized producer. It’s a persona at odds with her tortured childhood, where she watched her emotionally vulnerable mother fill their house with teetering piles of assorted “treasures.” But one thing has always united mother and daughter—their love of white dresses. From the dress worn by Mary’s mother when she became a nun and married Jesus, to the wedding gown she donned years later, to the special nightshirts she gifted Mary after the birth of her children, to graduation dresses and christening gowns, these white dresses embodied hope and new beginnings.After her mother’s sudden death in 2010, Mary digs deep to understand the events that led to Anne’s unraveling. At twenty-one, Anne entered a convent, committed to a life of prayer and helping others. But lengthy periods of enforced fasting, isolation from her beloved students, and constant humiliation eventually drove her to flee the convent almost a decade later. Hoping to find new purpose as a wife and mother, Anne instead married an abusive, closeted gay man—their eventual divorce another sign of her failure.Anne retreats into chaos. By the time Mary is ten, their house is cluttered with broken appliances and stacks of unopened mail. Anne promises but fails to clean up for Mary’s high school graduation party, where Mary is being honored as her school’s valedictorian, causing her perfectionist daughter’s fear and shame to grow in tandem with the heaps upon heaps of junk. In spite of everything, their bond endures. Through the white dresses, pivotal events in their lives are celebrated, even as Mary tries in vain to save Anne from herself. Unflinchingly honest, insightful, and compelling, White Dresses is a beautiful, powerful story—and a reminder of the unbreakable bonds between mothers and daughters.

When Snail leaves his bucket, he discovers a whole, wide world in this illustrated bind-up of sweet and funny chapter books Snail Has Lunch and Snail Finds a Home.Snail is a merry little mollusk who lives in a rusty bucket. Day after day, rain or shine, snail doesn’t move—and that suits him just fine. But when his bucket is turned over, his life takes a topsy-turvy turn. A journey through the vegetable garden opens up a whole world of new friends, new foods, and maybe even a little danger. Can Snail find happiness out here, or will he wish he never left his bucket? In his next adventure, Snail eats too many strawberries—his favorite food—and makes himself sick. His best friend Ladybug tells him he needs to find a forever home away from the tempting, yummy, red fruit. But Snail’s journey puts him in the path of a hungry chicken! Will he make it to his new home or be a tasty treat for this feathered, famished fiend? Filled with simple text, speech balloons, and engaging illustrations, these easy-to-follow stories are a blend between a picture book and a chapter book, making it an ideal bridge for independent readers.

A groundbreaking history of early America that shows how Boston built and sustained an independent city-state in New England before being folded into the United StatesIn the vaunted annals of America’s founding, Boston has long been held up as an exemplary “city upon a hill” and the “cradle of liberty” for an independent United States. Wresting this iconic urban center from these misleading, tired clichés, The City-State of Boston highlights Boston’s overlooked past as an autonomous city-state, and in doing so, offers a pathbreaking and brilliant new history of early America. Following Boston’s development over three centuries, Mark Peterson discusses how this self-governing Atlantic trading center began as a refuge from Britain’s Stuart monarchs and how—through its bargain with slavery and ratification of the Constitution—it would tragically lose integrity and autonomy as it became incorporated into the greater United States.Drawing from vast archives, and featuring unfamiliar figures alongside well-known ones, such as John Winthrop, Cotton Mather, and John Adams, Peterson explores Boston’s origins in sixteenth-century utopian ideals, its founding and expansion into the hinterland of New England, and the growth of its distinctive political economy, with ties to the West Indies and southern Europe. By the 1700s, Boston was at full strength, with wide Atlantic trading circuits and cultural ties, both within and beyond Britain’s empire. After the cataclysmic Revolutionary War, “Bostoners” aimed to negotiate a relationship with the American confederation, but through the next century, the new United States unraveled Boston’s regional reign. The fateful decision to ratify the Constitution undercut its power, as Southern planters and slave owners dominated national politics and corroded the city-state’s vision of a common good for all.Peeling away the layers of myth surrounding a revered city, The City-State of Boston offers a startlingly fresh understanding of America’s history.

Peterson's® ACT® Prep Guide 2018 offers all of the information students need to prepare well and score high on the ACT, including thorough subject matter reviews and practice questions for each question type. Students will benefit from expert advice, strategies, and test-taking tips for comprehensive preparation. All strategy content and practice tests reflect the latest changes to the ACT. Inside this new guide, students will find:ACT® test-taking strategies, plus other important details about the ACT-learn how and when to register for the ACT, how the test is scored, what you need to know on test day, and how to stay calm throughout the processA full-length diagnostic test to evaluate a student's strengths and weaknesses6 practice tests-4 in print and 2 online-all with detailed answer explanationsThorough review of all test sections: English, Mathematics, Reading, Science, and Writing, featuring expert strategies, numerous practice questions with detailed answer explanations, and sample essays.Helpful study plans, perfect for the student who has a lot of time to prepare, as well as those who've procrastinated-each student can find his or her pathway to success.

Are you having hard time to get your kids to bed? Did you try several ways to get them to fall asleep but nothing works? Are they asking for new bedtime stories before to sleep? Are you looking for an entertaining book to inspire your kid’s fantasy and mindfulness?If you answer “yes” to all the previous questions, this book is what you need.“In a place faraway” is a collection of 35 delightful bedtime stories, illustrated with colourful images. These short stories are the perfect length for reading aloud, with accessible language and lively pictures that will keep your kids entertained. In this amusing collection of short tales there is something for everyone: cute animals, enchanted castles, magic forest and a lot of cheeky children.These charming bedtime stories guaranteed to get toddlers and young children ready to float off to sleep.Furthermore all the stories provide a comprehensible final message that will help the kids to understand how to behave in everyday life:“The story of the rose in the desert” will teach them that it’s a good thing to ask for help when needed, there is no reason to be proud; “The story of Stella and the magic well” will teach them that being greedy does not lead to anything good; and so on…What are you waiting for? Get you kids under the blanket, switch on the night lamp and be ready to enter a world of imagination and enchantment…. In no time your kids will fall asleep; they will have the sweetest dream ever and you will finally have more time for yourself.