Books with author Maureen

Can friendship survive lies, a famous rock band, obsessive fans and your own family?Sonia found her best friend online and can’t wait to meet her.Tressa has carefully faked a boring life. She needs her family to pretend to be normal for one week. With her rock star father, a media frenzy, a film obsessed brother and a bunch of star-struck fans.... Faking normal just got a whole lot harder!

Finally! Fun AND finance come together in the Fin and Nance series. Did you know money is a major cause of stress? That’s a problem we don’t want kids to have as adults. What should we do? Let’s talk money! Sounds great, but where do we begin? There are resources out there, but they can be confusing and dry—especially to kids. That’s why I created the Fin and Nance series. Each story makes learning finance fun. The series includes pictures, questions, and lessons to help bring finance to life. The financial knowledge kids will learn will not only help minimize stress as adults, but also create more freedom—freedom to spend time with family, donate to charities, travel the world, create a business, and build a life on their own terms. In the book, "No Money Monday," siblings Fin and Nance are on a mission. They need to buy muffin ingredients for Fin’s school bake sale. But, there’s a BIG problem: they can’t use money! Instead, they have to barter to get the ingredients. Will Fin and Nance make the muffins in time? Through Fin and Nance’s adventures, readers will learn the role of money, features of money, and problems with bartering. The book includes a bonus section with lessons and questions. There are two books in the Fin and Nance series. Future books are coming soon!

Maureen Dowd's incendiary takes and takedowns from 2016--the most bizarre, disruptive and divisive Presidential race in modern history.Trapped between two candidates with the highest recorded unfavorables, Americans are plunged into The Year of Voting Dangerously. In this perilous and shocking campaign season, The New York Times columnist traces the psychologies and pathologies in one of the nastiest and most significant battles of the sexes ever. Dowd has covered Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton since the '90s. She was with the real estate mogul when he shyly approached his first Presidential rope line in 1999, and she won a Pulitzer prize that same year for her penetrating columns on the Clinton impeachment follies. Like her bestsellers, Bushworld and Are Men Necessary?, THE YEAR OF VOTING DANGEROUSLY will feature Dowd's trademark cocktail of wry humor and acerbic analysis in dispatches from the political madhouse. If America is on the escalator to hell, then THE YEAR OF VOTING DANGEROUSLY is the perfect guide for this surreal, insane ride.

What if ... you were told you won't be accepted because you don't sound like everyone else... you want more choices than your world offers... you love a man you can never have ... you need to reconnect with the land you left behind? That is Margaret's story. Becoming Herself is the tale of a woman's road to self-discovery in the first half of the 20th century. It is as current as today's headlines. On her first day in America, seven-year old Maggie Clancy is placed in an orphanage by her grieving widowed father. She is told that from now on she will be called Margaret. Maggie will no longer exist. She will have to forge her own path in this new world of upstate New York. Her lovely singing voice provides her the needed entry. In an era when she loses the corset and gains the right to vote, Margaret struggles with balancing the roles of wife and mother with her longing to do even more with her life. She's a witness to the prejudices experienced by Irish immigrants and to Americans questioning the patriotism of their German-Americans neighbors during WWI. Despite that, she hopes and believes that man's inhumanity to man will lessen when women make their voices heard. Margaret embraces the changes and challenges of a world that's experiencing airplanes in the skies, radios in the parlor and women beginning to assert their independence inside and outside the home. Margaret yearns to find the Maggie who's been lost by returning to Ireland, the land of her birth. In Becoming Herself, Margaret shares her dreams, conflicts, and never- to- be-told secrets. It is the story of a woman searching to become all she is capable of being.

Finally! Fun AND finance come together in the Fin and Nance series. Did you know money is a major cause of stress? That’s a problem we don’t want kids to have as adults. What should we do? Let’s talk money! Sounds great, but where do we begin? There are resources out there, but they can be confusing and dry—especially to kids. That’s why I created the Fin and Nance series. Each story makes learning finance fun. The series includes pictures, questions, and lessons to help bring finance to life. The financial knowledge kids will learn will not only help minimize stress as adults, but also create more freedom—freedom to spend time with family, donate to charities, travel the world, create a business, and build a life on their own terms. In the book, "The Little Borrowing Brother," Fin needs money fast. When he asks to borrow money from his older sister, Nance, he thinks paying her back will be easy. He soon realizes that is not the case. Nance becomes upset. She needs her money to buy something very important. Will Fin find a way to pay his sister back before it's too late? Through Fin and Nance’s adventures, readers will learn how to borrow and lend money responsibly, the importance of earning and saving money, and why loans have interest and collateral. The book includes a bonus section with questions and lessons. There are two books in the Fin and Nance series. Future books are coming soon!

Rowland Thomas Knight, known as Thomas by family and friends – was the seventh son of a seventh son, whose lineage stretched back to the day of King Arthur Pendragon. Exploring in Somerset with his father, he climbs to Cadbury Castle, legendary home of King Arthur’s Camelot. …He could sense it; he could almost taste it. The hill was bare and bleak, its barren slopes riddled with holes, like a pock-marked face. Thomas became aware of a dull ache behind his eyes and screwed them shut trying to blank it out. “I really don’t like the look of this place,” he said when his father turned off the road and onto an access track. The strangely apprehensive feeling increased; the hair on the back of his neck bristled; his mouth was dry; and he felt an adrenaline surge and the chill that followed it. I don’t like this place. It has a weird feel – something I can’t really put into words, thought Thomas, who was growing more and more uneasy.He didn’t exactly know why, but this definitely wasn’t a place he wanted to explore. His feeling of foreboding was growing stronger. Don’t spoil things, his mind prompted; Dad doesn’t have to know I’m spooked…Thomas finds his own place in the centuries-long struggle between good and evil.

What better time than summer for a little romance? Except for Angie, who doesn't really date. Didn't date, that is -- until she saw Jack Duluth's cerw cut peeking out over a booth in McKnight's drugstore one night.He looked over at me, smiled, and then sat down again.Thus starts a summer Angie will never forget -- one full of spine chills, total bliss, heartache, and confusion...all the feelling that spell love.

High school junior Retta Caldwell finds her life suddenly complicated two strong and troubling forces, a new highway that threatens to destroy her family's land and the arrival of an enigmatic and secretive boy for whom she feels an overwhelming attraction.Retta Caldwell's love for the secretive, distant Dallas Dobson is complicated by his crippled, alcoholic father, her family's move to California after a new highway threatens their home, and romantic secrets from the past

High school junior Retta Caldwell finds her life suddenly complicated by two strong and troubling forces, a new highway that threatens to destroy her family's land and the arrival of an enigmatic and secretive boy for whom she feels an overwhelming attraction.Retta Caldwell's love for the secretive, distant Dallas Dobson is complicated by his crippled, alcoholic father, her family's move to California after a new highway threatens their home, and romantic secrets from the past