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MORRIS, WILLIAM

Morris, Mary

Words, Language & Grammar

Harpercollins

A guide to the current levels, trends, and problems of American usage

Dictionaries & Thesauruses

Perennial

Revealing the crucial differences between an ordinary Web page and an effective site, bestselling Internet author Mary E. S. Morris and co-author Randy J. Hinrichs go beyond the basics of web creation to show readers how to tackle the crucial problems of information overload at your Web site, getting lost in cyberspace, bandwidth constraints required to hold a user's attention, and more.

Web Page Design: A Different Multimedia

Morris, Mary E. S.

Hinrichs, Randy J.

Computers & Technology

Prentice Hall PTR

Morris present an unforgettable account of her 1986 trip through China, Russia, and Eastern Europe. As in Nothing to Declare, her celebrated travelogue of South America, Morris combines vivid portrayals of people and historical portraits of Soviet events with a more personal journey--her search for roots, family, and her ancestral home in the Ukraine. Reading tour.

Wall to Wall: From Beijing to Berlin By Rail

Travel

Asia

Hamish Hamilton

A Very Private Diary: An Irish Nurse in Wartime from Galway to D-Day

Mary Morris, called "a marvelous storyteller" by The Chicago Tribune, returns with the finest novel in her acclaimed career--a vividly etched, engrossing story of a nation, two remarkable women, and the meaning of freedom.
Taut with tension, filled with the telling observations of place and local character that grow out of her expertise as a travel writer, House Arrest is Mary Morris's richest, most powerful novel to date.

House Arrest

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Picador

The Lifeguard combines Mary Morris's consummate craft as a storyteller with her gift for dramatic travel writing. In the title story, a teenage lifeguard sees his mystique among the girls on the beach dissolve in a panicked moment when he cannot save a child. In "The Glass-Bottom Boat," a mother on her first trip abroad learns about trust from a solicitous stranger.
The Lifeguard is a powerful collection of ten short stories that shows Morris's great sensitivity to men and women at moments of turbulence, uncertainty, and crisis.

The Lifeguard: Stories

United States

Traveling from the highland desert of northern Mexico to the steaming jungles of Honduras, from the seashore of the Caribbean to the exquisite highlands of Guatemala, Mary Morris, a celebrated writer of both fiction and nonfiction, confronts the realities of place, poverty, machismo, and selfhood. As she experiences the rawness and precariousness of life in another culture, Morris begins to hear echoes of her own life and her own sense of deprivation. And she begins, too, to overcome the struggles of the past that have held her back personally; as in the very best travel writing, Morris effectively explores her own soul while exploring new terrain and new experience. By crossing such boundaries throughout the pages of Nothing to Declare, she sets new frontiers for herself as a woman—and as a writer.

Nothing to Declare: Memoirs of a Woman Traveling Alone

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Angels &amp; Aliens is Mary Morris's long-awaited memoir, confirming her status as a master of the genre. In Angels &amp; Aliens, Mary Morris once again explores her experiences as a woman on the road, this time as a single parent, wandering with her daughter through Southern California and struggling to make it on her own. Posing as a believer, Morris infiltrates New Age groups, flies as an angel through the Crystal Cathedral, and becomes a member of the earth-based unit of the Ashtar command. As her relationship with her baby's father unravels and she is confronted with personal and financial setbacks, Morris tries to understand how other people cope with their lives, and places these systems of coping withing the broader context of American culture. Written with humor and hope, this travel memoir is both a life-affirming story of one woman's journey through the emotional terrain of the heart, and a clear-eyed journalist's account of the true nature of California as a state of exodus, home to sun seekers, spiritual believers, and cults. Combining her gift as a story teller, which is apparent in her fiction, and the powerful sense of place she brings to her nonfiction, Morris gives us a traveler's tale for the millennium when there's no place to go but up.

Angels and Aliens: A Journey West

In Angels &amp; Aliens, Mary Morris once again sets out on the road, this time as a single parent, wandering with her baby daughter through Southern California. Posing as a believer, Morris infiltrates New Age groups, flies as an angel through the Crystal Cathedral, and becomes a member of the earth-based unit of the Ashtar command. Combining her gift as a story teller, which is apparent in her fiction, and the powerful sense of place she brings to her nonfiction, Morris gives us a traveler's tale for the millennium when there's no place to go but up.

Angels and Aliens: A Memoir

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Harper Dictionary of Contemporary Usage

Harper Dictionary of Contemporary Usage

Web Page Design: A Different Multimedia

Wall to Wall: From Beijing to Berlin By Rail

A Very Private Diary: An Irish Nurse in Wartime from Galway to D-Day

House Arrest

The Lifeguard: Stories

Nothing to Declare: Memoirs of a Woman Traveling Alone

Angels and Aliens: A Journey West

Angels and Aliens: A Memoir