Children ask tough questions. Questions like, "Does Jesus still love me when I'm naughty?" This kind of question can pose a special challenge to parents, grandparents, and caregivers as they teach their children about God. In this delightful, heart-warming book, award-winning author Dr. MaryAnn Diorio helps answer some of these tough questions. As a mother, grandmother, and teacher, she has firsthand experience with children and has personally faced their difficult questions. WHO IS JESUS? presents a biblical picture of our Savior in a way that will help your child recognize Him as Love Personified. Little children will come to know Jesus as the essence of all that is good, holy, and true. As you read this book to your children, grandchildren, nieces, nephews, or students, they will learn that Jesus Christ cares about them and loves them with a perfect love.

Who Is Jesus?

Children's Books

Diorio PhD, MaryAnn

Religions

TopNotch Press

A young woman, a priest, and a secret that keeps them bitterly bound to each other . . .

The Madonna of Pisano: Book 1 of The Italian Chronicles Trilogy

Literature & Fiction

Diorio, MaryAnn

Genre Fiction

The dream of a better life for himself and his family drives Luca Tonetta to the American Promised Land with his wife Maria and their three children. But the new Promised Land is nothing like what Maria had imagined. Forced to live in a roach-infested tenement house in the seedy section of Brooklyn, Maria faces hardships, prejudice, and slanderous assaults as she struggles to reconcile a life torn between two worlds. When her husband Luca is accused of a crime he did not commit, Maria learns that a dream must first die before it can live.

A Sicilian Farewell (The Italian Chronicles)

When young widow and life coach Dr. Teresa Lopez Gonzalez goes to Puerto Rico to coach Pilar Sanchez, the granddaughter of her mother’s best childhood friend, Teresa comes face-to-face with her own unwillingness to surrender to God's will for her life. In the process, she learns that only by losing her life will she truly find it.

Surrender to Love

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

The Daystar Devotional: Encouragement in Your Walk with Jesus

Diorio, Dr. MaryAnn

POEMS FOR WEE ONES will delight the young child in your life with its lilting verses and its charming illustrations by renowned Italian artist, Valeria Wicker. Wicker's delightful illustrations capture the essence of the poems with a freshness and originality that are unrivaled among children's illustrators. Studies have shown that reading poetry to children contributes to their healthful emotional development. Not only that, children who hear poetry from birth become earlier and better readers. Educators, especially reading specialists, and parents repeatedly attest to this fact.Another great benefit of reading poetry to your child is the bonding such reading creates between parent and child, grandparent and child, teacher and child, or caregiver and child. This bonding will go far to develop confidence and trust and build loving and lasting relationships between the generations. Moreover, the precious memories that result from reading poetry together will linger long throughout life for both reader and child.Interestingly, many people who write books today-including yours truly-testify to the power of childhood poetry in their lives and the influence it had on their taking up the pen themselves. My own father read poetry to me when I was a child. I still cherish the memories of those treasured times together. I am convinced that my father's reading of poetry to me played a predominant role in my choosing to become a poet and writer myself.So, if you want to leave a legacy to the precious children in your life, read poetry to them. And especially read POEMS FOR WEE ONES. It will definitely bless your child's soul and warm your child's heart all at the same time.

Poems for Wee Ones

Now, all three novels of THE ITALIAN CHRONICLES Trilogy in one book! Follow the page-turning saga of Maria Landro as she faces losing her fortune, her family, and her faith. Book 1: THE MADONNA OF PISANOA young woman, a priest, and a secret that keeps them bitterly bound to each other….A young, 19th-century Sicilian woman, Maria Landro, has a bright future ahead of her. Engaged to be married to her childhood sweetheart, Carlo Mancini, Maria is suddenly blindsided by her pastor and former teacher, Don Franco Malbone, a ruthless cleric bent on fulfilling his own selfish ambitions. When he brutally turns her world upside down by raping her, resulting in the conception and birth of their illegitimate son Nico, Maria faces the cruel double standard of a village whose code of honor reviles her and her innocent child and forces them into seclusion while allowing Don Franco to continue in his hypocrisy.In the depths of her profound suffering, Maria comes face to face with demons she never knew existed within her, demons she does not know how to handle. When, however, she meets Luca Tonetta, she discovers the courage to face her demons by embracing the truth that demons must bow to the love and forgiveness of Jesus Christ. Meanwhile, Don Franco secretly wrestles with demons of his own. An only son forced into the priesthood by a demanding father, Don Franco sees the priesthood as nothing more than a means to be the somebody he's always wanted to be. When his sin nature emerges in full force, revealing his utter depravity and sending him reeling toward destruction, he must make the choice every human being must make: Will he choose his own way or God's way? Book 2: A SICILIAN FAREWELLA young woman, a new land, and a dream that threatens to destroy her, her marriage, and her family . . .When Maria Landro Tonetta reluctantly follows her husband Luca to the New World, she encounters obstacles unlike anything she could ever have imagined. Not only does she meet with rejection and isolation, but when Luca is unjustly accused of a crime, her whole world falls apart. Will she be able to trust God to see her through?Book 3: RETURN TO BELLA TERRAA mother, her son , and the man who threatens to come between them . . .When Maria Landro Tonetta receives word that Mama is terminally ill, Maria travels to her Sicilian homeland with her son Nico. She finds herself yearning for the life she once knew as a child on Bella Terra, the family farm, now on the verge of bankruptcy. Caught between two worlds, Maria dreams of moving back to Sicily with her husband and children to save the farm. When, however, Nico’s biological father unexpectedly appears at Mama’s funeral, Maria faces a new enemy to her dream. But is there an even greater enemy within her own soul?

THE ITALIAN CHRONICLES

Eight-year-old Penelope Pumpernickel-Penny, for short--has run into a big problem. His name is Grandville Ungerleider-Grandy, for short. Grandy wants to be Penny's friend, but he has a strange way of letting her know. Maybe his father's recent death has something to do with it. Penny's best-friend-forever, Matilda Mendoza-Tilly, for short-offers Penny some good suggestions about what to do with Grandy. When Grandy disrupts the Homeschool Consortium with his crazy antics, Penny must find a way to solve the big problems he causes. In this first of the delightful Penelope Pumpernickel Series of chapter books for six-to-ten-year-old children, Penelope Pumpernickel learns that no matter how big a problem you face, there is always a way to solve it with God's help.

Penelope Pumpernickel: Precocious Problem-Solver: Book 1 in The Penelope Pumpernickel Series (The Penelope Pumpernickel Series of Chapter Books)

Action & Adventure

Eight-year-old Penelope Pumpernickel and her BFF, Tilly Mendoza, set out to solve the mystery of the loose brick. Will Grandy Ungerleider mess up their plans once again? And what about pets at Homeschool Consortium?\nThis delightful and entertaining addition to the Penelope Pumpernickel Series of Chapter Books for Children will keep your child turning pages, laughing at the antics of these beloved, homeschooled children, and developing reading skills and good character along the way.

Penelope Pumpernickel: Mystery Maven: Book 3 in The Penelope Pumpernickel Series (The Penelope Pumpernickel Series of Chapter Books)

An angry princess discovers the greatest weapon of all.

Miracle at Madville

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