Bøger af Diane Allen

How can you learn to play the violin when there are no indications of where the notes are on the fingerboard? This is a violin instruction workbook that focuses on the first position. Students practice reading violin music and then learn to find where those notes are on the violin. Through this violin method, students will internalize the fingerboard by experiencing it visually, kinesthetically and aurally. See the notes, hear the notes, feel the notes. Whether you are a violin beginner or advanced, a child, kid or adult, this could be considered a "Violin for Dummies" violin music book. Truthfully, it's a "Violin for Smarty's" music book! You will get the tools you need to effectively learn the notes of any violin sheet music or Suzuki violin music. The Fingerboard Workbook for the First Position Map the Violin for Good is book 1 of a 7 part series. The series covers the fingerboard from 1st to 11th positions. www.fingerboardworkbookseries.com

"Pray, Hope, and Don't Worry: True Stories of Padre Pio Book l" (now also available in Audible) is a glimpse into the life and spirituality of St. Pio of Pietrelcina, who has often been called "The greatest mystic of the 20th Century." Forty individuals, all who either met Padre Pio personally or attended his Mass, were interviewed for this book. The author traveled to many parts of the United States in order to record the personal testimonies of Padre Pio's friends from near and far. Chapters in the book which examine Padre Pio's unique spirituality include: The Transverberation, The Extraordinary Perfume of Padre Pio, Padre Pio's Way of the Cross, Answered Prayers, Showers of Blessings, Testimonies of Grace Part One, Part Two, and Part Three, Padre Pio's Holy Death, and more. Be sure to visit the author's informational website on Padre Pio at: www.padrepiodevotions.org as well as her Padre Pio Facebook page at: facebook.com/PadrePioDevotions

How can you learn to play the viola when there are no indications of where the notes are on the fingerboard? This is a viola instruction workbook that focuses on the first position. Students practice reading viola music and then learn to find where those notes are on the viola. Through this viola method, students will internalize the fingerboard by experiencing it visually, kinesthetically and aurally. See the notes, hear the notes, feel the notes. Whether you are a viola beginner or advanced, a child, kid or adult, this could be considered a "Viola for Dummies" viola music book. Truthfully, it's a "Viola for Smarty's" music book! You will get the tools you need to effectively learn the notes of any viola sheet music or Suzuki viola music. The Fingerboard Workbook for the First Position Map the Viola for Good is book 1 of a 7 part series. The series covers the fingerboard from 1st to 11th positions. www.fingerboardworkbookseries.com

Pray, Hope, and Don't Worry: True Stories of Padre Pio, Book II, written by Diane Allen and published by Padre Pio Press, contains 40 chapters and 507 pages. The author continued to research and study the life and spirituality of Padre Pio for her second book on the saint who has often been referred to as "the greatest mystic of the 20th Century." Included in the book are a number of interviews the author conducted with those who met Padre Pio personally and had a testimony to share. One of the personal testimonies in Pray, Hope, and Don't Worry Book II, is the story of the cloistered Carmelite nun, Sister Pia of Jesus Crucified, who found her vocation to religious life on her first visit to San Giovanni Rotondo and made her confession to Padre Pio on many occasions. The testimony of Alex Quinn, popular songwriter and recording artist of Belfast, Northern Ireland is also featured. Alex tells of the miracle his family received through the intercession of Padre Pio. Additional chapters: Padre Pio - An Extraordinary Confessor, Padre Pio's Love for the Holy Angels, The Clergy Remembers Padre Pio, Padre Pio's Gift of Bilocation, Padre Pio's Prophetic Spirit, More Stories from the War Years, Padre Pio's Healing Touch, Padre Pio and the Children, Padre Pio's Seraphic Father: St. Francis of Assisi and much more. Other books by Diane Allen include: They Walked with God: St. Bernadette Soubirous, St. John Vianney, St. Damien of Molokai, St. Andre Bessette, Bl. Solanus Casey as well as Daily Reflection and Pray, Hope, and Don't Worry: True Stories of Padre Pio Book I I wish to thank the Lord for having given us dear Padre Pio, for having given him to our generation in this very tormented century. In his love for God and for his brothers and sisters, he is a sign of great hope.- Pope John Paul II

Diane Allen the author of the popular Pray, Hope, and Don't Worry: True Stories of Padre Pio Book 1 and Book 2, spent three years in the research and writing of her latest book, They Walked with God Book 1: St. Bernadette Soubirous, St. John Vianney, St. Damien De Veuster, St. Andre Bessette, Blessed Solanus Casey. Bernadette Soubirous was born in Lourdes, France in 1844. Between February 11 and July 16, 1858, the Virgin Mary appeared to Bernadette eighteen times at the grotto of Massabielle. Bernadette was 14 years old at the time. When Bernadette was twenty-two years old, she entered the Sisters of Charity Religious Order in Nevers, France. She passed her remaining years in prayer and seclusion despite almost constant sickness and pain. To this day, Lourdes remains one of the greatest healing centers in the world. At the Capuchin monastery in Detroit, Michigan, where Father Solanus Casey (1870-1957) served for many years, he was given the job of doorkeeper. It was as doorkeeper that his amazing spiritual gifts came to be known and recognized. People of all ages, creeds, and economic backgrounds found themselves drawn to him and sought him out. He was known for his remarkable abilities as a spiritual counselor, as well as for his great attention to the sick, to whom he directed his attention and his prayers. The great love and compassion which he manifested extended even to the animal kingdom. Countless people were healed by his touch. Brother André Bessette served as a lay brother in the Congregation of the Holy Cross. He was known during his lifetime as a wonder worker and had gift of prophecy, reading of hearts and more. Thousands of miraculous healings were attributed to his prayerful intercession and he became commonly known as the "miracle man of Montreal." Through his efforts, the largest shrine in the world dedicated to St. Joseph was built. When he passed away on January 6, 1937, over a million people attended his funeral. Not long after Father John Marie Vianney had been ordained to the priesthood, the tiny parish of Ars became vacant and needed a pastor. It was the poorest and most remote parish in the diocese of Lyons, France. The bishop assigned Father John Marie to the parish of Ars and said to him, "There is hardly any love in that parish. It will be up to you to bring love there." Paradoxically, the parish of Ars, so small and so poor, through the continuous efforts of Father John Marie became the focal center of spirituality for all of France. The mayor of Ars described it correctly when he said, "We have a poor church but a holy priest" and a visitor to Ars was so impressed by the saintly priest that he said of him, "I have seen God in a man." During the last year of his life,100,000 people traveled to the tiny village to make their confession to Father John Marie and to receive his blessing. Father Damien of Molokai has been described as a "martyr to charity." He volunteered to serve at the leper settlement on the island of Molokai, well-aware that his service there was a potential death sentence, since leprosy at that time was both contagious and incurable. To the lepers confined to Molokai, Father Damien became their doctor, their nurse, their advocate, their counselor, their father and their friend. He brought order and peace to an island where there had been no law and no hope. Like the Good Samaritan, Father Damien is an example for all who wish to be involved in the struggle for a more just, more humane world. He died of leprosy after serving 16 years at Molokai and 25 years in all in the Hawaiian Islands. Be sure to visit the author's website at www.padrepiodevotions.org

A Precious Daughter by Diane Allen is a moving family saga set between Canada and Liverpool during the 19th century.

The Girl from the Tanner's Yard by Diane Allen is an evocative historical saga set in Yorkshire during the 19th century.

Set in the Yorkshire Dales, The Miner's Wife is a sweeping family drama following a young woman who falls in love with a man who is not everything he seems . . .

The final part in the historical Windfell saga trilogy by Diane Allen.

Charlotte Booth loves her father and the home they share, which is set high up in the limestone escarpments of Crummockdale. But when a new businessman in the form of Joseph Dawson enters their lives, both Charlotte and her father decide he's the man for her and, within six months, Charlotte marries the dashing mill owner from Accrington.Then a young mill worker is found dead in the swollen River Ribble. With Joseph's business nearly bankrupt, it becomes apparent that all is not as it seems and Joseph is not the man he pretends to be. Heavily pregnant, penniless and heartbroken, Charlotte is forced to face the reality that life may never be the same again . . .

There would be trouble in Paradise . . . From birth, Polly Harper seems destined for tragedy. Raised by her loving grandparents on Paradise Farm she is unknowingly tangled in a web of secrecy regarding her parentage. When she falls in love with Tobias, the wealthy son of a local landowner of disrepute, her anxious grandparents send her to work in a dairy. There she becomes instantly drawn to the handsome Matt Dinsdale, propelling her further into the depths of forbidden romance and dark family secrets. But tragedy strikes, Polly is forced to confront her past and decide the fate of her future. Will she lose everything, or will she finally realize that her roots and love lie in Paradise?

1912 in the Yorkshire Dales and Alice Bentham and her brother Will have lost their mother to cancer. Money is scarce and pride doesn't pay the doctor or put food on the table. Alice gets work at Whernside Manor looking after Lord Frankland's fragile sister Miss Nancy. Meanwhile Will and his best-friend Jack begin working for the Lord of the Manor at the marble mill. But their purpose there is not an entirely honest one. For a while everything runs smoothly, but corruption, attempted murder and misplaced love are just waiting in the wings. Nothing is as it seems and before they know it, Alice and Will's lives are entwined with those of the Franklands' and nothing will ever be the same again.