MaryAnn Diorio Books in Order

This short guide approaches budgeting and debt through biblical principles, offering practical steps toward more stable finances. Diorio frames getting out of debt and remaining free of it as an aspect of applying Christian beliefs to everyday decisions.

Diorio presents biblical principles for couples seeking to improve a troubled marriage or strengthen an already sound relationship. The guide considers marriage as something that can be deliberately nurtured, addressing both current spouses and people preparing for married life.

After seven Christmases apart, a daughter returns home carrying the consequences of painful choices. Her mother longs for reunion but struggles to forgive, leaving both women to consider whether faith and love can repair the family bond they lost.

After her husband dies, Jennie Belle vows never to remarry, believing another love would betray his memory. Meeting the patient, faith-centered Tim challenges that promise and forces her to consider whether honoring the past can leave room for a new future.

Diorio records conversations she understands as exchanges with God, offering them as material for personal reflection. These devotional meditations invite readers to consider spiritual listening and the possibility of recognizing divine guidance within their own relationship with faith.

Questions children ask about Jesus and his love form the starting point for this introduction to Christian belief. Diorio offers young readers a biblical portrait centered on compassion, helping caregivers discuss faith and children’s concerns about goodness and belonging.

This student guide introduces Herman Melville’s life and major writings, including Moby-Dick. It considers how travel and personal experience shaped his fiction, helping readers understand the combination of adventure, realism, and symbolism that distinguishes his work.

This student guide explores Mark Twain’s life and writing, with attention to Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. It examines his humor and distinctive use of language, providing a foundation for understanding his place in American literature.

This guide introduces students to Nathaniel Hawthorne’s writing and its enduring concerns with guilt, alienation, pride, sin, and hypocrisy. It offers a basis for understanding how his fiction explores the human heart across different generations.

This booklet introduces the authority and spiritual inheritance that Diorio associates with becoming a Christian. It explains those ideas through a biblical framework and considers how believers might understand and apply them in their lives after conversion.

Addressing fear of death, this booklet presents a Christian account of the afterlife and the choice between heaven and hell. Diorio explains salvation within that framework, inviting readers to consider the religious commitments she believes determine what follows death.

Four-year-old Keisha fears that a new baby sister will take away her mother’s love. Using three candles, her mother helps her understand how sharing affection can make it grow, offering reassurance as Keisha adjusts to a changing family.

A boy living with a disability discovers the importance of faith when confronting what seems impossible. This children’s story approaches hope through his experience, inviting young readers to consider possibilities beyond the limits they initially see.

Diorio offers a Christian approach to the experience of feeling overwhelmed, rushed and exhausted. The book focuses on replacing a sense of constant pressure with greater balance, framing that transition through biblical principles applied to everyday life.

A widowed life coach travels to Puerto Rico to help a young woman, only to confront grief she has never resolved herself. Supporting someone else becomes a challenge to accept healing and reconsider the future through her own Christian faith.

Shunned after a devastating betrayal, Maria Landro struggles to raise her son and save her family’s Italian farm. The arrival of kindhearted Luca Tonetta offers another future, but she must choose between pursuing revenge and allowing herself to love.

Toby worries that being small means he has little to offer others. An unexpected discovery changes how he measures himself, in a children’s story that explores the difference between outward size and the qualities a person carries within.

Maria follows her husband Luca from Sicily to America, hoping their family can build a better life. Isolation and rejection challenge her resolve, and when Luca is wrongly accused of a crime, she must draw on her faith to persevere.

Daily devotional readings pair reflection with Scripture to encourage a continuing relationship with Jesus. Diorio addresses the challenges believers face in ordinary life, presenting regular spiritual attention as a way to develop confidence, understanding and perseverance in faith.

Returning to Sicily with her son to visit her dying mother, Maria longs to save the family farm and reclaim a familiar life. Her son’s biological father reappears, threatening plans already complicated by her divided loyalties.

When a proposed highway threatens her dandelion patch, Yolanda organizes resistance to protect the land she loves. With children also invested in its future, she must decide whether determination, honest argument and care can overcome the government’s plans.

Cori has carefully planned her career and personal life, leaving no room for dating. An unexpected blind date with Craig unsettles those assumptions, prompting her to question whether relinquishing control might open possibilities she had not imagined for herself.

Illustrated poems for young children combine gentle humor with rhythmic language and modern nursery-rhyme forms. The collection offers verses to hear and repeat aloud, inviting shared reading through playful sounds, familiar poetic patterns and lighthearted imagery.

Expecting her second child, Tammie faces a future transformed by her husband’s sudden death. As grief and the demands of motherhood threaten to overwhelm her, she turns to faith while trying to find the courage to rebuild daily life.

American graduate student Tori Pendola falls in love with Ghanaian exchange student Jebuni Kalitsi, an heir to tribal leadership. Their relationship faces racial prejudice, cultural expectations, and rejection as they struggle to reconcile love, identity, and faith.

Poems written over several years reflect on different stages and experiences of life through varied forms. Sonnets, haikus, limericks and other structures appear alongside the author’s own Diorion, bringing formal variety to this collection of personal reflections.

Eight-year-old Penny wants to handle a boy whose disruptive behavior makes friendship difficult. With advice from her best friend Tilly, she tries to solve problems in their homeschool group while learning to respond with faith and attention to character.

Becca Jordan expects an ordinary flea-market purchase when she buys an antique clock. Instead, the discovery draws her into an extraordinary past, setting her life on a course toward a future she could never have imagined.

Penny investigates a classmate’s claim that a treasure chest lies in a forbidden church basement. Missing maps complicate the mystery, and she and her friend Tilly must find answers while deciding how to do the right thing.

Auditor Amy Torelli travels to Milan to inspect her company’s Italian branch and falls for executive Ted McMasters. Evidence suggesting he is embezzling forces her to choose between protecting him and preserving her own integrity and career.

Diorio argues that American Christians must prepare for persecution through stronger commitment to biblical teaching. Drawing on her religious experience, she outlines an approach to spiritual discipline and ministry intended to challenge complacency and strengthen the Church.

Fifty devotionals offer Christian encouragement for writers at different points in their creative journey. This brief volume centers on sustaining faith and motivation, inviting readers to approach the work of writing through regular spiritual reflection.

Twelve-year-old Dixie Randolph expects an ordinary summer at her grandmother’s beach house. An old journal leads her toward hidden treasure and a longstanding family feud, while someone determined to keep the past buried tries to stop her investigation.

A cheerful traveler unsettles an angry princess with his songs, optimism and belief in possibility. When her father promises her in marriage to the winner of a fighting festival, Felix’s faith faces a test and Angria searches for escape.

Penny and her best friend Tilly set out to explain a mysterious loose brick, while a familiar troublemaker threatens to disrupt their plans. Questions about pets at their homeschool group add another complication to the young detectives’ latest adventure.

MaryAnn Diorio examines the connection between a writer’s self-image and expectations of success. This brief guide invites writers to consider how their beliefs about themselves may limit their ambitions and shape the progress of their work.

This guide for aspiring and established writers examines three foundations of a writing career: attitude, business, and craft. It explains the importance of professional habits, treating writing as a business, and developing the skills necessary for effective work.

Loretta Vye feels secure in her arranged marriage until her husband’s death leaves her without money. Forced to confront the assumptions that sustained her old life, the childless widow must reconsider who she is and what comes next.

Widowed mother Julie Melitto wants a happy Christmas for her ten-year-old daughter, Laney. Nick Carbone’s unexpected return unsettles her plans, while Laney hopes he might become the father she longs for and Julie hesitates to risk loving again.

Diorio explores what she describes as the biblical principles behind thinking like a winner. This guide in her Winner’s Library series approaches attitudes and personal outlook through Christian belief, inviting readers to examine how they think about their lives.

Stranded on an isolated mountain road during a snowstorm, a young woman prays for help. An unexpected encounter turns her frightening predicament into a test of faith and a surprising possibility for romance guided by divine timing.

In nineteenth-century Cape May, Miriam Goldstein’s long marriage to a rabbi is shaken when a Christian encourages her to read Isaiah. Her changing beliefs threaten her relationship and safety, forcing difficult choices between conviction and the life she knows.

Unsure of her purpose and the direction her life should take, Katie Nichols helps clear her grandmother’s home. An old trunk in the attic offers an unexpected connection to the past and an answer to her uncertainty.

Middle-aged mother Ornella Lombardi unexpectedly gives birth to a child with Down syndrome in the nineteenth century. The arrival upends her expectations and threatens her marriage, family relationships, and cherished plans for the future.

Dixie Randolph, her father, and her friend Ruby Jo are kidnapped by spies seeking classified defense information. Trapped in a remote mountain cabin, Dixie must rely on courage and ingenuity to protect her injured father and escape.

Vinny Morello and Rosalie Cappelletti confront an international diamond-smuggling ring as their attraction grows. Danger and difficult choices test Vinny’s understanding of himself, his faith, and the possibility of a future with the woman he loves.

Drawing on biblical principles, Diorio addresses worry, fear, self-acceptance and the search for personal purpose. The guide encourages readers to challenge negative views of themselves and take a more active role in shaping their lives through Christian belief.