Stanley and Elsie
Stanley and Elsie

Author: Nicola Upson

Publisher: Prelude Books

Published: 2019-05-02

Total Pages: 351

ISBN-13: 0715653695

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The First World War is over, and in a quiet Hampshire village, artist Stanley Spencer is working on the commission of a lifetime, painting an entire chapel in memory of a life lost in the war to end all wars. Combining his own traumatic experiences with moments of everyday redemption, the chapel will become his masterpiece. When Elsie Munday arrives to take up position as housemaid to the Spencer family, her life quickly becomes entwined with the charming and irascible Stanley, his artist wife Hilda and their tiny daughter Shirin. As the years pass, Elsie does her best to keep the family together even when love, obsession and temptation seem set to tear them apart...

Tiger-time for Stanley
Tiger-time for Stanley

Author: Griff

Publisher: TickTock Books

Published: 2001-01-01

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13: 9781860072642

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Tiger-time Stanley is a welcome addition to the original and highly successful Stanley Books series. Read as Stanley dreams of wild adventures and learns about animals while having a laugh. Guaranteed to have kids of the 3-6 year old age group hooked, while entertaining the parents at the same time.

A Diagram for Fire
A Diagram for Fire

Author: Jon Bialecki

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2017-03-07

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 0520967410

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What is the work that miracles do in American Charismatic Evangelicalism? How can miracles be unanticipated and yet worked for? And finally, what do miracles tell us about other kinds of Christianity and even the category of religion? A Diagram for Fire engages with these questions in a detailed sociocultural ethnographic study of the Vineyard, an American Evangelical movement that originated in Southern California. The Vineyard is known worldwide for its intense musical forms of worship and for advocating the belief that all Christians can perform biblical-style miracles. Examining the miracle as both a strength and a challenge to institutional cohesion and human planning, this book situates the miracle as a fundamentally social means of producing change—surprise and the unexpected used to reimagine and reconfigure the will. Jon Bialecki shows how this configuration of the miraculous shapes typical Pentecostal and Charismatic religious practices as well as music, reading, economic choices, and conservative and progressive political imaginaries.

The Witch's Sister
The Witch's Sister

Author: Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2002-09

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 0689853157

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Lynn's growing conviction that her sister is learning witchcraft from a neighbor reaches its peak when Lynn, her sister, and brother are left for a weekend in the neighbor's charge.

Three Things About Elsie
Three Things About Elsie

Author: Joanna Cannon

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2018-08-07

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 1501187406

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The bestselling author of The Trouble with Goats and Sheep delivers a suspenseful and emotionally satisfying novel “infused with warmth and humor” (People) about a lifelong friendship, a devastating secret, and the small acts of kindness that bring people together. There are three things you should know about Elsie. The first thing is that she’s my best friend. The second is that she always knows what to say to make me feel better. And the third thing…might take a bit more explaining. Eighty-four-year-old Florence has fallen in her flat at Cherry Tree Home for the Elderly. As she waits to be rescued, she thinks about her friend Elsie and wonders if a terrible secret from their past is about to come to light. If the charming new resident is who he claims to be, why does he look exactly like a man who died sixty years ago? From the acclaimed, bestselling author of The Trouble with Goats and Sheep, Three Things About Elsie “breathes with suspense, providing along the way piercing, poetic descriptions, countless tiny mysteries, and breathtaking little reveals…a rich portrait of old age and friendship stretched over a fascinating frame” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). This is an “amusing and heartbreaking” (Publishers Weekly) story about forever friends on the twisting path of life who come to understand how the fine threads of humanity connect us all.

Stop Acting Rich
Stop Acting Rich

Author: Thomas J. Stanley

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2011-07-12

Total Pages: 295

ISBN-13: 1118011570

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The bestselling author of The Millionaire Next Door reveals easy ways to build real wealth With well over two million of his books sold, and huge praise from many media outlets, Dr. Thomas J. Stanley is a recognized and highly respected authority on how the wealthy act and think. Now, in Stop Acting Rich ? and Start Living Like a Millionaire, he details how the less affluent have fallen into the elite luxury brand trap that keeps them from acquiring wealth and details how to get out of it by emulating the working rich as opposed to the super elite. Puts wealth in perspective and shows you how to live rich without spending more Details why we spend lavishly and how to stop this destructive cycle Discusses how being "rich" means more than just big houses and luxury cars A defensive strategy for tough times, Stop Acting Rich shows readers how to live a rich, happy life through accumulating more wealth and using it to achieve the type of financial freedom that will create true happiness and fulfillment.

Carson Crosses Canada
Carson Crosses Canada

Author: Linda Bailey

Publisher: Tundra Books

Published: 2020-05-19

Total Pages: 38

ISBN-13: 0735266352

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From the author of If You Happen to Have a Dinosaur comes a funny and sweet cross-country roadtrip adventure with a sassy septuagenarian and her quirky canine. Feisty Annie Magruder and her dog, Carson, live in British Columbia, Canada, and they're setting out to visit her sister, Elsie, in Newfoundland. In their little rattlebang car, packed with Carson's favorite toy, Squeaky Chicken, and plenty of baloney sandwiches, Annie and Carson hit the road! They travel province by province, taking in each unique landscape and experiencing something special to that particular part of this vast, grand country. For example, they marvel at the beauty of the big, open sky -- and grasshoppers! -- in Saskatchewan and discover the gorgeous red earth and delicious lobster rolls in PEI, before finally being greeted by Elsie -- and a surprise for Carson!

An Expert in Murder
An Expert in Murder

Author: Nicola Upson

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2009-10-13

Total Pages: 245

ISBN-13: 0061843512

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March 1934. Revered mystery writer Josephine Tey is traveling from Scotland to London for the final week of her play Richard of Bordeaux, the surprise hit of the season, with pacifist themes that resonate in a world still haunted by war. But joy turns to horror when her arrival coincides with the murder of a young woman she had befriended on the train ride—and Tey is plunged into a mystery as puzzling as any in her own works. Detective Inspector Archie Penrose is convinced that the killing is connected to the play, and that Tey herself is in danger of becoming a victim of her own success. In the aftermath of a second murder, the writer and the policeman must join together to stop a ruthless killer who will apparently stop at nothing.

Changes and Chances
Changes and Chances

Author: Stanley Middleton

Publisher: New Amsterdam Books

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13:

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Psychologically acute without cant or dogma, Stanley Middleton puts before us another episode of a Human Comedy controlled and measured a la Trollope.

Flat Stanley
Flat Stanley

Author: Jeff Brown

Publisher: Egmont Books (UK)

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 9781405242295

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Stanley Lambchop was just an ordinary boy until a large notice board fell on him and made him flat - only half an inch thick! Stanley gets rolled up, sent in the post, flown like a kite, and helps catch dangerous criminals! Then, he becomes invisible and discovers he can do amazing things like perform magic and foil a daring robbery.