Susan Hill
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World-changers. Rebels. Rejecters of the status quo. Throughout history, Christians were never meant to have a safe faith. Highlighting 50 people throughout the millennia, this book is a compilation of faith, facts, and art that celebrates the faith lives of spiritual giants and inspires you to grow in your own personal faith.
Dangerous Faith is a collection of essays and inspiration about Christians who have changed the world. This four-color gift...
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Im englischen Städtchen Lafferton scheint die Welt noch in Ordnung zu sein. Bis zu dem Morgen, als eine Frau spurlos im Nebel verschwindet. Die Polizei möchte den Fall schnell zu den Akten legen, nur die junge Ermittlerin Freya Graffham hat ein ungutes Gefühl bei der Sache. Zusammen mit ihrer heimlichen Liebe, dem gleichermaßen schöngeistigen wie rätselhaften Polizeichef Simon Serrailler, macht sie sich an die Ermittlungen. Dann verschwinden...
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A short story by Susan Hill from the collection Reader, I Married Him: Stories inspired by Jane Eyre. In 'Reader, I Married Him', an American socialite reflects on her rise through England's social circles, and a whirlwind romance. Edited by Tracy Chevalier, the full collection, Reader, I Married Him, brings together some of the finest and most creative voices in fiction today, to celebrate and salute the strength and lasting relevance of Charlotte...
7) Black Sheep
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A searing family story from one of our most beloved writers
The village is called Mount of Zeal. It's built in a bowl like an amphitheater, with the winding gear where the stage would be. The pit lies below. Ted Howker's school is on the edge of Lower Terrace next to the chapel. Upper Terrace-in a thunderous echo of the Bible so loved by Ted's grandfather-is Paradise. Ted, his father, and his brothers live in Middle. In the beginning: a household...
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Serrailler must confront his demons as Lafferton experiences a series of shocking crimes in this 10th book in Susan Hill's shattering crime series.
Susan Hill stuns readers once again in The Benefit of Hindsight, the 10th book in her celebrated mystery series. Now recuperated after the violent incident that cost him his arm-and nearly his life-DCS Serrailler has returned to work, though he prefers to spend his spare time sketching the medieval angels...
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World-changers. Rebels. Rejecters of the status quo. Throughout history, Christians were never meant to have a safe faith. Highlighting people throughout the millennia, this book is a compilation of faith, facts, and art that celebrate the prayer lives of spiritual giants and invigorate your faith.
Dangerous Prayers is an inspiring collection of prayers from people who have changed the world. This four-color gift book features:
• The exploration...
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From an inside peek at the inner workings of Hollywood to the backstage drama of Broadway, from a poignant look at the black upper class to an honest look at the WASP elite, this elegantly wrought memoir of an extraordinary family has something for everyone.
Growing up with a black Auntie Mame-like mother (who performed with the likes of Lena Horne) and an Anglo sea-faring father, Susan Fales-Hill moved seamlessly between many worlds. But it was...
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"Meet the Harcourts of Chevy Chase, Maryland. A respectable middle-class, middle-age, mixed-race couple, Harold and Forsythia have four eminently marriageable daughters-or so their mother believes. Forsythia named her girls after Windsor royals in the hopes that one day each would find her true prince. But princes are far from the mind of their second-born daughter, Elizabeth (AKA Bliss), who, in the aftermath of a messy divorce, has moved back home...
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After years of searching for and finally landing that one perfect man, four Manhattan friends find themselves simultaneously questioning their romantic choices. Smart, strong, but jaded divorce lawyer India Chumley leads this pack of feisty thirty-somethings, all friends since grade school at the Sibley School, an Upper East Side institution for sophisticated ladies-in-training. There's Abby Rosenfeld Adams, a Jewish gallery owner married to her WASP...
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Mole lives alone deep underground until one fine day he dares to go up. He is shy and afraid of water, but he soon meets a friendly Water Rat who composes a poem as the story progresses. Will Mole run away or face his fears?
This reader is the perfect introduction to Kenneth Grahame's classic The Wind in the Willows, with illustrations by Michael Hague.