Author: Agatha Christie
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062006614
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
“Writing Crooked House was pure pleasure and I feel justified in my belief that it is one of my best.” --Agatha Christie Described by the queen of mystery herself as one of her favorites of her published work, Crooked House is a classic Agatha Christie thriller revolving around a devastating family mystery. The Leonides are one big happy family living in a sprawling, ramshackle mansion. That is until the head of the household, Aristide, is murdered with a fatal barbiturate injection. Suspicion naturally falls on the old man’s young widow, fifty years his junior. But the murderer has reckoned without the tenacity of Charles Hayward, fiancé of the late millionaire’s granddaughter.
Crooked House
Author: Agatha Christie
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062006614
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
“Writing Crooked House was pure pleasure and I feel justified in my belief that it is one of my best.” --Agatha Christie Described by the queen of mystery herself as one of her favorites of her published work, Crooked House is a classic Agatha Christie thriller revolving around a devastating family mystery. The Leonides are one big happy family living in a sprawling, ramshackle mansion. That is until the head of the household, Aristide, is murdered with a fatal barbiturate injection. Suspicion naturally falls on the old man’s young widow, fifty years his junior. But the murderer has reckoned without the tenacity of Charles Hayward, fiancé of the late millionaire’s granddaughter.
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062006614
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
“Writing Crooked House was pure pleasure and I feel justified in my belief that it is one of my best.” --Agatha Christie Described by the queen of mystery herself as one of her favorites of her published work, Crooked House is a classic Agatha Christie thriller revolving around a devastating family mystery. The Leonides are one big happy family living in a sprawling, ramshackle mansion. That is until the head of the household, Aristide, is murdered with a fatal barbiturate injection. Suspicion naturally falls on the old man’s young widow, fifty years his junior. But the murderer has reckoned without the tenacity of Charles Hayward, fiancé of the late millionaire’s granddaughter.
Josephine
Author: Patricia Hruby Powell
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 1452129711
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 107
Book Description
Coretta Scott King Book Award, Illustrator, Honor Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award, Honor Boston Globe–Horn Book Award, Nonfiction Honor In exuberant verse and stirring pictures, Patricia Hruby Powell and Christian Robinson create an extraordinary portrait for young people of the passionate performer and civil rights advocate Josephine Baker, the woman who worked her way from the slums of St. Louis to the grandest stages in the world. Meticulously researched by both author and artist, Josephine's powerful story of struggle and triumph is an inspiration and a spectacle, just like the legend herself.
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 1452129711
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 107
Book Description
Coretta Scott King Book Award, Illustrator, Honor Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award, Honor Boston Globe–Horn Book Award, Nonfiction Honor In exuberant verse and stirring pictures, Patricia Hruby Powell and Christian Robinson create an extraordinary portrait for young people of the passionate performer and civil rights advocate Josephine Baker, the woman who worked her way from the slums of St. Louis to the grandest stages in the world. Meticulously researched by both author and artist, Josephine's powerful story of struggle and triumph is an inspiration and a spectacle, just like the legend herself.
House of Ash and Bone
Author: Joel A. Sutherland
Publisher: Tundra Books
ISBN: 1774880970
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
The Haunted meets House of Salt and Sorrows in this young adult debut horror by acclaimed master of the macabre Joel A. Sutherland. Seventeen-year-old Josephine Jagger is a talented writer with special abilities she doesn't fully understand. Over the years she has developed methods to cope with the voices she hears in her head, but the old house her family has inherited in Vermont makes Josephine question what's real and what's not more than anything she's ever encountered before. It's filled with shadows, and whispers, and the unshakable feeling of being watched. Josephine then catches her first glimpse of a shadowy woman with long hair, pale skin, an impossibly wide smile and hollow pits for eyes. Her name is Dorcas, the ghost of a witch who died three hundred years ago. She has summoned the family to Vermont to ensnare them — then consume them — in order to rise from the grave and live again . . .
Publisher: Tundra Books
ISBN: 1774880970
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
The Haunted meets House of Salt and Sorrows in this young adult debut horror by acclaimed master of the macabre Joel A. Sutherland. Seventeen-year-old Josephine Jagger is a talented writer with special abilities she doesn't fully understand. Over the years she has developed methods to cope with the voices she hears in her head, but the old house her family has inherited in Vermont makes Josephine question what's real and what's not more than anything she's ever encountered before. It's filled with shadows, and whispers, and the unshakable feeling of being watched. Josephine then catches her first glimpse of a shadowy woman with long hair, pale skin, an impossibly wide smile and hollow pits for eyes. Her name is Dorcas, the ghost of a witch who died three hundred years ago. She has summoned the family to Vermont to ensnare them — then consume them — in order to rise from the grave and live again . . .
Claiming Your Mind, Claiming Your Sovereignty
Author: Anne Elizabeth Ph.D.
Publisher: Balboa Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
As a healer and a seeker of truth, Dr. Anne Elizabeth has been searching for the origins of consciousness, thinking, and spiritual connection throughout her lifetime. She has explored many philosophies and found the work of Rudolf Steiner; a most comprehensive diamondmind view of our relationship to the cosmos and ourselves. She has experienced many spiritual contacts as well as spiritual pilgrimages to England, France and Spain following the path of Mary, the mother of Jesus and Mary Magdalene and continues her quest for spiritual sovereignty in connection with her Future Self and the support of the Marconics Chronos Guild. Through the many spiritual pathways explored, Dr. Elizabeth has found the work of Rudolf Steiner and anthroposophy to hold a deep global and comprehensive perspective of the connections between our earth, our planet and the ways in which we are infl uenced by the planetary system in which we live. Beyond this matrix, Dr. Elizabeth discovered the Marconics Chronos Guild which facilitated her healing and ascension process with her Future Self into enduring grace multidimensionality.
Publisher: Balboa Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
As a healer and a seeker of truth, Dr. Anne Elizabeth has been searching for the origins of consciousness, thinking, and spiritual connection throughout her lifetime. She has explored many philosophies and found the work of Rudolf Steiner; a most comprehensive diamondmind view of our relationship to the cosmos and ourselves. She has experienced many spiritual contacts as well as spiritual pilgrimages to England, France and Spain following the path of Mary, the mother of Jesus and Mary Magdalene and continues her quest for spiritual sovereignty in connection with her Future Self and the support of the Marconics Chronos Guild. Through the many spiritual pathways explored, Dr. Elizabeth has found the work of Rudolf Steiner and anthroposophy to hold a deep global and comprehensive perspective of the connections between our earth, our planet and the ways in which we are infl uenced by the planetary system in which we live. Beyond this matrix, Dr. Elizabeth discovered the Marconics Chronos Guild which facilitated her healing and ascension process with her Future Self into enduring grace multidimensionality.
Josephine Wall: Soul of a Unicorn (Blank Sketch Book)
Author: Flame Tree Studio
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781787550766
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Part of a series of exciting and luxurious Flame Tree Sketch Books Combining high-quality production with magnificent fine art, the covers are printed on foil in five colours, embossed, then foil stamped. The thick paper stock makes them perfect for sketching and drawing. These are perfect for personal use and make a dazzling gift. This example features Josephine Wall: Soul of a Unicorn.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781787550766
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Part of a series of exciting and luxurious Flame Tree Sketch Books Combining high-quality production with magnificent fine art, the covers are printed on foil in five colours, embossed, then foil stamped. The thick paper stock makes them perfect for sketching and drawing. These are perfect for personal use and make a dazzling gift. This example features Josephine Wall: Soul of a Unicorn.
'J.'
Author: Miles Walters
Publisher: Miles Walters
ISBN: 1739567501
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Tim Kruger is an art collector and son of deceased architectural giant Maxwell Kruger. Throughout his life, he has travelled and explored the world, purchasing and displaying rare and expensive artworks. Yet lately, nothing seems to interest him, and he begins to see his life as repetitive and looping once again – so he takes the advice of those around him and travels, this time to France to reconnect with his lover, Josephine, who is beginning her new career as a photographer. During his stay, Josephine tells Tim about an auction that is taking place nearby at the house of a deceased art and ceramics collector. Attending the auction out of curiosity, he purchases one of the sealed trunks that are available, hoping to score artworks lying inside. When opened, it instead reveals old books filled with handwritten entries by a man named Marc Kingman who is living in a guesthouse in India – the story seeming to shift when he encounters another travelling guest, naming himself only: 'J.'. The story becomes blurred after Marc's enforced dependency on opium renders him unable to follow 'J.' on his next journey. From here, the story becomes unfinished, with a dead-end at nearly every turn. Deciding instead to investigate and complete the story himself, seeing it as his next exhibition, Tim plunges himself into 'J.'s hidden world – eventually leading him to his last known location where he follows in his footsteps, experimenting with everything from intensive fasting, seemingly endless periods of meditation and the use of hallucinogenic eyedrops, all to discover a man who never wanted to be understood.
Publisher: Miles Walters
ISBN: 1739567501
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Tim Kruger is an art collector and son of deceased architectural giant Maxwell Kruger. Throughout his life, he has travelled and explored the world, purchasing and displaying rare and expensive artworks. Yet lately, nothing seems to interest him, and he begins to see his life as repetitive and looping once again – so he takes the advice of those around him and travels, this time to France to reconnect with his lover, Josephine, who is beginning her new career as a photographer. During his stay, Josephine tells Tim about an auction that is taking place nearby at the house of a deceased art and ceramics collector. Attending the auction out of curiosity, he purchases one of the sealed trunks that are available, hoping to score artworks lying inside. When opened, it instead reveals old books filled with handwritten entries by a man named Marc Kingman who is living in a guesthouse in India – the story seeming to shift when he encounters another travelling guest, naming himself only: 'J.'. The story becomes blurred after Marc's enforced dependency on opium renders him unable to follow 'J.' on his next journey. From here, the story becomes unfinished, with a dead-end at nearly every turn. Deciding instead to investigate and complete the story himself, seeing it as his next exhibition, Tim plunges himself into 'J.'s hidden world – eventually leading him to his last known location where he follows in his footsteps, experimenting with everything from intensive fasting, seemingly endless periods of meditation and the use of hallucinogenic eyedrops, all to discover a man who never wanted to be understood.
To Charm A Bluestocking
Author: Renee Dahlia
Publisher: HarperCollins Australia
ISBN: 1489239111
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
She wants to be one of the world's first female doctors; romance is not in her plans. 1887: Too tall, too shy and too bookish for England, Lady Josephine moves to Holland to become one of the world's first female doctors. With only one semester left, she has all but completed her studies when a power–hungry professor, intent on marrying her for her political connections, threatens to prevent her graduation. Together with the other Bluestockings, female comrades–in–study, she comes up with a daring, if somewhat unorthodox plan: acquire a fake fiancé to provide the protection and serenity she needs to pass her final exams. But when her father sends her Lord Nicholas St. George, he is too much of everything: too handsome, too charming, too tall and too broad and too distracting for Josephine's peace of mind. She needed someone to keep her professor at bay, not keep her from her work with temptations of long walks, laughing, and languorous kisses. Just as it seems that Josephine might be able to have it all: a career as a pioneering female doctor and a true love match, everything falls apart and Josephine will find herself in danger of becoming a casualty in the battle between ambition and love.
Publisher: HarperCollins Australia
ISBN: 1489239111
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
She wants to be one of the world's first female doctors; romance is not in her plans. 1887: Too tall, too shy and too bookish for England, Lady Josephine moves to Holland to become one of the world's first female doctors. With only one semester left, she has all but completed her studies when a power–hungry professor, intent on marrying her for her political connections, threatens to prevent her graduation. Together with the other Bluestockings, female comrades–in–study, she comes up with a daring, if somewhat unorthodox plan: acquire a fake fiancé to provide the protection and serenity she needs to pass her final exams. But when her father sends her Lord Nicholas St. George, he is too much of everything: too handsome, too charming, too tall and too broad and too distracting for Josephine's peace of mind. She needed someone to keep her professor at bay, not keep her from her work with temptations of long walks, laughing, and languorous kisses. Just as it seems that Josephine might be able to have it all: a career as a pioneering female doctor and a true love match, everything falls apart and Josephine will find herself in danger of becoming a casualty in the battle between ambition and love.
Scattered and Gathered
Author: Michael L. Budde
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1532607105
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
This volume takes its title from the first-century Christian catechism called the Didache: "Even as this broken bread was scattered over the hills . . . gathered together and became one, so let Your Church be gathered together from the ends of the earth." For Christians today, these words remain relevant in an era of massive human movements (voluntary and coerced), hybrid identities, and wide-ranging cultural interactions. How do modern Christians live as both a "scattered" and "gathered" people? How do they live out the tension between ecclesial universality (catholicity) and particularity (distinctive ways of being church in a given culture and context)? Do Christians today constitute a "diaspora," a people dispersed across borders and cultures that nonetheless maintains a sense of commonality and mission? Scattered and Gathered: Catholics in Diaspora explores these questions through the work of fourteen scholars in different fields and from different corners of the world. Whether through reflections on Zimbabweans in Britain, Levantines in North America, or the remote island people of Chiloe now living in other parts of Chile, they guide readers along the winding road of insights and challenges facing many of today's Christians.
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1532607105
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
This volume takes its title from the first-century Christian catechism called the Didache: "Even as this broken bread was scattered over the hills . . . gathered together and became one, so let Your Church be gathered together from the ends of the earth." For Christians today, these words remain relevant in an era of massive human movements (voluntary and coerced), hybrid identities, and wide-ranging cultural interactions. How do modern Christians live as both a "scattered" and "gathered" people? How do they live out the tension between ecclesial universality (catholicity) and particularity (distinctive ways of being church in a given culture and context)? Do Christians today constitute a "diaspora," a people dispersed across borders and cultures that nonetheless maintains a sense of commonality and mission? Scattered and Gathered: Catholics in Diaspora explores these questions through the work of fourteen scholars in different fields and from different corners of the world. Whether through reflections on Zimbabweans in Britain, Levantines in North America, or the remote island people of Chiloe now living in other parts of Chile, they guide readers along the winding road of insights and challenges facing many of today's Christians.
Maybe a Mermaid
Author: Josephine Cameron
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
ISBN: 0374306435
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
A summer romp full of mystery, new friends, and maybe a mermaid! Eleven-year-old Anthoni Gillis is not the kind of kid who believes in fairies, unicorns, or even the word “maybe.” She’s more of a comic-books girl. So when her mom brings her to Thunder Lake for a summer at the Showboat Resort, she doesn’t believe the local rumors about the Boulay Mermaid. Anthoni has bigger fish to fry. She’s always wanted a True Blue Friend. But it’s been hard to find one, since for the past five years she’s been bouncing from town to town, helping her mother sell Beauty & the Bee cosmetic products to keep them both afloat. This summer will be different, though. Anthoni has a plan—a foolproof checklist for making lifelong friends! There won’t be any maybes this time. But as she grows entangled in local gossip, and her mother stretches the truth, Anthoni must decide if she’ll “stick to the plan,” like always, or dive into a summer full of extraordinary possibilities. Josephine Cameron’s energetic and heartfelt debut raises timeless questions about truth, lies, and the hope that grows between them.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
ISBN: 0374306435
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
A summer romp full of mystery, new friends, and maybe a mermaid! Eleven-year-old Anthoni Gillis is not the kind of kid who believes in fairies, unicorns, or even the word “maybe.” She’s more of a comic-books girl. So when her mom brings her to Thunder Lake for a summer at the Showboat Resort, she doesn’t believe the local rumors about the Boulay Mermaid. Anthoni has bigger fish to fry. She’s always wanted a True Blue Friend. But it’s been hard to find one, since for the past five years she’s been bouncing from town to town, helping her mother sell Beauty & the Bee cosmetic products to keep them both afloat. This summer will be different, though. Anthoni has a plan—a foolproof checklist for making lifelong friends! There won’t be any maybes this time. But as she grows entangled in local gossip, and her mother stretches the truth, Anthoni must decide if she’ll “stick to the plan,” like always, or dive into a summer full of extraordinary possibilities. Josephine Cameron’s energetic and heartfelt debut raises timeless questions about truth, lies, and the hope that grows between them.
The Bellman
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 878
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 878
Book Description