memoir of elizabeth t king with extracts from her letters

Alice the Brave

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds, PUBLISHER: Simon & Schuster Ltd, Every girl should grow up with Alice, and with this irresistible new look, a whole new generation will want to. Alice should be used to being in over her head by now, but really, she's terrified of deep water. She's managed to keep this a secret from even her best friends, Pamela and Elizabeth. But it will be beyond embarrassing if everyone finds out she's afraid to come out of the shallow end. It's sink or swim time--but maybe the bravery it takes to face her fears might splash over into the rest of Alice's life.

Letters from God for Teens: God's Promises for You

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Honor Books / Carlson, Melody, PUBLISHER: Honor Books, Letters from God for Teens is filled with advice that is candid and right on target -- appropriate for male and female readers, all church affiliations, and teens of all ages.

Our Children Free & Happy: Letters from Black Settlers in

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Fyfe, Christopher, PUBLISHER: Edinburgh University Press, This is a unique group of previously unpublished letters which are held in manuscript form by the British Library, the Library of the University of Illinois, Chicago, and the Public Record Office, London. The letters were written by black settlers who had migrated from North America to Sierra Leone. They record an attempt by self-liberated ex-slaves to obtain political and land rights, which they felt had been unjustly denied them, using their literacy in English as a tool. Christopher Fyfe's introduction explains the historical backgroundto the period. An important supplementary essay by Professor Charles Jones examines the linguistic significance of the letters, comparing them with native English letters of the period.

The Longest Whale Song

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Wilson, Jacqueline, PUBLISHER: Corgi Books, Ella's mother ends up in a coma after giving birth to her new baby brother and Ella is forced to make her peace with her new stepdad. At school, she loses a best friend and copes with a bully, but her new friend Joseph shares her enthusiasm for whales and becomes an unexpected source of support. "From the Hardcover edition."

Kantai Collection Akatsuki Anime Ver. 20 cm - Statua 1/8 PVC

Kotobukiya,s line of statues based on the characters of the popular KanColle continues with the Anime version of Hibiki.Dressed in her sailor suit, Hibiki hold on to her hat as her clothing flows in an unseen breeze, with her armaments at the ready all the while.Hibiki stands 20 cm (nearly 8 inches) tall in 1/8 scale.Display alone or alongside other KanColle statues and figures from Kotobukiya.

No Place Like Home

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Clark, Mary Higgins, PUBLISHER: Simon & Schuster, In a riveting thriller from the #1 bestselling Queen of Suspense, a young woman is ensnared into returning to the childhood home she wanted to leave behind forever -- and where her hidden past emerges with a new and deadly twist. Ten-year-old Liza Barton shoots her mother while trying to protect her from her violent husband -- Liza's stepfather. While the death is ruled accidental, the tabloids still compare Liza to the child murderess Lizzie Borden. Liza's adoptive parents change her name to Celia and try to erase all traces of her past. Widowed after a brief marriage in which she had a son, Jack, she remarries a young lawyer. Celia is happy until, on her birthday, he presents her with a gift -- the house where she killed her mother. On moving in, they find the words LITTLE LIZZIE'S PLACE - BEWARE painted in red letters on the lawn. When the real estate agent who sold the house to her husband is murdered, she becomes a suspect. As she struggles to prove her innocence, Celia and her little son are being stalked by the killer.

Life Among the Dead

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Williams, Lisa, PUBLISHER: Simon Spotlight Entertainment, The highly anticipated memoir from the star of the hit series "Lisa Williams: Life Among the Dead" When Lisa Williams was four years old, she told her parents about the spirits in her bedroom. Since those first sightings, Lisa has seen and communicated with thousands of people who have passed over, listening to their stories and delivering messages of comfort to the loved ones they left behind. In "Life Among the Dead," Lisa invitesreaders into her extraordinary life, from her childhood in Birmingham, England, where her grandmother -- also a renowned psychic -- encouraged her to respect and nurture her talent, to her decision to move to Los Angeles, where her smash-hit Lifetime television show quickly made her one of the world's most beloved mediums. Lisa shares memories of her earliest psychic experiences and her gradual acceptance of her gift, and recalls many of the amazingly accurate communications she has shared with believersand skeptics alike. In her compassionate, down-to-earth style, she reveals exactly what it's like to live surrounded by spirits every day, and she recounts the joy she feels in bringing solace to those who have lost someone dear and the insights she has gleaned about spiritual phenomena, hauntings, psychic healing, and the afterlife. Warm, witty, and surprising, "Life Among the Dead" is a wonderfully intimate account of Lisa's life as a medium, healer, wife, mom, and TV star who has already won the hearts of millions, a woman with an astonishing gift for seeing beyond the ordinary and into a mysterious and fascinating realm.

The Virago Book of the Joy of Shopping

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Foulston, Jill, PUBLISHER: Virago Press (UK), Jane Austen found her sister Cassandra a locket. Joan Didion bought nail enamel and a toaster on impulse. Karyn Bosnak charged $ on credit cards, and Elizabeth Wurtzel got caught shoplifting. George Eliot, for some reason, hated shopping. Jane Eyre cringes at Mr Rochester's pre-wedding excess, while Undine Spragg's spending drives her husband to despair. The Girl with a Pearl Earring turns up her nose at some stale meat, Tom Ripley lusts after Venetian leather, and Mrs. Dalloway chooses flowers on Bond Street. As people began to shop more, novelists imagined them doing it. The darker side of shopping is here in the letters, diaries, and memoirs of those who remember blackmarkets and rations. There are even records from the England's central criminal court of audacious and desperate five-finger discounts, and a recent account of brawling at IKEA. "The Virago Book of Shopping" revels in the lists, the etiquette, and the thrills of finding just the right thing.

Autobiography of a Face

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Grealy, Lucy / Patchett, Ann, PUBLISHER: Harper Perennial, ""I spent five years of my life being treated for cancer, but since then I've spent fifteen years being treated for nothing other than looking different from everyone else. It was the pain from that, from feeling ugly, that I always viewed as the great tragedy of my life. The fact that I had cancer seemed minor in comparison."" At age nine, Lucy Grealy was diagnosed with a potentially terminal cancer. When she returned to school with a third of her jaw removed, she faced the cruel taunts of classmates. In this strikingly candid memoir, Grealy tells her story of great suffering and remarkable strength without sentimentality and with considerable wit. Vividly portraying the pain of peer rejection and the guilty pleasures of wanting to be special, Grealy captures with unique insight what it is like as a child and young adult to be torn between two warring impulses: to feel that more than anything else we want to be loved for who we are, while wishing desperately and secretly to be perfect.

Ichiroh!, Volume 2

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Mikage, PUBLISHER: Yen Press, Nanako has been pouring all her effort into her exam prep class, however she still isn't meeting her high expectations. But never say die She's ready to give it her all in volume 2 With the help (?) of her friends, Nanako struggles through procrastination and distraction, determined to reach her goal. Unfortunately, that goal comes with a hefty price tag, and as the cost of study guides, enrollment, and dorm fees climbs, the penny-pinching Nanako jumps on the chance to make some extra cash with a part-time job... at a maid caf Now with even more work on her plate, will Nanako ever be able to pull up her grades and make it into the college of her dreams?

The Kingmaker's Daughter

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Gregory, Philippa, PUBLISHER: Simon & Schuster Ltd, #1 "New York Times" bestselling author Philippa Gregory's stunning novel of conspiracy and a fight to the death for love and power at the court of King Edward IV of England. "The Kingmaker's Daughter" is the gripping story of the daughters of the man known as the "Kingmaker," Richard, Earl of Warwick: the most powerful magnate in fifteenth-century England. Without a son and heir, Richard uses his two daughters as pawns in political games, and they grow up to be influential players in their own right. In this novel, her first sister story since "The Other Boleyn Girl," Philippa Gregory explores the lives of these two fascinating young women. At the court of Edward IV and his queen, Elizabeth Woodville, Anne grows from a delightful child to become ever more fearful and desperate when her father makes war on his former friends. Only a girl she is married and then left widowed and fatherless, with her mother in sanctuary and her sister married to the enemy. She escapes by marrying Richard, Duke of Gloucester, but her choice will set her on a collision course with the power of the royal family, sacrificing the lives of those she loves most in the world, including her only son, Prince Edward. Ultimately, the kingmaker's daughter will achieve her father's greatest ambition.

La strada in fondo al mare

Leah Fleming For May Smith, travelling with her husband and baby girl Ellen, stepping foot on the Titanic marks the start of an incredible journey, one which is destined to take her from the back streets of Bolton to the land of opportunity: the United St

Naruto Shippuden Nendoroid PVC Action Figure Hinata Hyuga 10

From the popular anime series Naruto Shippuden comes a Nendoroid of Hinata Hyuga She comes with three face plates including a cute smiling expression, a combat expression with her Byakugan activated as well as an embarrassed expression for whenever she laid eyes on Naruto.She comes with a selection of optional parts allowing you to pose her in battle stances, the classic ninja running pose or even preforming the Hyuga clan,s secret technique - Gentle Step Twin Lion Fists Be sure to display her together with the previously released Nendoroid Naruto Uzumaki and other characters from the series

Love Letters of Great Men and Women: From the Eighteenth

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Charles, C. H., PUBLISHER: WWW.Bnpublishing.com, This wonderful collection of timeless love letters includes the words of Ludwig Van Beethoven, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Winston Churchill, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Napoleon Bonaparte, John Keats, King Henry VIII, Voltaire, Vincent Van Gogh, Charlotte Bronte, Lord Byron, Lewis Carrol, Leo Tolstoy, Pierre Curie, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and many more.

One Piece C II Colour Changing Figure Nico Robin 20 cm

From the popular anime series One Piece comes this officially licensed figure from Banprestos C II- series. Made of PVC, 20 cm tall and comes with a display base. The figure features an incredible color changing effect. At room temperature, Nico Robin dawns her original blue T-Shirt, but as things heat up to over 30C, watch her T-Shirt magically transform into pink!

Who Was Queen Elizabeth?

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Eding, June / Harrison, Nancy, PUBLISHER: Grosset & Dunlap, Our bestselling series is fit for a queen The life of Queen Elizabeth I was dramatic and dangerous: cast out of her fatheras court at the age of three and imprisoned at nineteen, Elizabeth was crowned queen in , when she was only twenty-five. A tough, intelligent woman who spoke five languages, Elizabeth ruled for over forty years and led England through one of its most prosperous periods in history. Over 80 illustrations bring aGlorianaa and her court to life.

Shironeko Project Nendoroid Action Figure Mira Fenrietta 10

From the popular smartphone game,Shironeko Project, comes a Nendoroid of the dark nun who broke her vows - Mira Fenrietta! She comes with both a standard expression as well as a triumphant expression.Optional parts include her,Holy Cross, weapon as well as her main source of nutrition - a packet of bean sprouts! She also comes with special parts that allow you to recreate her,Lightning Bolt, and,Holy Heal, skills from the game! Be sure to add the haughty Mira-sama to your collection!The Nendoroid-style figure stands approximately 10 cm in height.

Pride and Prejudice

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Austen, Jane, PUBLISHER: Indoeuropeanpublishing.com, Pride and Prejudice is a novel by Jane Austen. It was begun in , her second novel, but her first serious attempt at publication. She finished the original manuscript by in Steventon, Hampshire, where she lived with her parents and siblings in the town rectory. Austen originally called the story First Impressions, but it was never published under that title; instead, she made extensive revisions to the manuscript, then retitled and eventually published it as Pride and Prejudice. In renaming the novel, Austen may have had in mind the final chapter of Fanny Burney's Cecilia, itself called "Pride and Prejudice," where the phrase appears three times in block capitals. The story follows the main character Elizabeth Bennet as she deals with issues of manners, upbringing, morality, education and marriage in the landed gentry society of early 19th century England. Elizabeth is the second eldest of five daughters of a country gentleman landed in the fictional town of Meryton in Hertfordshire, not far from London.

Pixie Dust

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Melton, Henry, PUBLISHER: Wire Rim Books, Jenny Quinn's life was on course for her advanced physics degree until a lab experiment in vacuum decay turned her life upside down. With her career hopes destroyed and her professor dead in an unexplained fall, she is left with a strange change in her own body. On her own, her childhood infatuation with old comic books may be the only guide to help her solve the twin mysteries of cutting edge physics and the murder of her professor before one or the other puzzle gets her killed.

The Good Luck Pony [With Gold Lucky Pony Charm on a Chain]

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Koda-Callan, Elizabeth, PUBLISHER: Workman Publishing, From the bestselling "Magic Charms" series, which has over 4 million copies in print, here is the story of a little girl who learns to confront her fears. It's not easy being brave. But sometimes it helps if you have something to hold on to-something special, something magical, something lucky. For the little girl whose pony seems so large and spirited, finding the courage to ride can be difficult-until her wise mother gives her a tiny golden pony that radiates self-confidence. "The Good Luck Pony" is the gift with heart and spirit, for every little girl about to take her first ride or her hundredth. Selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club. Suitable for ages copies in print.

Asking for Trouble

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Granger, Ann, PUBLISHER: Thorndike Press, Fran Varady is insolvent, unemployed and -- though for the moment she's got a leaky roof over her head -- about to be homeless. Her dreams of becoming an actress, nurtured when her father and grandmother were still alive, seem a long way off. But the quietly resolute Fran is a survivor. Which her former housemate Terry, found hanging from the ceiling rose of her room, clearly is not. Terry was far from popular with the rest of the residents, but her death shakes everyone. And the more Fran discovers about her death, the more she sees it was not what it first seemed...

Tiger in the Shadows

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Wilson, Debbie / Wilson, Debra, PUBLISHER: Kregel Publications, Stefanie Peng abandons her comfortable American life for a desperate quest--gaining the release of her grandfather, an underground pastor, from an oppressive Chinese labor camp. But the "Beijing Tiger," a Chinese master spy, stalks her every move; clawing for leverage over America through her father, a world-renowned physicist, and the leaders of the Chinese church. Only the courage of the enigmatic man who loves her can save her. From the labor camps to illegal union meetings, from prison to the underground church, Stefanie comes face-to-face with the value of her freedom and the cost so many pay for the faith. A Guaranteed Fiction Title The author--a member of Human Rights in China--knows the Chinese situation A dramatic look at the living conditions of persecuted brothers and sisters in ChristTouches a growing global consciousness

La strada in fondo al mare

Leah Fleming For May Smith, travelling with her husband and baby girl Ellen, stepping foot on the Titanic marks the start of an incredible journey, one which is destined to take her from the back streets of Bolton to the land of opportunity: the United St (cod. I_)

A Tendering in the Storm

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Kirkpatrick, Jane, PUBLISHER: Waterbrook Press, Emma Giesy, a strong-willed German-American, believes her young family will thrive in the light of their newfound freedom, after she and her husband branch off from their close-knit and repressive religious community in the spring of . A Story of Tender Truths About a Woman's Desperate Efforts to Shelter Her Family Determined to raise her children on her own terms, Emma suddenly finds herself alone and pregnant with her third child, struggling to keep her family secure in the remote coastal forest of the Washington Territory. With loss and disappointment as her fuel, she kindles a fire that soon threatens to consume her, making a series of poor choices that take her into dangerous relationships. As clouds of despair close in, she must decide whether to continue in her own waning strength or to humble herself and accept help from the very people she once so eagerly left behind. Based on a True Story Rich with historical details and vivid characters, "A Tendering in the Storm" poignantly gives voice to a mother's fears for her family and a woman's search for her truest self.

The Power of a Wise Woman

ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Long, Eddie L., PUBLISHER: J. Countryman, "The Power of a Wise Woman" offers straight-talking advice on the strength, beauty and influence wielded by truly wise women. For instance, a wise woman often can be a point of support, such as Abigail, the wise woman from Carmel who saved her husband, Nabal's life by providing King David with much food. The Bible is filled with examples of other wise women, some more well-known than others. Among the facets of a wise woman's character are: A wise woman knows herself A wise woman knows her God A wise woman understands men and their roles A wise woman understands when and how to help A wise woman nurtures her community A wise woman knows the enemy Bishop Eddie Long's powerful message of encouragement will capture women's hearts and bring them to a closer personal relationship with God.

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