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Do less. Connect more. This beautiful 40-day devotional for the
Lenten and Easter season offers biblical reflections and full-color
springtime photography to take you from burnout to burning a little
brighter as you celebrate new life, fresh starts, and everyday
redemptions. It's a distracted world out there. Maybe you find
yourself scrolling more than savoring, texting more than resting,
and rushing instead of taking a deep breath. The things you thought
would bring connection make you feel more disconnected than ever,
with a good dose of exhaustion thrown in. It's time for a reset. A
Savior Is Risen is a 40-day journey from Ash Wednesday to Easter
morning, a call for you to quiet your mind and soul as you focus on
Jesus and His resurrection. In this gorgeous devotional, you are
invited to: Experience the Easter season with fresh eyes and an
expectant heart Practice a modern-day fast from the things
distracting you from God Reflect on Jesus' life and Resurrection
Draw closer to God through silence and reflection Let go of stress
and embrace grace  Each day's entry includes: A word that
embodies the spirit of Easter A brief reflection on integrating
that word into your life A Scripture passage for meditation A
prayer to bring peace to your mind Bright springtime photography
that captures the beauty of new life  A Savior Is Risen is
ideal for anyone wanting permission to slow down, as a gift for
someone looking for spiritual renewal, or as a beautiful book to
display as a reminder of God's promises. So grab your morning
coffee or afternoon chai, and feel your spirit settle as you
immerse yourself the ultimate new beginning God has given us all.
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For fans of Kate DiCamillo and Sharon Creech comes this "both raw
and warm in its compassionate telling" (Publishers Weekly) middle
grade novel about a young girl, her pet bearded dragon, and the
friends who make her summer one to remember.Georgia Weathers's
worry machine has been on full blast since her mom, Blythe, took
off in Lyle Lenczycki's blue sedan. Earlier that same day, Blythe
gave Georgia a bearded dragon named Freddy. Georgia is convinced
that if she loves Freddy enough, Blythe will come home. Georgia
isn't the only one with family predicaments. Her friend Maria
Garcia's parents have merrily moved out of the house and into a
camper in the yard. Roland Park is the new boy in town. As a kid in
the foster care system staying with the Farley family, he's sure
his stay is temporary. When the three friends discover an abandoned
glass house in the forest, it becomes their secret hideout: a place
all their own, free of parents and problems. But glass can be
broken. When everything around them feels out of their control, the
question becomes what can they hold on to? And what do they have to
let go? It turns out, there are some things--and lizards--they can
count on.
When I was young, I knew God loved me. I followed Him. Being His
child was natural and easy. Then I hit puberty, and my world
changed. There were things I saw that I wanted, things that I
thought He might not want me to have. I started to wander. Still, I
was not stupid. I knew I still needed Him as Savior; it was His
Lordship that gave me pause. Eventually I stripped Him of His
Lordship and went to live in the "fallen world." I kept Him as my
Savior, but I made no effort to follow Him. I loved my life in the
fallen world. Still, it had its challenges. There were times I
would find myself in the dreaded "Valley of the Shadow of Death." I
knew somehow He was responsible. It was in the "Valley" that I
would find myself needing Him. Eventually I would have to call on
Him. And rescue me He would, but I refused anything but temporary
rescue. I would be thankful for a few days, but the desire for my
old life in the fallen world would soon reclaim me, and I would put
Him back on the shelf. There was so much out there to grab for, and
the fallen world did push and encourage me to go for happy. There
was a problem with that: I was created to be filled with joy, His
joy. "Happy" was just a temporary, dim simulation. I finally had to
face the questions. Does He really love me? Is He really to be
trusted? Is He really the God of the Bible? If the answer to these
questions was yes, could I really have enough confidence in Him to
make Him my center and follow Him?
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Dolly - A Ghost Story
Susan Hill
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Fat Religion: Protestant Christianity and the Construction of the
Fat Body explores how Protestant Christianity contributes to the
moralization of fat bodies and the proliferation of practices to
conform fat bodies to thin ideals. Focusing primarily on Protestant
Christianity and evangelicalism, this book brings together essays
that emphasize the role of religion in the ways that we imagine,
talk about, and moralize fat bodies. Contributors explore how ideas
about indulgence and restraint, sin and obedience are used to
create and maintain fear of, and animosity towards, fat bodies.
They also examine how religious ideology and language shape
attitudes towards bodily control that not only permeate Christian
weight-loss programs, but are fundamental to secular diet culture
as well. Furthermore, the contributors investigate how religious
institutions themselves attempt to define and control the proper
religious body. This volume contributes to the burgeoning field of
critical fat studies by underscoring the significance of religion
in the formation of historical and contemporary meanings and
perceptions of fat bodies, including its moralizing role in
justifying weight bias, prejudice, and privilege. The chapters in
this book were originally published as a special issue of Fat
Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Body Weight and Society.
The latest novel in the million-copy selling Simon Serrailler
series Innocent or guilty. It's a matter of which lines you cross.
It's mid-winter and a body is discovered in a flat just outside
Lafferton. It's a drugs overdose but something doesn't feel right.
The place is entirely empty. Damp walls, bare floorboards. Not even
a bed. And then there's the man known as Fats. Preying on young
children to run errands for him. Burner phones with instructions
messaged through. Bribes followed by threats. Can Serrailler
finally break the drugs network that's spreading through the area
or is it just too powerful for him? 'Keeps the reader guessing
until the last page' Sunday Express
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The Far Cry (Paperback)
Emma Smith; Afterword by Susan Hill
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This 'savage comedy with a vicious streak' (Elizabeth Bowen in "The
Tatler" in 1949) describes the 'second passage to India' of
'Teresa, whose elderly, willful father drags her off to spare her
from the clutches of her mother...I can think of no writer, British
or Indian, who has captured so vividly, with such intensity, the
many intangibles of the Indian kaleidoscope; Emma Smith harnessed
those intense impressions of her youth to give her story a quite
extraordinary driving force' wrote Charles Allen in the
"Spectator", going on to agree with Susan Hill in her Persephone
Afterword that the book is 'a small masterpiece...beautifully
shaped, evocative, moving and mature.' "The Far Cry" was Book at
Bedtime on BBC Radio 4.
Proud and solitary, El Marsh House surveys the windswept reaches of the salt marshes beyond Nine Lives Causeway. Arther Kipps, a junior solicitor,is summoned to attend the funeral of Mrs Alice Drablow, the house's sole inhabitant,unaware of the tragic secrets which lie hidden behind the shuttered windows. It is not until he glimpses a wasted young woman,dressed all in black,at the funeral that a creepingsense of unease begins to take hold,a feeling deepened by the reluctance of the locals to talk of the woman in black - and her terrible purpose.
Part of a series which is intended for class use and for GCSE
examination and coursework and also provides material for wider
reading programmes. It aims to offer varied and stimulating
material for reflecting male and female interests and a real
awareness of our multicultural world. The literature is chosen for
its accessibility to young readers and the pupils are encouraged to
consider alternative ways of looking at the play or story and to
express their own view using supporting evidence from the text.
There are also suggestions for writing which give pupils a chance
to respond to what they have read through imaginative writing and
dramatic reconstructions as well as through tradtional critical
essays. "The Woman in Black" tells haunting testimony of a young
solicitor, Arther Kipps, who records in detail the nightmarish
events of his stay in a house on a marsh in northern England, and
the terrible events that were to alter his life forever. The author
who is a writer, playwright, literary critic and broadcaster has
also written "I'm the King of the Castle" amd "Strange Meeting".
A beautiful hardback edition of one of the scariest and most
ingenious novels ever written. Arthur Kipps, a junior solicitor, is
summoned to attend the funeral of Mrs Alice Drablow, the sole
inhabitant of Eel Marsh House. The house stands at the end of a
causeway, wreathed in fog and mystery, but it is not until he
glimpses a wasted young woman, dressed all in black, at the
funeral, that a creeping sense of unease begins to take hold, a
feeling deepened by the reluctance of the locals to talk of the
woman in black - and her terrible purpose. This edition also
includes four of Susan Hill's scariest ghost stories: Dolly, The
Man in the Picture, Printer's Devil Court and The Small Hand
'Heartstoppingly chilling' Daily Express 'No one chills the heart
like Susan Hill' Daily Telegraph VINTAGE QUARTERBOUND CLASSICS:
Beautiful editions of great books to last a lifetime
Winner of the Somerset Maugham Award, this tale is linked in its
poignancy and humour to Lord the the Flies. This edition is part of
a series of pre- and post-1914 works chosen especially for 14-18
year olds. The series features fiction, anthologies, poetry, plays
and non-fiction.
Fat Religion: Protestant Christianity and the Construction of the
Fat Body explores how Protestant Christianity contributes to the
moralization of fat bodies and the proliferation of practices to
conform fat bodies to thin ideals. Focusing primarily on Protestant
Christianity and evangelicalism, this book brings together essays
that emphasize the role of religion in the ways that we imagine,
talk about, and moralize fat bodies. Contributors explore how ideas
about indulgence and restraint, sin and obedience are used to
create and maintain fear of, and animosity towards, fat bodies.
They also examine how religious ideology and language shape
attitudes towards bodily control that not only permeate Christian
weight-loss programs, but are fundamental to secular diet culture
as well. Furthermore, the contributors investigate how religious
institutions themselves attempt to define and control the proper
religious body. This volume contributes to the burgeoning field of
critical fat studies by underscoring the significance of religion
in the formation of historical and contemporary meanings and
perceptions of fat bodies, including its moralizing role in
justifying weight bias, prejudice, and privilege. The chapters in
this book were originally published as a special issue of Fat
Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Body Weight and Society.
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The Small Hand
Susan Hill
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Horror sequel directed by Tom Harper. 40 years after the events of
'The Woman in Black' (2011), a group of schoolchildren in London
are evacuated from the city during the blitz, accompanied by their
young teacher Eve Parkins (Phoebe Fox). When the group arrives in
the idyllic English countryside, little do they know that a dark
spirit that has long lain dormant in the Eel Marsh House awaits.
One by one the children begin to demonstrate strange behaviour and
unexplainable happenings occur in their isolated home. Will Eve,
with the help of the military, be strong enough to repel the
ghostly woman bent on destruction and revenge for the loss of her
son?
I'm the King of the Castle by Susan Hill is a chilling novel that
explores the extremes of childhood cruelty, now published as a
Penguin Essential for the first time. 'Some people are coming here
today, now you will have a companion.' But young Edmund Hooper
doesn't want anyone else in Warings, the large and rambling
Victorian house he shares with his widowed father. Nevertheless
Charles Kingshaw and his mother are soon installed and Hooper sets
about subtly persecuting the fearful new arrival. In the woods,
Charles fights back but he knows that his rival will always win the
affections of the adults - and that worse is still to come . . .
OVER ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD Innocent or guilty. It's a matter of
which lines you cross. It's mid-winter and a body is discovered in
a flat just outside Lafferton. It's a drugs overdose but something
doesn't feel right. The place is entirely empty. Damp walls, bare
floorboards. Not even a bed. And then there's the man known as
Fats. Preying on young children to run errands for him. Burner
phones with instructions messaged through. Bribes followed by
threats. Can Serrailler finally break the drugs network that's
spreading through the area or is it just too powerful for him?
'Keeps the reader guessing until the last page' Sunday Express
Early one autumn afternoon in pursuit of an elusive book on her
shelves, Susan Hill encountered dozens of others that she had never
read, or forgotten she owned, or wanted to read for a second time.
The discovery inspired her to embark on a year-long voyage through
her books, forsaking new purchases in order to get to know her own
collection again. A book which is left on a shelf for a decade is a
dead thing, but it is also a chrysalis, packed with the potential
to burst into new life. Wandering through her house that day,
Hill's eyes were opened to how much of that life was stored in her
home, neglected for years. Howards End is on the Landing charts the
journey of one of the nation's most accomplished authors as she
revisits the conversations, libraries and bookshelves of the past
that have informed a lifetime of reading and writing.
Discover the most popular of Woolf's books during her lifetime - a
powerful portrait of a family coping with changes wrought by the
new twentieth century. The Years follows the lives of the
Pargiters, a large middle-class London family, from an uncertain
spring in 1880 to a party on a summer evening in the 1930s. We see
them each endure and remember heart-break, loss, radical change and
stifling conformity, marriage and regret. Written in 1937, this was
the most popular of Virginia Woolf's novels during her lifetime,
and is a powerful indictment of 'Victorianism' and its values. WITH
AN INTRODUCTION BY SUSAN HILL
Sustainable Development Goal 4 seeks to 'Ensure inclusive and
equitable quality education for all and promote lifelong learning
opportunities for all.' It acknowledges that quality education is a
foundational necessity for sustainable development and an enhanced
quality of life. SDG4 - Quality Education: Inclusivity, Equity and
Lifelong Learning For All explores the multifaceted and complex
nature of the concepts of inclusivity and quality education.
Drawing examples from two different country contexts (Latvia and
Jamaica), the book explores how and why inclusive and quality
education is critical to sustainable development. It considers the
indicators of inclusive and quality education, how the concept of
education for sustainable development is evolving, and the ways in
which these indicators are being pursued. The book pays specific
attention to the roles of teachers, teacher educators, and the
curriculum in the attainment of inclusive and quality education and
21st Century skills for a sustainable society. Concise Guides to
the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals comprises 17 short
books, each examining one of the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
The series provides an integrated assessment of the SDGs from
economic, legal, social, environmental and cultural perspectives.
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 book features: the exploration of 50 diverse heroes
of the Christian faith, including historical figures, cultural
icons, political leaders, saints, and martyrs biographical
information on the 50 people featured, including Coretta Scott King
and Susan B. Anthony portraiture art and an easy-to-follow layout a
presentation page for gifting and a ribbon marker This valuable
resource is perfect for: men and women interested in learning more
about the Christian faith, church history, and spiritual discipline
homeschooling families or parents wanting to teach their children
about historical Christianity a baptism gift or welcome gift for
new church members gifting to loved ones who enjoy biographies and
history Be inspired by spiritual heroes from many eras in history
up to today and make their strength your own. If you enjoy this
book, check out Dangerous Prayers.
D'Artagnan dreams of joining the Musketeers, the special guards to
the King of France. But in Paris, he's drawn into a dangerous hunt
for the Queen's missing royal jewel. D'Artagnan must journey to
London and retrieve the diamond before the king of France notices
it's gone- and before the queen's enemies, catch up!
When we spend so much of our time immersed in books, who's to say where reading ends and living begins? The two are impossibly and gloriously wedded, as Hill shows in Jacob's Room Is Full of Books.
Considering everything from Edith Wharton's novels through to Alan Bennett's diaries, Virginia Woolf and the writings of twelfth century monk Aelred of Rievaulx, Susan Hill charts a year of her life through the books she has read, reread or returned to the shelf. From beneath a shady tree in a hot French summer, or the warmth of a kitchen during an English winter, Hill reflects on what her reading throws up, from writing and writers to politics and religion, as well as the joy of dandies or the pleasure of watching a line of geese cross a meadow.
Full of wry observations and warm humour, as well as strong opinions freely aired, this is a rare and wonderful insight into the rich world of reading from one of the nation's most accomplished authors.
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