Angels on Toast

Angels on Toast
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Publisher : Steerforth
Total Pages : 227
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ISBN-10 : 9781581952506
ISBN-13 : 1581952503
Rating : 4/5 (06 Downloads)

Synopsis Angels on Toast by : Dawn Powell

Everyone in Dawn Powell's New York satire Angels on Toast is on the make: Lou Donovan, the entrepeneur who ricochets frantically between his well-connected current wife, his disreputable ex, and his dangerously greedy mistress; Trina Kameray, the exotic adventuress whose job title is as phony as her accent; T.V. Truesdale, the man with the aristocratic manner, the fourteen-dollar suit, and the hyperactive eye for the main chance. A dizzyingly fast-paced and deliriously entertaining novel.

Angels on Earth

Angels on Earth
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 320
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ISBN-10 : 9781501158773
ISBN-13 : 1501158775
Rating : 4/5 (73 Downloads)

Synopsis Angels on Earth by : Laura Schroff

"From the #1 New York Times and international bestselling authors of An Invisible Thread comes a heartwarming and inspiring book about the incredible impact that acts of kindness from strangers can have on the world around us. One day in 1986, Laura Schroff, a busy ad sales executive, passed an eleven-year-old boy panhandling on the street. She stopped and offered to take him to McDonald's for lunch. Twenty years later, at Laura's fiftieth birthday party, Maurice Mazyck gave a toast, thanking Laura for her act of kindness, which ended up changing the course of his life. In that toast, Maurice said that when Laura stopped on that busy street corner all those years ago, God had sent him an angel. Laura's invisible thread journey has deepened her belief that angels--divine and otherwise--are all around us. After An Invisible Thread was published in 2011, readers from around the country and world began sharing with Laura their own stories about how chance encounters with strangers have changed their lives.From a woman who saved a life simply by buying someone a book, to a financier who gave a stranger the greatest gift of all, to a teacher who chose a hug over discipline and changed a lost boy's future--Angels on Earth will introduce a series of remarkable people whose invisible thread stories will move, surprise, and inspire readers. Angels on Earth sheds light on how each of us can live happier, more purposeful lives through sharing acts of kindness"--

The Angel of the Crows

The Angel of the Crows
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Publisher : Tor Books
Total Pages : 378
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ISBN-10 : 9780765387417
ISBN-13 : 0765387417
Rating : 4/5 (17 Downloads)

Synopsis The Angel of the Crows by : Katherine Addison

Katherine Addison, author of The Goblin Emperor, returns with The Angel of the Crows, a fantasy novel of alternate 1880s London, where killers stalk the night and the ultimate power is naming. This is not the story you think it is. These are not the characters you think they are. This is not the book you are expecting. In an alternate 1880s London, angels inhabit every public building, and vampires and werewolves walk the streets with human beings in a well-regulated truce. A fantastic utopia, except for a few things: Angels can Fall, and that Fall is like a nuclear bomb in both the physical and metaphysical worlds. And human beings remain human, with all their kindness and greed and passions and murderous intent. Jack the Ripper stalks the streets of this London too. But this London has an Angel. The Angel of the Crows. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Band of Angels

Band of Angels
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Publisher : Atria Books
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 1439101132
ISBN-13 : 9781439101131
Rating : 4/5 (32 Downloads)

Synopsis Band of Angels by : Julia Gregson

A STORY OF COURAGE, PASSION, AND HEROISM SET AGAINST ONE OF THE MOST TRAUMATIC WARS IN HISTORY Growing up in Wales, Catherine Carreg has been allowed to run wild, spending her childhood racing ponies along the beach with her friend Deio, the cattle-driver’s son. But Catherine is consumed by a longing to escape the monotony of village life and runs away to London with Deio’s help. Alone in the unfamiliar city, Catherine secures a position in Florence Nightingale’s home for sick governesses. As the nation is gripped by reports of war in the Crimea, Catherine volunteers as a nurse—and her life changes beyond all recognition. Arriving in Scutari, she is immediately thrown into a living nightmare. Amid the madness and chaos, Catherine is forced to grow up quickly, learning the hardest lessons of love and war.

Angel

Angel
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Publisher : New York Review of Books
Total Pages : 273
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ISBN-10 : 9781590175118
ISBN-13 : 1590175115
Rating : 4/5 (18 Downloads)

Synopsis Angel by : Elizabeth Taylor

A darkly witty classic about literary worth, ambition, and romantic idealism set in turn-of-the-century England, with an introduction from Hilary Mantel (Wolf Hall) “A delicious satire on the career of schoolgirl sensation Angelica Deverell. She's a truly magnificent comic creation: petulant, paranoid and frighteningly prolific." –The Guardian Angelica Deverell lives above her diligent, drab mother’s grocery shop in a dreary turn-of-the-century English neighborhood, but spends her days dreaming of handsome Paradise House, where her aunt is enthroned as a maid. But in Angel’s imagination, she is the mistress of the house, a realm of lavish opulence, of evening gowns and peacocks. Then she begins to write popular novels, and this fantasy becomes her life. And now that she has tasted success, Angel has no intention of letting anyone stand in her way—except, perhaps, herself. Now back in print after 20 years, this under-recognized classic is (unlike Angel's own novels) self-aware, funny, and subtly layered. It both sharply satirizes its protagonist and acknowledges the intensity of her imagination and the rigor of her work, all the while seeing her as fully human, complicated, and even sympathetic.

Angels in My Hair

Angels in My Hair
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Publisher : Harmony
Total Pages : 338
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ISBN-10 : 9780385528979
ISBN-13 : 0385528973
Rating : 4/5 (79 Downloads)

Synopsis Angels in My Hair by : Lorna Byrne

INTERNATIONAL BETSELLER • In this uplifting autobiography, a modern-day Irish mystic shares her vivid encounters and conversations with the angelsand spirits she has known her entire life. With an afterword on angels and America and a bonus chapter on how to connect with your angel Lorna Byrne physically sees and talks with angels every day and has done so ever since she was a baby. As a young child, she assumed everyone could see the angels who always accompanied her. Adults, however, were often skeptical, concerned that Lornadid not seem to be focusing on the world around her. Today, sick and troubled people from all around the world are drawn to her for comfort and healing, and theologians of different faiths seek her guidance. Angels in My Hair is a moving and deeply inspirational chronicle of Lorna’s remarkable life story. Invoking a wonderful sense of place, she describes growing up poor in Ireland and marrying the man of her dreams—only to have the marriage cut short by tragedy. Angels in My Hair has garnered overwhelming responses from readers from many walks of life, giving them hope and helping them to realize that no matter how alone they might feel they always have a guardian angel by their side.

Angel Interrupted

Angel Interrupted
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Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 255
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ISBN-10 : 9781101189115
ISBN-13 : 1101189118
Rating : 4/5 (15 Downloads)

Synopsis Angel Interrupted by : Chaz McGee

Some cases are as cold as the grave... A lost soul in limbo, Kevin Fahey is trying to prove he's a better ghost than he ever was a man. And trying to help Maggie Gunn, the detective who replaced him, is a good way to start.

Turn, Magic Wheel

Turn, Magic Wheel
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Publisher : Steerforth
Total Pages : 208
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ISBN-10 : 9781581952483
ISBN-13 : 1581952481
Rating : 4/5 (83 Downloads)

Synopsis Turn, Magic Wheel by : Dawn Powell

Dennis Orphen, in writing a novel, has stolen the life story of his friend, Effie Callingham, the former wife of a famous, Hemingway-like novelist, Andrew Callingham. Orphen’s betrayal is not the only one, nor the worst one, in this hilarious satire of the New York literary scene. (Powell personally considered this to be her best New York novel.) Powell takes revenge here on all publishers, and her baffoonish MacTweed is a comic invention worthy of Dickens. And as always in Powell’s New York novels, the city itself becomes a central character: “On the glittering black pavement legs hurried by with umbrella tops, taxis skidded along the curb, their wheels swishing through the puddles, raindrops bounced like dice in the gutter.” Powell’s famous wit was never sharper than here, but Turn, Magic Wheel is also one of the most poignant and heart-wrenching of her novels.

An Invisible Thread

An Invisible Thread
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 263
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781451648973
ISBN-13 : 1451648979
Rating : 4/5 (73 Downloads)

Synopsis An Invisible Thread by : Laura Schroff

A cloth bag containing eight copies of the title, that may also include a folder.

Bread of Angels

Bread of Angels
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Publisher : Cowley Publications
Total Pages : 175
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ISBN-10 : 9781561013272
ISBN-13 : 1561013277
Rating : 4/5 (72 Downloads)

Synopsis Bread of Angels by : Barbara Brown Taylor

Bread of Angels contains twenty-nine sermons about God's providential care, as symbolized by the manna given to the Israelites as they made their way through the wilderness.