The Charm of Simple Things

The Charm of Simple Things
Author: Maren J. Scott
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Total Pages: 116
Release: 1998
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780849915031

This delightful gift book is a celebration of the simple things of life: music, laughter, acts of kindness, family, friends, good manners, and serendipitous surprises. Poems, quotations, and meditations are charmingly illustrated with drawings and photos.

The Charm of Evil

The Charm of Evil
Author: Wheeler W. Dixon
Publisher:
Total Pages: 602
Release: 1991
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

Terence Fisher brought the modern Gothic horror film to life in the second half of the twentieth century. As director John Carpenter (Halloween) notes in his introduction, "Terence Fisher and The Curse of Frankenstein was the beginning of it all for the modern horror film..."

Charms for the Easy Life

Charms for the Easy Life
Author: Kaye Gibbons
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2005-07-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0060760257

A family without men, the Birches live gloriously offbeat lives in the lush, green backwoods of North Carolina. Radiant, headstrong Sophia and her shy, brilliant daughter, Margaret, possess powerful charms to ward off loneliness, despair, and the human misery that often beats a path to their door. And they are protected by the eccentric wisdom and muscular love of the remarkable matriarch Charlie Kate, a solid, uncompromising, self-taught healer who treats everything from boils to broken bones to broken hearts. Sophia, Margaret, and Charlie Kate find strength in a time when women almost always depended on men, and their bond deepens as each one experiences love and loss during World War II. Charms for the Easy Life is a passionate, luminous, and exhilarating story about embracing what life has to offer ... even if it means finding it in unconventional ways. This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.

A Charm of Finches

A Charm of Finches
Author: Suanne Laqueur
Publisher: Cathedral Rock Press
Total Pages: 627
Release: 2017-11-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

From the author of The Fish Tales comes the long-awaited second book in the Venery series. A Charm of Finches follows Javier Landes as he retires from escorting and invites love to be his friend. He meets an art therapist named Steffen Finch and what starts as casual deepens into a passionate relationship—everything Jav has ever wanted, and everything he fears losing. Stef’s business card reads Curator & Sailor. His creativity and insightful nature have made him into a talented therapist, the one to call for tough cases. His professional success can’t conceal a deep need to connect with someone, but Javier Landes is the last person Stef expected. Geronimo "Geno" Caan is Stef's most challenging case. To cope with his ordeal, he's allowed an alter-ego called Mos to make decisions, and now lives a double life within a web of lies. Under Stef’s navigation, Geno uses art to express what Mos forbids to be spoken aloud. But as Geno’s attachment to Stef gradually extends to Jav, the boundaries between professional and personal begin to blur. Over the course of a year, Jav, Stef and Geno form an unexpected and unconventional triangle, revealing how men make love in times of war and how love is a great wisdom made up of small understandings. A Charm of Finches is an epic tale of survival and secrets guaranteed to make you think and feel and remember.

The Charm Bracelet

The Charm Bracelet
Author: Viola Shipman
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2016-03-22
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1466882484

Lose yourself to the magic of The Charm Bracelet. Through an heirloom charm bracelet, three women will rediscover the importance of family and a passion for living as each charm changes their lives. On her birthday each year, Lolly’s mother gave her a charm, along with the advice that there is nothing more important than keeping family memories alive, and so Lolly’s charm bracelet would be a constant reminder of that love. Now seventy and starting to forget things, Lolly knows time is running out to reconnect with a daughter and granddaughter whose lives have become too busy for Lolly or her family stories. But when Arden, Lolly’s daughter, receives an unexpected phone call about her mother, she and granddaughter Lauren rush home. Over the course of their visit, Lolly reveals the story behind each charm on her bracelet, and one by one the family stories help Lolly, Arden, and Lauren reconnect in a way that brings each woman closer to finding joy, love, and faith. A compelling story of three women and a beautiful reminder of the preciousness of family, Viola Shipman's The Charm Bracelet is a keepsake you’ll cherish long after the final page.

The Charm of Oxford

The Charm of Oxford
Author: J. Wells
Publisher: DigiCat
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2022-09-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Charm of Oxford" by J. Wells. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Confidence

Confidence
Author: Henry James
Publisher: BoD - Books on Demand
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2023-10-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

"Confidence" is a novel that explores themes of trust, deception, and social intrigue. The story is set in New York City and follows the lives of its characters, with a particular focus on the protagonist, Bernard Longueville. Bernard is a young man of considerable intellect and independence who becomes involved with a charismatic and enigmatic woman named Angela Vivian. Angela is captivating and mysterious, and she draws Bernard into her world. Their relationship is marked by questions of trust and the complexities of human nature. The novel is known for its examination of the psychological and emotional dynamics between the characters. It delves into the art of conversation, the uncertainties of relationships, and the nature of confidence in oneself and others. As the story unfolds, Bernard and Angela's relationship is challenged, and secrets and deceptions come to light. The novel explores the consequences of hidden truths and the impact of trust and doubt on human connections. "Confidence" is a complex exploration of human psychology and social interactions, a theme that Henry James would continue to develop in many of his later works. It reflects James's early foray into the realms of human nature and the intricacies of human relationships, paving the way for his more mature and intricate novels that would become his hallmark.

The Charm of Being

The Charm of Being
Author: Denny Farrell
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 251
Release: 2019-06-17
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1532067585

Now the reader may ask, just what are the playing fields at such a cosmontological university, and who are the players? Well, to understand these playing fields, the reader is going to have to absorb some new language. With innovative language propelling its texts, The Charm of Being is a kaleidoscopic resurrection of classical poetry as a metaphorical art form. Using a strong voice filled with passion, Farrell sets an innovative standard for what philosophy and poetry can cooperatively achieve. Using juxtaposition and experimentation, he gets to the bottom of eternity in a manner of which only poetry is capable.

The Love-charm of Bombs

The Love-charm of Bombs
Author: Lara Feigel
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 827
Release: 2013-01-17
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1408833484

When the first bombs fell on London in August 1940, the city was transformed overnight into a battlefront. For most Londoners, the sirens, guns, planes and bombs heralded gruelling nights of sleeplessness, fear and loss. But for Graham Greene and some of his contemporaries, this was a bizarrely euphoric time when London became the setting for intense love affairs and surreal beauty. At the height of the Blitz, Greene described the bomb-bursts as holding one 'like a love-charm'. As the sky whistled and the ground shook, nerves were tested, loyalties examined and infidelities begun. The Love-charm of Bombs is a powerful wartime chronicle told through the eyes of five prominent writers: Elizabeth Bowen, Graham Greene, Rose Macaulay, Hilde Spiel and Henry Yorke (writing as Henry Green). Volunteering as ambulance drivers, fire-fighters and ARP wardens, these were the successors to the soldier poets of the First World War and their story has never been told. Now, opening with a meticulous evocation of a single night in September 1940, Lara Feigel brilliantly and beautifully interweaves letters, diaries and fiction with official civil defence records to chart the history of a burning world in wartime London and post-war Vienna and Berlin. She reveals the haunting, ecstatic, often wrenching stories that triumphed amid the mess of a war-torn world.