John Spiers

• Oct-1996
• / General Fiction
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It's Christmas Eve and the angels are lighting up the night sky with bright evening stars. Then one angel has a truly brilliant idea: she flies down to Earth to make everything--from the carolers' lanterns to the Christmas tree toppers--just as brigh...

• Feb-1997
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• Mar-2006
• / General Fiction
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Gissing and the City: Cultural Crisis and the Making of Books in Late Victorian England addresses the late Victorian cultural crisis and aesthetic revolt in urban life, politics, literature and art, by special reference to the experience of the shock...

• Jul-2020
• / Literary
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The mysteriously troubled Bottle Cap Lady had proudly held the record for serving up more Deluxe Chicken Dinners than anyone else in a single evening as a waitress at The Chicken Place until she lost her job for coming to work drunk. After failing at...

• Jul-2020
• / Fantasy
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Pearl was always different from other chickens. Calamities and mishaps seemed to follow her almost from the time she hatched. Every day she would hear, Why can't you just be a good normal chicken? Blanche was her best and only friend who would tell P...

• Apr-2021
• / Christian
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Everyone needs A Most Wondrous Place. But where do you find it? It is not possible to draw A Most Wondrous Place, but it is possible to write about it, and that is exactly what the author has done in the modestly illustrated book. "It is not somethin...

• Oct-2021
• / Christian
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Whether they are triumphing in The Worm Olympics Game or convincing all of the others that chickens can do more than chickens have ever done before, Gracie and Bessie are inseparable. But when the other chickens begin to move away to new homes, Graci...

• Nov-2021
• / General Fiction
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The Sewer Rat had been tormenting the chickens for days and days. He had become The Biggest Scary Thing for Gracie. Even though she has faced The Big Scary Thing and the Bigger Scary Thing, she is not sure what to do about The...

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You can learn a lot from a chicken, especially a chicken like Gracie!Timid and shy, Gracie stayed mostly to herself and away from the other young chicks. Without her best friend, Bessie, she may never have survived those difficult first weeks.The sto...

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Have you ever had a plan that failed even though  it was The Best Plan Ever? Gracie did.The Sewer Rat had been tormenting the chickens for days and days. He had become The Biggest Scary Thing for Gracie. Even though she has faced The Big Sc...