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Author. Editor. Lover of hot tea. Interested in almost everything. Full-length single-volume biography, Elisabeth Elliot: A Life, available now.

13 books
Book Cover for: Lilias Trotter: Daring in the Desert, Irene Howat Irene Howat

Lilias Trotter: Daring in the Desert

Irene Howat Irene Howat
Lucy S. R. AustenLucy S. R. Austen

#ElisabethElliot learned of #LiliasTrotter as a sophomore in college, and recommended her for the rest of her life. Elliot wrote her 1989 book *A Path Through Suffering* as a series of reflections on Trotter's work.https://t.co/q9lBL3sWPt

Paperback, 2016

$8.99$4.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Man Who Was Thursday: a Nightmare Illustrated, G. K. Chesterton

The Man Who Was Thursday: a Nightmare Illustrated

G. K. Chesterton
Lucy S. R. AustenLucy S. R. Austen

@leahpfinn And has he tried G. K. Chesterton's Father Brown stories? (Or, for that matter, *The Man Who Was Thursday*?)

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Book Cover for: Lawn Boy, Gary Paulsen

Lawn Boy

Gary Paulsen
Lucy S. R. AustenLucy S. R. Austen

@greenleejw Has 11 year old read *Lawn Boy* [and sequel(s?)] by Gary Paulsen?

Paperback, 2009

$7.99$3.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Mystery Mile, Margery Allingham

Mystery Mile

Margery Allingham
Lucy S. R. AustenLucy S. R. Austen

@leahpfinn He might like Margery Allingham's Mr. Campion. There aren't as many of them as there are Christies, but there are enough to keep him going for awhile! The very first one is The Crime at Black Dudley, but Campion hits his stride in the second, Mystery Mile.

Paperback, 2018

$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Farmer Giles of Ham, J. R. R. Tolkien

Farmer Giles of Ham

J. R. R. Tolkien
Lucy S. R. AustenLucy S. R. Austen

Heavy spring rain falling, everything is green, green, there are fresh baked chocolate chip cookies, and we just finished reading Tolkien's Farmer Giles of Ham aloud.

Hardcover, 1999

$23.00$11.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Mistress Masham's Repose, T. H. White

Mistress Masham's Repose

T. H. White
Lucy S. R. AustenLucy S. R. Austen

@bdmcclay I love the little I've read of White (Once and Future King, Mistress Masham's Repose) and loved this review, so adding the biography to my list, stat. Thanks!

Paperback, 2017

$15.99$7.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Crime at Black Dudley, Margery Allingham

The Crime at Black Dudley

Margery Allingham
Lucy S. R. AustenLucy S. R. Austen

@leahpfinn He might like Margery Allingham's Mr. Campion. There aren't as many of them as there are Christies, but there are enough to keep him going for awhile! The very first one is The Crime at Black Dudley, but Campion hits his stride in the second, Mystery Mile.

Paperback, 2025

$31.97$15.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Gaudy Night, Dorothy L. Sayers

Gaudy Night

Dorothy L. Sayers
Lucy S. R. AustenLucy S. R. Austen

My beloved (cheap paperback) copy of Gaudy Night, with its layers of comments on post-it notes and arguments in the margins--has lost its back cover early in an umpteenth read-through. Time to get a rubber band to hold it together. https://t.co/rUZJVJ5Gtg

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Book Cover for: Being Well When We're Ill: Wholeness and Hope in Spite of Infirmity, Marva J. Dawn

Being Well When We're Ill: Wholeness and Hope in Spite of Infirmity

Marva J. Dawn
Lucy S. R. AustenLucy S. R. Austen

Finding help this week in chapters on lament from Marva J. Dawn, Being Well When We're Ill, and @K__Mayfield, Attached to God, and in the daily Psalms selected by @biolau Lent Project. "O Lord, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked exult?"

Paperback, 2008

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Ongoingness: The End of a Diary, Sarah Manguso

Ongoingness: The End of a Diary

Sarah Manguso
Lucy S. R. AustenLucy S. R. Austen

"In the slim book Ongoingness: The End of a Diary Sarah Manguso says, 'to write a diary is to make a series of choices about what to omit, what to forget.'" https://t.co/DG5dyuyWSx

Paperback, 2016

$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book