Bøker av Patsy Stanley

"This is book #6 in the ongoing Desert Store Series. The story follows Timmon, a young boy with unique psychic abilities, who escapes his malevolent family to seek solace in a desert store situated on a positive Earth chakra. In the store, Timmon is welcomed and protected by a group of good psychics who appreciate his exceptional senses and serene nature. Meanwhile, Timmon's imprisoned father, brothers, sighted mother, and sisters hold intense hatred towards him. They unleash their psychic powers to destroy the desert store and then seek refuge in an eerie mansion in Colorado when their initial plan fails.A year later, Timmon, along with two other troubled young men named Beck and Shem, travels to Gitwell, Colorado. Unbeknownst to them, their journey will lead to the resolution of their painful pasts. The story is set on the edge of a flat field lying between the evil mansion, Manfred's Folly, and Lou Cornfields' small cottage. It explores the dynamics of good versus evil, with two evil, monster mothers and one innocent, lost mother, and their soul-weary sons seeking to end the war with their mothers. The ending is compelling and unexpected. This book is a complex story that challenges conventional notions of Good and Evil, spanning 158 pages of nonstop intensity."

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"Billy Silly Beak and Pearl, the Purple-Eared Bird Girl" is an allegorical fiction that recounts the story of a penguin named Billy Silly Beak and his encounter with Pearl, the Purple-Eared Bird Girl. The tale unfolds in a cold and snowy land, exploring themes of diversity and romance. Billy's deeply devout family considers his sister Merry a Holy Bird due to her birth on Christmas Day. However, when Billy meets Pearl, a bird of a different persuasion, he embarks on a unique romance. This 22-page book, adorned with delightful illustrations, takes readers on a humorous journey through a northern continent. The story includes the true allegorical lineage of Billy Silly Beak, Pearl the Purple-Eared Bird Girl, the Wind, and Moody Zamboni the Ice Floe Boy, the mischievous and rebellious son of Sub-Icee and Zero Zamboni.

"The Desert Store Series: Susan Sugar Diamond - Away in a Desert" is the fourth book in the series. The story follows Susan Sugar Diamond, who was left in front of an orphanage door on a cold and snowy Christmas Eve as a baby. She stays beautiful, blonde, curvy, brash and loud. She grows up to be an exceptionally beautiful woman with a hidden heart of gold while living in the orphanage, alongside her best friend Lana English. As she grows up, Susan learns to navigate life in the orphanage and avoids the people who run the orphanage. In the small town where the orphanage is located, she starts writing about her experiences, encouraged by Lana. Susan becomes a world-famous author and eventually buys the orphanage, putting an end to the neglect and terror it once held. Meanwhile, her best friend Lana has a secret she needs to address-she almost shot a man at a desert store where she stopped for gas and feels the need to go there to make amends. Susan and Lana head for the desert store without realizing they will meet two men traveling there as well and all four of them join their psychic forces with Timmon to battle and save the Desert Store from evil. 6x9" 205 pages.

Lovely and unique ice skater illustrations with a simple story make this a beautiful little book for your coffee table, for gifting and reading. 6x9" 27 pages

Benny Berman is a lighthouse keeper and a curmudgeon. There''s no smiles, but just duties to be done by him and everyone else in the little fishing village. Benny Berman is content with his lot in life, except...for wondering about Rosie Cantor and the flowers he imagines she collects on her mysterious visits across the sand dunes. 6.5x6.5" 28 pages.  

A misshapen blue rubber albatross, meant for the toy factory bin, is rescued by a worker and given to his son. Forgotten on the beach, it is swept into a water cave during a storm. There, it becomes a caretaker for a wounded bird. The bird heals and leaves, but the blue rubber albatross is transformed with a heart and wings. Later, the boy is swept into the cave and seeks safety and solace in the albatross. Together, they are thrown onto the beach, and the boy is saved. Yet, the albatross remains on the beach, waiting for its next journey, filled with wonder and anticipation. This enchanting and allegorical children's narrative beautifully delves into the intricate and profound themes of life, offering a compelling and poignant storytelling experience. If you like sweet and tender yet amazing and powerful reads, this book is for you!

This is Book #2 in the ongoing Desert Store Series of 6 books & counting: 12 year old Geena escapes the clutches of her Shadow-tainted father and the town that supports him. Fleeing south with Mama, they change their names and make their new home at a desert store in New Mexico. Having inherited the Sight from Mama, Geena knew the store was to be her new home, and Cowboy Johnson, the owner, the good father she needs. Now she has protection and a family - and later, love at first sight - when she meets Ray Makepeace, grandson of William the Dude Makepeace. Over time, more psychic, Sighted misfit healers settle into Cowboy Johnson's Desert Store. But even gifted families carry both strengths and weaknesses, and the misfits have plenty of both. Geena and Ray's love is in for a bumpy ride. Normaine RedBear won't marry beautiful, dapper Italian Eddy. Mama is terrified of returning Cowboy Johnson's steadfast, calm love. William the Dude Makepeace makes troubling decisions based on his arthritis. Much humor and unexpected turns and twists ensue as love will have its way, traveling the many paths it takes to stay true to the soul each misfit carries. Geena's coming of age story is an inspiring tale of both innocence and courage. 6"x9", 276 pages.

Jim, Dossie and Hector, their son, are hermits by nature. They leave their large, noisy families to go on the road when Hector is four, working, traveling, and living in different places. Intelligent isolates, they study Nature's ways and magic. Hector grows up on the road and goes to college to become a park ranger. Then Dossie begins to change into a person Jim and Hector can't understand any more. They stay faithful to her in spite of everything, until Dossie sets a trap for them and almost succeeds in betraying them. Filled with fear, a parting of the ways looms on the horizon. New thoughts must be thought, and new roads traveled. This story is for those souls who live gently with the color blue. A 6x9", haunting 81 page love story, stunning in its intensity and simplicity. The ending will amaze you!

This is a tall tale, a fantasy, prefaced by how things got started and how it all came about, but mostly it is a story about the kingdom of Noddin Muse and a bunch of too young, too dry Rebel Bedats that began a Rebellion, and how it was quelled. Noddin Muse is one of the smaller kingdoms lying within the larger Kingdom of True Believers in Imagination, where magic children''s stories take place, and Crones, Box Keepers and Others live in the magic kingdom hidden behind the doors of an abandoned old shoe box factory.    

The Desert Store- The Red Cactus orphanage, is book #5 in the continuing series about an unusual desert store in New Mexico. Once a little white wood church built in the center of a small healing energy vortex over 100 years ago, the desert store draws both healers and odd others to live there. GAs, groceries, and healings in disguise are offered out in the middle of nowhere. Cowboy Johnson and Mama who we met in book one, are now gone. Normaine, Eddy, the three Mafia sisters, Celia, Emma and William once lived at the store. In books one through- four, before they each moved away, we''ve shared campfires out back of the desert store, long desert nights ''neath the stars, along with bologna sandwiches, chocolate cake, heartbreaks, anger and tears. In this ongoing sequel, Timmon, orphaned at ten by his evil family, lives at the store and has taken its ownership over. Timmon is Sighted as is his mother. He has learned many ways to combat the evils perpetrated by his mother and sisters, who live with evil Vance Romaine and his followers who hate the Goodness the store emits, and its healers. They try to destroy the store, but the psychic forces of some powerful people were called into battle and a different plan emerges for the store, thanks to Susan, Lana, Matthew, and Perry, who fought the Good, but completely unexpected- fight side by side with Timmon and won. For now.     

A stock pot of romance is simmering between Chefs Lady Pepper King and Sir Basil G. Soupstone while Arabella, the Spy Cat, sneakily searches the restaurant for Chef Pepper King's secret recipe. A light hearted, illustrated short story involving two chefs, a restaurant in a Big City, a spy cat named Arabella, with a bunch of RV's and trailers ready to hit the road. Chef's Creed included! A 30 page 6x9" Hardback.

Twenty seven pages of illustrations of skaters and a lovely little short story about an outdoor impromptu ice skating party make up this 6"x9" picture book. Story and delicate illustrations done by Patsy Stanley, the author and illustrator.

Jim, Dossie and Hector leave their families behind to go on the road, working, traveling, and living in different places. The three of them become enthusiastic students of Nature''s magic as they learn about Nature''s ways and Beings, including elves, fairies and all manner of Nature''s folk. The magic of their life suits them until a parting of the ways looms on the horizon, and an endurance contest begins between Jim and Dossie. Then new thoughts must be thought, and new roads traveled. This plain and simple story is particularly for those whose soul might be partial to the color blue.

Billy Silly Beak and Pearl, the Purple Eared Bird Girl, live in a cold northern land of black and white. Pearls'' purple ears are the only color in the landscape for Billy Silly beak, but he fights his attraction to her because she is so different. Pearl doesn''t follow the local social structures or worry about them, instead, she listens to the Wind''s advice, sometimes wears pink earmuffs, and does what Nature leads her to do. Lonesome and proud Billy Silly Beak doesn''t know what to do about Pearl. A winter love story between two birds. 25 pages- a 6x9" book involving Billy Silly Beak, Pearl the Purple Eared Bird Girl, and Moody Zamboni, the Ice Floe Boy who is supposed to come to the rescue.

Susan Sugar DIamond, Away in a Desert is # 4 in the ongoing Desert store series. In the earlier series, Mama loses Cowboy Johnson unexpectedly and flees to The Makepeace Ranch to hide out with his ashes just before Christmas while a huge blizzard stops most of the misfits from going home to the desert store for their yearly Christmas gathering. But the desert store does not stay empty. Arrivals are expected. Timmon, Hector, and Annie await the appearance of Cowboy Johnson''s angry father Matthew, but unexpected guests show up first, beginning with Susan Sugar Diamond and Lana English. Perry, Matthews other son, decides to stay out at the ranch with William the Dude, Emma, and Mama. An intensely moving and luminous gathering of people who have all reached a crossroads in their lives and are trying to figure out how to move on. This is book number four in the fascinating, humorous and touching lives played out in the Desert Store series. We know each of them by now. They are familiar friends. Each of the characters are living out many of the same issues we have. We have made them our allies because of their Goodness and abilities, they are like ourselves and they stand by us, sharing their thoughts and feelings and lives with us. 205 pages.  

In book number one in the "Desert Store" series, Mama and Geena, both misfit psychics, flee their desperate situation and come across a gas station-turned-grocery store in the New Mexico desert. Mama nicknames the store owner Cowboy Johnson after she hears his name wrong. He is not a cowboy, but a lover of classic cars. He is the person they've been searching for. They move into the store, which gradually fills with other misfits and hermits. To accommodate everyone, William the Dude( Geena's nickname for him) and Cowboy Johnson build a motel, restaurant, and gift shop called Cowboy Johnson's Desert Oasis. Each year, the misfits gather at the store to celebrate Christmas and support one another. This heartwarming story takes readers back to a time defined by open roads and endless love.

Emerald Hawks, an Appalachian mountain girl, has inherited the Healer's abilities passed down through her mother's generations. Emerald loves her mountain home, and is learning the Healer's ways when her father uproots their large family and moves north to find work. Shy and reticent, Bolen and Thursta, Emerald's mother and father, her brothers West and Hank, sisters Lottie and Lucy, and Neil and Flint, a cousin and a nephew, share their tribulations and laughter while encountering the ways of their challenging new world. A strongly flavored story of a southern mountain home lost to a small girls' time, a home she3 can never go back to. This coming of age story is an unforgettable journey through a young girl's childhood that will touch your heart and cling to your spirit. An unforgettable read! 339 pages. 6"x9" available in PB and E-book.

  Avalon Blue, past sixty, hides the secret initiations holding her hostage, forcing her to stay a loner traveling the world in eccentric clothes of her own design. In Winter’s Lee, a small northern fishing village, she meets Lucian and Melanie, cousins and best friends who have settled in Winter’s Lee, planning to be bored and lonely until their demise from old age.  That is, until an unexpected, muddy, squalling little messenger flings itself into their arms, bringing a new emotional, imaginative, journey involving Shamans, animal totem, tattoos and a mysterious island into their lives.     An inspiring, humorous story woven through with ageless magic, a story where the never ending expansion of the soul meets love in daily life.    

 Addition Jones fled Cross Grove as a young man after the town accused him of murder. No one ever heard from him again. Now middle-aged, successful, and wealthy, but still haunted by his old life and his ridiculous name, he decides to return to his hometown to put his past to rest. With great malice and intent to do as much harm as he can, Grady Miller flings the name Addition Jones and what he did to him in his daughter Nell’s face, then dies. Nell grabs on to the name and sets out to right the wrongs her father did to Addition Jones. They meet and a battle between good and evil, love and hate begins, played out between two lonely outcasts and a town that doesn’t like to forgive its own sins.   

  A Christmas romance about two lonely hearts, Big Al and Vetta, living in the big city, featuring a bakery, a music shop, and an airplane. Humorous black and white illustrations by the author, 8.5”x11”, 63 pages. A short, fun, romantic Christmas read.   

  Wizard Reuben Ashtar, and later, his son Foxglove, attended the Great Homnom School of Wizardry, where the  headmasters, in self defense from their odiferous cheese grating, grumbling ways, hastily designated each one in turn, Official Dreadful Noise Controllers, and sent them out into the world to conquer any Dreadful Noises they encountered. It was a position they each held with mostly no degree of success, but one that afforded vast relief from cheese grating and grumbling to the headmasters and other wizardry school students.  After many years Wizard Reuben Ashtar retired and after laying about a long while, he decided to build Landoshar, a magic kingdom for children. Wisely, he set aside a part of Landoshar for the Dreadful Noises and put them in it, but everyone knows they are most excellent escape artists, and very good at causing embarrassment.  Everything went along as planned until the magic land of Landoshar was almost finished; then Reuben made a doleful discovery! Many of the odorous, cheese grating Dreadful Noises he had chased for many years, mostly without any success, had escaped and were busy scaring away the elves, trolls, fairies, and the other magic beings living in Landoshar! Reuben and Foxglove set out to find the Dreadful Noises and return them to their part of Landoshar, but as we know, most numerous, naughty Dreadful Noises have other plans. Find out what they are up to and where they might strike next on their adventures with Wizard Reuben Ashtar and Foxglove!