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Laura Mixon Story Elvington is an American contemporary Christian music singer-songwriter. Billboard ranked her as the 40th Top Christian Artist of the 2010s. She has won a Grammy and six GMA Dove Awards. Her second studio album, Blessings, reached No. 1 on Top Christian Albums & Americana/Folk Albums (where it spent three weeks atop the charts), and peaked at No. 30 on the Billboard 200. It also achieved RIAA Gold status. The title track off the album Blessings became her first No. 1 hit on the Billboard Christian Songs chart. The single eventually went on to win the 2012 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Christian Music Song and achieved Platinum status in the United States. Education Story originally attended the University of South Carolina, majoring in music, before transferring to Columbia International University. Story received a Bachelor of Arts in Music from Columbia International University in 2003. She received a Master of Arts in Theological Studies from Covenant Theological Seminary. She earned a Doctor of Worship Studies from The Robert E. Webber Institute for Worship Studies in 2019, with a thesis titled "Developing Worship Leaders On Approaching God With Reverence, Johns Creek, Georgia." Career Story began her career in 1996 when she met Shane Williams, from the band Silers Bald, at Columbia International University. Williams asked Story to join the band and she became their bass player. Story released four independent albums with the band. When the band was about to sign a deal with Essential Records, Story's manager suggested she record a solo album. In 2002, Story left Silers Bald and began working on her first album, Indescribable, released independently that same year. In 2004, the title track of her album was recorded by Chris Tomlin on his album Arriving. Tomlin's version peaked at No. 2 on Billboard's Hot Christian Songs and was included in the compilation album Passion: How Great Is Our God. The band Avalon also recorded a version of the song for the WOW Worship 2006 album. Story released her second independent album in 2005, titled There Is Nothing. The album was produced by Ed Cash and Mitch Dane. During that year, she also married Martin Elvington, and moved to Atlanta, Georgia, to become an associate worship leader at Perimeter Church. In 2006, Story signed a recording contract with INO Records and two years later released her third album, Great God Who Saves. The album also was produced by Ed Cash. In 2010, she was nominated for Female Vocalist of the Year at the 41st GMA Dove Awards. Story released the album Blessings, in 2011, and another album, God of Every Story, on September 30, 2013. Blessings In May 2011 Story released her fourth album, Blessings. To date, the album ranks as her biggest commercial success, having debuted at No. 2 on Billboard Christian Albums, giving Story her highest placement ever on the album chart. In June 2011, the first single off the album, also titled "Blessings", reached No. 1 on the Billboard Christian Songs chart, giving Story her first number one hit. In an interview, Story explains, "Blessings is just a bunch of songs about worshiping when life is hard". After her husband Martin Elvington was diagnosed with a brain tumor, she asked, "Why didn't you just fix it, God? You're all powerful and all loving… just fix it." Later, after Story mentioned her desire to return to a normal life, her sister responded, "You know, I think the detour is actually the road." Story realized, "Spending time with Martin obviously makes me happy, but it makes me a better person. That's the blessing of it." After the success of Story's Grammy-winning song "Blessings", a 30-day devotional book was released entitled What If Your Blessings Come Through Raindrops? (Worthy Publishing, 2012 ISBN 978-1-60587-322-0). Each chapter contains thoughts, prayers and quotes along with a journaling page for readers to recall blessings they have seen in their own lives. Discography Solo albums With Silers Bald Singles "Blessings" also charted on the Billboard Heatseekers Song chart peaking at No. 18. Awards and nominations Grammy Awards GMA Dove Awards Bibliography What If Your Blessings Come Through Raindrops?, Worthy Publishing, 2012 When God Doesn't Fix It, Worthy Publishing, 2015 Notes References External links Official website. Discover the Laura Story popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Laura Story books.
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Logical Family
Armistead Maupin"A book for any of us, gay or straight, who have had to find our family. Maupin is one of America’s finest storytellers."Neil Gaiman"I fell in love with Maupin’s effervescent Tales...
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Writings to Young Women from Laura Ingalls Wilder - Volume One
Laura Ingalls Wilder & Stephen W. HinesFrom helping others in times of need, to keeping and maintaining friendships, to having a positive attitude, Laura's words of wisdom in Writings to Young Women from Laura Ingalls W...
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Angels on Earth
Laura Schroff & Alex TresniowskiFrom 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 fr...
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Missing Pieces
Laura PearsonOnce upon a time we were a family.In those days, all I remember was laughter and joy. I was their firstborn, and I remember so clearly my parents’ pride as I held my little sister,...
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Suspendered Sentence
Laura BradfordVisit the Amish community of Heavenly, Pennsylvania, where shop owner Claire Weatherly has come to appreciate a simpler, more peaceful way of life. But dark secrets are about to co...
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Lizzie Searches for Love Trilogy
Linda BylerContains all three Lizzie Searches for Love books by Linda Byler Ideal gift for readers in search of a love story Excellent choice for fans of Girls of Paper and Fire, Story Thiev...
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Pack Up the Moon
Anna McPartlinA young woman must summon the courage to rebuild her life after a tragedy and find hope in friendship in this heartwarming novel. Emma is twentysixpretty, intelligent, and happily ...
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The Princess Spy
Larry LoftisINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES, WALL STREET JOURNAL, AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER“As exciting as any spy novel” (Daily News, New York), The Princess Spy follows the hidden history of an ordina...
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Laura Bush
Ronald KesslerWhen Laura Bush moved into the White House on January 20, 2001, everyone wanted to know what kind of first lady she would be. Would she be like Mamie Eisenhower? Would she follow i...
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Writings to Young Women from Laura Ingalls Wilder - Volume Two
Laura Ingalls Wilder & Stephen W. HinesIn Writings to Young Women from Laura Ingalls Wilder: On Life As a Pioneer Woman, Laura tells her readers what it was like to be a pioneer in the early 1900s. Her stories and insig...
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The Other Side of Disappearing
Kate ClaybornFrom the acclaimed author of Georgie, All Along and Love Lettering, a pitchperfect, radiantly transporting love story about an unexpected road trip, true crime obsessions, and hard...
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Indianapolis
Lynn Vincent & Sara VladicNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “GRIPPING…THIS YARN HAS IT ALL.” USA TODAY “A WONDERFUL BOOK.” The Christian Science Monitor “ENTHRALLING.” Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “A MUSTREA...
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More Tales of the City
Armistead Maupin"Remarkable. . . delectable, addictive." New York Times Book ReviewThe second novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin’s bestselling San Francisco saga.The t...
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The Silent Companions
Laura Purcell“[An] extraordinary, memorable and truly haunting book.” Jojo Moyes, #1 New York Times bestselling authorLaura Purcell's THE SHAPE OF DARKNESS is now out from Penguin!Some doo...
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The Best Thing That Never Happened To Me
Laura Tait & Jimmy RiceEveryone remembers their first love.Holly certainly remembers Alex. But she decided ten years ago that love wasn’t about mix tapes and seizing the moment – though she’s not exactly...
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Hardly Knew Her
Laura LippmanA trade paperback collection of 16 short stories, some new, some published before, all together for the first time, featuring Tess Monaghan, New York Times Bestselling author Laura...
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Prairie Girl
William AndersonIn this charming, accessible biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder, noted Wilder historian William Anderson takes us beyond the Little House books to share the reallife events that ins...
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Twilight Zone
Carol SerlingAn original anthology celebrating Rod Serling's landmark television seriesWhen it first aired in 1959, The Twilight Zone was nothing less than groundbreaking television. Freed from...
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The First Husband
Laura Dave"A fresh, funny take on the search for a soulmate." PeopleA savvy, pageturning novel about a woman torn between her husband and the man she thought she'd marry by the author of the...
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Seabiscuit
Laura Hillenbrand#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the author of the runaway phenomenon Unbroken comes a universal underdog story about the horse who came out of nowh...
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Big Driver
Stephen KingNow a Lifetime original movie, Stephen King's haunting story about an author of a series of mystery novels who tries to reconcile her old life with her life after a horrific attack...
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Two of the Deadliest
Elizabeth George“This brilliant anthology of short stories by some of the most outstanding women now writing mysteries and crime fiction...is a truly glorious collection” Globe and Mail New ...
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The Poison Thread
Laura Purcell"[An] uncanny Gothic mystery... Satisfying."New York Times Book Review"A romping read with a deliciously dark conceit at its center... Reminded me of Alias Grace."Kiran Millwo...
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An Invisible Thread
Laura SchroffThis 10th anniversary edition of the beloved #1 New York Times bestseller includes a new introduction and afterword by the author. Chronicling the lifelong friendship between a bus...
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The Marsh Queen
Virginia HartmanFor fans of Where the Crawdads Sing, this “marvelous debut” (Alice McDermott, National Book Award–winning author of The Ninth Hour) follows a Washington, DC, artist as she faces he...
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Writings to Young Women on Laura Ingalls Wilder - Volume Three
Laura Ingalls Wilder & Stephen W. HinesIn Writings to Young Women on Laura Ingalls Wilder: As Told by Her Family, Friends, and Neighbors, we see Laura through the eyes of those who knew her best. They tell of her insati...
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Half Broke Horses
Jeannette WallsFrom the author of The Glass Castle and Hang the Moon“Walls vividly depicts her astonishing, resilient grandmother with a lightness of touch that is plainspoken yet heartfelt” (Chi...
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Last Mission to Tokyo
Michel ParadisMichel Paradis’s Last Mission to Tokyo, a “superb” (The Wall Street Journal) and “engrossing...richly researched” (The New York Times Book Review) account of a key but underreporte...
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Love Letters
Katie FfordeWhen her bookshop closes its doors, Laura agrees to help organize a literary festival. Her initial excitement is followed by panic when she realizes that an innocent mistake has le...
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Goldberg Variations
Susan IsaacsFrom New York Times bestselling author Susan Issacs, a “deliciously wicked” (Publishers Weekly) story of three cousins and a fortune.Imagine King Lear as a comedy…At seventynine, G...
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The Summer of Good Intentions
Wendy FrancisCape Cod summers are supposed to remain reassuringly the same, but everything falls apart when three sisters and their families come together for their annual summer vacationand th...
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In the Midnight Room
Laura McBride“If McBride is trying to provethat if you change one life, you change the worldshe succeeds magnificently.”Booklist From the author of the acclaimed novel We Are Called to Rise com...
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Sorted
Jackson BirdAn unflinching and endearing memoir from LGBTQ+ advocate Jackson Bird about how he finally sorted things out and came out as a transgender man.When Jackson Bird was twentyfive, he ...
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The Do-Over
Lynn PainterA New York Times BestsellerIn this “unequivocally hilarious and delightful” (Kirkus Reviews) young adult romp for fans of Recommended for You and A Cuban Girl’s Guide to Tea and To...
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All the Pieces Matter
Jonathan AbramsThe definitive oral history of the iconic and beloved TV show The Wire, as told by the actors, writers, directors, and others involved in its creation.Since its final episode aired...
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Beautiful Disaster
Laura SpinellaA story of love lost...and found.Mia Wells's ecofriendly career goals are about to become a realitybut her lifealtering moment is interrupted when an unexpected call ushers in her ...
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The Story of Jane
Laura KaplanThe powerful story of the women who founded and ran the legendary Chicago reproductive rights organization Abortion Counseling Service, otherwise known as Jane, written by one of i...