The Tender Grave

Author : Sheri Reynolds
Publisher : Bywater Books
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781612941943

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The Tender Grave by Sheri Reynolds Pdf

Independent Publisher Books Awards (IPPY) Gold Medalist in Mid-Atlantic-Best Regional Fiction From the author of the New York Times #1 bestseller, The Rapture of Canaan, and steeped in the rich tradition of Southern writers like Carson McCullers and Sue Monk Kidd, The Tender Grave is the gripping story of two estranged sisters who find their unlikely way toward forgiveness—and each other—through a disturbing set of circumstances. Dori, at age 17, participates in a hate crime against a gay boy from her school and runs away to escape prosecution—and her own harrowing childhood. In her pocket, she carries the address of an older, half-sister she’s never met. She has no idea that her sister Teresa is married to another woman. When Dori and Teresa finally meet, they’re forced to confront that, while they don’t like or really even understand one another, they are inextricably bound together in ways that transcend their differences. Together, the sisters discover that shifting currents of family and connection can sometimes run deeper than the prevailing tides of abandonment and estrangement. In The Tender Grave, Sheri Reynolds weaves complex themes of parenting, forgiveness, guilt, and accountability into a lyrical and lushly-woven tapestry that chronicles our enduring search for heart, home, and healing.

Author : Eliza Maxwell
Publisher : Lake Union Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Dysfunctional families
ISBN : 1477818472

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The Grave Tender by Eliza Maxwell Pdf

"Endless questions from a shadow-filled East Texas childhood haunt Hadley Dixon. People said her mother Winnie was never quite right, but with one single, irreparable act, life as Hadley knew it was shattered. The aftershocks of that moonlit night left her reeling, but the secrets and lies had started long before. When a widowed and pregnant Hadley returns years later, it's not the safe harbor she expects"--Back cover.

Author : Sheri Reynolds
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0425162443

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The Rapture of Canaan by Sheri Reynolds Pdf

Ninah Huff, the teenage granddaughter of the founder of an isolated religious community, causes controversy when she is discovered to be pregnant with what she claims is a holy child

Author : Kami Fletcher,Ashley Towle
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780820365817

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Grave History by Kami Fletcher,Ashley Towle Pdf

Grave sites not only offer the contemporary viewer the physical markers of those remembered but also a wealth of information about the era in which the cemeteries were created. These markers hold keys to our historical past and allow an entry point of interrogation about who is represented, as well as how and why. Grave History is the first volume to use southern cemeteries to interrogate and analyze southern society and the construction of racial and gendered hierarchies from the antebellum period through the dismantling of Jim Crow. Through an analysis of cemeteries throughout the South—including Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, and Virginia, from the nineteenth through twenty-first centuries—this volume demonstrates the importance of using the cemetery as an analytical tool for examining power relations, community formation, and historical memory. Grave History draws together an interdisciplinary group of scholars, including historians, anthropologists, archaeologists, and social-justice activists to investigate the history of racial segregation in southern cemeteries and what it can tell us about how ideas regarding race, class, and gender were informed and reinforced in these sacred spaces. Each chapter is followed by a learning activity that offers readers an opportunity to do the work of a historian and apply the insights gleaned from this book to their own analysis of cemeteries. These activities, designed for both the teacher and the student, as well as the seasoned and the novice cemetery enthusiast, encourage readers to examine cemeteries for their physical organization, iconography, sociodemographic landscape, and identity politics.

Author : Dianne K. Salerni
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780547868530

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The Caged Graves by Dianne K. Salerni Pdf

Returning to her hometown of Catawissa, Pennsylvania, in 1867 to marry a man she has never met, seventeen-year-old Verity Boone gets caught up in the a mystery surrounding the graves of her mother and aunt and a dangerous hunt for Revolutionary-era gold.

Author : James R. Cothran,Erica Danylchak
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-31
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9781611177992

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Grave Landscapes by James R. Cothran,Erica Danylchak Pdf

Growing urban populations prompted major changes in graveyard location, design, and use During the Industrial Revolution people flocked to American cities. Overcrowding in these areas led to packed urban graveyards that were not only unsightly, but were also a source of public health fears. The solution was a revolutionary new type of American burial ground located in the countryside just beyond the city. This rural cemetery movement, which featured beautifully landscaped grounds and sculptural monuments, is documented by James R. Cothran and Erica Danylchak in Grave Landscapes: The Nineteenth-Century Rural Cemetery Movement. The movement began in Boston, where a group of reformers that included members of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society were grappling with the city's mounting burial crisis. Inspired by the naturalistic garden style and melancholy-infused commemorative landscapes that had emerged in Europe, the group established a burial ground outside of Boston on an expansive tract of undulating, wooded land and added meandering roadways, picturesque ponds, ornamental trees and shrubs, and consoling memorials. They named it Mount Auburn and officially dedicated it as a rural cemetery. This groundbreaking endeavor set a powerful precedent that prompted the creation of similarly landscaped rural cemeteries outside of growing cities first in the Northeast, then in the Midwest and South, and later in the West. These burial landscapes became a cultural phenomenon attracting not only mourners seeking solace, but also urbanites seeking relief from the frenetic confines of the city. Rural cemeteries predated America's public parks, and their popularity as picturesque retreats helped propel America's public parks movement. This beautifully illustrated volume features more than 150 historic photographs, stereographs, postcards, engravings, maps, and contemporary images that illuminate the inspiration for rural cemeteries, their physical evolution, and the nature of the landscapes they inspired. Extended profiles of twenty-four rural cemeteries reveal the cursive design features of this distinctive landscape type prior to the American Civil War and its evolution afterward. Grave Landscapes details rural cemetery design characteristics to facilitate their identification and preservation and places rural cemeteries into the broader context of American landscape design to encourage appreciation of their broader influence on the design of public spaces.

Author : William P. Mann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1864
Category : Christian life
ISBN : NLS:V000708345

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From the Cradle to the Grave ... by William P. Mann Pdf

Author : Allen Foster
Publisher : Gill & Macmillan Ltd
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-05
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780717151530

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Dead Funny – The Little Book of Irish Grave Humour by Allen Foster Pdf

Allen Foster lives in on a farm in Enfield, Co Meath. When not tending to his cattle or walking his beloved dogs he finds the time to be a freelance journalist and researcher. He is the author of eight other books, including Foster’s Irish Oddities, Foster’s Even Odder Irish Oddities and Around the World with Citizen Train: The Sensational Adventures of the Real Phileas Fogg.

Author : Clarence Miles Boutelle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : American fiction
ISBN : OSU:32435054738729

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The Grave Between Them by Clarence Miles Boutelle Pdf

Author : Abby Burnett
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781626743427

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Gone to the Grave by Abby Burnett Pdf

Before there was a death care industry where professional funeral directors offered embalming and other services, residents of the Arkansas Ozarks—and, for that matter, people throughout the South—buried their own dead. Every part of the complicated, labor-intensive process was handled within the deceased’s community. This process included preparation of the body for burial, making a wooden coffin, digging the grave, and overseeing the burial ceremony, as well as observing a wide variety of customs and superstitions. These traditions, especially in rural communities, remained the norm up through the end of World War II, after which a variety of factors, primarily the loss of manpower and the rise of the funeral industry, brought about the end of most customs. Gone to the Grave, a meticulous autopsy of this now vanished way of life and death, documents mourning and practical rituals through interviews, diaries and reminiscences, obituaries, and a wide variety of other sources. Abby Burnett covers attempts to stave off death; passings that, for various reasons, could not be mourned according to tradition; factors contributing to high maternal and infant mortality; and the ways in which loss was expressed though obituaries and epitaphs. A concluding chapter examines early undertaking practices and the many angles funeral industry professionals worked to convince the public of the need for their services.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Indian Affairs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Burial laws
ISBN : PURD:32754074489174

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Native American Grave and Burial Protection Act (repatriation); Native American Repatriation of Cultural Patrimony Act; and Heard Museum Report by United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Indian Affairs Pdf

Author : Arnaldur Indridason
Publisher : Random House
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2008-12-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781407020952

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Silence of the Grave by Arnaldur Indridason Pdf

Building work in an expanding Reykjavík uncovers a shallow grave. Years before, this part of the city was all open hills, and Erlendur and his team hope this is a typical Icelandic missing person scenario; perhaps someone once lost in the snow, who has lain peacefully buried for decades. Things are never that simple. Whilst Erlendur struggles to hold together the crumbling fragments of his own family, his case unearths many other tales of family pain. The hills have more than one tragic story to tell: tales of failed relationships and heartbreak; of anger, domestic violence and fear; of family loyalty and family shame. Few people are still alive who can tell the story, but even secrets taken to the grave cannot remain hidden forever... Winner of the CWA Gold Dagger.

Author : Sheri Reynolds
Publisher : Berkley
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1997-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 042516246X

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Bitterroot Landing by Sheri Reynolds Pdf

Jael hears voices. Some are real, like the voices of the others in her incest-survivor group, or the homeless woman she meets at the laundry. Some are more mysterious, like the Virgin Mary's. Jael was born into a hard life, but she's a survivor, growing stronger all the time. Waiting for the day when the only voice she needs is her own. So I was a ward of the court, and I slept on a cot in the basement of the Pentecostal church until old River Bill, a recently widowed deacon, offered to take me in. The church lady who came to bring me food and extra clothes delivered the news. As she picked nits out of my hair, she said it was a miracle from God that a man like River Bill would take a wild girl like me to raise as his own daughter . . .

Author : Thomas PRINCE (of Boston, N.E.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1728
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0021926006

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The Grave and Death Destroyed, and Believers Ransomed and Redeemed from Them. A Sermon [on Hosea Xiii. 14] July 7, 1728, Being the Lords-day After the Decease and Funeral of Samuel Prince by Thomas PRINCE (of Boston, N.E.) Pdf

Author : James Strong
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1834 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Bible
ISBN : CHI:56690056

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The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible by James Strong Pdf