A Gracious Plenty

Author : Sheri Reynolds
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 1618580418
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Gracious Plenty written by Sheri Reynolds and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2012-08-21 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 New York Times bestselling author Sheri Reynolds delivers an emotionally moving novel of Finch Nobles, a girl severely burned as a child, who later discovers she can hear the voices of the dead. After sustaining terrible burns from a household accident as a young girl, Finch Nobles refuses the pity of her hometown. The brave and feisty loner finds comfort in visiting her father’s cemetery, where she soon discovers that she can hear the voices of those buried underground. When she begins to speak to them, their answers echo around her in a remarkable chorus of regrets, explanations, and insights. A wonderfully wrought amalgam of Steinbeck, Faulkner, Spoon River Anthology, and Our Town, A Gracious Plenty is a masterful tale not soon forgotten.

Author : Sheri Reynolds
Publisher : Harmony
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Gracious Plenty written by Sheri Reynolds and published by Harmony. This book was released on 1997 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the lush and isolated cemetery of a small Southern town, Finch Nobles, the narrator of this brilliantly inventive novel, tends to the flowers and shrubs that surround the monuments of people who were not known to her while they lived but who in death have become her lifeline. Badly burned in a household accident when she was just four, Finch grows into a courageous and feisty loner. She eschews the pity and awkward stares of the people of her hometown and discovers that if she listens closely enough, she can hear the voices of those who have gone before. Finally, when she speaks, they answer back, telling their stories in a remarkable chorus of regrets, explanations, and insights. But the infant Marcus, son of the town's mayor, died before he learned to speak and can only wail away the hours. The roots of his anguish are revealed in a crescendo of lasting resonance that ties together the outcast Finch, her dead friends, and the living community outside the cemetery's gates. With prose that is spare, yet richly poetic, Sheri Reynolds creates a vision of a world that is at once fantastic and palpably real. She teaches us that neither our capacity to suffer nor our ability to be healed ends with the grave--and that love is all we have. A Gracious Plentyis a reading experience you will not soon forget. "A triumph of story, voice, and character. The afflicted and unforgettable Finch, whose longings inspire in equal measure love and awe and pity, who seeks to understand the difference between the kind of suffering brought upon us and the kind we bring upon ourselves, defies mortality. Stunning and authentic . . . this is a beautiful book." --Janet Peery, author ofThe River Beyond the World

Author : John T. Edge
Publisher : HP Trade
ISBN 13 : 9781557883889
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Gracious Plenty written by John T. Edge and published by HP Trade. This book was released on 2002-09 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hundreds of classic recipes capture the rich culinary traditions of the American South, introducing more than four hundred dishes representing a broad spectrum of geographical, cultural, and social influences. Reprint.

Author : Kate Salley Palmer
Publisher : Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 9780671735661
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Gracious Plenty written by Kate Salley Palmer and published by Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers. This book was released on 1991 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although she never married, Great-aunt May had a full life with children, friends, children, travel, and children--a life of gracious plenty.

Author : Sheri Reynolds
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780425162446
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rapture of Canaan written by Sheri Reynolds and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1997 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Kate Bowler
Publisher : Convergent Books
ISBN 13 : 0593193687
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Good Enough written by Kate Bowler and published by Convergent Books. This book was released on 2022-02-15 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A compassionate, intelligent, and wry series of Christian daily reflections on learning to live with imperfection in a culture of self-help that promotes endless progress, from the author of Everything Happens for a Reason and the executive producer of the Everything Happens podcast “Brilliant, hilarious, absurd, honest, hopeful, true-hearted, and good to the core.”—Sarah Bessey, editor of A Rhythm of Prayer and author of Jesus Feminist In Kate Bowler’s bestselling memoir Everything Happens for a Reason, readers witnessed the ways she, as a divinity-school professor and young mother, reckoned with a Stage IV cancer diagnosis; in her follow-up memoir, No Cure for Being Human, she unflinchingly and winsomely unpacked the ways that life becomes both hard and beautiful when we abandon certainty and the illusion of control in our lives. Now, in their first-ever devotional book, Kate Bowler and co-author Jessica Richie offer 40ish short spiritual reflections on how we can make sense of life not as a pursuit of endless progress but as a chronic condition. This book is a companion for when you want to stop feeling guilty that you’re not living your best life now. Written gently and with humor, Good Enough is permission for all those who need to hear that there are some things you can fix—and some things you can’t. And it’s okay that life isn’t always better. In these gorgeously written reflections, Bowler and Richie offer fresh imagination for how truth, beauty, and meaning can be discovered amid the chaos of life. Their words celebrate kindness, honesty, and interdependence in a culture that rewards ruthless individualism and blind optimism. Ultimately, in these pages we can rest in the encouragement to strive for what is possible today—while recognizing that though we are finite, the life in front of us can be beautiful.

Author : Kelly Williams Brown
Publisher : Rodale Books
ISBN 13 : 1623367980
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gracious written by Kelly Williams Brown and published by Rodale Books. This book was released on 2017-04-04 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: So you’re adulting. Now what? New York Times bestselling author of Adulting: How to Become a Grown-Up in 468 Easy(ish) Steps Kelly Williams Brown is here to tell you what, with her funny, charming guide to modern civility in these—yes, we'll say it—rather uncivil times. Graciousness is practicing the arts of kindness, thoughtfulness, good manners, humanity, and, well, basic decency. It’s not about memorizing every rule of traditional etiquette (though there is something to be said about a lovely hand-written invitation) or being the perfect hostess. It’s about approaching the world with compassion, conviction, and self-confidence—and it makes all the difference, whether you're at a Fancy Schmancy Intimidating Work Occasion or at the convenience store. Gracious provides tips to help you deal with the people and circumstances that challenge all of us (pushy relatives, internet trolls), and thoughtful discussions on being the highest version of yourself. Graciousness, at its heart, is the ability to be truly present to the humans around you, to face the world with a generous heart and a core of strength that’s never corroded. Even when you get rude comments from Internet strangers (hot tip: you don’t give a lot of credibility to someone screaming obscenities at you on the street, so why do it online?) We can’t control the world, or other humans, or even how we feel in a given moment. The only thing we can control is our words and actions, and when we act deliberately and with kindness, it makes everything better.

Author : Nancie McDermott
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 081186992X
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Southern Pies written by Nancie McDermott and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2010-09 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features a collection of classic and innovative pie recipes used by well-known Southern bakers.

Author : Sheri Reynolds
Publisher : Turtleback Books
ISBN 13 : 9781417626137
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gracious Plenty written by Sheri Reynolds and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 1999-03-16 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Badly burned in a household accident when she was a child, Finch Nobles discovers that she can hear the voices of the people buried in her father's cemetery. Now in paperback, this is a beautifully written tale of the redemptive nature of the human soul by the talented author of the bestselling "The Rapture of Canaan".

Author : Amy Nebens
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 9780811840835
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Gracious Welcome written by Amy Nebens and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2004-04 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everything you need to know for a successful visit, from invitations and etiquette to furnishing a cozy guest bedroom and well-outfitted bathroom.