Download or read book Praisesong for the Widow written by Paule Marshall and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 1984-04-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the acclaimed author of Daughters and Brown Girl, Brownstones comes a “work of exceptional wisdom, maturity, and generosity, one in which the palpable humanity of its characters transcends any considerations of race or sex”(Washington Post Book World). Avey Johnson—a black, middle-aged, middle-class widow given to hats, gloves, and pearls—has long since put behind her the Harlem of her childhood. Then on a cruise to the Caribbean with two friends, inspired by a troubling dream, she senses her life beginning to unravel—and in a panic packs her bag in the middle of the night and abandons her friends at the next port of call. The unexpected and beautiful adventure that follows provides Avey with the links to the culture and history she has so long disavowed. “Astonishingly moving.”—Anne Tyler, The New York Times Book Review

Download or read book The Widow s Song written by Donna Lloyd and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2024-02-02 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Widow’s Song, Donna Lloyd takes you on a personal journey through the loss of a loved one. As a widow herself, she speaks of the difficult and lonely path that many women find themselves walking when their life suddenly reduces to ‘one.’ Taking six widows from the bible, the book looks at their experiences and discusses what, as widows today, we can learn from them, offering hope and encouragement to anyone facing this most difficult situation. It is a reflective look at widowhood in a time when you are at your lowest and most vulnerable, but it strives to highlight the strength that women have to go on and face the future. The Widow’s Song is a unique and very personal rendition of a love lost and a life continuing. A song well received by the Lord and never forgotten. A song which, in time, will build the foundation of your new life.

Download or read book The Widow s Song written by Beverly Martin Schulz and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-01-12 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories in this book are the outpouring of my heart after losing my husband of sixty-two years, Beverly Martin Schulz. The author opens her heart with songs and stories of joy and hope, replacing grief and tears with inspiration through faith. You will meet Pookie Wookie and Sugar and laugh at their antics. If you are a widow walking down a new road of life, I hope you see yourself through windows of my life, finding peace and discovering how much God loves you.

Download or read book the widows might written by Sandra Brannan and published by Pioneer Drama Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2012 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The murder of Liv Bergen's sister-in-law has been solved, but an older rancher has been bludgeoned to death in a style eerily reminiscent of a long-inactive killer known only as the Crooked Man.

Download or read book Death in the Victorian Family written by Patricia Jalland and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This engrossing book explores family experiences of dying, death, grieving, and mourning in the years between 1830 and 1920. So many Victorian letters, diaries, and death memorials reveal a deep preoccupation with death which is both fascinating and enlightening. Pat Jalland has examined the correspondence, diaries, and death memorials of fifty-five families to show us deathbed scenes of the time, good and bad deaths, the roles of medicine and religion, children's deaths, funerals and cremations, widowhood, and mourning rituals.

Download or read book The Widows Song written by Timo Abrak Lekwat and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2023-11-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Praisesong for the Widow written by Paule Marshall and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1984-04-16 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the acclaimed author of Daughters and Brown Girl, Brownstones comes a “work of exceptional wisdom, maturity, and generosity, one in which the palpable humanity of its characters transcends any considerations of race or sex”(Washington Post Book World). Avey Johnson—a black, middle-aged, middle-class widow given to hats, gloves, and pearls—has long since put behind her the Harlem of her childhood. Then on a cruise to the Caribbean with two friends, inspired by a troubling dream, she senses her life beginning to unravel—and in a panic packs her bag in the middle of the night and abandons her friends at the next port of call. The unexpected and beautiful adventure that follows provides Avey with the links to the culture and history she has so long disavowed. “Astonishingly moving.”—Anne Tyler, The New York Times Book Review

Download or read book Grass Widows written by Virginia Gabriel and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Widow s Song written by Frances Rollins King Abrams and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2022-06-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our Lord has a tender heart for widows! Jesus demonstrated His care for a destitute widow when He halted a funeral procession to raise her dead son. (Luke 7:11-17) "When the Lord saw her, He felt compassion for her." (Vs. 13a) Similar accounts of God's care for widows appear throughout Scripture. In the pages of The Widow's Song, a collection of devotionals, widows will find encouragement from the author's personal journey of grief and healing, the journeys of ten other widows, and stories of Biblical widows. Frances Rollins King Abrams challenges widows to find strength and healing in the God who sees and loves them. She encourages widows to allow Him to use their heartbreak as a vehicle for ministry. The Widow's Song includes lyrics from hymns, anthems, and poems to inspire widows that God can turn "their mourning into gladness" and give them "comfort and joy instead of sorrow," as He promised His people Israel in Isaiah 31:13 (NIV). Abrams hopes that widows who read The Widow's Song will discover God's tender, loving heart and share their discovery with others in various stages of their journeys. She trusts that God will use these devotionals to put a new song in every reader's heart. The hardcover and softcover editions are available as a gift for widows or for anyone who wants to understand and walk alongside a widow through her journey. The Kindle eBook contains a compatible design for your e-reading devices. Frances Rollins King Abrams has been a newspaper and magazine writer and has worked as a school system public information writer in Chambers County, Alabama. She spent 40 years as a minister's wife until her husband, Dr. Jerome King, was diagnosed with Glioblastoma Multiforme, a brain tumor that took his life in 2009.

Download or read book The Maids Wives and Widows Penny Magazine and Gazette of Fashion written by and published by . This book was released on 1832-11-03 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Ship of Widows written by I. Grekova and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five women of different backgrounds move into an apartment in Moscow during World War II. The novel chronicles the tensions resulting from differences in intellect, culture, class, not to mention lack of space and a shortages of the basic necessities of life. The author is a Russian mathematician.

Download or read book The Widow s Song written by Donna Lloyd and published by Austin Macauley. This book was released on 2024-02-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Widow's Song, Donna Lloyd takes you on a personal journey through the loss of a loved one. As a widow herself, she speaks of the difficult and lonely path that many women find themselves walking when their life suddenly reduces to 'one.' Taking six widows from the bible, the book looks at their experiences and discusses what, as widows today, we can learn from them, offering hope and encouragement to anyone facing this most difficult situation. It is a reflective look at widowhood in a time when you are at your lowest and most vulnerable, but it strives to highlight the strength that women have to go on and face the future. The Widow's Song is a unique and very personal rendition of a love lost and a life continuing. A song well received by the Lord and never forgotten. A song which, in time, will build the foundation of your new life.

Download or read book From Widows to Warriors written by Lynn Japinga and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For too long the women of the Bible have been depicted in one-dimensional terms. On one side are saints, such as Mary, while on the other are "bad girls," such as Eve and Jezebel. Just as often, the female characters of the Bible are simply ignored. However, the women of the Bible are complex, multidimensional individuals whose lives are inspiring, funny, and tragic in ways too many of us never hear. In this first of two volumes, Lynn Japinga acquaints us with the women of the Old Testament. From flawed heroes like Ruth and Rahab to fierce fighters like Deborah and Jael to tragic characters like Jephthah's daughter and the unnamed concubine of the book of Judges, readers will encounter a wealth of foremothers in the faith in all their messy, yet redeemable, humanity. This Bible study introduces and retells every female character who contributes to one or more Old Testament stories, diving deeply into what each woman's story means for us today with questions for reflection and discussion.

Download or read book Coquettes Wives and Widows written by Marcie Ray and published by Eastman Studies in Music. This book was released on 2020 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revelatory study of how composers and dramatists of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France criticized and trivialized independent women in their portrayals of them in works of theater and opera.

Download or read book Saturday Night Widows written by Becky Aikman and published by Crown. This book was released on 2013-12-31 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this transcendent and infectiously wise memoir, Becky Aikman—a widow, too young, too modern to accept the role—forms an unlikely group with five other young widows, each seeking a way forward in a strange and disquieting world. A warm, witty, and compassionate guide on this journey, Aikman explores surprising new discoveries about how people are transformed by adversity, learning the value of new experiences, humor, and friendship. The Saturday Night Widows band together to bring these ideas to life, striking out on ever more far-flung adventures and navigating the universal perils of finding love and meaning. Theirs is a transporting true story of six marriages, six heartbreaks, and one shared beginning—an inspiring testament to what friends can achieve when they hold each other up. Saturday Night Widows is the rare book that will make you laugh, think, and remind yourself that despite the utter unpredictability and occasional tragedy of life, it is also precious, fragile, and often more joyous than we recognize. Now with Extra Libris material, including a reader’s guide and bonus content

Download or read book The Widows of Moon River written by Amelia Archer and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-12-31 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While helping a young wounded Iraq veteran and his wife, two widowed people discover that there's still a lot of life left to enjoy each other and find new interests to pursue. Romp with them through some humorous doings and celebrate when they find one another in the lush background of Savannah, Georgia, proving you're never too old for romance!

Download or read book Luke Widows Judges and Stereotypes written by Febbie C. Dickerson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-08-01 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biblical narratives are not simply sacred stories for religious communities: They are stories that provide transformative insight into cultural biases. By putting historical criticism and reception history into dialogue with womanist biblical hermeneutics, Luke, Widows, Judges, and Stereotypes offers a provocative reading of Jesus’ parable about a widow who confronts a judge and obtains what she seeks by means of physical threat. Rather than simply reading the widow as the model for “one who prays always and does not lose heart” (Luke 18:1), Dickerson shows that read in the context of Luke’s wider narrative, the widow, domesticated and robbed both of her agency and moral ambiguity, is more likely demanding vengeance instead of justice. Likewise, rather than simply reading the judge as one "who neither feared God nor had respect for people" (Luke 18:2), Dickerson argues that the judge is both an ideal man and one who compromises standards of ancient masculinity. Then, reading both the widow and judge through African American stereotypes (Mammy, Jezebel, Sapphire, Cool Black Male, Master-Pastor, and Foolish Judge) that are used to degrade, debase, and control, and reading them into and in light of the parable, Dickerson demonstrates how the parable calls into question these stereotypes thereby producing new liberative readings.