| A Mending at the Edge Contributor(s): Kirkpatrick, Jane (Author) |
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ISBN: 1578569796 ISBN-13: 9781578569793 Publisher: Waterbrook Press OUR PRICE: $14.39 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2008 Annotation: "Of all the things I left in Willapa, hope is what I missed the most." So begins this story of one woman's restoration from personal grief to the meaning of community. Based on the life of German-American Emma Wagner Giesy, the only woman sent to the Oregon Territory in the 1850s to help found a communal society, award-winning author Jane Kirkpatrick shows how landscape, relationships, spirituality and artistry poignantly reflect a woman's desire to weave a unique and meaningful legacy from the threads of an ordinary life. While set in the historical past, it's a story for our own time answering the question: Can threads of an isolated life weave a legacy of purpose in community? |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Christian - Historical - Fiction | Historical - General - Fiction | Biographical |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2007041707 |
| Series: Change and Cherish Historical |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 5.1" W x 7.9" (0.95 lbs) 416 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Christian - Geographic Orientation - Oregon - Chronological Period - 1851-1899 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Of all the things I left in Willapa, hope is what I missed the most. So begins this story of one woman's restoration from personal grief to the meaning of community. Based on the life of German-American Emma Wagner Giesy, the only woman sent to the Oregon Territory in the 1850s to help found a communal society, award-winning author Jane Kirkpatrick shows how landscape, relationships, spirituality and artistry poignantly reflect a woman's desire to weave a unique and meaningful legacy from the threads of an ordinary life. While set in the historical past, it's a story for our own time answering the question: Can threads of an isolated life weave a legacy of purpose in community? |