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Author: Silas House Publisher: Algonquin Books ISBN: 1616202971 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 305
Book Description
On a bone-chilling New Year's Day, when all the mountain roads are slick with ice, Clay's mother, Anneth, insists on leaving her husband. She packs her things, and with three-year-old Clay in tow, they inch their way toward her hometown along the treacherous mountain roads. That journey ends in the death of Clay's mother. It's a day that comes to haunt her only son, who's left without a family and a history. This is the story of how Clay Sizemore, a coal miner in love with his town but unsure of his place within it, finds a family to call his own. And it's the story of the people who become part of the life he shapes: Aunt Easter, always filled with a sense of foreboding and bound to her faith above all; Uncle Paul, quietly producing quilt after quilt; Dreama, beautiful and flighty; Evangeline, the untameable daughter of a famous gospel singer; and Alma, the fiddler whose song wends its way into Clay's heart. Together, they all help Clay to fashion a quilt of a life from what treasured pieces are around him. Authentic and moving, Clay's Quilt is both the story of a young man's journey and of Appalachian people struggling to hold on to their heritage.
Author: Silas House Publisher: Algonquin Books ISBN: 1616202971 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 305
Book Description
On a bone-chilling New Year's Day, when all the mountain roads are slick with ice, Clay's mother, Anneth, insists on leaving her husband. She packs her things, and with three-year-old Clay in tow, they inch their way toward her hometown along the treacherous mountain roads. That journey ends in the death of Clay's mother. It's a day that comes to haunt her only son, who's left without a family and a history. This is the story of how Clay Sizemore, a coal miner in love with his town but unsure of his place within it, finds a family to call his own. And it's the story of the people who become part of the life he shapes: Aunt Easter, always filled with a sense of foreboding and bound to her faith above all; Uncle Paul, quietly producing quilt after quilt; Dreama, beautiful and flighty; Evangeline, the untameable daughter of a famous gospel singer; and Alma, the fiddler whose song wends its way into Clay's heart. Together, they all help Clay to fashion a quilt of a life from what treasured pieces are around him. Authentic and moving, Clay's Quilt is both the story of a young man's journey and of Appalachian people struggling to hold on to their heritage.
Author: Ellen Marshall Publisher: ISBN: 9781616739249 Category : Polymer clay craft Languages : en Pages : 132
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"This book will teach you how to create a wonderful array of unique surface designs, each made by combining day with other media such as inks, paints, and powders, and other tools such as stamps, brushes, stencils, brayers, and wire. Starting with a comprehensive overview onworking with day, the book then offers more than 100 surface recipes and variations with complete details about how the effect was achieved."-- Back cover.
Author: Velda Newman Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc ISBN: 1571208836 Category : Crafts & Hobbies Languages : en Pages : 84
Book Description
Textile artist Velda Newman helps you find your own path to creativity and self-expression using quilts as your canvas. Take inspiration from nature, thenlearn the three basic design elements - color, shape, and texture - and use them to translate the world around you into amazing works of quilted art! 6 study projects help you learn 6 different techniques, such as shape and texture stitching, using cheesecloth for texture, how to use paint and watercolor pencils, and more. Advice and tips for working with the different mediums. Learn to bring your instincts and intuition to designing quilts; you'll look at the world with new eyes and stretch your skills and talents as you compose richer, more interesting quilts. Velda's incredible quilts will inspire your own creativity
Author: Silas House Publisher: Algonquin Books ISBN: 1616209364 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 369
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“A novel for our time, a courageous and necessary book.” —Jennifer Haigh, author of Heat and Light In this stunning novel about judgment, courage, heartbreak, and change, author Silas House wrestles with the limits of belief and the infinite ways to love. In the aftermath of a flood that washes away much of a small Tennessee town, evangelical preacher Asher Sharp offers shelter to two gay men. In doing so, he starts to see his life anew—and risks losing everything: his wife, locked into her religious prejudices; his congregation, which shuns Asher after he delivers a passionate sermon in defense of tolerance; and his young son, Justin, caught in the middle of what turns into a bitter custody battle. With no way out but ahead, Asher takes Justin and flees to Key West, where he hopes to find his brother, Luke, whom he’d turned against years ago after Luke came out. And it is there, at the southernmost point of the country, that Asher and Justin discover a new way of thinking about the world, and a new way of understanding love. Southernmost is a tender and affecting book, a meditation on love and its consequences.
Author: Marina Druker Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc ISBN: 1607055295 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 92
Book Description
Every doll deserves to be unique Discover the joy of making one-of-a-kind art dolls from head to toe. Learn how to build wire armatures, find out how easy it is to work with air-dry clays, and also add charming fabric sculptures to your doll-making repertoire.
Author: Neela Vaswani Publisher: Candlewick Press ISBN: 0763657476 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 303
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In this extraordinary novel in letters, an Indian immigrant girl in New York City and a Kentucky coal miner's son find strength and perspective by sharing their true selves across the miles. Meena and River have a lot in common: fathers forced to work away from home to make ends meet, grandmothers who mean the world to them, and faithful dogs. But Meena is an Indian immigrant girl living in New York City’s Chinatown, while River is a Kentucky coal miner’s son. As Meena’s family studies for citizenship exams and River’s town faces devastating mountaintop removal, this unlikely pair become pen pals, sharing thoughts and, as their camaraderie deepens, discovering common ground in their disparate experiences. With honesty and humor, Meena and River bridge the miles between them, creating a friendship that inspires bravery and defeats cultural misconceptions. Narrated in two voices, each voice distinctly articulated by a separate gifted author, this chronicle of two lives powerfully conveys the great value of being and having a friend and the joys of opening our lives to others who live beneath the same sun.
Author: Silas House Publisher: Algonquin Books ISBN: 1565123077 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 305
Book Description
Clay Sizemore, a coal miner in love, searches his family history for clues about who he is, uncovering a dramatic story woven into the fabric of his uncle's quilts. A first novel.
Author: Silas House Publisher: Algonquin Books ISBN: 1616202912 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 285
Book Description
When Silas House made his debut with Clay's Quilt last year, it touched a nerve not just in his home state (where it quickly became a bestseller), but all across the country. Glowing reviews-from USA Today (House is letter-perfect with his first novel), to the Philadelphia Inquirer (Compelling. . . . House knows what's important and reminds us of the value of family and home, love and loyalty), to the Mobile Register (Poetic, haunting), and everywhere in between-established him as a writer to watch. His second novel won't disappoint. Set in 1917, A PARCHMENT OF LEAVES tells the story of Vine, a beautiful Cherokee woman who marries a white man, forsaking her family and their homeland to settle in with his people and make a home in the heart of the mountains. Her mother has strange forebodings that all will not go well, and she's right. Vine is viewed as an outsider, treated with contempt by other townspeople. Add to that her brother-in-law's fixation on her, and Vine's life becomes more complicated than she could have ever imagined. In the violent turn of events that ensues, she learns what it means to forgive others and, most important, how to forgive herself. As haunting as an old-time ballad, A PARCHMENT OF LEAVES is filled with the imagery, dialect, music, and thrumming life of the Kentucky mountains. For Silas House, whose great-grandmother was Cherokee, this novel is also a tribute to the family whose spirit formed him.
Author: Jean Biddick Publisher: ISBN: 9781574326598 Category : Machine quilting Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
Create your own machine-pieced quilt masterpiece! Inspired by the stunning mosaic floors of the Truro Cathedral in England, Jean has developed piecing techniques for everyone to re-create those fabulous designs in fabric. Her clear, step-by-step instructions will guide the quiltmaker through the entire process. Starting with a simple star design, Jean shows you how to draft directly onto freezer paper and mark, number, and use the pattern to sew perfectly matched pieces. Nine stunning projects ranging from simple to detailed and from small to large are designed to appeal to quilters of all skill levels. Using Jean's meticulous freezer-paper piecing instructions will result in perfectly flat quilts. rfectly flat quilts. A CD of master patterns is included.
Author: A Frank Corso Mystery Publisher: Archway Publishing ISBN: 1665713992 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 431
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Frank Corso runs his own Wall Street research consultancy and has an unusual ability to make friends. A forty year old bachelor living in New York, he is getting increasingly comfortable to a high-life marked by eroding moral virtue. On a business trip to visit a New Orleans based company, he gets more than he bargained for. In the weeks before Christmas of 2004, he is recruited by his ex-girlfriend to find her friend, a young mystic, who has disappeared. New Orleans is a city in Transition. The economy has been improving post the dot com crash, and local government and business leaders are leveraging the city’s crown jewel, The French Quarter. The haven for tourists also has a dark side. The city is marred by political corruption and violence. In 2004, it has the distinction of being the murder capital of the United States. Corso soon finds The Big Easy culture known for its architecture, food and music, filled with a rich marinade of diverse and unusual characters. Befriending people with deep roots in the shallow clays of the Mississippi River, his life is about to change course. He is about to discover the secrets of...The Divine Travel Agency.
Author: Silas House
Author: Silas House
Author: Ellen Marshall
Author: Velda Newman
Author: Silas House
Author: Marina Druker
Author: Neela Vaswani
Author: Silas House
Author: Silas House
Author: Jean Biddick
Author: A Frank Corso Mystery