Vigil

Vigil
Author: Pamela Heinrich MacPherson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2016-09-01
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9780692777619

Vigil: The Poetry of Presence, a collection of sixty-five poems, is written from the perspective of a seasoned hospice volunteer processing her varied experiences while being present and bearing witness to the sacred moments of dying. These unedited, tender and insightful poems, taken from the author's personal journal, are ready to be savored.

Growing Old in the Early Republic

Growing Old in the Early Republic
Author: Paula A. Scott
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2019-11-14
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1317731417

The focus for this study is Connecticut and the city of Hartford. The text explores different themes and experiences of the elderly in Connecticut in the years between 1790 and 1830 The purpose of the book is to record and to illuminate the spiritual and emotional aspects of being elderly, the economic consequences of growing old, and the ways social experience changed with advancing years.

The Long Journey of Noah Webster

The Long Journey of Noah Webster
Author: Richard M. Rollins
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2016-11-11
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1512805661

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

Nominations

Nominations
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human Resources
Publisher:
Total Pages: 166
Release: 1986
Genre:
ISBN:

Grant Us Courage

Grant Us Courage
Author: Randall Herbert Balmer
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 169
Release: 1996
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0195100867

Balmer, the author and host of PBS's Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory, offers a vivid, first-hand look at mainline Protestantism at the close of the century. He crisscrossed America to visit 12 churches that represent important strands of Christianity in America, resulting in a remarkable narrative of our nation.