Carved in Stone, Etched in Memory

Carved in Stone, Etched in Memory
Author: Amila Buturovic
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 359
Release: 2016-03-03
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1317169565

Despite the recent history of violence and destruction, Bosnia-Herzegovina holds a positive place in history, marked by a continuous interweaving of different religious cultures. The most expansive period in that regard is the Ottoman rule that lasted here nearly five centuries. As many Bosnians accepted Islam, the process of Islamization took on different directions and meanings, only some of which are recorded in the official documents. This book underscores the importance of material culture, specifically gravestones, funerary inscriptions and images, in tracing and understanding more subtle changes in Bosnia’s religious landscape and the complex cultural shifts and exchange between Christianity and Islam in this area. Gravestones are seen as cultural spaces that inscribe memory, history, and heritage in addition to being texts that display, in image and word, first-hand information about the deceased. In tackling these topics and ideas, the study is situated within several contextual, theoretical, and methodological frameworks. Raising questions about religious identity, history, and memory, the study unpacks the cultural and historical value of gravestones and other funerary markers and bolsters their importance in understanding the region’s complexity and improving its visibility in global discussions around multiculturalism and religious pluralism. Drawing upon several disciplinary methods, the book has much to offer anyone looking for a better understanding of the intersection of Christianity and Islam, as well as those with an interest in death studies.

Etched in Stone

Etched in Stone
Author: Lucy Zeh
Publisher: Eclipse Press
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2000
Genre: Nature
ISBN:

A fascinating historical tour of 475 Thoroughbred memorials commemorating legendary Thoroughbred racehorses buried in Central Kentucky. The memorials, dating from the 1870s to present day, range from simple markers to elaborate and ornate cemeteries. Zeh brings to life the names carved in granite, from Domino, the great 19th Century champion, to Secretariat and Mr. Prospector. Richly illustrated with over 100 photographs.

Death Where the Bad Rocks Live

Death Where the Bad Rocks Live
Author: C. M. Wendelboe
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2012-09-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 110158145X

FBI agent Manny Tanno thought he had left his tribe and the Pine Ridge Reservation behind him years ago. But now with a cold case unearthed in the hot plains sun, he knows that the past never really goes away. In Badlands National Park, there is a desolate area the Lakota refer to as the Stronghold. General Custer called it hell on earth. During World War II, the Army Air Corps used it as a bombing range. At the end of the war, many unexploded ordnances were swallowed up in its sweltering sands. But that’s not all that’s buried there… Sixty-five years after the war, the Sioux tribe has contracted an ordnance removal company to defuse any remaining ammunition in the Stronghold. When the company finds a human arm near a live bomb, Tanno and the Tribal police are called to investigate. As the body is exhumed, two more are discovered. The remains are close together, but the murders were decades apart—and the story behind them is about to blow up…

Etched in Stone

Etched in Stone
Author: Ryan Coonerty
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2007
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781426200267

Full-color, illustrated photographs that describe fifty inscribed monuments from across America that pays tribute to events and people throughout the nation's history, including the Lincoln Memorial, World War II, Korean, and Vietnam memorials, the Murrah Federal Building display in Oklahoma City, and September 11 memorials.

Etched in Stone

Etched in Stone
Author: Dimitri Eann
Publisher: ImaJinn Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2000-06
Genre: Egypt
ISBN: 9781893896123

From childhood, archaeologist Jayna Monroe has been obsessed with all things Egyptian. Joining an archaeological dig in search of a mysterious Egyptian pharaoh, Jayna discovers the Great King Amony's tomb. But the thrill of her discovery is short lived as Jayna becomes trapped inside the four-thousand-year-old burial chamber. As she lay dying, Jayna reads the hieroglyphs and realizes Amony was brutally murdered by his green-eyed Queen. What had Amony done to cause his wife to kill him? Death claims Jayna before she can find an answer in the ancient pictures. Only Jayna hasn't died. She's been swept back in time to Ancient Egypt where she learns she not only inhabits the murderous, green-eyed Queen's body, but, unlike the Queen, Jayna's both physically and emotionally drawn to Amony. But does she dare use the Queen's body to satisfy her own desires, even if by doing so she can save Amony's life? Caught up in the Queen's search for vengeance and court treachery, Jayna soon wonders if there's more going on than she'd first suspected. Has she really been thrown back in time? Or has she been drawn back to a previous life to kill the man she'll love forever? As Jayna searches for the answers, she finds herself fighting for her own life as well as Amony's. But can she change a past that for four thousand years has been...Etched in Stone.

Etched in Shadows

Etched in Shadows
Author: KG MacGregor
Publisher: Bella Books
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2013-11-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1594938393

For 39-year-old Johnelle Morrissey, the American Dream is a successful career in medical technology, a stately home in historic Charleston, South Carolina, and happy times with the people she loves most—her husband Dwight, their teenage son Ian and her oldest friend Alice Choate. That dream shatters on an airport runway when her plane goes down, leaving her with only clouded memories of her former life. Devastated by the tragedy, Alice teams with the family to help Johnelle recover. For hours on end Alice shares memories of the moments that formed their friendship over the years, but she holds back one secret—that she’s been in love with Johnelle for as long as she can remember. Johnelle struggles to reassemble her past—college life, her wedding day and the joys of raising her son. Once her physical injuries heal, her family expects life to go back to the way it was. But the love she must have once felt for Dwight remains deeply shadowed, eclipsed by yearning for a new life…with Alice.

Death's End

Death's End
Author: Cixin Liu
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 605
Release: 2016-09-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0765377101

Mutually assured destruction has led to decades of peace between humanity and the Trisolarans, but a new force is awakening and this delicate balance can no longer hold... Half a century after the Doomsday Battle, the uneasy balance of Dark Forest Deterrence keeps the Trisolaran invaders at bay. Earth enjoys unprecedented prosperity due to the infusion of Trisolaran knowledge. With human science advancing daily and the Trisolarans adopting Earth culture, it seems that the two civilizations will soon be able to co-exist peacefully as equals without the terrible threat of mutually assured annihilation. But the peace has also made humanity complacent. Cheng Xin, an aerospace engineer from the early twenty-first century, awakens from hibernation in this new age. She brings with her knowledge of a long-forgotten program dating from the beginning of the Trisolar Crisis, and her very presence may upset the delicate balance between two worlds. Will humanity reach for the stars or die in its cradle? Death's End is the New York Times bestselling conclusion to Cixin Liu's tour-de-force series that began with The Three-Body Problem. "The War of the Worlds for the twenty-first century . . . Packed with a sense of wonder." --The Wall Street Journal "A meditation on technology, progress, morality, extinction, and knowledge that doubles as a cosmos- in-the-balance thriller." --NPR The Remembrance of Earth's Past Trilogy The Three-Body Problem The Dark Forest Death's End Other Books Ball Lightning (forthcoming)

A Hall of Mirrors

A Hall of Mirrors
Author: Robert Stone
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 422
Release: 1997
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780395860281

Rheinhardt, a disk jockey and failed musician, rolls into New Orleans looking for work and another chance in life. What he finds is a woman physically and psychically damaged by the men in her past and a job that entangles him in a right-wing political movement. Peopled with civil rights activists, fanatical Christians, corrupt politicians, and demented Hollywood stars, A Hall of Mirrors vividly depicts the dark side of America that erupted in the sixties. To quote Wallace Stegner, "Stone writes like a bird, like an angel, like a circus barker, like a con man, like someone so high on pot that he is scraping his shoes on the stars."

Cutting for Stone

Cutting for Stone
Author: Abraham Verghese
Publisher: Random House India
Total Pages: 560
Release: 2012-05-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 8184001754

Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon. Orphaned by their mother’s death and their father’s disappearance and bound together by a preternatural connection and a shared fascination with medicine, the twins come of age as Ethiopia hovers on the brink of revolution. Moving from Addis Ababa to New York City and back again, Cutting for Stone is an unforgettable story of love and betrayal, medicine and ordinary miracles—and two brothers whose fates are forever intertwined.

Etched in Granite

Etched in Granite
Author: Mj Pettengill
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015-07-02
Genre: Abenaki women
ISBN: 9781503027961

"I smiled when I thought about him lyin' alone in that field with his bones picked clean. Live free or die... I finally understood." The year is 1872. The Civil War has ended,leaving behind a nation torn and economically depressed. "Etched in Granite" is a harrowing account of life and death on a rural New England Poor Farm - a tragic, yet triumphant novel that tells a story of courage, survival, and secrets surrounding lost love. The story is narrated by the three principal characters: Abigail, a young woman facing unimaginable hardship when agonizing circumstances and betrayal lead to life on the Poor Farm; Nellie, an Abenaki elder and healer enduring great loss while exhibiting resilience during a time of social, racial, and religious intolerance; and Silas, a spirited farm boss illuminating the conflicts of balancing a position of authority with his personal life while navigating small town politics. Their unforgettable stories are carefully woven together to reveal a hidden part of America's somber past. The novel was inspired by the author's discovery of a pauper cemetery in New Hampshire where there are 298 numbered graves. It is her mission to give voices to those silenced, to evoke images where they have been erased, and to replace the numbers with names.ETCHED IN GRANITE Historical Fiction Series BOOK ONE