Dec 02
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By Janet Grace Riehl
A beautiful collection filled with 90 poems, 190 pages, 25 photos and tribute to a loved family.
Sightlines offers a frank portrait of a family not only coming to terms with its grief, but also celebrating its past and difficult present. Although deeply personal, these poems strike poignant and universal chords. They offer a vision of life filled with little treasures that carry us back to what is truly important in our lives.
As the author of this book, I want to share some of the creative process behind writing Sightlines. The book evolved over a year, following a secluded retreat, in response to my sister’s death in a car accident.
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Dec 01
By Kathleen A. Ernst
With her father gone to join the Yankee troops and her best friend, Ben, sympathizing with the Confederates, fifteen year-old Hannah finds her world torn apart by the Civil War. Then her mother suddenly dies. Now responsible for holding the young family together, Hannah makes the difficult decision to leave her beloved Cumberland Mountain with her brother and sisters and set out on the long and dangerous journey to Nashville, in search of their only living relative. Their quest to reclaim their family leads them into the very heart of the Civil War, and could cost them their lives.
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Dec 01
How did “Sightlines: A Poet’s Diary” –an inspirational down-home family love story beyond death–come to be written? Author Janet Grace Riehl shares the tragic events that triggered “Sightlines” and how “Sightlines” continues to heal and bless.
