Winter Birds

Jamie Langston Turner

• Publisher: Bethany House Publishers
• Year: 2006
• eBook ISBN: 9781441261243

Plain and dutiful, Sophia Hess has lived most of her life without ever knowing genuine love. Her professor husband had married her for the convenience of having a typist for his scholarly papers. The discovery of a dark secret opens her eyes to the truth about her marriage and her husband.

Eventually nephew Patrick and his wife, Rachel, take Sophia into their home, and she observes from a careful distance their earnest faith and the simple gifts of kindness they generously bestow upon her and others-this in spite of an unthinkable tragedy they've suffered. Dare she unlock the door behind which she stalwartly conceals her broken heart?

An insightful and moving portrayal of the transforming power of love

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Endorsements
• Dedication
• Contents
• 1. Conscience Is But a Word That Cowards Use
• 2. The Whirligig of Time Brings in His Revenges
• 3. To Dive Into the Fire, to Ride on the Curled Clouds
• 4. Some Meteor That the Sun Exhales
• 5. The Wide World and All Her Fading Sweets
• 6. Vowing More Than the Perfection of Ten
• 7. A Foul and Pestilent Congregation of Vapors
• 8. As the Gentle Rain From Heaven
• 9. Against the Stormy Gusts of Winter’s Day
• 10. Honor Is a Mere Scutcheon
• 11. So Strong a Prop to Support So Weak a Burden
• 12. Men Must Endure Their Going Hence
• 13. Wipe Off the Dust That Hides Our Scepter’s Gilt
• 14. Second Childishness and Mere Oblivion
• 15. A Tattered Weed, of Small Worth Held
• 16. Like a Rich Armor, Worn in Heat of Day
• 17. O Tiger’s Heart Wrapped in a Woman’s Hide
• 18. Now, Music, Sound, and Sing Your Solemn Hymn
• 19. Like a Fair House Built on Another Man’s Ground
• 20. And Therefore Is Winged Cupid Painted Blind
• 21. And When He Falls, He Falls Like Lucifer
• 22. A Tide in the Affairs of Men
• 23. What’s Gone and What’s Past Help
• 24. Trifles Light As Air
• 25. That Makes These Odds All Even
• 26. The Web of Our Life Is of a Mingled Yarn
• 27. Home Art Gone and Taken Thy Wages
• 28. To Feed on Such Sweet Honey, and Kill the Bees
• 29. To Burn This Night With Torches
• 30. Stones Have Been Known to Move
• 31. The Thread of His Verbosity
• 32. No Other Tribute at Thy Hands
• 33. My Gracious Silence, Hail!
• About the Author
• Other Books by Author
• Back Cover