Whistling Woman (2012) (edit title/settings)

X-Ray contributed characters to Whistling Woman 3 days ago. (What's this?)

• Added a character: Lucinda

Shelfari edited the characters of Whistling Woman Monday, January 7, 2013.

• Edited a character: GreenGranny Daniels: Bessie's 2-year old brother.

Cyndi Tillery Hodges edited the table of contents of Whistling Woman Friday, January 4, 2013.

• 1. Fall 1895 - A whistling woman and a crowing hen never come to a very good end.
  2. Fall 1895 - She's enough to make a preacher cuss.
  3. Spring 1896 - Chugged full.
  4. Fall 1896 - Be like the old lady who fell out of the wagon.
  5. Fall 1897 - She looks like she was inside the outhouse when the lightning struck.
  6. Fall 1897 - Trying fortunes.
  7. Fall 1897 - That girl's just naturally horizontal.
  8. Spring 1899 - That boy's more slippery than snot on a glass doorknob.
  9. Spring 1899 - Mad enough to spit in a wildcat's eye.
  10. Spring 1899 - He looks like something the dog's been keeping under the porch.
  11. Spring 1899 - Like two peas in a pod.
  12. Late Spring 1899 - In high cotton.
  13. Fall 1899 - The trail where they cried.
  14. Late Fall 1899 - Barking up the wrong tree.
  15. Late Fall 1899 - She's resting at peace in the marble orchard.
  16. Winter 1899 - Summer 1900 - Scared as a sinner in a cyclone.
  17. Summer 1900 - He couldn't pour water out of a boot with a hole in the toe and directions on the heel.
  18. Summer 1900 - He's so windy he could blow up an onion sack.
  19. Fall 1900 - Shucking corn.
  20. Fall 1900 - He's so useless if he had a third hand he'd need another pocket to put it in.
  21. Winter 1900 - Breaking up Christmas.
  22. Winter 1901 - A sight for sore eyes.

Cyndi Tillery Hodges edited the reading level of Whistling Woman Friday, January 4, 2013.

• Adults - Suitable for mid-grade and up

Cyndi Tillery Hodges edited the links to supplemental material of Whistling Woman Friday, January 4, 2013.

• Added a link: Whistling Woman (http://whistlingwoman.wordpress.com/) :

Cyndi Tillery Hodges edited the first edition of Whistling Woman Friday, January 4, 2013.

• changed the language: English
• changed the publisher: Spring Creek Press
• changed the country: US
• changed the publication date: 2012
• changed the ISBN: 978-1-937449-11-7
• changed the page count: 248

Cyndi Tillery Hodges edited the characters of Whistling Woman Friday, January 4, 2013.

• Edited a character: GrannyRoy Scott Daniels: Bessie's 12-year old brother.

Cyndi Tillery Hodges edited the characters of Whistling Woman Friday, January 4, 2013.

• Edited a character: CindyCindy Lucinda)

Shelfari edited the characters of Whistling Woman Friday, January 4, 2013.

• Edited a character: Miss CordyCordy Etheridge: A widow-woman and the town soothsayer, though some call her a witch. Most of the people in town are scared of her, as is Bessie, until Bessie sets aside her trepidations and gets to know her.
• Edited a character: Mr. Fletcher Elliott: The young man Bessie's cousin Caroline says Bessie is destined to marry. Bessie is skeptical, and despite herself, fascinated with Fletcher, who works at the lumbermill in town.
• Edited a character: RoyGranny Daniels: Bessie's 12-year old brother.
• Added a character: Caroline Elliott
• Added a character: Uncle Ned
• Added a character: Cindy
• Added a character: Mr. Green
• Added a character: Dr. Hudson
• Added a character: Frances Ann
• Added a character: Amelia Phillips
• Added a character: Mr. Grady Collins
• Added a character: Miss Julia Phillips
• Added a character: Tommy Bearing
• Added a character: John Rumbough
• Added a character: Hattie Bristow
• Added a character: J. A. Keith
• Added a character: Vashti Lee Daniels
• Added a character: Juliette Dorland
• Added a character: Pastor Bishop
• Added a character: Sally Gibson
• Added a character: Mr. Sawyer
• Added a character: Linton
• Added a character: Luther
• Added a character: Mama
• Added a character: Mr. Fore
• Added a character: Papa 's
• Added a character: Ellie Henson
• Added a character: Mr. Sullivan
• Added a character: Doc Willoughby
• Added a character: Hubert
• Added a character: Mr. Dunlap
• Added a character: Aunt Belle
• Added a character: Aunt Nell
• Added a character: Gertrude Walland
• Added a character: Mayor Hill
• Added a character: Arthur Ramsey
• Added a character: Mr. Gentry
• Added a character: Bob
• Added a character: Homer Stanton
• Added a character: Hunter
• Added a character: Roy Scott
• Added a character: Robert
• Added a character: Dr. Luke Dorland
• Added a character: Alice Hill
• Added a character: Mrs. Aiken

Cyndi Tillery Hodges edited the description of Whistling Woman Saturday, December 29, 2012.

• In the waning years of the 19th century, Bessie Daniels grows up in the small town of Hot Springs in western North Carolina. Secure in the love of her father, bothered withresistant to her mother’s desire that she be a proper Southern belle, Bessie’s determined to forge her own way in life. Or, as her Cherokee great-grandmother, Elisi, puts it, a whistling woman. Life, however, has a few surprises for her. First, there’s Papa carrying home a dead man, which seems to invite Death for an extended visit in their home. And shortly before she graduates from Dorland Institute, there’s another death, this one closer to her heart. But Death isn’t through with her yet. Proving another of Elisi’s sayings, death comes in threes, It strikes yet again, taking someone Bessie has recently learned to appreciate and cherish, leaving her to struggle with a family that’s threatening to come apart at the seams. Even her beloved Papa seems to be turning into another person, someone Bessie disagrees with more often than not, and someone she isn’t even sure she can continue to love, much less idolize as she had during her childhood. And when Papa makes a decision that costs the life of a new friend, the course of Bessie’s heart is changed forever.