02630cam a2200433 i 4500 2580963384 TxAuBib 20251004120000.0 250722s2025||||||||||||d|||||||||||eng|u 2025934475 9798891645936 (OCoLC)1528022150 TxAuBib rda Kirkpatrick, Jane, author. Across the Crying Sands [Large Print] / Jane Kirkpatrick. Center Point Large Print edition. Thorndike, Maine : Center Point Large Print, 2025. 423 pages : maps ; 23 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Women of Cannon Beach ; 1 Regular print version previously published by: Revell. Includes discussion questions and author's note with background historical information. Includes bibliographical references. "In 1888 Mary Edwards Gerritse is a cheerful, well-read, witty, and confident young woman who spends as much time as possible outdoors on the rugged Oregon coast where she and her husband, John, are making a home. The two are a formidable pair, working hard to prove up their homesteading claim and build a family. But as Mary faces the challenge of young motherhood and struggles with questions about her family of origin, she finds the fearless girl she once was slipping away. Life feels less like the adventure she thought it would be and more like a daily struggle. When Mary loses the baby she's carrying (and nearly her own life in the process), she finds an unconventional way to bring the joy back into her life: by taking over a treacherous postal route. As Mary becomes the first female mail carrier to traverse the cliff-hugging mountain trails and remote 'crying sands' beach, with its changing tides and sudden squalls, she recaptures the spark she lost and discovers that a life without risk is no life at all."-- Provided by publisher. 20251004. Letter carriers Oregon Fiction. Self-realization in women Fiction. Wives Psychology Fiction. Frontier and pioneer life Oregon Fiction. Life change events Fiction. Large type books. fast Oregon History Fiction. Religious fiction. lcgft Biographical fiction. lcgft Historical fiction. lcgft Women of Cannon Beach ; 1.