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Hard Hitting Stories From A Hard-Hit People
A true Appalachian family history of persecution, resilience, and remembrance.
by Ryan G Dingus · Released September 29, 2026
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From Ashes To God
A mother’s story of loss, remembrance, and hope rising from the ashes.
by GeorgeAnn Dingus
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From Ashes to God is a Christian memoir set against the rugged beauty of the Tennessee and Virginia mountains, a landscape deeply loved by Ryan Dingus, whose curiosity about Appalachian history was as much a part of him as his humor, intelligence, and light. When GeorgeAnn Dingus lost Ryan in a tragic house fire, the journey that followed led through unanswered questions and a grief that refused to let go.
Yet this is not only a story of loss. It is a tribute to Ryan’s character, faith, the mountains he loved, including a tender account of his life with autism. With honesty and heart, Dingus writes about motherhood, disability, grief, and the presence of God in the darkest places. This faith- based memoir speaks to grieving families, parents of children and adults on the spectrum, and readers drawn to stories of hope, healing, and God’s faithfulness in suffering.
For readers of Christian memoir, Appalachian stories, grief and loss, and faith tested by fire.
Book details
- Publisher
- Shady Grove Publishing
- Published
- October 14, 2026
- Pages
- 178
- Size
- 5.5 × 8.5 in
- Hardcover ISBN
- 979-8996650149
- Paperback ISBN
- 979-8996650125
In these pages
- Christian memoir
- Grief and loss
- Motherhood
- Life with autism
- Unanswered prayer
- The Appalachian mountains
- God’s faithfulness
Inside the book
What you’ll find
Faith tested by fire
The questions no mother wants to face, and prayers answered in the most unexpected ways.
The page that survived
A single burned page, found near the ruins months later, that gave this book its title.
How Ryan lived
His humor, his gifts, and his light, with a tender account of his life with autism.
The mountains he loved
Family memories, Ryan’s own words, and the Appalachian places that were part of him.
A note from GeorgeAnn
I wrote this for anyone who has known profound loss, struggled with unanswered prayer, or wondered whether God is still near when life no longer makes sense.
— GeorgeAnn
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