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Author
Publisher
Liberatio Protocol
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
231 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The former presidential press secretary chronicles her journey to the White House, offering never-before-told anecdotes about what really happened within the Trump administration, and how her faith got her through some of the most high stakes moments in the West Wing.
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In Anne Lamott's new book, she confronts the harsh truth that many of us grapple with every day: How can we recapture the confidence we once had in the world and in the future as we stumble through the dark times that seem increasingly bleak? As bad news piles up every day -- from climate crises to threats to democracy to daily assaults on civility -- how can we mere mortals cope? Where, Lamott asks, "do we start to get our joy and hope and our faith...
Author
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
ix, 271 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Describes the author's Amish childhood, his departure from his community at age seventeen, his struggles to return to the Amish way of life, and his final acceptance of his own identity and his past.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
"Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches and sleeping with her "head-for-the-hills bag." In the summer she stewed herbs for her mother, a midwife and healer, and in the winter she salvaged in her father's junkyard. The family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure...
Author
Publisher
Revell
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
245 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
She looked into my eyes and blinked hers slowly and deliberately, like a stroke victim, to show me that although she couldn't speak, she understood what I was saying to her. I stroked her hair softly. 'I know you're in there, honey,' I told her. 'We'll get you out.'" Despite the horror of seeing fifteen-month-old Elizabeth slip away into autism, her mother knew that her bright little girl was still in there. When Elizabeth eventually learned to communicate,...