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Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
x, 276 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Description
In this hilarious, tongue-in-cheek memoir, writer, actress, and gorgeous stand up comedian Elna Baker tells what it's like to be the Mormon "Tina Fey"--the girl who distresses her family when she chooses NYU over BYU; the girl who's cultivating an oxymoronic identity as a bold, educated, modern, funny, proper, abstinent, religious stand-up comic, equal parts wholesome and hot.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
x, 438 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 24 cm.
Description
"In this shocking, timely, and inspirational memoir, Elissa Wall details her life growing up in the polygamous Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints religious sect, being forced into an unwanted marriage at the age of 14, and her courage to testify against FLDS leader Warren Jeffs."--From publisher description.
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Formats
Description
"In Breaking Free, Rachel blows the lid off this taciturn community made famous by John Krakauer?s bestselling Under the Banner of Heaven to offer a harrowing look at her life with Warren Jeffs, and the years of physical and emotional abuse she suffered. Sexually assaulted, compelled into an arranged polygamous marriage, locked away in "houses of hiding" as punishment for perceived transgressions, and physically separated from her children, Rachel,...
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
342 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
"The true story of one girl's coming-of-age in a polygamist family. Ruth Wariner was the thirty-ninth of her father's forty-two children. Growing up on a farm in rural Mexico, where authorities turn a blind eye to the practices of her community, Ruth lives in a ramshackle house without indoor plumbing or electricity. At church, preachers teach that God will punish the wicked by destroying the world and that women can only ascend to Heaven by entering...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
294 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Description
"As the self-proclaimed prophet of the Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints, a sect of Mormonism based in southern Utah, Warren Jeffs held sway over thousands of followers for nearly a decade. In addition to coercing young girls into polygamous marriages with older men, Jeffs reputedly took scores of wives himself. The media were shunned, creating a hidden community where polygamy was prized above all else. But in 2007, after a two-year FBI manhunt, Jeffs...
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