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IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 19
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
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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. Her father distrusted the medical establishment, so Tara never saw a doctor or nurse....
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English
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In the 1970s, a young man, eager to experience life like Thoreau and Walden, takes his wife and moves to a rural Idaho log cabin in this memoir.
When Bill Gruber left Philadelphia for graduate school in Idaho, he and his wife decided to experience true rural living. His longing for the solitude and natural beauty that Thoreau found on Walden Pond led him to buy an abandoned log cabin and its surrounding forty acres in Alder Creek, a town considered...
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English
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A love letter to the working dog, this heartwarming memoir about life on a sheep farm captures the joys and heartbreak of loving a pet.
Patti Sherlock's working relationship with her Border Collie, Duncan, got her through the ups and downs of sixteen years on a sheep farm in Idaho. During that time, Duncan was an unwavering companion through the destruction of Patti's marriage, her children inevitably leaving home one by one, and eventually, her...
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Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Español
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"Westover ha escrito una historia extraordinaria--su propia historia--una formidable epopeya, desgarradora e inspiradora, sobre la posibilidad de ver la vida a trav©♭s de otros ojos, y de cambiar"--
"Westover has written an extraordinary story--her own story--a formidable epic, heartbreaking and inspiring, about the possibility of seeing life through other eyes, and of changing"--
Una "memoria sobre una niña que, al no ir a la escuela, deja...
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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Drawing from extensive journal entries, Laree Westover shares events in her life that show her tenacity in moving forward with faith--faith in herself, her husband, and her God... Family happiness seemed to be frustrated as her husband grappled with chronic health issues and serious accidents. That, along with her own health challenges and those of her children, drew her into studying alternative health care modalities in search of solutions.......
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Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
A memoir in which the author discusses her experiences as a high school graduate in 1976 who rebelled against her domineering, strictly Pentecostal father by striking out on her own, and shares the story of how she fell in with a jaded Vietnam veteran who abused her both physically and mentally until she finally gained the courage to leave.
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Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Traces the author's experiences as a child born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, describing her participation in her family's paranoid stockpiling activities and her resolve to educate herself well enough to earn acceptance into a prestigious university and the unfamiliar world beyond.
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Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Seen by the media in 2015 as a white woman who had knowingly been passing as black, the author shares her nuanced and complex story, from being a child of white evangelical parents to an NAACP chapter president and respected educator and activist who identified as black, forcing readers to reconsider race and identity,"--NoveList.
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