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(0)Anne Lamott
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Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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From the bestselling author of Help, Thanks, Wow comes an honest, funny book about how to make sense of life’s chaos.
What do we do when life lurches out of balance? How can we reconnect to one other and to what’s truly important when evil and catastrophe seem inescapable?
These questions lie at the heart of Stitches, Anne Lamott’s captivating follow-up to her New York Times–bestselling Help,...
What do we do when life lurches out of balance? How can we reconnect to one other and to what’s truly important when evil and catastrophe seem inescapable?
These questions lie at the heart of Stitches, Anne Lamott’s captivating follow-up to her New York Times–bestselling Help,...
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Publisher
Catapult
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
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A stunning novel from the author of Bird by Bird: When a divorcée returns to her small California hometown, she encounters vivid memories of her eccentric family and coming-of-age in the 1960s.
“Anne Lamott is the two-way mirror of our hopes, insecurities, and cheating hearts . . . an astute observer of human nature.
—Amy Tan, New York Times–bestselling author of The...
“Anne Lamott is the two-way mirror of our hopes, insecurities, and cheating hearts . . . an astute observer of human nature.
—Amy Tan, New York Times–bestselling author of The...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
278 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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Rosie Ferguson is seventeen and ready to enjoy the summer before her senior year of high school. But as the school year draws to a close, there are disturbing signs that the life Rosie claims to be leading is a sham, and that Elizabeth's hopes for her daughter to remain immune from the pull of the darker impulses of drugs and alcohol are dashed. Now, Elizabeth is forced to confront the fact that Rosie has been lying to her, and that her deceptions...
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English
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"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...
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Español
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Cuando el hermano de Anne Lamott era un niño, estaba agobiado con un trabajo sobre pájaros que tenía que entregar al día siguiente. Su padre se sentó a su lado y le dijo: «Pájaro a pájaro, colega. Ve pájaro a pájaro». Esta anécdota da título a una fuente inagotable de inspiración: un bestseller desde su publicación, hace ya más de 25 años, y un clásico en todas las listas de libros sobre escritura.
Con un raro talento para combinar...
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Publisher
Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
286 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
From the bestselling author of Stitches and Help, Thanks, Wow comes her long-awaited collection of new and selected essays on hope, joy, and grace. Anne Lamott writes about faith, family, and community in essays that are both wise and irreverent. It's an approach that has become her trademark. Now in Small Victories, Lamott offers a new message of hope that celebrates the triumph of light over the darkness in our lives. Our victories over hardship...
10) Joe Jones
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Language
English
Description
Joe Jones is Anne Lamott's raucous novel of lives gathered around Jessie's Caf, the sort of broken-down waterfront dive one might expect to find in Steinbeck. Jessie, thin, stooped and gorgeous at seventy-nine, inherited the caf years before and it has become home to a remarkable family of characters: Louise, the cook and vortex, Joe, devoted and unfaithful; Willie, Jessies gay grandson; Georgia, an empress dowager who never speaks; and a dozen others...