Anne Lamott
Author
Series
Rosie Ferguson volume 3
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
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...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
2014.
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...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
-- Help, Thanks, Wow"Mercy is radical kindness," Anne Lamott writes in her enthralling and heartening book, Hallelujah Anyway In Hallelujah Anyway: Rediscovering Mercy Full of Lamott's trademark honesty, humor and forthrightness, Hallelujah Anyway From the Hardcover edition.
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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
Series
Rosie Ferguson volume 2
Publisher
Anchor Books
Pub. Date
1998.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old tennis champion Rosie Ferguson, her mother Elizabeth, and her stepfather James, all struggle with their own heartbreaks along the road to becoming a united family.
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
""Love is our only hope," Anne Lamott writes in this perceptive new book. "It is not always the easiest choice, but it is always the right one, the noble path, the way home to safety, no matter how bleak the future looks." In Somehow: Thoughts on Love, Lamott explores the transformative power that love has in our lives: how it surprises us, forces us to confront uncomfortable truths, reminds us of our humanity, and guides us forward. "Love just won't...
19) Measuring up
Author
Publisher
Harper Alley, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Having just moved to Seattle from Taiwan, twelve-year-old Cici enters a cooking competition to win the chance to see her grandmother again, but she only knows how to cook Taiwanese food.