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Crooked Little Heart

Author : Anne Lamott
Publisher : Anchor
Release Date : 2011-11-16
ISBN : 0307806731
Pages : 336 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (86 Download)

Download PDF Crooked Little Heart Book by Anne Lamott Full eBook and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2011-11-16 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the same brilliant combination of humor and warmth that marked Operating Instructions and Bird by Bird, her two bestselling works of nonfiction, Anne Lamott now gives us an exuberant richly absorbing portrait of a family for whom the joys and sorrows of everyday life are magnified under the glare of the unexpected. The Fergusons make their home in a small California town where life is supposed to resemble paradise, but for thirteen-year-old Rosie (last seen in Lamott's beloved novel Rosie), reality is a bit harsher. Her mother, a recovering alcoholic, is still beset by grief over the early death of her first husband. Rosie's stepfather is a struggling writer plagued by doubts and hilarious paranoia. And Rosie, aching in the bloom of young womanhood and obsessed with tournament tennis, finds that her athletic gifts, initially a source of triumph, now place her in peril, as a shadowy man who stalks her from the bleachers seems to be developing an obsession of his own. Written with enormous emotional honesty, inhabited by superbly realized characters, riotously funny and wonderfully suspenseful, Crooked Little Heart is Anne Lamott writing at the height of her considerable powers.

Crooked Little Heart

Author : Anne Lamott
Publisher :
Release Date : 1997
ISBN : 9781299266803
Pages : 326 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (299 Download)

Download PDF Crooked Little Heart Book by Anne Lamott Full eBook and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Inspired Words

Author : Nancy Knol
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2021-03-09
ISBN : 1725277883
Pages : 184 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (277 Download)

Download PDF Inspired Words Book by Nancy Knol Full eBook and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-03-09 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: English teachers Knol and Karsten have composed these moving reflections inspired by a wide range of writers, many of whom they have brought into their classrooms. And while some of their selections will no doubt be familiar to the reader, each of these meditations will kindle new insights. Attuned to the power of the written word, these seasoned teachers contemplate sacred themes, exploring passages from books that they love in light of passages from Scripture.

Bird by Bird

Author : Anne Lamott
Publisher : Anchor
Release Date : 2007-12-18
ISBN : 0307424987
Pages : 272 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (424 Download)

Download PDF Bird by Bird Book by Anne Lamott Full eBook and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author: An essential volume for generations of writers young and old. The twenty-fifth anniversary edition of this modern classic will continue to spark creative minds for years to come. For a quarter century, more than a million readers—scribes and scribblers of all ages and abilities—have been inspired by Anne Lamott’s hilarious, big-hearted, homespun advice. Advice that begins with the simple words of wisdom passed down from Anne’s father—also a writer—in the iconic passage that gives the book its title: “Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report on birds written that he’d had three months to write. It was due the next day. We were out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at the kitchen table close to tears, surrounded by binder paper and pencils and unopened books on birds, immobilized by the hugeness of the task ahead. Then my father sat down beside him, put his arm around my brother’s shoulder, and said, ‘Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird.’”

Rosie

Author : Anne Lamott
Publisher : Penguin Books
Release Date : 1997-06
ISBN :
Pages : 275 pages
Rating : 4./5 ( Download)

Download PDF Rosie Book by Anne Lamott Full eBook and published by Penguin Books. This book was released on 1997-06 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Precocious, eight-year-old Rosie Ferguson discovers the unpleasantness of real life through the actions of the father of her best friend, Sharon Thackery

Traveling Mercies

Author : Anne Lamott
Publisher : Anchor
Release Date : 2000-09-05
ISBN : 0375409173
Pages : 288 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (49 Download)

Download PDF Traveling Mercies Book by Anne Lamott Full eBook and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2000-09-05 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anne Lamott claims the two best prayers she knows are: "Help me, help me, help me" and "Thank you, thank you, thank you." She has a friend whose morning prayer each day is "Whatever," and whose evening prayer is "Oh, well." Anne thinks of Jesus as "Casper the friendly savior" and describes God as "one crafty mother." Despite--or because of--her irreverence, faith is a natural subject for Anne Lamott. Since Operating Instructions and Bird by Bird, her fans have been waiting for her to write the book that explained how she came to the big-hearted, grateful, generous faith that she so often alluded to in her two earlier nonfiction books. The people in Anne Lamott's real life are like beloved characters in a favorite series for her readers--her friend Pammy, her son, Sam, and the many funny and wise folks who attend her church are all familiar. And Traveling Mercies is a welcome return to those lives, as well as an introduction to new companions Lamott treats with the same candor, insight, and tenderness. Lamott's faith isn't about easy answers, which is part of what endears her to believers as well as nonbelievers. Against all odds, she came to believe in God and then, even more miraculously, in herself. As she puts it, "My coming to faith did not start with a leap but rather a series of staggers." At once tough, personal, affectionate, wise, and very funny, Traveling Mercies tells in exuberant detail how Anne Lamott learned to shine the light of faith on the darkest part of ordinary life, exposing surprising pockets of meaning and hope.

Almost Everything

Author : Anne Lamott
Publisher : Penguin
Release Date : 2018-10-16
ISBN : 0525537570
Pages : 208 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (537 Download)

Download PDF Almost Everything Book by Anne Lamott Full eBook and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Anne Lamott, the New York Times-bestselling author of Dusk, Night, Dawn and Help, Thanks, Wow, comes the book we need from her now: How to bring hope back into our lives "I am stockpiling antibiotics for the Apocalypse, even as I await the blossoming of paperwhites on the windowsill in the kitchen," Anne Lamott admits at the beginning of Almost Everything. Despair and uncertainty surround us: in the news, in our families, and in ourselves. But even when life is at its bleakest--when we are, as she puts it, "doomed, stunned, exhausted, and over-caffeinated"--the seeds of rejuvenation are at hand. "All truth is paradox," Lamott writes, "and this turns out to be a reason for hope. If you arrive at a place in life that is miserable, it will change." That is the time when we must pledge not to give up but "to do what Wendell Berry wrote: 'Be joyful, though you have considered all the facts.'" In this profound and funny book, Lamott calls for each of us to rediscover the nuggets of hope and wisdom that are buried within us that can make life sweeter than we ever imagined. Divided into short chapters that explore life's essential truths, Almost Everything pinpoints these moments of insight as it shines an encouraging light forward. Candid and caring, insightful and sometimes hilarious, Almost Everything is the book we need and that only Anne Lamott can write.

Imperfect Birds

Author : Anne Lamott
Publisher : Penguin
Release Date : 2011-04-05
ISBN : 1594485046
Pages : 336 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (485 Download)

Download PDF Imperfect Birds Book by Anne Lamott Full eBook and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-04-05 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author of Hallelujah Anyway, Almost Everything, and Bird by Bird, a powerful and redemptive novel of love and family Rosie Ferguson is seventeen and ready to enjoy the summer before her senior year of high school. She's intelligent-she aced AP physics; athletic-a former state-ranked tennis doubles champion; and beautiful. She is, in short, everything her mother, Elizabeth, hoped she could be. The family's move to Landsdale, with stepfather James in tow, hadn't been as bumpy as Elizabeth feared. 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. Slowly and against their will, Elizabeth and James are forced to confront the fact that Rosie has been lying to them-and that her deceptions will have profound consequences. This is Anne Lamott's most honest and heartrending novel yet, exploring our human quest for connection and salvation as it reveals the traps that can befall all of us.

Dusk, Night, Dawn

Author : Anne Lamott
Publisher : Penguin
Release Date : 2021-03-02
ISBN : 0593189701
Pages : 224 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (189 Download)

Download PDF Dusk, Night, Dawn Book by Anne Lamott Full eBook and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Anne Lamott is my Oprah.” -Chicago Tribune From the bestselling author of Help, Thanks, Wow comes an inspiring guide to restoring hope and joy in our lives. In Dusk, Night, Dawn, Anne Lamott explores the tough questions that many of us grapple with. How can we recapture the confidence we once had as we stumble through the dark times that seem increasingly bleak? As bad newspiles up—from climate crises to daily assaults on civility—how can we cope? Where, she asks, “do we start to get our world and joy and hope and our faith in life itself back . . . with our sore feet, hearing loss, stiff fingers, poor digestion, stunned minds, broken hearts?” We begin, Lamott says, by accepting our flaws and embracing our humanity. Drawing from her own experiences, Lamott shows us the intimate and human ways we can adopt to move through life’s dark places and toward the light of hope that still burns ahead for all of us. As she does in Help, Thanks, Wow and her other bestselling books, Lamott explores the thorny issues of life and faith by breaking them down into manageable, human-sized questions for readers to ponder, in the process showing us how we can amplify life's small moments of joy by staying open to love and connection. As Lamott notes in Dusk, Night, Dawn, “I got Medicare three days before I got hitched, which sounds like something an old person might do, which does not describe adorably ageless me.” Marrying for the first time with a grown son and a grandson, Lamott explains that finding happiness with a partner isn't a function of age or beauty but of outlook and perspective. Full of the honesty, humor, and humanity that have made Lamott beloved by millions of readers, Dusk, Night, Dawn is classic Anne Lamott—thoughtful and comic, warm and wise—and further proof that Lamott truly speaks to the better angels in all of us.

Bread for the Journey

Author : Thomas W. Currie
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2015-08-31
ISBN : 1498231861
Pages : 266 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (231 Download)

Download PDF Bread for the Journey Book by Thomas W. Currie Full eBook and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2015-08-31 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preparing for ministry involves more than the acquisition of certain skills. The shape of a disciple's soul as he or she embarks on this journey is as important if not more so than learning how to exegete a text or engage in pastoral care. Ministry is not easy, and the preparation for this form of Christian discipleship is open to a variety of temptations, not least of which is a kind of despair over the paucity of one's own resources, or worse, the illusion that one is better off relying on one's own talents and virtues. What is needed is bread for this journey, not necessarily exhortations to work harder, but words of encouragement and grace that bear witness to the surprising reality that ministry is, in fact, a joyful gift. These notes from a dean, who sought to help his students discover that joy in their study and preparation, bear witness to the One, whose life provides bread for every journey, especially for the journey of pastoral ministry.

Some Assembly Required

Author : Anne Lamott
Publisher : Penguin
Release Date : 2012-03-20
ISBN : 1101561165
Pages : 288 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (561 Download)

Download PDF Some Assembly Required Book by Anne Lamott Full eBook and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-03-20 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author of Bird by Bird, Hallelujah Anyway, and Almost Everything “If there is a doyenne of the parenting memoir, it would be Anne Lamott.”—Time In Some Assembly Required, Anne Lamott enters a new and unexpected chapter in her own life: grandmotherhood. Stunned to learn that her son, Sam, is about to become a father at nineteen, Lamott begins a journal about the first year of her grandson Jax’s life. In careful and often hilarious detail, Lamott and Sam—about whom she first wrote so movingly in Operating Instructions—struggle to balance their changing roles. By turns poignant and funny, honest and touching, Some Assembly Required is the true story of how the birth of a baby changes a family—as this book will change everyone who reads it.

Stitches

Author : Anne Lamott
Publisher : Hachette UK
Release Date : 2014-02-13
ISBN : 1444789139
Pages : 112 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (789 Download)

Download PDF Stitches Book by Anne Lamott Full eBook and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2014-02-13 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do we do when life lurches out of balance? How can we reconnect to one another and to what's sustaining, when evil and catastrophe seem inescapable? These questions lie at the heart of Stitches, Anne Lamott's follow-up to her New York Times-bestselling work, Help, Thanks, Wow. In this book, she explores how we find meaning and peace in these loud and frantic times; where we start again after personal and public devastation; how we recapture wholeness after loss; and how we locate our true identities in this frazzled age. We begin, Lamott says, by collecting the ripped sheets of our emotional and spiritual fabric and sewing them back together - one stitch at a time. It's in these stitches that the quilt of life begins, and embedded in them are strength, warmth, humour and humanity.

Grace (eventually)

Author : Anne Lamott
Publisher : Penguin
Release Date : 2007
ISBN : 9781594489426
Pages : 253 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (594 Download)

Download PDF Grace (eventually) Book by Anne Lamott Full eBook and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wherever you look, there's trouble and wonder, pain and beauty, restoration and darkness--sometimes all at once. Yet amid the confusion, if you look carefully, in nature or in the kitchen, in ordinariness or in mystery, beyond the emotion muck we all slog

The Writing Frame of Mind

Author : Anne Lamott
Publisher : Vintage
Release Date : 2019-10-29
ISBN : 0593082184
Pages : 24 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (82 Download)

Download PDF The Writing Frame of Mind Book by Anne Lamott Full eBook and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2019-10-29 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Vintage Shorts selection. To the enormous challenges of being a writer, Anne Lamott offers invaluable advice and encouragement, which more than a million scribes and scribblers of all ages and abilities have been inspired by for a quarter century. In this selection from her essential volume, Bird by Bird, Lamott tenderly recommends and outlines the qualities that every writer should learn to hone: intuition, attention, morality, and more. An ebook short.

Help, Thanks, Wow

Author : Anne Lamott
Publisher : Hachette UK
Release Date : 2013-05-09
ISBN : 1444750399
Pages : 40 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (75 Download)

Download PDF Help, Thanks, Wow Book by Anne Lamott Full eBook and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2013-05-09 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I do not know much about God and prayer, but I have come to believe, over the last twenty-five years, that there's something to be said about keeping prayer simple. Help. Thanks. Wow.' Readers of all ages have followed and cherished Anne Lamott's funny and perceptive writing about faith and prayer. And in Help, Thanks, Wow she has coalesced everything she's learned about prayer into these simple, transformative truths. These three simple prayers will get you through tough times, everyday struggles, and the hard work of ordinary life. It is these three prayers - asking for assistance, appreciating the good we witness, and feeling awe at the world - that get us through the day and show us the way forward. In Help, Thanks, Wow , Lamott recounts how she came to these insights, explains what they have meant to her over the years and how they've helped, and explores how others have embraced these ideas. Wow is the third of three eBooks, each covering a single chapter of Anne Lamott's latest book, Help, Thanks, Wow. Insightful and honest as only Anne Lamott can be, this is a book that new Lamott readers will love and longtime Lamott fans will treasure.

Blue Shoe

Author : Anne Lamott
Publisher : Riverhead Books
Release Date : 2003-09-02
ISBN : 9781573223423
Pages : 336 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (573 Download)

Download PDF Blue Shoe Book by Anne Lamott Full eBook and published by Riverhead Books. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times Bestseller from the beloved author of Bird by Bird, Hallelujah Anyway, and Almost Everything Mattie Ryder is marvelously neurotic, well-intentioned, funny, religious, sarcastic, tender, angry, and broke. Her life at the moment is a wreck: her marriage has failed, her mother is failing, her house is rotting, her waist is expanding, her children are misbehaving, and she has a crush on a married man. Then she finds a small rubber blue shoe—nothing more than a gumball trinket—left behind by her father. For Mattie, it becomes a talisman—a chance to recognize the past for what it was, to see the future as she always hoped it could be, and to finally understand her family, herself, and the ever-unfolding mystery of her sweet, sad, and sometimes surprising life.

All New People

Author : Anne Lamott
Publisher :
Release Date : 1989
ISBN : 9780865473942
Pages : 166 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (865 Download)

Download PDF All New People Book by Anne Lamott Full eBook and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the eyes of a small girl, Lamott takes readers on the barrage of dislocating changes that shook the 1960s.