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An unforgettable memoir about a young girl who, kept out of school, leaves her survivalist family and goes on to earn a PhD from Cambridge University.
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by Kevin Wilson
Published Oct 2017
Read ReviewsKevin Wilson's anticipated follow-up to The Family Fang, Perfect Little World is a warm-hearted and emotional story about a young woman charting her own course.
by Ruth Wariner
Published Apr 2017
Read ReviewsA riveting, deeply-affecting true story of one girl's coming-of-age in a polygamist doomsday cult.
by Andrew Hunt
Published Sep 2015
Read ReviewsA deeply researched mystery, A Killing in Zion portrays a city and a religion struggling to grow and shake off a notorious history that has not yet become a thing of the past.
by Peggy Riley
Published Feb 2014
Read ReviewsAmity & Sorrow is a story about God, sex, and farming. It's an unforgettable journey into the horrors a true believer can inflict upon his family, and what it is like to live when the end of the world doesn't come.
by Carol Lynch Williams
Published Aug 2010
Read ReviewsKyra has grown up in an isolated fundamentalist community never questioning that her father has three wives and she has twenty brothers and sisters. But when the Prophet decrees that she must marry her sixty-year-old uncle - who already has six wives - she must make a desperate choice in the face of violence and her own fears of losing her ...
by Jonathan Tropper
Published Jul 2010
Read ReviewsA riotously funny, emotionally raw novel about love, marriage, divorce, family, and the ties that bindwhether we like it or not.
by David Ebershoff
Published Jun 2009
Read ReviewsSweeping and lyrical, spellbinding and unforgettable, David Ebershoffs The 19th Wife combines epic historical fiction with a modern murder mystery to create a novel of literary suspense.
by T.C. Boyle
Published Jun 2007
Read ReviewsA deaf woman is accused of multiple crimes - and only her new love stands beside her as they try and discover the truth. Talk Talk is both a thrilling road trip across America and a moving story about language, love, and identity from one of America's finest novelists
by Jon Krakauer
Published Jun 2004
Read ReviewsA multilayered, bone-chilling narrative of messianic delusion, savage violence, polygamy, and unyielding faith. This is vintage Krakauer, an utterly compelling work of nonfiction that illuminates an otherwise confounding realm of human behavior.
by Elinor Lipman
Published Apr 2004
Read ReviewsBeautifully written, bustling with memorable characters and rich in wisdom about the human heartElinor Lipman is a masterful novelist working at the top of her game.
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