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Educated : a memoir / Tara Westover.

Westover, Tara, (author.).

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  • ISBN: 0525589988 : PAP
  • ISBN: 9780525589983 : PAP
  • ISBN: 9780525589983
  • ISBN: 0525589988
  • Physical Description: 512 pages (large print) ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: [New York] : Random House Large Print, [2018]
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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. The family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure the children received an education, and no one to intervene when one of Tara's older brothers became violent. As a way out, Tara began to educate herself, learning enough mathematics and grammar to be admitted to Brigham Young University. Her quest for knowledge would transform her, taking her over oceans and across continents, to Harvard and to Cambridge. Only then would she wonder if she'd traveled too far, if there was still a way home. With the acute insight that distinguishes all great writers, Tara Westover has crafted a universal coming-of-age story that gets to the heart of what an education offers: the perspective to see one's life through new eyes, and the will to change it."--Provided by publisher.
Subject: Westover, Tara > Family.
Women > Idaho > Biography.
Survivalism > Idaho > Biography.
Home schooling > Idaho > Anecdotes.
Women college students > United States > Biography.
Victims of family violence > Idaho > Biography.
Subculture > Idaho.
Christian biography.
Idaho > Rural conditions > Anecdotes.
Idaho > Biography.
Large type books.
Genre: Autobiographies.

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Bethel Public Library LARGE TYPE B WESTOVER (Text) 34030142361168 Adult Large Type Available -
Booth & Dimock Library - Coventry ALP BIO WESTOVER (Text) 33260000257775 Adult Large Type Checked out 05/07/2024
C.H. Booth Library - Newtown LP B WES (Text) 34014141707852 Adult Large Type Available -
Douglas Library of Hebron LRG PRI 270.092 WESTOVER (Text) 33400145568575 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Hagaman Memorial Library - East Haven LTE F WESTOVER (Text) 31953142957268 Adult New Fiction Large Type Canceled Transit -
Howard Whittemore Library - Naugatuck LG PR B WESTOVER, TARA WES (Text) 34027142769481 Adult Large Type Available -
Oxford Public Library LP B WES (Text) 33530145828304 Adult Biography Large Type Available -
Plumb Memorial Library - Shelton B WESTOVER L.T. ed. (Text) 34025127600689 Adult Large Type Available -
Ridgefield Library LP B WESTOVER (Text) 34010142099430 Adult Nonfiction Large Type Available -
Sherman Library B WESTOVER (Text) 34060141356935 Adult Large Type Checked out 04/27/2024

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