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Product Description: With generosity, humor, and pathos, Anne Lamott takes on the barrage of dislocating changes that shook the Sixties. Leading us through the wake of these changes is Nanny Goodman, one small girl living in Marin County, California...read more
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9780553352788 | Reprint edition (Bantam Dell Pub Group, October 1, 1991), cover price $8.50 | About this edition: With generosity, humor, and pathos, Anne Lamott takes on the barrage of dislocating changes that shook the Sixties.

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Newly divorced, Nan Goodman returns to her childhood home and to vivid thoughts of her eccentric yet warm familyher unconventional parents, supportive babysitter, and loving younger brotherand of the feelings of security and warmth of a bygone era. Reprint.
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9780865473942 | North Point Pr, October 1, 1989, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Newly divorced, Nan Goodman returns to her childhood home and to vivid thoughts of her eccentric yet warm family--her unconventional parents, supportive babysitter, and loving younger brother--and of the feelings of security and warmth of a bygone era

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9781582430546 | Counterpoint, December 17, 1999, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Newly divorced, Nan Goodman returns to her childhood home and to vivid thoughts of her eccentric yet warm family, and of the feelings of security and warmth of a bygone era.

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9781400089499 | Anchor Books, March 30, 2005, cover price $12.99

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Product Description: Jane Vandenburgh, the author of two highly acclaimed novels and a recent memoir, offers aspiring writers the tools to create powerful and unique novels filled not only with good writing but also dynamic storytelling.Architecture of the Novel is an ambitious blueprint for writers, one that reveals the underlying machinery that propels a plot that is dynamic, coherent, and interesting...read more
by Anne Lamott (foreword by)
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9781582435978 | Counterpoint, June 1, 2010, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Jane Vandenburgh, the author of two highly acclaimed novels and a recent memoir, offers aspiring writers the tools to create powerful and unique novels filled not only with good writing but also dynamic storytelling.

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A recovering alcoholic documents his first year of sobriety after returning home from rehabilitation.
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9781568387376 | Hazelden, September 1, 2001, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: A recovering alcoholic documents his first year of sobriety after returning home from rehabilitation.

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Product Description: A step-by-step guide to writing and managing the writer's life covers each portion of a written project, addresses such concerns as writer's block and getting published, and offers awareness and survival tips. Reprint. Tour. K. NYT.
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Hardcover:

9780679435204 | 1 edition (Pantheon Books, September 1, 1994), cover price $23.00 | About this edition: Presents a personal guide to living a writer's life, and discusses dialogue, plot, character, setting, revision, point of view, writing groups, writer's block, and publication

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9780385480017 | Anchor Books, October 1, 1995, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: A step-by-step guide to writing and managing the writer's life covers each portion of a written project, addresses such concerns as writer's block and getting published, and offers awareness and survival tips

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9781572700161 | Audio Partners, June 1, 1996, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: A step-by-step guide to writing and managing the writer's life covers each portion of a written project, addresses such concerns as writer's block and getting published, and offers awareness and survival tips.

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9781439558164 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, October 4, 2008), cover price $23.95 | About this edition: A step-by-step guide to writing and managing the writer's life covers each portion of a written project, addresses such concerns as writer's block and getting published, and offers awareness and survival tips.

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Product Description: Mattie Ryder is a marvelously funny, well-intentioned, religious, sarcastic, tender, angry, and broke recently divorced mother of two young children. Then she finds a small rubber blue shoe - the kind you might get from a gumball machine - and a few other trifles that were left years ago in her father's car...read more
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9781587243622 | Large print edition (Wheeler Pub Inc, January 1, 2003), cover price $31.95 | About this edition: When she stumbles upon a small blue shoe and other small items left behind in her deceased father's car, Mattie Ryder, a divorced mother of two, and her brother struggle to uncover the truth about their dysfunctional upbringing.
9781573222266 | Riverhead Books, October 1, 2002, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: When she stumbles upon a small blue shoe and other small items left behind in her deceased father's car, Mattie Ryder, a divorced mother of two, and her brother struggle to uncover the truth about their dysfunctional upbringing.

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9781573223423 | Reissue edition (Riverhead Books, September 1, 2003), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: When she stumbles upon a small blue shoe and other small items left behind in her deceased father's car, Mattie Ryder, a divorced mother of two, and her brother struggle to uncover the truth about their dysfunctional upbringing.

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9781593350574 | Mp3 una edition (Brilliance Audio, June 30, 2004), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Mattie Ryder is a marvelously funny, well-intentioned, religious, sarcastic, tender, angry, and broke recently divorced mother of two young children.
9781593355708 | Mp3 una edition (Brilliance Audio Lib Edn, June 30, 2004), cover price $39.25 | About this edition: Mattie Ryder is a marvelously funny, well-intentioned, religious, sarcastic, tender, angry, and broke recently divorced mother of two young children.

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9781590863541 | Unabridged edition (Brilliance Audio, September 1, 2002), cover price $38.95 | About this edition: When she stumbles upon a small blue shoe and other small items left behind in her deceased father's car, Mattie Ryder, a divorced mother of two, and her brother struggle to uncover the truth about their dysfunctional upbringing.
9781590863558 | Unabridged edition (Brilliance Audio Lib Edn, September 1, 2002), cover price $97.25 | About this edition: When she stumbles upon a small blue shoe and other small items left behind in her deceased father's car, Mattie Ryder, a divorced mother of two, and her brother struggle to uncover the truth about their dysfunctional upbringing.

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9781590863565 | Abridged edition (Paperback Nova, September 1, 2003), cover price $12.99 | About this edition: Mattie Ryder is a marvelously funny, well-intentioned, religious, sarcastic, tender, angry, and broke recently divorced mother of two young children.
9781590863534 | Abridged edition (Brilliance Audio, September 1, 2002), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: When she stumbles upon a small blue shoe and other small items left behind in her deceased father's car, Mattie Ryder, a divorced mother of two, and her brother struggle to uncover the truth about their dysfunctional upbringing.
9781590863510 | Unabridged edition (Brilliance Audio, September 1, 2002), cover price $32.95 | About this edition: When she stumbles upon a small blue shoe and other small items left behind in her deceased father's car, Mattie Ryder, a divorced mother of two, and her brother struggle to uncover the truth about their dysfunctional upbringing.
9781590863527 | Unabridged edition (Brilliance Audio Lib Edn, September 1, 2002), cover price $82.25 | About this edition: When she stumbles upon a small blue shoe and other small items left behind in her deceased father's car, Mattie Ryder, a divorced mother of two, and her brother struggle to uncover the truth about their dysfunctional upbringing.

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An emotional but humorous novel of family and heartbreak by the author of Bird by Bird chronicles the eventful thirteenth year of Rosie Ferguson, the daughter of a former alcoholic and the prey of a mysterious stalker. Reprint.
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9780679435211 | Pantheon Books, April 1, 1997, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: A close-knit family from Marin County, California, the Fergusons struggle to cope with the trials and tribulations of life, while thirteen-year-old Rosie, obsessed with becoming a tennis champion, embarks on a desperate cycle of cheating
9780708958834 | Large print edition (Ulverscroft Large Print Books, April 1, 1997), cover price $29.50 | About this edition: With the same winning combination of humor and honesty that marked her recent nonfiction bestsellers, Operating Instructions and Bird by Bird, Anne Lamott's new novel 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.

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9780385491808 | Reprint edition (Doubleday, June 1, 1998), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A close-knit family from Marin County, California, the Fergusons struggle to cope with the trials and tribulations of life, while thirteen-year-old Rosie, obsessed with becoming a tennis champion, embarks on a desperate cycle of cheating

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9780679460107 | Random House, April 1, 1997, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: A close-knit family from Marin County, California, the Fergusons struggle to cope with the trials and tribulations of life, while thirteen-year-old Rosie, obsessed with becoming a tennis champion, embarks on a desperate cycle of cheating.

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9780613556972 | Bt Bound, March 1, 1998, cover price $25.70 | About this edition: A close-knit family from Marin County, California, the Fergusons struggle to cope with the trials and tribulations of life, while thirteen-year-old Rosie, obsessed with becoming a tennis champion, embarks on a desperate cycle of cheating

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Product Description: "Lamott has chronicled her wacky and (sometimes) wild adventures in faith in...the wonderful Grace (Eventually)." (Chicago Sun- Times) In Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith, the author of the bestsellers Traveling Mercies and Plan B delivers a poignant, funny, and bittersweet primer of faith, as we come to discover what it means to be fully alive...read more
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9780786296224 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, July 5, 2007), cover price $32.95 | About this edition: The sharp, funny, and heartfelt follow-up to her bestselling Plan B, Anne Lamott's newest collection is a personal exploration of the faith and grace all around us.
9781594489426 | Riverhead Books, March 20, 2007, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Wherever you look, there's trouble and wonder, pain and beauty, restoration and darkness--sometimes all at once.

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9781594482878 | Reprint edition (Riverhead Books, February 26, 2008), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: "Lamott has chronicled her wacky and (sometimes) wild adventures in faith in.
9781594132650 | Large print edition (Large Print Pr, February 26, 2008), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: The sharp, funny, and heartfelt follow-up to her bestselling Plan B, Anne Lamott's newest collection is a personal exploration of the faith and grace all around us.

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9780143142089 | Unabridged edition (Penguin/Highbridge, March 20, 2007), cover price $34.95 | About this edition: The author presents a collection of essays on the missteps, detours, and roadblocks in her walk of faith and in her discovery of what it means to be fully human and alive.

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A sensitive and reflective twenty-four-year-old woman chronicles her family's confrontation with illness when it is discovered that her father suffers from an inoperable brain tumor
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9780670361403 | Viking Pr, October 1, 1980, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: A sensitive and reflective twenty-four-year-old woman chronicles her family's confrontation with illness when it is discovered that her father suffers from an inoperable brain tumor

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9780451110725 | New Amer Library, September 1, 1981, cover price $2.95 | About this edition: A sensitive and reflective twenty-four-year-old woman chronicles her family's confrontation with illness when it is discovered that her father suffers from an inoperable brain tumor

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A sensitive and reflective twenty-four-year-old woman chronicles her family's confrontation with illness after it is discovered that her father suffers from an inoperable brain tumor, in a new edition of Lamott's debut novel. Reissue.
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9780865472808 | Reissue edition (North Point Pr, April 1, 1987), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: A sensitive and reflective twenty-four-year-old woman chronicles her family's confrontation with illness after it is discovered that her father suffers from an inoperable brain tumor.

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Product Description: Unabridged CDs, 8 CDs, 10 hours Read by TBA A powerful and redemptive novel of love and family, from the author of the bestselling Blue Shoe, Grace (Eventually), and Operating Instructions.
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9781594487514 | Riverhead Books, April 6, 2010, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: A powerful and redemptive novel of love and family, from the author of the bestselling Blue Shoe, Grace (Eventually), and Operating Instructions.

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9780143145363 | Unabridged edition (Penguin/Highbridge, April 6, 2010), cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Unabridged CDs, 8 CDs, 10 hours Read by TBA A powerful and redemptive novel of love and family, from the author of the bestselling Blue Shoe, Grace (Eventually), and Operating Instructions.

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Product Description: JOE JONES is Anne Lamott’s raucous novel of lives gathered around Jessie’s Café, "the sort of broken-down waterfront dive one might expect to find in Steinbeck." Jessie, "thin, stooped and gorgeous at seventy-nine," inherited the café years before and it has become home to a remarkable family of characters: Louise, the cook and vortex, Joe, devoted and unfaithful; Willie, Jessie’s gay grandson; Georgia, an empress dowager who never speaks; and a dozen others all living together in the sweet everyday....read more
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9780865472099 | North Point Pr, October 1, 1985, cover price $15.50 | About this edition: Louise, a cook at Jessie's Cafe, relies on humor and the friendship of her co-workers and regulars at the cafe to get over her breakup with Joe Jones

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9780345337559 | Reprint edition (Ballantine Books, January 1, 1987), cover price $3.95 | About this edition: Louise, a cook at Jessie's Cafe, relies on humor and the friendship of her co-workers and regulars at the cafe to get over her breakup with Joe Jones

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9781602524750 | Unabridged edition (Findaway World Llc, January 15, 2008), cover price $34.99 | About this edition: JOE JONES is Anne Lamott’s raucous novel of lives gathered around Jessie’s Café, "the sort of broken-down waterfront dive one might expect to find in Steinbeck.

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9781565118256 | Unabridged edition (Highbridge Co, September 8, 2003), cover price $34.95 | About this edition: A raucous novel of the lives gathered around Jessie's Cafe, 'a restaurant from another era, the sort of broken-down waterfront dive one might expect to find in Steinbeck or Saroyan.

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9781565118249 | Unabridged edition (Highbridge Co, September 1, 2003), cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Louise, a cook at Jessie's Cafe, relies on humor and the friendship of her co-workers and the regulars at the cafe to get over her breakup with Joe Jones.

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Louise, a cook at Jessie's Cafe, relies on humor and the friendship of her co-workers and regulars at the cafe to get over her breakup with Joe Jones. Reprint.
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9781593760038 | Reprint edition (Shoemaker & Hoard, August 1, 2003), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Louise, a cook at Jessie's Cafe, relies on humor and the friendship of her co-workers and the regulars at the cafe to get over her breakup with Joe Jones.

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Product Description: JOE JONES is Anne Lamott’s raucous novel of lives gathered around Jessie’s Café, "the sort of broken-down waterfront dive one might expect to find in Steinbeck." Jessie, "thin, stooped and gorgeous at seventy-nine," inherited the café years before and it has become home to a remarkable family of characters: Louise, the cook and vortex, Joe, devoted and unfaithful; Willie, Jessie’s gay grandson; Georgia, an empress dowager who never speaks; and a dozen others all living together in the sweet everyday....read more
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9781602529748 | Unabridged edition (Findaway World Llc, January 15, 2008), cover price $54.99 | About this edition: JOE JONES is Anne Lamott’s raucous novel of lives gathered around Jessie’s Café, "the sort of broken-down waterfront dive one might expect to find in Steinbeck.

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In a thought-provoking compilation of essays from Salon.com, twenty-eight celebrated writers--including Rick Moody, Kathryn Harrison, Lauren Slater, and Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez--share their thoughts on parenthood in twenty-first-century America as they look at their individual decisions on whether or not to become a parent. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.
by Lori Leibovich (editor); Anne Lamott (foreword by)
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9780060737818 | Harpercollins, April 1, 2006, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: In a thought-provoking compilation of essays from Salon.

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9780060737825 | Reprint edition (Harpercollins, April 1, 2007), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: In a thought-provoking compilation of essays from Salon.

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Product Description: It seems no mother of a newborn has ever been more hilarious, more honest, or more touching than Ann Lamott is in OPERATING INSTRUCTIONS. A single parent whose baby's father is out of the picture, Lamott struggles not only to support her little family by her wits and her writing, but to stay sober at the same time...read more
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9780517137789 | Random House Value Pub, December 1, 1993, cover price $4.99 | About this edition: It seems no mother of a newborn has ever been more hilarious, more honest, or more touching than Ann Lamott is in OPERATING INSTRUCTIONS.

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A single mother and writer grappling alone with the problems of a newborn baby presents a vivid account of the confusion, joys, sorrows, and struggles of the first year in her son's life. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.
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9780679420910 | Pantheon Books, May 1, 1993, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: The author chronicles her son's growth, her fears and worries as a single parent, her deepening faith, and the support of her eccentric circle of friends

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9781400079094 | Reprint edition (Anchor Books, March 8, 2005), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: A single mother and writer grappling alone with the problems of a newborn baby presents a vivid account of the confusion, joys, sorrows, and struggles of the first year in her son's life.
9780449909287 | Reprint edition (Fawcett Books, May 1, 1994), cover price $13.00 | About this edition: A single mother and writer grappling alone with the problems of a newborn baby presents a vivid account of the confusion, joys, sorrows, and struggles of the first year in her son's life.

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Product Description: A New York Times Bestseller With the trademark wisdom, humor, and honesty that made Anne Lamott's book on faith Traveling Mercies a runaway bestseller, Plan B is a spiritual antidote to anxiety and despair in our increasingly fraught times.
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9780786553327 | Penguin/Highbridge, October 10, 2004, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: A New York Times Bestseller With the trademark wisdom, humor, and honesty that made Anne Lamott's book on faith Traveling Mercies a runaway bestseller, Plan B is a spiritual antidote to anxiety and despair in our increasingly fraught times.

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A spiritual guide by the author of the best-selling Traveling Mercies shares humorous and inspirational advice on how to manage with grace in today's world of terrorism, while caring for aging parents and children simultaneously, and in the face of environmental threats. Reprint.
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9780786278145 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, August 2, 2005), cover price $32.95 | About this edition: A New York Times Bestseller With the trademark wisdom, humor, and honesty that made Anne Lamott's book on faith Traveling Mercies a runaway bestseller, Plan B is a spiritual antidote to anxiety and despair in our increasingly fraught times.
9781573222990 | Riverhead Books, March 3, 2005, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: A spiritual guide shares humorous and inspirational advice on how to manage with grace in today's world of terrorism, while caring for aging parents and children simultaneously, and in the face of environmental threats.

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9781594481574 | Reprint edition (Riverhead Books, March 28, 2006), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: A spiritual biography shares humorous and inspirational advice on how to manage with grace in today's world of terrorism, while caring for aging parents and children simultaneously, and in the face of environmental threats.

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9780143057345 | Unabridged edition (Viking Penguin Audio, March 3, 2005), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Anne Lamott tells true stories of daily life that offer hope through the panic and despair in a world where terrorism and war have become the norm and environmental disaster looms ever closer.

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Product Description: In Anne Lamott’s wise and witty novel, the growing pains of motherhood are portrayed with rare humor and honesty. If Elizabeth Ferguson had her way, she’d spend her days savoring good books, cooking great meals, and waiting for the love of her life to walk in the door. But ...read more
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9780670608287 | Viking Pr, October 1, 1983, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Precocious, eight-year-old Rosie Ferguson discovers the unpleasantness of real life through the actions of the father of her best friend, Sharon Thackery

Paperback:

9780865473904 | North Point Pr, May 1, 1989, cover price $10.00 | About this edition: In Anne Lamott’s wise and witty novel, the growing pains of motherhood are portrayed with rare humor and honesty.
9780440174950 | Reprint edition (Dell Pub Co, January 1, 1985), cover price $3.95 | About this edition: Precocious, eight-year-old Rosie Ferguson discovers the unpleasantness of real life through the actions of the father of her best friend, Sharon Thackery

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Precocious, eight-year-old Rosie Ferguson discovers the unpleasantness of real life through the actions of the father of her best friend, Sharon Thackery
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9780140264791 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, June 1, 1997), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Precocious, eight-year-old Rosie Ferguson discovers the unpleasantness of real life through the actions of the father of her best friend, Sharon Thackery

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Combining elements of spiritual study and memoir, the author of Bird by Bird and Crooked Little Heart describes her odyssey of faith, drawing on her own sometimes troubled past to explore the many ways in which faith sustains and guides one's daily life. Read by Anne Lamott. Simultaneous.
by Anne Lamott (narrator)
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9780375405976 | Random House, February 1, 1999, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Combining elements of spiritual study and memoir, the author describes her odyssey of faith, drawing on her own sometimes troubled past to explore the many ways in which faith sustains and guides one's daily life.

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Combining elements of spiritual study and memoir, the author describes her odyssey of faith, drawing on her own sometimes troubled past to explore the many ways in which faith sustains and guides one's daily life
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Hardcover:

9780786219612 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, May 1, 1999), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: The author draws on her own sometimes troubled past to explore the many ways in which faith sustains and guides one's daily life
9780679442400 | Pantheon Books, January 1, 1999, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: Combining elements of spiritual study and memoir, the author describes her odyssey of faith, drawing on her own sometimes troubled past to explore the many ways in which faith sustains and guides one's daily life

Paperback:

9780385496094 | Anchor Books, February 1, 2000, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Combining elements of spiritual study and memoir, the author describes her odyssey of faith, drawing on her own sometimes troubled past to explore the many ways in which faith sustains and guides one's daily life

Miscellaneous:

9780375409172 | Random House Inc, December 1, 2000, cover price $11.50

Prebinding:

9780613656740 | Bt Bound, July 1, 2003, cover price $26.90 | About this edition: Combining elements of spiritual study and memoir, the author describes her odyssey of faith, drawing on her own sometimes troubled past to explore the many ways in which faith sustains and guides one's daily life

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Product Description: There is much to love and enjoy in the poetry of Elizabeth M. Come, as you are about to discover. She was a woman who paid attention to the world, both outside her windows, and within. Her poems are filled with inner visions, of peace and aliveness and God, as well as a sense of the mystical wonders of nature, big as the sky, tiny as "the lace-making spider...read more
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9781577331094 | Blue Dolphin Pub, May 28, 2004, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: There is much to love and enjoy in the poetry of Elizabeth M.

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