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Unbranded
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Does not apply
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ISBN
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0061628018
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Book Title
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Stolen Innocence : My Story of Growing up in a Polygamous Sect, Becoming a Teenage Bride, and Breaking Free of Warren Jeffs
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Publisher
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HarperCollins
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Item Length
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9 in
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Publication Year
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2008
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Hardcover
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Language
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English
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Illustrator
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Yes
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1.4 in
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Genre
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Family & Relationships, Religion, True Crime, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography
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Women, Abuse / Domestic Partner Abuse, Christianity / Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormon), Religious, Christian Life / Love & Marriage, Personal Memoirs, General, Women’s Studies, Cults, Sociology / Marriage & Family
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Item Weight
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24.9 Oz
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6 in
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Number of Pages
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448 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0061628018
ISBN-13
9780061628016
eBay Product ID (ePID)
63980704
Product Key Features
Book Title
Stolen Innocence : My Story of Growing up in a Polygamous Sect, Becoming a Teenage Bride, and Breaking Free of Warren Jeffs
Number of Pages
448 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2008
Topic
Women, Abuse / Domestic Partner Abuse, Christianity / Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormon), Religious, Christian Life / Love & Marriage, Personal Memoirs, General, Women’s Studies, Cults, Sociology / Marriage & Family
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Family & Relationships, Religion, True Crime, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.4 in
Item Weight
24.9 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2009-275050
Reviews
Wall’s story couldn’t be more timely. Her descriptions of the polygamous sect’s rigidity are shocking, but what’s most fascinating is the immensely likeable author’s struggle to reconcile her longing for happiness with her terror of it’s consequences., “Wall’s story couldn’t be more timely. Her descriptions of the polygamous sect’s rigidity are shocking, but what’s most fascinating is the immensely likeable author’s struggle to reconcile her longing for happiness with her terror of it’s consequences.” — People
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
364.155/53092 B
Synopsis
“Both creepy…and quite moving.” — New York Times Book Review “Wall’s story couldn’t be more timely.” — People Stolen Innocence is the gripping New York Times bestselling memoir of Elissa Wall, the courageous former member of Utah’s infamous FLDS polygamist sect whose powerful courtroom testimony helped convict controversial sect leader Warren Jeffs in September 2007. At once shocking, heartbreaking, and inspiring, Wall’s story of subjugation and survival exposes the darkness at the root of this rebel offshoot of the Mormon faith., “Both creepy…and quite moving.” -New York Times Book Review “Wall’s story couldn’t be more timely.” -People Stolen Innocence is the gripping New York Times bestselling memoir of Elissa Wall, the courageous former member of Utah’s infamous FLDS polygamist sect whose powerful courtroom testimony helped convict controversial sect leader Warren Jeffs in September 2007. At once shocking, heartbreaking, and inspiring, Wall’s story of subjugation and survival exposes the darkness at the root of this rebel offshoot of the Mormon faith., In this shocking, timely, and inspirational memoir, Elissa Wall details her life growing up in the polygamous Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints religious sect, being forced into an unwanted marriage at the age of 14, and her courage to testify against FLDS leader Warren Jeffs., “Both creepy…and quite moving.” –New York Times Book Review “Wall’s story couldn’t be more timely.” –People Stolen Innocence is the gripping New York Times bestselling memoir of Elissa Wall, the courageous former member of Utah’s infamous FLDS polygamist sect whose powerful courtroom testimony helped convict controversial sect leader Warren Jeffs in September 2007. At once shocking, heartbreaking, and inspiring, Wall’s story of subjugation and survival exposes the darkness at the root of this rebel offshoot of the Mormon faith., In September 2007, a packed courtroom in St. George, Utah, sat hushed as Elissa Wall, the star witness against polygamous sect leader Warren Jeffs, gave captivating testimony of how Jeffs forced her to marry her first cousin at age fourteen. This harrowing and vivid account proved to be the most compelling evidence against Jeffs, showing the harsh realities of this closed community and the lengths to which Jeffs went in order to control the sect’s women. Now, in this courageous memoir, Elissa Wall tells the incredible and inspirational story of how she emerged from the confines of the Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints (FLDS) and helped bring one of America’s most notorious criminals to justice. Offering a child’s perspective on life in the FLDS, Wall discusses her tumultuous youth, explaining how her family’s turbulent past intersected with her strong will and identified her as a girl who needed to be controlled through marriage. Detailing how Warren Jeffs’s influence over the church twisted its already rigid beliefs in dangerous new directions, Wall portrays the inescapable mind-set and unrelenting pressure that forced her to wed despite her repeated protests that she was too young. Once she was married, Wall’s childhood shattered as she was obligated to follow Jeffs’s directives and submit to her husband in “mind, body, and soul.” With little money and no knowledge of the outside world, she was trapped and forced to endure the pain and abuse of her loveless relationship, which eventually pushed her to spend nights sleeping in her truck rather than face the tormentor in her bed. Yet even in those bleak times, she retained a sliver of hope that one day she wouldfind a way out, and one snowy night that came in the form of a rugged stranger named Lamont Barlow. Their chance encounter set in motion a friendship and eventual romance that gave her the strength she needed to break free from her past and sever the chains of the church. But though she was out of the FLDS, Wall would still have to face Jeffs–this time in court. In “Stolen Innocence,” she delves into the difficult months on the outside that led her to come forward against him, working with prosecutors on one of the biggest criminal cases in Utah’s history, so that other girls still inside the church might be spared her cruel fate. More than a tale of survival and freedom, “Stolen Innocence” is the story of one heroic woman who stood up for what was right and reclaimed her life.
LC Classification Number
HQ994.W35A3 2008
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