Anne Lamott, Author North Point Press $16.95 (166p) ISBN 978-0-86547-394-2
Confirming the talent evinced in Rosie (and somewhat obscured by the excessively arch tone of her last novel, Joe Jones ), Lamott here achieves her promising potential in a novel of rare sensitivity and evocative power. The rueful, elegiac tone of...
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Anne Lamott. Riverhead, $20 (224p) ISBN 978-0-593-18969-6
Bestseller Lamott (Almost Everything) explores the relationships between personal anxieties and larger social concerns in these quiet, often darkly humorous reflections. Citing recent “crushing developments” in UN reports on the effects of climate...
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Anne Lamott. Random House, $22 trade paper (307p) ISBN 978-1-984827-60-9
Lamott (Hallelujah, Anyway) shares wisdom on truth and paradox in this comforting book of reflections inspired by the current social and political climate. “In general, it doesn’t feel like the light is making a lot of progress,” she writes. Each...
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Anne Lamott. Riverhead, $20 (192p) ISBN 978-0-7352-1358-6
With her trademark humor and candor, Lamott (Help, Thanks, Wow) explores the scriptural imperative from Old Testament Prophet Micah to “love mercy,” reviewing both the difficulties and the life-changing rewards of obeying this mandate. Casting a...
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Anne Lamott. Riverhead, $22.95 (304p) ISBN 978-1-59448-629-6
Lamott (Help, Thanks, Wow) returns with an essay collection that tackles tough subjects with sensitive and unblinking honesty. Her subject matter is often dark, deriving from the travails of aging and mortality that Lamott, who is now 60, has...
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Anne Lamott. Riverhead, $17.95 (112p) ISBN 978-1-59463-258-7
Lamott's (Help, Thanks, Wow) latest inspirational title explores how we can find significance in the face of pain or disaster. Readers are guided by an older, wiser Lamott than we met 20 years ago, when Operating Instructions was published. This...
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Anne Lamott. Riverhead, $17.95 trade paper (112p) ISBN 978-1-59463-129-0
Lamott lovers get an extra treat this year even though the popular writer has already birthed a memoir about grandparenting (Some Assembly Required). Her newest will be a stocking stuffer for fans. It’s small and very focused on God, who is clearly...
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Anne Lamott, Author . Riverhead $24.95 (304p) ISBN 978-1-57322-226-6
Memoirist and novelist Lamott (Operating Instructions; Crooked Little Heart,
etc.) brilliantly captures the dilemma of a divorced woman from the so-called "sandwich generation" in her latest, a funny, poignant and occasionally gut-wrenching...
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Anne Lamott, Author Pantheon Books $24 (326p) ISBN 978-0-679-43521-1
Before she won deserved acclaim for her two recent nonfiction books, Operating Instructions and Bird by Bird, Lamott wrote Rosie, an enchanting novel whose eponymous protagonist is a nine-year-old girl whose father dies suddenly and whose mother...
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Anne Lamott, Author Pantheon Books $23 (288p) ISBN 978-0-679-44240-0
A key moment in the step-by-step spiritual awakening of the author came to her as a freshman in college when an impassioned professor taught her Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling. Raised by her bohemian California family to believe only in ""books...
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Anne Lamott, Author Pantheon Books $23 (272p) ISBN 978-0-679-43520-4
Lamott's ( Operating Instructions ) miscellany of guidance and reflection should appeal to writers struggling with demons large and slight. Among the pearls she offers is to start small, as their father once advised her 10-year-old brother, who was...
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Anne Lamott, Author Pantheon Books $21 (251p) ISBN 978-0-679-42091-0
Magazine columnist and novelist Lamott ( All New People ) captures both the poignancy and comedy of her first year as a single mother in this wonderfully candid diary. Her quirky humor steadily draws the reader into her unconventional world as she...
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Anne Lamott, Author . Riverhead $25.95 (288p) ISBN 978-1-59448-751-4
Rosie Ferguson, the young heroine of Lamott’s Rosie
and Crooked Little Heart
, almost succumbs to the drug culture in this unsparing look at teenagers and parents who walk the tightrope between all-encompassing love and impotent fury. The...
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Anne Lamott, Author . Riverhead $24.95 (253p) ISBN 978-1-59448-942-6
It would be easy to mistake this book for more of the same. Like Lamott's earlier spiritual nonfiction, Traveling Mercies
and Plan B
, it's a collection of essays, mostly previously published. The three books have strikingly similar covers...
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Anne Lamott, Author . Riverhead $24.95 (336p) ISBN 978-1-57322-299-0
Five years after her bestselling Traveling Mercies
, Lamott sends us 24 fresh dispatches from the frontier of her life and her Christian faith. To hear her tell it, neither the state of the country nor the state of her nerves has improved, to say...
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Anne Lamott, Author, Anne Lamott, Read by Random House Audio Publishing Group $25 (0p) ISBN 978-0-375-40597-6
Lamott (Bird by Bird) reads a collection of her autobiographical essays, each a heart-wrenching detailing of a life grown up in a world of obsessions: food, alcohol, drugs and relationships. She tells of her childhood and early adulthood in Tiburon,
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Anne Lamott, read by the author. Penguin Audio, unabridged, two CDs, 1.75 hrs., $17.95 ISBN 978-1-61176-237-2
Sometimes, life takes you off a cliff. What to do when this happens? How should one, for instance, deal with devastating losses? How can one live a meaningful life when one is buffeted by a world of intense emotional pain? Lamott's self-help book...
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Anne Lamott with Sam Lamott. Riverhead, $26.95 (288p) ISBN 978-1-59448-841-2
In Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son’s First Year (1993), Lamott humorously and poignantly chronicled the sometimes painful, often joyful ups and downs of raising her son, Sam, as a single mother. Twenty years later, when Sam announces...
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Anne Lamott, Author, Laural Merlington, Read by , read by Laural Merlington. Brilliance Audio $38.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-59086-354-1
Anyone familiar with Lamott's writing knows her strength is the portrayal of daily life: mothers raising children, lost love, ill parents and more. Mattie, recently separated from her husband, has moved back to the home she grew up in. She...
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Anne Lamott. Riverhead, $22 (208p) ISBN 978-0-593-71441-6
Lamott (Dusk, Night, Dawn) brings her signature wit and warmth to these effervescent meditations on matters of the heart. Drawing from across her life, Lamott details how seemingly lost love can be transmuted into different forms, recalling how...
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