<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[author results for Lamott, Anne,]]></title><description><![CDATA[author results for Lamott, Anne,]]></description><link>https://gateway.bibliocommons.com/v2/libraries/skokielibrary/rss/search?query=Lamott%2C%20Anne%2C&amp;searchType=author&amp;origin=core-catalog-explore&amp;view=grouped</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 16:55:38 GMT</lastBuildDate><item><title><![CDATA[Somehow]]></title><description><![CDATA["Lamott explores the transformative power that love has in our lives: how it surprises us, forces us to confront uncomfortable truths, reminds us of our humanity, and guides us forward. "Love just won't be pinned down," she says. "It is in our very atmosphere" and lies at the heart of who we are. We are, Lamott says, creatures of love. In each chapter of Somehow, Lamott refracts all the colors of the spectrum. She explores the unexpected love for a partner later in life. The bruised (and bruising) love for a child who disappoints, even frightens. The sustaining love among a group of sinners, for a community in transition, in the wider world."-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C3345952</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C3345952</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lamott, Anne]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3345952133</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Thoughts on Love</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780593714416/MC.GIF&amp;client=skopl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bird by Bird]]></title><description><![CDATA["A warm, generous and hilarious guide through the writer's world and its treacherous swamps." —Los Angeles TimesAdvice on writing and on life from an acclaimed bestselling author: "Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report on birds written that he'd had three months to write. It was due the next day. We were out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at the kitchen table close to tears, surrounded by binder paper and pencils and unopened books on birds, immobilized by the hugeness of the task ahead. Then my father sat down beside him, put his arm around my brother's shoulder, and said, 'Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird.'"]]></description><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C2094717</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C2094717</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lamott, Anne]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2094717133</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle>Some Instructions on Writing and Life</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780307424983/MC.GIF&amp;client=skopl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bird by Bird]]></title><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C1062480</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C1062480</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lamott, Anne]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 1995 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1062480133</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Some Instructions on Writing and Life</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780385480017/MC.GIF&amp;client=skopl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Almost Everything]]></title><description><![CDATA[From the bestselling author of Hallelujah Anyway, Bird by Bird, and Help, Thanks, Wow, comes a new book about the place hope holds in our lives."I am stockpiling antibiotics for the Apocalypse, even as I await the blossoming of paperwhites on the windowsill in the kitchen," Anne Lamott admits at the beginning of Almost Everything. Despair and uncertainty surround us: in the news, in our families, and in ourselves. But even when life is at its bleakest—when we are, as she puts it, "doomed, stunned, exhausted, and over-caffeinated"—the seeds of rejuvenation are at hand. "All truth is paradox," Lamott writes, "and this turns out to be a reason for hope. If you arrive at a place in life that is miserable, it will change." That is the time when we must pledge not to give up but "to do what Wendell Berry wrote: 'Be joyful, though you have considered all the facts.'" In this profound and funny book, Lamott calls for each of us to rediscover the nuggets of hope and wisdom that are buried within us that can make life sweeter than we ever imagined. Divided into short chapters that explore life's essential truths, Almost Everything pinpoints these moments of insight as it shines an encouraging light forward. Candid and caring, insightful and sometimes hilarious, Almost Everything is the book we need and that only Anne Lamott can write.]]></description><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C2897983</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C2897983</guid><category><![CDATA[AB]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lamott, Anne]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2897983133</comments><format>AB</format><subtitle>Notes on Hope</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780525640547/MC.GIF&amp;client=skopl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hallelujah Anyway]]></title><description><![CDATA[The perfect gift for Mother's Day"Anne Lamott is my Oprah." —Chicago TribuneThe New York Times bestseller from the author of Hallelujah Anyway, Almost Everything and Bird by Bird, a powerful exploration of mercy and how we can embrace it. "Mercy is radical kindness," Anne Lamott writes in her enthralling and heartening book, Hallelujah Anyway. It's the permission you give others—and yourself—to forgive a debt, to absolve the unabsolvable, to let go of the judgment and pain that make life so difficult. In Hallelujah Anyway: Rediscovering Mercy Lamott ventures to explore where to find meaning in life. We should begin, she suggests, by "facing a great big mess, especially the great big mess of ourselves." It's up to each of us to recognize the presence and importance of mercy everywhere—"within us and outside us, all around us"—and to use it to forge a deeper understanding of ourselves and more honest connections with each other. While that can be difficult to do, Lamott argues that it's crucial, as "kindness towards others, beginning with myself, buys us a shot at a warm and generous heart, the greatest prize of all."  Full of Lamott's trademark honesty, humor and forthrightness, Hallelujah Anyway is profound and caring, funny and wise—a hopeful book of hands-on spirituality.]]></description><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C2698023</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C2698023</guid><category><![CDATA[AB]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lamott, Anne]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2698023133</comments><format>AB</format><subtitle>Rediscovering Mercy</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781524734930/MC.GIF&amp;client=skopl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Small Victories]]></title><description><![CDATA[From the bestselling author of Stitches and Help, Thanks, Wow comes her long-awaited collection of new and selected essays on hope, joy, and grace.Anne Lamott writes about faith, family, and community in essays that are both wise and irreverent. It's an approach that has become her trademark. Now in Small Victories, Lamott offers a new message of hope that celebrates the triumph of light over the darkness in our lives. Our victories over hardship and pain may seem small, she writes, but they change us--our perceptions, our perspectives, and our lives. Lamott writes of forgiveness, restoration, and transformation, how we can turn toward love even in the most hopeless situations, how we find the joy in getting lost and our amazement in finally being found.Profound and hilarious, honest and unexpected, the stories in Small Victories are proof that the human spirit is irrepressible.]]></description><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C2085005</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C2085005</guid><category><![CDATA[AB]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lamott, Anne]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2085005133</comments><format>AB</format><subtitle>Spotting Improbable Moments of Grace</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781101887530/MC.GIF&amp;client=skopl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stitches]]></title><description><![CDATA[From the bestselling author of  Help, Thanks, Wow  comes an honest, funny book about how to make sense of life's chaos.  What do we do when life lurches out of balance? How can we reconnect to one other and to what's truly important when evil and catastrophe seem inescapable? These questions lie at the heart of  Stitches , Anne Lamott's captivating follow-up to her  New York Times -bestselling  Help, Thanks, Wow.  In this book, Lamott explores how and where we find meaning in our modern, frantic age, especially after personal and public devastation; how we recapture peace and balance after loss; and how we locate our spiritual identities in these frazzled times. We begin, Lamott says, by collecting the ripped shreds of our emotional and spiritual fabric and sewing them back together, one stitch at a time. It's in these stitches that the quilt of life begins, and embedded in them are strength, warmth and humanity.]]></description><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C3227993</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C3227993</guid><category><![CDATA[AB]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lamott, Anne]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3227993133</comments><format>AB</format><subtitle>A Handbook on Meaning, Hope and Repair</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781101975336/MC.GIF&amp;client=skopl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grace (Eventually)]]></title><description><![CDATA[In Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith, Lamott examines the ways we're caught in life's most daunting predicaments: love, mothering, work, politics, and maybe toughest of all, evolving from who we are to who we were meant to be. This is a complicated process for most of us, and Lamott turns her wit and honesty inward to describe her own intimate, bumpy, and unconventional road to grace and faith. Whether she's writing about her unsuccessful efforts to get her money back from an obstinate carpet salesman, grappling with the tectonic shifts in her relationship with her son as he matures, trying to maintain her faith and humor during politically challenging times, or helping a close friend die with dignity, Lamott seeks out both the divinity and the humanity in herself and everything around her. Throughout these essays, she writes of her struggle to find the essence of her faith, which she uncovers in the unlikeliest places. By turns insightful and hilarious, pointed and poignant, Grace (Eventually) is Anne Lamott at her perceptive and irreverent best.]]></description><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C2501328</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C2501328</guid><category><![CDATA[AB]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lamott, Anne]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2501328133</comments><format>AB</format><subtitle>Thoughts on Faith</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781415938089/MC.GIF&amp;client=skopl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Almost Everything]]></title><description><![CDATA[From the bestselling author of Hallelujah Anyway, Bird by Bird, and Help, Thanks, Wow, comes a new book about the place hope holds in our lives."I am stockpiling antibiotics for the Apocalypse, even as I await the blossoming of paperwhites on the windowsill in the kitchen," Anne Lamott admits at the beginning of Almost Everything. Despair and uncertainty surround us: in the news, in our families, and in ourselves. But even when life is at its bleakest—when we are, as she puts it, "doomed, stunned, exhausted, and over-caffeinated"—the seeds of rejuvenation are at hand. "All truth is paradox," Lamott writes, "and this turns out to be a reason for hope. If you arrive at a place in life that is miserable, it will change." That is the time when we must pledge not to give up but "to do what Wendell Berry wrote: 'Be joyful, though you have considered all the facts.'" In this profound and funny book, Lamott calls for each of us to rediscover the nuggets of hope and wisdom that are buried within us that can make life sweeter than we ever imagined. Divided into short chapters that explore life's essential truths, Almost Everything pinpoints these moments of insight as it shines an encouraging light forward. Candid and caring, insightful and sometimes hilarious, Almost Everything is the book we need and that only Anne Lamott can write.]]></description><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C2898055</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C2898055</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lamott, Anne]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2898055133</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle>Notes on Hope</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780525537571/MC.GIF&amp;client=skopl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hallelujah Anyway]]></title><description><![CDATA[The perfect gift for Mother's Day"Anne Lamott is my Oprah." —Chicago TribuneThe New York Times bestseller from the author of Hallelujah Anyway, Almost Everything and Bird by Bird, a powerful exploration of mercy and how we can embrace it. "Mercy is radical kindness," Anne Lamott writes in her enthralling and heartening book, Hallelujah Anyway. It's the permission you give others—and yourself—to forgive a debt, to absolve the unabsolvable, to let go of the judgment and pain that make life so difficult. In Hallelujah Anyway: Rediscovering Mercy Lamott ventures to explore where to find meaning in life. We should begin, she suggests, by "facing a great big mess, especially the great big mess of ourselves." It's up to each of us to recognize the presence and importance of mercy everywhere—"within us and outside us, all around us"—and to use it to forge a deeper understanding of ourselves and more honest connections with each other. While that can be difficult to do, Lamott argues that it's crucial, as "kindness towards others, beginning with myself, buys us a shot at a warm and generous heart, the greatest prize of all."  Full of Lamott's trademark honesty, humor and forthrightness, Hallelujah Anyway is profound and caring, funny and wise—a hopeful book of hands-on spirituality.]]></description><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C2697904</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C2697904</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lamott, Anne]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2697904133</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle>Rediscovering Mercy</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780735213593/MC.GIF&amp;client=skopl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Small Victories]]></title><description><![CDATA[New York Times Bestseller From the bestselling author of Help, Thanks, Wow and Hallelujah Anyway comes her long-awaited collection of new and selected essays on hope, joy, and grace.Anne Lamott writes about faith, family, and community in essays that are both wise and irreverent. It's an approach that has become her trademark. Now in Small Victories, Lamott offers a new message of hope that celebrates the triumph of light over the darkness in our lives. Our victories over hardship and pain may seem small, she writes, but they change us—our perceptions, our perspectives, and our lives. Lamott writes of forgiveness, restoration, and transformation, how we can turn toward love even in the most hopeless situations, how we find the joy in getting lost and our amazement in finally being found.Profound and hilarious, honest and unexpected, the stories in Small Victories are proof that the human spirit is irrepressible.]]></description><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C2085062</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C2085062</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lamott, Anne]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2085062133</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle>Spotting Improbable Moments of Grace</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780698189744/MC.GIF&amp;client=skopl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Small Victories]]></title><description><![CDATA["Anne Lamott writes about community, family and faith in essays that are wise, irreverent, funny and poignant - a style that has become her trademark. Now in Small Victories, Lamott has once again written a brilliant and insightful book that offers a message of hope that celebrates the triumph of light over the darkness in our lives. Our victories over hardships and pain may be small, they may be infrequent, but they keep us going and they often come from the most unexpected places: within ourselves. Lamott shows how we can forgive thoughtless family members; spotlights the value of turning toward love even in the most hopeless situations (the death of a loved one, a cancer diagnosis), and shows how to find the joy in getting lost in traffic while racing to the aid of a sick friend. Insightful and irreverent, the stories in Small Victories are proof that the human spirit is resilient and irrepressible"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C1984152</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C1984152</guid><category><![CDATA[LPRINT]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lamott, Anne]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1984152133</comments><format>LPRINT</format><subtitle>Spotting Improbable Moments of Grace</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781410473462/MC.GIF&amp;client=skopl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stitches]]></title><description><![CDATA[Lamott explores how we find meaning and peace when life lurches out of balance; where we start again after personal and public devastation; how we recapture wholeness after loss; and how we locate our true identities in this frazzled age. We begin, Lamott says, by collecting the ripped shreds of our emotional and spiritual fabric and sewing them back together, one stitch at a time.]]></description><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C1869479</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C1869479</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lamott, Anne]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1869479133</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Handbook on Meaning, Hope and Repair</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781594632587/MC.GIF&amp;client=skopl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stitches]]></title><description><![CDATA[Look out for Anne's next book, Hallelujah Anyway, coming April 2017.New York Times Bestseller"Lamott's ...most insightful book yet, Stitches offers plenty of her characteristic witty wisdom...this slim, readable volume [is] a lens on life, widening and narrowing, encouraging each reader to reflect on what it is, after all, that really matters."—People What do we do when life lurches out of balance? How can we reconnect to one other and to what's sustaining, when evil and catastrophe seem inescapable? These questions lie at the heart of Stitches, Lamott's profound follow-up to her New York Times–bestselling Help, Thanks, Wow. In this book Lamott explores how we find meaning and peace in these loud and frantic times; where we start again after personal and public devastation; how we recapture wholeness after loss; and how we locate our true identities in this frazzled age. We begin, Lamott says, by collecting the ripped shreds of our emotional and spiritual fabric and sewing them back together, one stitch at a time. It's in these stitches that the quilt of life begins, and embedded in them are strength, warmth, humor, and humanity.From the Hardcover edition.]]></description><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C2870920</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C2870920</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lamott, Anne]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2870920133</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle>A Handbook on Meaning, Hope and Repair</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780698147850/MC.GIF&amp;client=skopl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stitches]]></title><description><![CDATA["Lamott's ...most insightful book yet, Stitches offers plenty of her characteristic witty wisdom...this slim, readable volume [is] a lens on life, widening and narrowing, encouraging each reader to reflect on what it is, after all, that really matters."—People  What do we do when life lurches out of balance? How can we reconnect to one other and to what's sustaining, when evil and catastrophe seem inescapable?  These questions lie at the heart of Stitches, Lamott's profound follow-up to her New York Times–bestselling Help, Thanks, Wow. In this book Lamott explores how we find meaning and peace in these loud and frantic times; where we start again after personal and public devastation; how we recapture wholeness after loss; and how we locate our true identities in this frazzled age. We begin, Lamott says, by collecting the ripped shreds of our emotional and spiritual fabric and sewing them back together, one...]]></description><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C1899168</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C1899168</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lamott, Anne]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1899168133</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle>A Handbook on Meaning, Hope and Repair</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780698147850/MC.GIF&amp;client=skopl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some Assembly Required]]></title><description><![CDATA[The author and her son chronicle his first year as a teenage father and her journey as a mother and new grandmother, describing their respective experiences with changing roles, the baby's mother, and poignant family losses.]]></description><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C1696086</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C1696086</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lamott, Anne]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1696086133</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Journal of My Son&apos;s First Son</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781594488412/MC.GIF&amp;client=skopl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Help, Thanks, Wow]]></title><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C1737752</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C1737752</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lamott, Anne]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1737752133</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>The Three Essential Prayers</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781594631290/MC.GIF&amp;client=skopl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Help, Thanks, Wow]]></title><description><![CDATA[The New York Times bestseller from the author of Hallelujah Anyway, Bird by Bird, and Almost EverythingAuthor Anne Lamott writes about the three simple prayers essential to coming through tough times, difficult days and the hardships of daily life.Readers of all ages have followed and cherished Anne Lamott's funny and perceptive writing about her own faith through decades of trial and error. And in her new book, Help, Thanks, Wow, she has coalesced everything she knows about prayer to these fundamentals.It is these three prayers – asking for assistance from a higher power, appreciating what we have that is good, and feeling awe at the world around us – that can get us through the day and can show us the way forward. In Help, Thanks, Wow, Lamott recounts how she came to these insights, explains what they mean to her and how they have helped, and explores how others have embraced these same ideas.Insightful and honest as only Anne Lamott can be, Help, Thanks, Wow is the everyday faith book that new Lamott readers will love and longtime Lamott fans will treasure.]]></description><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C2617949</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C2617949</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lamott, Anne]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2617949133</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle>The Three Essential Prayers</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781101607732/MC.GIF&amp;client=skopl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Operating Instructions]]></title><description><![CDATA[With the same brilliant combination of humor and warmth she brought to bestseller  Bird by Bird  ,  Anne Lamott gives us a smart, funny, and comforting chronicle of single motherhood. It's not like she's the only woman to ever have a baby. At thirty-five. On her own. But Anne Lamott makes it all fresh in her now-classic account of how she and her son and numerous friends and neighbors and some strangers survived and thrived in that all important first year. From finding out that her baby is a boy (and getting used to the idea) to finding out that her best friend and greatest supporter Pam will die of cancer (and not getting used to that idea), with a generous amount of wit and faith (but very little piousness), Lamott narrates the great and small events that make up a woman's life. "Lamott has a conversational style that perfectly conveys her friendly, self-depricating humor." —  Los Angeles Times Book Review   "Lamott is a wonderfully lithe writer .... Anyone who has ever had a hard time facing a perfectly ordinary day will identify." —  Chicago Tribune]]></description><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C2971956</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C2971956</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lamott, Anne]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2971956133</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle>A Journal of My Son&apos;s First Year</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780307761033/MC.GIF&amp;client=skopl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imperfect Birds]]></title><description><![CDATA[Rosie Ferguson is seventeen and ready to enjoy the summer before her senior year of high school. But as the school year draws to a close, there are disturbing signs that the life Rosie claims to be leading is a sham, and that Elizabeth's hopes for her daughter to remain immune from the pull of the darker impulses of drugs and alcohol are dashed. Now, Elizabeth is forced to confront the fact that Rosie has been lying to her, and that her deceptions will have profound consequences.]]></description><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C1616057</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C1616057</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lamott, Anne]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1616057133</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781594487514/MC.GIF&amp;client=skopl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grace (eventually)]]></title><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C1512169</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C1512169</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lamott, Anne]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1512169133</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Thoughts on Faith</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781594489426/MC.GIF&amp;client=skopl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Plan B]]></title><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C1447892</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C1447892</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lamott, Anne]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2005 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1447892133</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Further Thoughts on Faith</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781573222990/MC.GIF&amp;client=skopl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Operating Instructions]]></title><description><![CDATA[It's not like she's the only woman to ever have a baby. At thirty-five. On her own. But Anne Lamott makes it all fresh in her now-classic account of how she and her son and numerous friends and neighbors and some strangers survived and thrived in that all important first year. From finding out that her baby is a boy (and getting used to the idea) to finding out that her best friend and greatest supporter Pam will die of cancer (and not getting used to that idea), with a generous amount of wit and faith (but very little piousness), Lamott narrates the great and small events that make up a woman's life.--Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C1870209</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C1870209</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lamott, Anne]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2005 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1870209133</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Journal of My Son&apos;s First Year</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781400079094/MC.GIF&amp;client=skopl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blue Shoe]]></title><description><![CDATA[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. They seem to hold the secrets to her messy upbringing, and as she and her brother follow these clues to uncover the mystery of their past, she begins to open her heart to her difficult, brittle mother and the father she thought she knew. And with that acceptance comes an opening up to the possibilities of romantic love.]]></description><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C3364834</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C3364834</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lamott, Anne]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2003 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3364834133</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781573223423/MC.GIF&amp;client=skopl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Traveling Mercies]]></title><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C1600135</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C1600135</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lamott, Anne]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2000 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1600135133</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Some Thoughts on Faith</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780385496094/MC.GIF&amp;client=skopl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item></channel></rss>