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Educated [compact disc] : a memoir / Tara Westover.

by Westover, Tara, author.

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New York, NY : Random House Audio, [2018]

Westover, Tara -- Family.

Women -- Idaho -- Biography.

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Home schooling -- Idaho -- Anecdotes.

Women college students -- United States -- Biography.

Victims of family violence -- Idaho -- Biography.

Subculture -- Idaho.

Idaho -- Rural conditions -- Anecdotes.

Idaho -- Biography.

9780525528050 :

10 audio discs (approximately 12 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.

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. Her father distrusted the medical establishment, so Tara never saw a doctor or nurse. Gashes and concussions, even burns from explosions, were all treated at home with herbalism. 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 an older brother became violent. When another brother got himself into college and came back with news of the world beyond the mountain, Tara decided to try a new kind of life. She taught herself enough mathematics, grammar, and science to take the ACT and was admitted to Brigham Young University. There, she studied psychology, politics, philosophy, and history, learning for the first time about pivotal world events like the Holocaust and the Civil Rights Movement. Her quest for knowledge transformed her, taking her over oceans and across continents, to Harvard and to Cambridge University. Only then would she wonder if she'd traveled too far, if there was still a way home.

Alex Awards, 2019.

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Location	Collection	Call No.	Copy	Status	Due Date
Kailua Public Library	CD -- Compact Disc	Book on CD		Checked out	07/08/2024	Add Copy to MyList
Kailua-Kona Public Library	CD -- Compact Disc	CD/Bk B Westover We	10 discs	Checked In		Add Copy to MyList
Kaimuki Public Library	CD -- Compact Disc	CD 270.92 Westover We	[audiobook]	Checked In		Add Copy to MyList
Kalihi-Palama Public Library	CD -- Compact Disc	CD-NF	[Audiobook]	Checked In		Add Copy to MyList
Laupahoehoe P/S Library	CD -- Compact Disc	B Westover We	audio bk	Checked In		Add Copy to MyList
Makawao Public Library	CD -- Compact Disc	CD ANF Westover	10 Discs	Checked In		Add Copy to MyList
Mililani Public Library	CD -- Compact Disc	CD B Westover	audiobk	Checked In		Add Copy to MyList
Nanakuli Public Library	CD -- Compact Disc	CD 270.092 Westover We	[Audiobook]	Checked In		Add Copy to MyList
Thelma Parker Memorial P/S Library	CD -- Compact Disc	CD BIO Westover Wes		Checked In		Add Copy to MyList
Wailuku Public Library	CD -- Compact Disc	CD B Westover We	10 Discs	Checked In		Add Copy to MyList

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