Lamott, Anne

"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 . . . pinpoints these moments of insight as it shines an encouraging light forward"--Publisher.

Discusses three essential Christian prayers and what they have meant to people over the years.

Here, Anne Lamott enters a new and unexpected chapter of her own life: grandmotherhood. Stunned to learn that her son, Sam, is about to become a father at nineteen, Lamott begins a journal about the first year of her grandson Jax's life. In careful and often hilarious detail, Lamott and Sam--about whom she first wrote so movingly in Operating Instructions--struggle to balance their changing roles with the demands of college and work, as they both forge new relationships with Jax's mother, who has her own ideas about how to raise a child. Lamott writes about the complex feelings that Jax fosters in her, recalling her own experiences with Sam when she was a single mother. Over the course of the year, the rhythms of life, death, family, and friends unfold in surprising and joyful ways. This is the true story of how the birth of a baby changes a family.

Novelist Anne Lamott presents contemplative essays on the challenges--including the everyday and the life-changing--she has faced in her faith as a Christian.

The author describes the lifelong process through which she came to believe in God, discussing the battles she fought with alcohol, food disorders, and the loss of loved ones, and following her search for the spiritual path.

A collection of journal entries in which writer Anne Lamott chronicles the first year of her son's life.

Thirteen-year-old tennis champion Rosie Ferguson, her mother Elizabeth, and her stepfather James, all struggle with their own heartbreaks along the road to becoming a united family.

Twenty-three-year-old Jennifer, a writer and sometimes housecleaner, is swept up into an emotional wake, along with her two brothers, self-contained Ben and lovable Randy, when their beloved father, Wallace, is diagnosed with a brain tumor.

The discovery of a small blue rubber shoe and other trifles left years ago in her deceased father's car, sends Mattie Ryder and her brother on a quest to uncover the secrets of their childhood, and brings Mattie, in the throes of divorce and single motherhood, to a new understanding of her parents and herself.