Educated : a memoir / Tara Westover.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780525528050 (audiobook)
- ISBN: 9780525528050
- ISBN: 0525528059
- Physical Description: 10 audio discs (12 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
- Edition: Unabridged.
- Publisher: New York, NY : Random House Audio, [2018]
Content descriptions
General Note: | Title from container. Compact discs. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Choose the good -- The midwife -- Cream shoes -- Apache women -- Honest dirt -- Shield and buckler -- The Lord will provide -- Tiny harlots -- Perfect in his generations -- Shield of feathers -- Instinct -- Fish eyes -- Silence and the churches -- My feet no longer touch the earth -- No more a child -- Disloyal man, disobedient heaven -- To keep it holy -- Blood and feathers -- In the beginning -- Recitals of the fathers -- Skullcap -- What we whispered and what we screamed -- "I'm from Idaho" -- A knight, errant -- The work of sulphur -- Waiting for moving water -- If i were a woman -- Pygmalion -- Graduation -- The hand of the almighty -- Tragedy -- A brawling woman in a wide house -- Sorcery of physics -- The substance of things -- West of the sun -- Four long arms, whirling -- Gambling for redemption -- The family, morality, and social science -- The princess -- Educated. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Julia Whelan. |
Summary, etc.: | A searing, unforgettable memoir about a young girl who, raised by Mormon survivalists in the mountains of Idaho and forbidden to go to school, defies her family and earns a PhD from Cambridge University. |
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Genre: | Audiobooks. Autobiographies. |
Available copies
- 35 of 36 copies available at Bibliomation.
Holds
- 1 current hold with 36 total copies.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Beekley Community Library - New Hartford | CDBOOK 270.092 WESTOVER, T. (Text) | 32544072530420 | Adult Nonfiction CD | Available | - |
Booth & Dimock Library - Coventry | ACD BIO WESTOVER (Text) | 33260000367616 | Adult Book on CD | Available | - |
Brookfield Library | CD 270.092/WESTOVER (Text) | 34029142289213 | Adult Book on CD | In transit | - |
Burnham Library - Bridgewater | CDBOOK WESTOVER (Text) | 36937000620899 | Adult Audio Book | Available | - |
C.H. Booth Library - Newtown | CD BK B WESTOVER (Text) | 34014142307603 | Adult Book on CD | Available | - |
Chester Public Library | BCD BIO WESTOVER (Text) | 33210000505863 | Adult Fiction CD | Available | - |
Derby Neck Library | CD B WESTOVER (Text) | 34046146015907 | Adult Book on CD | Available | - |
Derby Public Library | BKCD B WES (Text) | 34047140406894 | Adult Book on CD | Available | - |
Douglas Library of Hebron | AUDIO CD 270.092 WESTOVER (Text) | 33400143227968 | Adult Nonfiction CD | Available | - |
Edith Wheeler Memorial Library - Monroe | AB 270.092 WESTOVER (Text) | 34026141131172 | Adult Nonfiction Audio Book | Available | - |
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Author Notes
Educated : A Memoir
Tara Westover is an American author, based in the U.K. She was born in Idaho in 1986 and led a sheltered childhood. Her father did not believe in public education. She worked with her parents, becoming a self-taught herbalist and midwife. She did not attend a school until age seventeen. From there, went on to graduate from Brigham Young University, magna cum laude (2008) and won a Gates Cambridge Scholarship. She graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge (2009) with a Master of Philosophy degree. She was a visiting fellow at Harvard University in 2010. Later, she went back to Cambridge University and earned a PhD in history (2014). Her first book is entitled, Educated: A Memoir. (Bowker Author Biography)