- Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith by Anne Lamott, ISBN 0385496095 - Anne Lamott claims the two best prayers she knows are: "Help me, help me, help me" and "Thank you, thank you, thank you." She has a friend whose morning prayer each day is "Whatever," and whose evening prayer is "Oh, well." Anne thinks of...
- Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year - 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...
- Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott, ISBN 0385480016 - "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, surr...
- Mennonite in a Little Black Dress: A Memoir of Going Home - In the spirit of Anne Lamott and Nora Ephron comes Janze's hilarious and moving memoir about a woman who returns home to her close-knit Mennonite family after a personal crisis.