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Cover Image of Educated
  • Book Club Set
  • [book club set]unmediated
  • 2018
  • First Canadian edition.

Educated

a memoir

Tara Westover

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The author recounts her life growing up with her survivalist Mormon family in Idaho. She lacked any formal education, but began to educate herself and taught herself enough to be admitted to Brigham Young University and then Cambridge.

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  • Westover, Tara
  • Women--Idaho--Biography
  • Idaho--Rural conditions
  • Westover, Tara--Family
  • Mormons--Idaho--Biography
  • Idaho--Biography
  • Survivalism--Idaho
  • Home schooling--Idaho
  • Women college students--United States--Biography
  • Victims of family violence--Idaho--Biography
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On loan until: 17/Mar/21 Central Branch Book Club
On loan until: 17/Mar/21
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On loan until: 06/Apr/21 Isabel Turner Branch Book Club
On loan until: 06/Apr/21
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Title Statement Educated: a memoir / [book club set] : Tara Westover.
Author Westover, Tara
Publication Toronto, Ontario: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd.,[2018]©2018
Edition First Canadian edition.
Extent of Item xv, 334 pages
ISBN 1443452483 (pbk.)
9781443452489 (pbk.)
Other Number 3262052
Summary The author recounts her life growing up with her survivalist Mormon family in Idaho. She lacked any formal education, but began to educate herself and taught herself enough to be admitted to Brigham Young University and then Cambridge.
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By Topic Women--Biography--Idaho
Mormons--Biography--Idaho
Survivalism--Idaho
Home schooling--Idaho
Women college students--Biography--United States
Victims of family violence--Biography--Idaho
By Name Westover, Tara
Westover, Tara--Family
By Location Idaho--Rural conditions
Idaho--Biography
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