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Genre/Form: | Nonfiction Autobiographies Biographies Biography |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Wall, Elissa. Stolen innocence. New York : William Morrow, ©2008 (OCoLC)681148156 |
Named Person: | Elissa Wall; Warren Jeffs; Warren Jeffs; Warren Jeffs; Elissa Wall; Elissa Wall; Warren Jeffs |
Material Type: | Biography |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Elissa Wall; Lisa Pulitzer |
ISBN: | 9780061628016 0061628018 9780061715198 0061715190 9780061668371 0061668370 |
OCLC Number: | 223505308 |
Description: | x, 438 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, portraits (chiefly color) ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Prologue -- Part 1: -- 1: New mother -- 2: Growing up and keeping sweet -- 3: Good priesthood children -- 4: In light and truth -- 5: Rise of Warren -- 6: Out of control -- 7: Reassignment -- 8: Preparing for Zion -- 9: Revelation is made -- 10: Celestial law -- 11: Word of the prophet -- 12: Man and wife -- 13: All alone -- Part 2: -- 14: Survival begins -- 15: Destruction is upon us -- 16: Death comes to short creek -- 17: False prophet -- 18: Refuge in Canada -- 19: Nowhere to run -- 20: Pair of headlights -- 21: Promise not to tell -- 22: Story like mine -- 23: Love at last -- 24: Choosing my future -- Part 3: -- 25: New beginnings -- 26: Coming forward -- 27: Captured -- 28: Facing Warren -- 29: Trial begins -- 30: End is in sight -- 31: I am free -- Epilogue -- Author's note -- Acknowledgments. |
Responsibility: | Elissa Wall with Lisa Pulitzer. |
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Abstract:
Elissa Wall details her life growing up in the polygamous Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints religious sect, being forced into an unwanted marriage at the age of 14, and her courage to testify against FLDS leader Warren Jeffs.--From publisher description.
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- Wall, Elissa.
- Jeffs, Warren, -- 1955-
- Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
- Forced marriage -- United States.
- Abused wives -- United States -- Biography.
- Marriage -- Religious aspects -- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
- Mormons -- United States -- Biography.
- Polygamy -- United States.
- Abused wives.
- Forced marriage.
- Marriage -- Religious aspects -- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
- Mormons.
- Polygamy.
- United States.
- Abused women -- Biography.
- Wife abuse -- United States.
- Teenage marriage -- United States.
- Marriage -- Religious aspects -- Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
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