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Educated [sound recording] : a memoir / Tara Westover ; read by Julia Whelan.

Westover, Tara, (author.). Whelan, Julia, 1984- (narrator.).

Summary:

Traces the author's experiences as a child born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, describing her participation in her family's paranoid stockpiling activities and her resolve to educate herself well enough to earn acceptance into a prestigious university and the unfamiliar world beyond.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780525528050
  • ISBN: 0525528059
  • Physical Description: 10 sound discs (12 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
  • Edition: Unabridged.
  • Publisher: New York, New York : Random House Audio, [2018]

Content descriptions

General Note:
Cover subtitle.
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 in the churches -- My feet no longer touch 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 then farce -- 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 -- Family -- Watching the buffalo -- Educated.
Participant or Performer Note:
Read by Julia Whelan.
System Details Note:
CD audio.
Subject: Westover, Tara > Family.
Women > Idaho > Biography.
Survivalism > Idaho > Biography.
Home schooling > Idaho > Anecdotes.
Women college students > United States > Biography.
Victims of family violence > Idaho > Biography.
Subculture > Idaho.
Christian biography.
Idaho > Rural conditions > Anecdotes.
Idaho > Biography.
Genre: Audiobooks.
Autobiographies.

Available copies

  • 8 of 9 copies available at Sage Library System.

Holds

  • 1 current hold with 9 total copies.
Show Only Available Copies
Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Circulation Modifier Status Due Date Courses
Baker Halfway Branch 920 .W536e 2018 (Text) 37814003200665 AUDIO - NEW Available -
Baker Richland Branch 920 .W536e 2018 (Text) 37814003210102 AUDIO - NEW Available -
Cook Memorial Library - La Grande CD 270.092 W536 (Text) 35178001736639 Audio Available -
Grant County Library 920 WESTOVER (Text) 37845000545165 Audio Available -
Hood River County Library CD 921 WESTOVER (Text) 33892100539981 Adult Audiobooks Checked out 04/18/2025
Ontario Community Library CD. 921 WESTO (Text) 33330004391092 CD Available -
Paisley Branch Library CD 270.092 WESTOVER (Text) 37620000901167 Adult Audiobook Available -
Stanfield Public Library CD 921 WES (Text) 37875000113730 Audio Available -
Wallowa Public Library AUD WES 10 CDS (Text) 30004000242087 Audiobooks Available -


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