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MY LIFE IN MIDDLEMARCH
MEAD, REBECCA
Rebecca Mead was a young woman in a coastal town of England when she first read George Eliot's
Middlemarch. After gaining admission to Oxford, and moving to the United States to become a journalist,
through several love affairs and then marriage and family, Rebecca Mead reread Middlemarch. The
novel, which Virginia Woolf famously described as "one of the few English novels written for grown-up
people," offered Mead something that modern life and literature did not. In this wise and revealing work of
biography, reporting, and memoir, Rebecca Mead leads the reader into the life that her favorite book
made for her, as well as the many lives the novel has led since it was written. Employing a structure that
perfectly mirrors that of the novel, My Life in Middlemarch takes the themes of Eliot's novel and brings
them into the world. Offering both a fascinating reading of Eliot's biography and an uncanny portrait of the
ways in which Mead's life echoes that of the author herself, My Life in Middlemarch is a book for every
ardent reader who wonders about the power of literature to shape our lives.
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9780385676861
$24.95 HC
JANUARY 2014
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256 PAGES
MY STORY
SMART, ELIZABETH
On June 5, 2002, fourteen-year-old Elizabeth Smart, the daughter of a close-knit Mormon family, was
taken from her home in the middle of the night by religious fanatic, Brian David Mitchell and his wife,
Wanda Barzee. She was kept chained, dressed in disguise, repeatedly raped, and told she and her family
would be killed if she tried to escape. After her rescue on March 12, 2003, she rejoined her family and
worked to pick up the pieces of her life. Now for the first time, in her memoir, MY STORY, she tells of the
constant fear she endured every hour, her courageous determination to maintain hope, and how she
devised a plan to manipulate her captors and convinced them to return to Utah, where she was rescued
minutes after arriving. Smart explains how her faith helped her stay sane in the midst of a nightmare and
how she found the strength to confront her captors at their trial and see that justice was served. In the
nine years after her rescue, Smart transformed from victim to advocate, traveling the country and working
to educate, inspire and foster change. She has created a foundation to help prevent crimes against
children and is a frequent public speaker. In 2012, she married Matthew Gilmour, whom she met doing
mission work in Paris for her church, in a fairy tale wedding that made the cover of People magazine.
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320 PAGES
9781250040152
$29.99 HC
OCTOBER 2013
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