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Wariner, Ruth.

Summary: The true story of one girl's coming-of-age in a polygamist family. Ruth Wariner was the thirty-ninth of her father's forty-two children. Growing up on a farm in rural Mexico, where authorities turn a blind eye to the practices of her community, Ruth lives in a ramshackle house without indoor plumbing or electricity. At church, preachers teach that God will punish the wicked by destroying the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WARINER, RUTH WAR

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio Wariner

LeBaron, Anna

Summary: "My father had more than fifty children."So begins the haunting memoir of Anna LeBaron, daughter of the notorious polygamist and murderer Ervil LeBaron. With her father wanted by the FBI for killing anyone who tried to leave his cult--a radical branch of Mormonism--Anna and her siblings were constantly on the run with the other sister-wives. Often starving and always desperate, the children...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: CD 921 LEBARON, ANNA LEB

LeBaron, Anna

Summary: "'My father had more than fifty children.' So begins the haunting memoir of Anna LeBaron, daughter of the notorious polygamist and murderer Ervil LeBaron. With her father wanted by the FBI for killing anyone who tried to leave his cult -- a radical branch of Mormonism -- Anna and her siblings were constantly on the run with the other sister-wives. Often starving and always desperate, the...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 921 LEBARON, ANNA Bar

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