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[2016]
Summary
The Quarry, by Sally Rice, is a riveting, true story of a single mother's desperate efforts to protect her children from a cunning child molester, who lived in her home and slept in her bed. Interwoven in The Quarry's storyline is the further tragedy that Sally experiences as she is vilified by the legal system, labeled a "terrorist, " arrested, and sentenced to jail, for seeking to protect her children.
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870L
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Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches and sleeping with her "head-for-the-hills bag." In the summer she stewed herbs for her mother, a midwife and healer, and in the winter she salvaged in her father's junkyard. Her father distrusted the medical establishment, so Tara never saw a doctor or nurse....
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