A house in the sky : a memoir
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Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, 2013.
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9781410463791, 1410463796
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Published
Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, 2013.
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Large Print
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653 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
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English
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9781410463791, 1410463796

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As a child, Amanda Lindhout escaped a violent household by paging through issues of National Geographic and imagining herself in its exotic locales. At the age of nineteen, working as a cocktail waitress in Calgary, Alberta, she began saving her tips so she could travel the globe. Aspiring to understand the world and live a significant life, she backpacked through Latin America, Laos, Bangladesh, and India, and emboldened by each adventure, went on to Sudan, Syria, and Pakistan. In war-ridden Afghanistan and Iraq she carved out a fledgling career as a television reporter. And then, in August 2008, she traveled to Somalia -- "the most dangerous place on earth." On her fourth day, she was abducted by a group of masked men along a dusty road. Held hostage for 460 days, Amanda converts to Islam as a survival tactic, receives "wife lessons" from one of her captors, and risks a daring escape. Moved between a series of abandoned houses in the desert, she survives on memory -- every lush detail of the world she experienced in her life before captivity -- and on strategy, fortitude, and hope. Kept in chains, starved and abused, she survives by imagining herself in a "house in the sky," finding strength and hope in the power of her own mind.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Lindhout, A., & Corbett, S. (2013). A house in the sky: a memoir (Large print edition.). Thorndike Press.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Lindhout, Amanda and Sara, Corbett. 2013. A House in the Sky: A Memoir. Thorndike Press.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Lindhout, Amanda and Sara, Corbett. A House in the Sky: A Memoir Thorndike Press, 2013.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Lindhout, Amanda,, and Sara Corbett. A House in the Sky: A Memoir Large print edition., Thorndike Press, 2013.

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