Amanda Lindhout

Sara Corbett

The dramatic and redemptive memoir of a woman whose curiosity led her to the world’s most beautiful and remote places, its most imperiled and perilous countries, and then into fifteen months of harrowing captivity—an exquisitely written story of courage, resilience, and grace 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. When she is most desperate, she visits a house in the sky, high above the woman kept in chains, in the dark, being tortured. Vivid and suspenseful, as artfully written as the finest novel, A House in the Sky is the searingly intimate story of an intrepid young woman and her search for compassion in the face of unimaginable adversity.

A House in the Sky

Musical instruments from around the world. Illus. col. photos. 32p. 8-12 yrs.

Shake, Rattle, and Strum

Describes various ways in which people interact with animals, including pets, animals as symbols of power and wealth, religious beliefs about animals, the use of animals for food, clothing, shelter, and transportation, working animals, animal entertainments, and endangered species

Animals and Us

When in 2008 a young, somewhat naive young Canadian freelance journalist travelled to Somalia, neither she, not anyone could have expected the trials that awaited her. Held at gunpoint in the capital Mogadishu in August 2008 by a group of teenage Islamic extremists, she and three of her crew were taken hostage. Captive for 460 days in horrifying conditions, tortured, chained in an animal shed, emaciated and almost losing the will to live, Amanda and her kidnap dominated the world's media. Finally rescued and disturbed by what had befallen her, Amanda struggled to cope. In her gripping, harrowing memoir of her time in captivity she details her terrifying ordeal but offers an uplifting and optimistic message - that courage and bravery saw one woman survive a journey into hell.

A Memoir of a Kidnapping That Changed Everything

A look at the talented athletes who won the Gold in women's basketball at the 1996 Olympics.

A Gold-medal Year in Women's Basketball

Venus to the Hoop

In the spring of 1995, twelve extraordinary basketball players were chosen to represent the United States in the year-long march to the 1996 Olympics. For Rebecca Lobo, Sheryl Swoopes, Lisa Leslie, and their teammates, winning the gold medal was only one of many goals. Around them swirled the dreams of the millions of young girls who played organized basketball, the hopes of the fans who sent the team an average of 125 pounds of fan mail each month, the multimillion-dollar bets of Nike, Champion, and other corporate sponsors, the promise of a new women's professional league, and not least, the hopes of female athletes across the country to gain the respect accorded male athletes. These women upon whom so much pressure rested included a runway model (who also happened to be one of the few women players able to dunk), a forward who barely survived a car accident that left her in coma, a collegiate sensation struggling to live up to her rep and her huge marketing contract from Reebok, a superstar known as "the female Michael Jordan," and a controversial, unrelenting coach. Nine of the women were black; three were white. Some were married, some single; some outspoken, some painfully shy. Some were rivals, some fast friends. How they came together, both on and off the court, is the subject of this wonderful celebration of the female athlete.

A Gold Medal Year in Women's Basketball

Het aangrijpende en inspirerende verhaal van een oorlogscorrespondente over haar gijzeling in Somalië Amanda droomt er als klein meisje in Canada al van om over de wereld te reizen. Vanaf haar twintigste trekt ze als backpacker door Latijns-Amerika en Azië, en een paar jaar later begint ze in het door oorlog verscheurde Afghanistan en Irak een carrière als verslaggeefster. In 2008 vertrekt ze naar Somalië, `het gevaarlijkste land ter wereld en daarmee voor een jonge, gedreven correspondente de uitgelezen plek om naam te maken. Maar vier dagen na aankomst wordt ze op een zanderige weg gegijzeld door een groep gemaskerde mannen. Amanda wordt 460 dagen gegijzeld, verplaatst van het ene naar het andere verlaten huis en ze weet te overleven door de kracht van haar herinneringen, vastberadenheid en hoop. En door zichzelf op de gruwelijkste momenten in `een huis in de hemel voor te stellen, hoog boven de vrouw die geketend in het donker wordt gemarteld. Een huis in de hemel is het ongelooflijke, rauwe en intieme verhaal van een jonge, onverschrokken vrouw en haar zoektocht naar compassie in tijden van onvoorstelbare rampspoed. `Een huis in de hemel is een van de indrukwekkendste boeken die ik ooit gelezen heb. Aangrijpend, rauw, hoopvol, subtiel en echt. Een verhaal over menselijkheid en onmenselijkheid. Prachtig, afschuwelijk en heldhaftig tegelijk. Elizabeth Gilbert, schrijfster van Eten, bidden, beminnen `Een aangrijpend boek dat Lindhouts innerlijke kracht en de moed om te vergeven toont. Eckhart Tolle Amanda Lindhout (1981) is oprichtster van de non-profitorganisatie Global Enrichment Foundation, die zich inzet voor de ontwikkeling van Somalië en Kenia. Coauteur Sara Corbett is schrijfster voor The New York Times Magazine. Haar werk verschijnt ook in National Geographic, ELLE, Outside, Esquire en O:The Oprah Magazine.

Een huis in de hemel

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