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Frank Schaeffer
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Frank Schaeffer
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How I Grew Up as One of the Elect, Helped Found the Religious Right, and Lived to Take All (or Almost All) of it Back
By the time he was 19, Frank Schaeffer’s parents, Francis and Edith Schaeffer, had achieved global fame as best-selling evangelical authors and speakers, and Frank had joined his father on the evangelical circuit. He would go on to speak before thousands in arenas around America, publish his own evangelical best seller, and work with such figures as Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, and Dr. James Dobson.
But while coming of age as a rising evangelical star, Schaeffer felt increasingly alienated, and as a result, he experienced a crisis of faith that would ultimately lead to his journey out of the fold - even if it meant losing everything.
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- By Karissa Barber on 04-18-18
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Too Close to the Falls
- A Memoir
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- Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
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The Last Love Song
- A Biography of Joan Didion
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- Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
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Joan Didion lived a life in the public and private eye with her late husband, writer John Gregory Dunne, whom she met while the two were working in New York City, when Didion was at Vogue and Dunne was writing for Time. They became wildly successful writing partners when they moved to Los Angeles and cowrote screenplays and adaptations together. Didion is well known for her literary journalistic style in both fiction and nonfiction.
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- By Kaysi12 on 04-11-16
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Wildflower
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- Narrated by: Drew Barrymore
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Wildflower is a portrait of Drew's life in stories as she looks back on the adventures, challenges, and incredible experiences of her earlier years. It includes tales of living on her own at 14 (and how laundry may have saved her life), getting stuck in a gas station overhang on a cross-country road trip, saying good-bye to her father in a way only he could have understood, and many more adventures and lessons that have led her to the successful, happy, and healthy place she is today.
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Hold the shrieking !
- By Dawne on 11-27-15
By: Drew Barrymore
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Where the Past Begins
- A Writer's Memoir
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- Narrated by: Amy Tan
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Moving from her childhood in Oakland and growing up with her Chinese parents through her success as a novelist, Amy Tan delves into her creative interests in music, the paralysis of beginning a new project, journal writing, and travelling. Where the Past Begins chronicles the making of a writer. With characteristic humor and poignant observation, Tan weaves a nontraditional introspective narrative that is as complex and vibrant as this beloved American novelist's fiction.
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Narration Issues
- By Sara on 12-14-17
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Under Red Skies
- Three Generations of Life, Loss, and Hope in China
- By: Karoline Kan
- Narrated by: Allison Hiroto
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A deeply personal and shocking look at how China is coming to terms with its conflicted past as it emerges into a modern, cutting-edge superpower.
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An intimate view of real life in China
- By Lonnie G. Hardy, Jr. on 08-15-19
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The Unspeakable
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It's a report tempered by hard times. In "Matricide", Daum unflinchingly describes a parent's death and the uncomfortable emotions it provokes; and in "Diary of a Coma" she relates her own journey to the twilight of the mind. But Daum also operates in a comic register. With perfect precision, she reveals the absurdities of the marriage-industrial complex, of the New Age dating market, and of the peculiar habits of the young and digital.
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Complaining about her dead mom.
- By Erik Hermansen on 11-23-14
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The Wrong End of the Table
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Part memoir and part how-not-to guide, The Wrong End of the Table is everything you wanted to know about Arabs but were afraid to ask, with chapters such as “Tattoos and Other National Security Risks,” “You Can’t Blame Everything on Your Period; Sometimes You’re Going to Be a Crazy Bitch: and Other Advice from Mom,” and even an open letter to Trump. This is the story of every American outsider on a path to find themselves in a country of beautiful diversity.
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Not what I was looking for
- By Amazon Customer on 09-01-22
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Jesus Prom
- Life Gets Fun When You Love People Like God Does
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Do we love people like Jesus loves them?Jesus loved verbs. He loved action words such as live, come, rest, learn, hear, give, go, and even die. Wouldn’t it make sense that the people who claim to follow Jesus would love the same words Jesus loved?Unfortunately, somewhere along the way someone tried to make the word Christian an adjective. So now people speak of "Christian" books and "Christian" music and "Christian" schools.
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Great book!
- By Jeremy on 01-26-24
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Mislaid
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Stillwater College in Virginia, 1966. Freshman Peggy, an ingénue with literary pretensions, falls under the spell of Lee, a blue-blooded poet and professor, and they begin an ill-advised affair that results in an unplanned pregnancy and marriage. The couple are mismatched from the start - she's a lesbian, he's gay - but it takes a decade of emotional erosion before Peggy runs off with their three-year-old daughter, leaving their nine-year-old son behind.
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Misbegotten, mishandled, misfired novel
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Here's the Story
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Marcia Brady, eldest daughter on television's The Brady Bunch, had it all. But what viewers didn't know about the always sunny, perfect Marcia was that offscreen, her real-life counterpart, Maureen McCormick was living a very different - and not so wonderful - life. Maureen tells the shocking and inspirational true story of the beloved teen and the woman she became.
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Gripping
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Infidel
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This New York Times best-seller is the astonishing life story of award-winning humanitarian Ayaan Hirsi Ali. A deeply respected advocate for free speech and women's rights, Hirsi Ali also lives under armed protection because of her outspoken criticism of the Islamic faith in which she was raised.
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Tough, Candid Assessment
- By Paul Mullen on 02-18-08
By: Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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- bookfan
- 09-15-17
loved it!
this is a beautifully written book...as a former evangelical myself, i could relate to so many things in the book...a joy to listen to!
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- Nancy Kaye
- 12-26-20
Thank you
I’m so grateful for the clarity Frank has given me by writing this book. Clarity to bring to light so much confusion as a young women. I grew up from age 20 with a lot of confusion from the PCA. I have been married to a spiritually abusive man. Hung in there because of the massagey message of the church.
Thank you Franky and Jeanne for loving life and faith with truth! Nancy
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- Leslie Watson
- 10-24-19
The Franky Schaeffer We Knew
Honesty is refreshing to gain insights into beliefs. I recommend this read to learn more than you might like to find out.
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- Rick
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Wonderful
It was delightful, full of whit, and thoroughly enjoyable cover to cover. Thank you for making this recording.
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- Roy
- 08-02-24
I get it .
Frank gives voice to many of us, thank you for sharing your honesty even when it had to hurt
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- JenTuc
- 10-20-24
This unbelievable truth
All of it and all of it. It’s quite a story of life lived and learned.
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- Catherine Heard
- 10-29-10
Recommended!
I expected to read a book that criticized a strict the author's religious upbringing, and instead was delighted to hear the author's empathetic, sensitive description of his parents' struggles with religion, their changing views over the years, and the public vs. the private face of their convictions. He expresses a great fondness for his family, and describes his unusual childhood with candid wit. In the final third of the book, Shaeffer exposes the hypocrisy of televangelism and the Republican party's cynical co-opting of evangelical Christianity for political gain. Unlike the previous reviewer, I didn't find his descriptions offensive ?????? he writes with a dark sense of humour, and what he writes has the ring of honesty.
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- Margo P
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Honest and riveting.
Must read important history of Christmas Right with amazing memoir from the man who caused it
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- 05-19-24
Gross
I don’t know what I expected. I listened to a joint YouTube video with him and agreed with what he said and thought he was well-spoken. I think I hoped for more dirt on some of the bigger evangelical names during the 80s, but there wasn’t much of that. I felt my parents were driven in the same way and in the same time period as his, so that is the part I liked most. Otherwise, the sexual stuff I found gross. I was grossed out and I felt some of this stuff shouldn’t be said, let alone written down. I could go on, but I won’t. I would not admit to anyone that I listened to this book because of the grossness of it and would not recommend it to anyone. I’m not sure I like the guy aside from the sexual grossness either. I listened to this, and felt a similarity in the extreme evangelical ideals that our parents held, but beyond that, yuck.
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- Jonelle
- 06-18-12
Surprising, and brutally honest book
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I must have been living under a rock, because I had never heard of the conservative evangelical theologian Francis Schaeffer, let alone his son, Frankie.
Purportedly one of the founders of the pro-life movement, later a low budget filmmaker and then a popular secular novelist, Frankie's family's impact on right wing America was news to me.
An interesting, brutally honest book, now I just need to learn more about his family to figure out if I can trust his account.
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