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Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers
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Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers Hardcover - 2012

by Lamott, Anne

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Riverhead Books, 2012-11-13. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8x5x0. Later printing. Dust jacket and book are clean with a few scuffs and minor wear. Binding is good; pages are clean and unmarked with a few creased corners. HB HS
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  • Title Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers
  • Author Lamott, Anne
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition [ Edition: First
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 112
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Riverhead Books, New York, NY
  • Date 2012-11-13
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 206298
  • ISBN 9781594631290 / 1594631298
  • Weight 0.55 lbs (0.25 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.31 x 4.75 x 0.63 in (21.11 x 12.07 x 1.60 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Themes
    • Religious Orientation: Christian
    • Topical: New Age
  • Library of Congress subjects Prayer - Christianity
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2012034798
  • Dewey Decimal Code 242.4

Summary

New York Times-bestselling author Anne Lamott writes about the three simple prayers essential to coming through tough times, difficult days and the hardships of daily life.

Readers of all ages have followed and cherished Anne Lamott’s funny and perceptive writing about her own faith through decades of trial and error. And in her new book, Help, Thanks, Wow, she has coalesced everything she knows about prayer to these fundamentals.

It is these three prayers – asking for assistance from a higher power, appreciating what we have that is good, and feeling awe at the world around us – that can get us through the day and can show us the way forward. In Help, Thanks, Wow, Lamott recounts how she came to these insights, explains what they mean to her and how they have helped, and explores how others have embraced these same ideas.

Insightful and honest as only Anne Lamott can be, Help, Thanks, Wow is the everyday faith book that new Lamott readers will love and longtime Lamott fans will treasure.

From the publisher

Anne Lamott is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Some Assembly Required, Grace (Eventually), Plan B, Traveling Mercies, and Operating Instructions, as well as several novels, including Imperfect Birds, Rosie and Crooked Little Heart. A past recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and an inductee to the California Hall of Fame, she lives in Northern California.

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Media reviews

“Charmingly irreverent.”
—MORE magazine

“Filled with Lamott's unique brand of humor, wisdom and profound spiritual insight… She has a gift for putting into words what it means to accept and ultimately embrace the beauty, mystery, and pain that is life.”
—San Antonio Express-News

“Practical and poetic advice on prayer.”
—The Oregonian 

“An imaginative do-it-yourself approach to spirituality…With a stand-up comic’s snap and pop, candid and righteous Lamott tells hilarious and wrenching tales about various predicaments that have sparked her prayers and inspired her to encourage others to pray anytime, anywhere, and any way.”
—Booklist

“[A] prayer manual for people who wouldn’t be caught dead reading prayer manuals… anybody who gets it as a holiday gift will likely just say, ‘Thanks. Wow.’”
—Publishers Weekly

“A refreshingly simple approach to spiritual practice in a pint-sized reflection on prayer…Lamott manages to deftly convey the idea that in trying to control things, we’ve largely lost our ability to see the good and the miraculous in everyday life…there’s more here than meets the eye.”
—Kirkus Reviews

“[With Lamott’s] usual fluency and charm…A worthy successor to her prior works…[Help, Thanks, Wow] will delight Lamott’s regular readers, and likely draw new readers to her writing.”
—Library Journal (starred review)
 

Citations

  • Booklist, 11/15/2012, Page 12
  • Kirkus Reviews, 10/01/2012, Page 0
  • Library Journal, 02/01/2013, Page 56
  • People Weekly, 12/03/2012, Page 55
  • Publishers Weekly, 10/08/2012, Page 0
  • Shelf Awareness, 12/04/2012, Page 0

About the author

Anne Lamott is the New York Times bestselling author of Help, Thanks, Wow; Small Victories; Stitches; Some Assembly Required; Grace (Eventually); Plan B; Traveling Mercies; Bird by Bird; Operating Instructions, and the forthcoming Hallelujah Anyway. She is also the author of several novels, including Imperfect Birds and Rosie. A past recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and an inductee to the California Hall of Fame, she lives in Northern California.

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