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Stolen innocence : my story of growing up in a polygamous sect, becoming a teenage bride, and breaking free of Warren Jeffs Cover Image Book

Stolen innocence : my story of growing up in a polygamous sect, becoming a teenage bride, and breaking free of Warren Jeffs / Elissa Wall with Lisa Pulitzer.

Wall, Elissa. (Author). Pulitzer, Lisa. (Added Author).

Summary:

In this shocking, timely, and inspirational memoir, Elissa Wall details her life growing up in the polygamous Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints religious sect, being forced into an unwanted marriage at the age of 14, and her courage to testify against FLDS leader Warren Jeffs.--From publisher description.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0061628018
  • ISBN: 9780061628016
  • ISBN: 9780061668371
  • Physical Description: x, 438 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, portraits (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First edition
  • Publisher: New York : William Morrow, [2008]

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:
1 A New Mother 7 -- 2 Growing Up and Keeping Sweet 22 -- 3 Good Priesthood Children 41 -- 4 In Light and Truth 51 -- 5 Rise of Warren 63 -- 6 Out of Control 78 -- 7 Reassignment 90 -- 8 Preparing for Zion 104 -- 9 A Revelation Is Made 112 -- 10 Celestial Law 125 -- 11 Word of the Prophet 137 -- 12 Man and Wife 149 -- 13 All Alone 163 -- 14 Survival Begins 183 -- 15 Destruction Is Upon Us 197 -- 16 Death Comes to Short Creek 210 -- 17 False Prophet 218 -- 18 Refuge in Canada 228 -- 19 Nowhere to Run 243 -- 20 A Pair of Headlights 254 -- 21 Promise Not to Tell 270 -- 22 A Story Like Mine 282 -- 23 Love at Last 299 -- 24 Choosing My Future 310 -- 25 New Beginnings 325 -- 26 Coming Forward 342 -- 27 Captured 353 -- 28 Facing Warren 360 -- 29 Trial Begins 376 -- 30 End Is in Sight 394 -- 31 I Am Free 414.

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Subject:
Jeffs, Warren, 1955-
Wall, Elissa.
Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
Abused wives > United States > Biography.
Forced marriage > United States.
Latter Day Saints > United States > Biography.
Marriage > Religious aspects > Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
Polygamy > United States.
Marriage.
Polygamy.
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Autobiographies.

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