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A House in the Sky: A Memoir of a Kidnapping That Changed Everything by Sara Corbett, Amanda Lindhout (Paperback, 2014)

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The inspiring story of a woman who survived kidnap and being held captive for a year in war-torn Somalia . . . A House in the Sky is the dramatic and redemptive memoir of Amanda Lindhout, 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, 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. For fans of the award-winning blockbuster Captain Phillips and readers of Kate McCann's Madeleine, Natasha Kampusch's 3,096 Days and Greg Mortenson's Three Cups of Tea.

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Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN-13
9780670920860
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Book Title
A House in the Sky: a Memoir of a Kidnapping That Changed Everything
Author
Sara Corbett, Amanda Lindhout
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Memorials
Publication Year
2014
Genre
Biographies & True Stories
Number of Pages
384 Pages

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198mm
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129mm
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266g

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Sara Corbett, Amanda Lindhout
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United Kingdom

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