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My Story, October 2014
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My Story, October 2013
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St. Martin's Press
October 2014
On Sale: September 30, 2014
Featuring: Elizabeth Smart
336 pages ISBN: 1250055458 EAN: 9781250055453 Kindle: B00C74VCIG Paperback / e-Book
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Non-Fiction Memoir
For the first time, ten years after her abduction from her
Salt Lake City bedroom, Elizabeth Smart reveals how she
survived and the secret to forging a new life in the wake of
a brutal crime
On June 5, 2002, fourteen-year-old Elizabeth Smart, the
daughter of a close-knit Mormon family, was taken from her
home in the middle of the night by religious fanatic, Brian
David Mitchell and his wife, Wanda Barzee. She was kept
chained, dressed in disguise, repeatedly raped, and told she
and her family would be killed if she tried to escape. After
her rescue on March 12, 2003, she rejoined her family and
worked to pick up the pieces of her life. Now for the first time, in her memoir, MY STORY, she tells
of the constant fear she endured every hour, her courageous
determination to maintain hope, and how she devised a plan
to manipulate her captors and convinced them to return to
Utah, where she was rescued minutes after arriving. Smart
explains how her faith helped her stay sane in the midst of
a nightmare and how she found the strength to confront her
captors at their trial and see that justice was served. In the nine years after her rescue, Smart transformed from
victim to advocate, traveling the country and working to
educate, inspire and foster change. She has created a
foundation to help prevent crimes against children and is a
frequent public speaker. In 2012, she married Matthew
Gilmour, whom she met doing mission work in Paris for her
church, in a fairy tale wedding that made the cover of
People magazine.
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