Anne Lamott

"Mercy is radical kindness", Anne Lamott writes in her enthralling and heartening book, Hallelujah Anyway. It's the permission you give others - and yourself - to forgive a debt, to absolve the unabsolvable, to let go of the judgment and pain that make life so difficult....

From the best-selling author of Help, Thanks, Wow comes an inspiring guide to restoring hope and joy in our lives....

A half-adult child among often childish adults, Nanny Goodman grows up with two spectacularly odd parents: a writer father and a mother who is a constant source of material. As she moves into her adolescence, so, it seems, does America....

With the trademark wisdom, humor, and honesty that made Anne Lamott's book on faith, Traveling Mercies, a runaway best seller....

From the best-selling author of Stitches and Help, Thanks, Wow comes her long-awaited collection of new and selected essays on hope, joy, and grace....

In this profound and funny audiobook, Anne Lamott calls for each of us to rediscover the nuggets of hope and wisdom that are buried within us that can make life sweeter than we imagined. Almost Everything pinpoints these moments of insight as it shines an encouraging light forward....

It’s not like she’s the only woman to ever have a baby. At 35. On her own. But Anne Lamott makes it all fresh in her now-classic account of how she and her son and numerous friends and neighbors and some strangers survived and thrived in that all-important first year....

The Fergusons make their home in a small California town where life is supposed to resemble paradise, but for 13-year-old Rosie, reality is a bit harsher....

What do we do when life lurches out of balance? How can we reconnect to one other and to what’s sustaining, when evil and catastrophe seem inescapable? These questions lie at the heart of Stitches....

Best-selling author Anne Lamott, together with her son, Sam, chronicle his first year as a father and her own evolution to being both a mother and a grandmother....

Writing, like life, can be a difficult process, you just have to take it Word by Word...

Writer (and sometime house cleaner) Jennifer is 23 when her beloved father, Wallace, is diagnosed with a brain tumor. This catastrophic discovery sets off Anne Lamott's unexpectedly sweet and funny first novel....

Anne Lamott takes us on a journey through her often troubled past to illuminate her devout but quirky walk of faith. In a narrative spiced with stories and scripture, Lamott tells how, against all odds, she came to believe in God and then, even more miraculously, in herself....

Listeners 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 audiobook, Help, Thanks, Wow, she has coalesced everything she knows about prayer to these fundamentals....

Stories tether us to what matters most: our families, our friends, our hearts, our planet, the wondrous mystery of life itself. Yet the stories we've been telling ourselves as a civilization are killing us: Fear is wisdom. Vanity is virtuous. Violence is peace....

In Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith, the author of the bestsellers Traveling Mercies and Plan B delivers a poignant, funny, and bittersweet primer of faith, as we come to discover what it means to be fully alive....

In New York Times best-selling author Anne Lamott’s wise and witty novel, the growing pains of motherhood are portrayed with rare humor and honesty....

From the bestselling author of Dusk, Night, Dawn and Help, Thanks, Wow, a joyful celebration of love....

Rosie Ferguson is 17, intelligent, athletic, and beautiful. She is, in short, everything her mother hoped she would be. Or so it seems....

Some of the most common human experiences are self-criticism, self-doubt, and self-recrimination. We often are far harsher on ourselves than on others, and many of us suffer constantly for it. Research shows that when we truly accept ourselves, it changes everything....