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1997, c1996., Anchor Books Call No: 917.98 M122K Edition: 1st Anchor Book ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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[2015], Adult, Doubleday Call No: 362.883 K89m Edition: First American edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Missoula, Montana, is a typical college town, with a highly regarded state university, bucolic surroundings, a lively social scene, and an excellent football team - the Grizzlies - with a rapid fan base. The Department of Justice investigated 350 sexual assaults reported to the Missoula police between January 2008 and May 2012. Few of these assaults were properly handled by either the university or local authorities. In this, Missoula is also typical. In MISSOULA, Krakauer chronicles the searing experiences of several women in Missoula - the nights when they were raped; their fear and self-doubt in the aftermath; the way they were treated by the police, prosecutors, defense attorneys; the public vilification and private anguish; their bravery in pushing forward and what it cost them. Krakauer's dispassionate, carefully documented account of what these women endured cuts through the abstract ideological debate about campus rape."-- From publisher.
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c2003., Doubleday Call No: 289.3 K89u Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Jon Krakauerœs literary reputation rests on insightful chronicles of lives conducted at the outer limits. He now shifts his focus from extremes of physical adventure to extremes of religious belief within our own borders, taking readers inside isolated American communities where some 40,000 Mormon Fundamentalists still practice polygamy. Defying both civil authorities and the Mormon establishment in Salt Lake City, the renegade leaders of these Taliban-like theocracies are zealots who answer only to God.At the core of Krakauerœs book are brothers Ron and Dan Lafferty, who insist they received a commandment from God to kill a blameless woman and her baby girl. Beginning with a meticulously researched account of this appalling double murder, Krakauer constructs a multi-layered, bone-chilling narrative of messianic delusion, polygamy, savage violence, and unyielding faith. Along the way he uncovers a shadowy offshoot of Americaœs fastest growing religion, and raises provocative questions about the nature of religious belief.
