Jeanne Marie Laskas: 6 books
Fifty Acres and a Poodle
A Story of Love, Livestock, and Finding Myself on a Farm
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2010
Jeanne Marie Laskas had dreams of life on a farm that she couldn't get out of her head. A dream of fleeing her otherwise happy urban life for fresh air and open space. A dream she would discover was about something more profound than that. A dream she never ever expected to come true. Until a hot...
The Exact Same Moon
Fifty Acres and a Family
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2009
In Fifty Acres and a Poodle, Jeanne Marie Laskas described how she survived her first hilariously tumultuous year at Sweetwater Farm. Now she returns with a funny, touching, and personal new memoir of what happens after your dream comes true...
With a picture-postcard farm, a wonderful marriage,...
by Jeanne Marie Laskas
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The riveting, unlikely story of Dr. Bennet Omalu, the pathologist who first identified CTE in professional football players, a discovery that challenges the existence of America’s favorite sport and puts Omalu in the crosshairs of football’s most powerful corporation:...
Growing Girls
The Mother of All Adventures
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2009
Award-winning author Jeanne Marie Laskas has charmed and delighted readers with her heartwarming and hilarious tales of life on Sweetwater Farm. Now she offers her most personal and most deeply felt memoir yet as she embarks on her greatest, most terrifying, most rewarding endeavor of all….
A...
Hidden America
From Coal Miners to Cowboys, an Extraordinary Exploration of the Unseen People Who Make This Country Work
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2012
An Oprah.com “Must-Read Book”
Award-winning journalist Jeanne Marie Laskas reveals “enlightening, entertaining, and often poignant”* profiles of America's working class—the forgotten men and women who make our country run.
Take the men of Hopedale Mining company in Cadiz, Ohio....
To Obama
With Love, Joy, Anger, and Hope
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
“An insightful study of a president who listened to even his harshest critics with grace and humility.”—The Washington Post
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY GLAMOUR
Every evening for eight years, at his request, President Obama was given ten handpicked letters written...