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"In the closed world of the Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints, Carolyn Jessop was forced to obey her controlling husband's every demand. She had no money, no power and existed as one of six wives battling for her husband's attention. For seventeen years Carolyn suffered for the sake of her children. She tried to protect them as the cult's new leader, Warren Jeffs, started marrying girls off younger and younger. But when Carolyn discovered that her twelve-year-old daughter had spent three days at Jeffs' home, she knew she had to do everything in her power to take her children and flee. At 35 Carolyn escaped. This is her harrowing - and ultimately triumphant - story."
"At 18, Carolyn Jessop was coerced into an arranged marriage with a total stranger, 32 years her senior, who already had three wives. Arranged plural marriages were part of her heritage in the radical offshoot of the Mormon Church that had settled along the Arizona-Utah border. Over the next fifteen years, Carolyn had eight children and withstood her husband's psychological abuse and the watchful eyes of his other wives. Her every move was dictated by her husband's whims--in the FLDS, a wife's compliance determines her status, and her children's, in the family. Carolyn was miserable and wanted out, but no woman had ever managed to get her children out of the FLDS. But in 2003, Carolyn chose freedom and fled with her eight children. And in 2006, her reports formed a crucial part of the case that led to the arrest of the sect's notorious leader, Warren Jeffs.--From publisher description."@en
"I WAS BORN INTO A RADICAL POLYGAMIST CULT. AT EIGHTEEN, I BECAME THE 4TH WIFE OF A 50 YEAR-OLD MAN. I HAD EIGHT CHILDREN IN FIFTEEN YEARS. WHEN OUR LEADER BEGAN PREACHER THE APOCALYPSE, I KNEW I HAD TO GET THEM OUT."
"Presents the harrowing story of Carolyn Jessop who suffered for the sake of her children. She tried to protect them as the cult's new leader, Warren Jeffs, started marrying girls off younger and younger. But when Carolyn discovered that her twelve-year-old daughter had spent three days at Jeffs' home, she had to take her children and flee."@en
"From the Publisher: The dramatic first-person account of life inside an ultra-fundamentalist American religious sect, and one woman's courageous flight to freedom with her eight children. When she was eighteen years old, Carolyn Jessop was coerced into an arranged marriage with a total stranger: a man thirty-two years her senior. Merril Jessop already had three wives. But arranged plural marriages were an integral part of Carolyn's heritage: She was born into and raised in the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS), the radical offshoot of the Mormon Church that had settled in small communities along the Arizona-Utah border. Over the next fifteen years, Carolyn had eight children and withstood her husband's psychological abuse and the watchful eyes of his other wives who were locked in a constant battle for supremacy. Carolyn's every move was dictated by her husband's whims. He decided where she lived and how her children would be treated. He controlled the money she earned as a school teacher. He chose when they had sex; Carolyn could only refuse-at her peril. For in the FLDS, a wife's compliance with her husband determined how much status both she and her children held in the family. Carolyn was miserable for years and wanted out, but she knew that if she tried to leave and got caught, her children would be taken away from her. No woman in the country had ever escaped from the FLDS and managed to get her children out, too. But in 2003, Carolyn chose freedom over fear and fled her home with her eight children. She had $20 to her name. Escape exposes a world tantamount to a prison camp, created by religious fanatics who, in the name of God, deprive their followers the right to make choices, force women to be totally subservient to men, and brainwash children in church-run schools. Against this background, Carolyn Jessop's flight takes on an extraordinary, inspiring power. Not only did she manage a daring escape from a brutal environment, she became the first woman ever granted full custody of her children in a contested suit involving the FLDS. And in 2006, her reports to the Utah attorney general on church abuses formed a crucial part of the case that led to the arrest of their notorious leader, Warren Jeffs."

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"Biography"@en
"Biography"
"Erlebnisbericht"
"American fiction"
"Autobiografické romány"
"Electronic books"@en
"Americké romány"
"Nonfiction"@en
"Autobiographical novels"

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"Escape"@en
"Escape"
"Gefangene im Namen Gottes die wahre Geschichte einer Mutter, die mit ihren acht Kindern aus einer Polygamie-Sekte floh"
"Mormonka : dramatický útěk ženy a jejích osmi dětí z fanatické sekty"
"Gefangene im Namen Gottes : Meine Flucht aus den Fängen einer Polygamistensekte"
"Gefangene im Namen Gottes meine Flucht aus den Fängen einer Polygamistensekte"
"Flugten"@da
"Pobeg : svoboda po 17letih zlorab v imenu Boga"
"Pobeg : svoboda po 17 letih zlorab v imenu Boga"@sl
"Ontsnapt"
"Trốn chạy"
"Gefangene im Namen Gottes : die wahre Geschichte einer Mutter, die mit ihren acht Kindern aus einer Polygamie-Sekte floh"
"Gefangene im Namen Gottes : meine Flucht aus den Fängen einer Polygamistensekte"

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