Audiobooks by Anne Lamott

Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year

With the same brilliant combination of humor and warmth she brought to bestseller Bird by Bird, Anne Lamott gives us a smart, funny, and comforting chronicle of single motherhood. It's not like she's the only woman to ever have a baby. At thirty-five. 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. From finding out that her baby is a boy (and getting used to the idea) to finding out that her best friend and greatest supporter Pam will die of cancer (and not getting used to that idea), with a generous amount of wit and faith (but very little piousness), Lamott narrates the great and small events that make up a woman's life. 'Lamott has a conversational style that perfectly conveys her friendly, self-depricating humor.' -- Los Angeles Times Book Review 'Lamott is a wonderfully lithe writer .... Anyone who has ever had a hard time facing a perfectly ordinary day will identify.' -- Chicago Tribune

Anne Lamott (Author), Rebecca Lowman (Narrator)

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Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report on birds written that he'd had three months to write. It was due the next day. We were out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at the kitchen table close to tears, surrounded by binder paper and pencils and unopened books on birds, immobilized by the hugeness of the task ahead. Then my father sat down beside him, put his arm around my brother's shoulder, and said, 'Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird.

Anne Lamott (Author), Susan Bennett (Narrator)

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Word by Word

WINNER of 1997 Audie Award for Best Educational/How-to Audiobook. Your writing, and your life, will be good and get better if you just take it word by word, says Anne Lamott in this live seminar recording that won a 1997 Audie Award for Best Educational/How-to Audiobook. Based on Lamott's acclaimed book Bird by Bird, this workshop was recorded at a presentation given for the Writers' League of Texas.

Anne Lamott (Author), Various Artists, Various Artists (Narrator)

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Some Assembly Required: A Journal of My Son's First Son

Look out for Anne's next book, Hallelujah Anyway, coming April 2017. 'If there is a doyenne of the parenting memoir, it would be Anne Lamott.' Time In Some Assembly Required, Anne Lamott enters a new and unexpected chapter in her own life: grandmotherhood. Stunned to learn that her son, Sam, is about to become a father at nineteen, Lamott begins a journal about the first year of her grandson Jax's life. In careful and often hilarious detail, Lamott and Sam about whom she first wrote so movingly in Operating Instructions struggle to balance their changing roles. By turns poignant and funny, honest and touching,Some Assembly Requiredis the true story of how the birth of a baby changes a family as this book will change everyone who reads it. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Anne Lamott, Sam Lamott (Author), Anne Lamott, Sam Lamott (Narrator)

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Joe Jones

Joe Jones is Anne Lamott’s raucous novel of lives gathered around Jessie’s Café, “the sort of broken-down waterfront dive one might expect to find in Steinbeck.” Jessie, “thin, stooped and gorgeous at seventy-nine,” inherited the café years before and it has become home to a remarkable family of characters: Louise, the cook and vortex, Joe, devoted and unfaithful; Willie, Jessies gay grandson; Georgia, an empress dowager who never speaks; and a dozen others all living together in the sweet everyday.

Anne Lamott (Author), Barbara Rosenblat (Narrator)

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Breathing Under Water: Spirituality and the Twelve Steps

TENTH ANNIVERSARY EDITION “Brother Rohr may just take you to places you’ve both avoided and longed for, to truth, union, joy, laughter, and, greatest of all, to your own precious self, here on earth with us, child of God.”—Anne Lamott, from the foreword We all suffer from unhealthy dependencies that we continually return to in hopes of having a better life. But after yet another TV show is streamed or another drink is swallowed, we find we once again feel worse, not better, than we did before. Where is the hope for that fully awakened life we long to live? World-renowned author Richard Rohr says we can only be healed and find true fulfillment by facing our dependencies head-on. In Breathing Under Water he will guide you to: - Disentangle from cultural cycles of sin and emptiness - Discover how to get free from your personal toxic dependencies - Learn how the Twelve Step program can supplement Christian teaching - Find compassion for others and yourself - Enjoy a deeper spiritual life, feeling certain of God’s love for you Those who are ready to break negative patterns and experience greater internal freedom will find bold hope and transformation in this insightful book.

Anne Lamott, Father Richard Rohr Ofm, O.F.M. Richard Rohr (Author), John Quigley O.F.M., O.F.M. John Quigley, Susan Marlowe (Narrator)

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Hallelujah Anyway: Rediscovering Mercy

New York Times Bestseller 'Anne Lamott is my Oprah.' Chicago Tribune From the author of Help, Thanks, WowandBird by Bird, a powerful exploration of mercy and how we can embrace it. '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. In Hallelujah Anyway: Rediscovering MercyLamott ventures to explore where to find meaning in life. We should begin, she suggests, by 'facing a great big mess, especially the great big mess of ourselves.' It's up to each of us to recognize the presence and importance of mercy everywhere 'within us and outside us, all around us' and to use it to forge a deeper understanding of ourselves and more honest connections with each other. While that can be difficult to do, Lamott argues that it's crucial, as 'kindness towards others, beginning with myself, buys us a shot at a warm and generous heart, the greatest prize of all.' Full of Lamott's trademark honesty, humor and forthrightness, Hallelujah Anyway is profound and caring, funny and wise a hopeful book of hands-on spirituality.

Anne Lamott (Author), Anne Lamott (Narrator)

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Help, Thanks, Wow

Anne Lamott is known for her perceptive and funny writings about spirituality. Readers of all ages have followed her faith journey through decades of trial and error (sometimes more error than Annie wanted), and in her new book, she has coalesced all she knows about prayer to three essentials : Help, Thanks, and Wow. It is these three prayers - asking for assistance from a higher power, appreciating all that we have and all that is good, and feeling awe at the beauty of the world around us - that can get us through the day and can show us the way forward. In Help, Thanks, Wow, Anne Lamott recounts how she came to these insights, explains what they mean to her and how they have helped, and explores how others have embraced these same ideas. Insightful, funny and honest, Help, Thanks, Wow is the everyday faith book that new Lamott readers will love and longtime Lamott fans will cherish.

Anne Lamott (Author), Anne Lamott (Narrator)

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Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith

Look out for Anne's latest book, Hallelujah Anyway, on sale now. 'Lamott has chronicled her wacky and (sometimes) wild adventures in faith in...the wonderful Grace (Eventually).' (Chicago Sun-Times) 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.

Anne Lamott (Author), Anne Lamott (Narrator)

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Small Victories: Spotting Improbable Moments of Grace

From the bestselling author ofStitches,andHelp, Thanks, Wowcomes her long-awaited collection of new and selected essays on hope, joy, and grace. Anne Lamott writes about faith, family, and community in essays that are both wise and irreverent. It's an approach that has become her trademark. Now inSmall Victories, Lamott offers a new message of hope that celebrates the triumph of light over the darkness in our lives. Our victories over hardship and pain may seem small, she writes, but they change us our perceptions, our perspectives, and our lives. Lamott writes of forgiveness, restoration, and transformation, how we can turn toward love even in the most hopeless situations, how we find the joy in getting lost and our amazement in finally being found. Profound and hilarious, honest and unexpected, the stories inSmall Victoriesare proof that the human spirit is irrepressible.

Anne Lamott (Author), Anne Lamott (Narrator)

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Stitches: A Handbook on Meaning, Hope and Repair

Look out for Anne's latest book, Hallelujah Anyway, on sale now. New York Times Bestseller 'Lamott's …most insightful book yet,Stitchesoffers plenty of her characteristic witty wisdom…this slim, readable volume [is] a lens on life, widening and narrowing, encouraging each reader to reflect on what it is, after all, that really matters.' People 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, Lamott's profound follow-up to her New York Times-bestselling Help, Thanks, Wow. In this book Lamott explores how we find meaning and peace in these loud and frantic times; where we start again after personal and public devastation; how we recapture wholeness after loss; and how we locate our true identities in this frazzled age. We begin, Lamott says, by collecting the ripped shreds of our emotional and spiritual fabric and sewing them back together, one stitch at a time. It's in these stitches that the quilt of life begins, and embedded in them are strength, warmth, humor, and humanity.

Anne Lamott (Author), Anne Lamott (Narrator)

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Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

With the trademark wisdom, humor, and honesty that made Anne Lamott's book on faith, Traveling Mercies, a runaway bestseller, Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith is a spiritual antidote to anxiety and despair in increasingly fraught times. The world is a more dangerous place than it was when Lamott's Traveling Mercies was published five years ago. Terrorism and war have become the new normal; environmental devastation looms even closer. And there are personal demands on Lamott's faith as well: turning fifty; her mother's Alzheimer's; her son's adolescence; and the passing of friends and time. Fortunately for those of us who are anxious and scared about the state of the world, whose parents are also aging and dying, whose children are growing harder to recognize as they become teenagers, Plan B offers hope in the midst of despair. It shares with us Lamott's ability to comfort, and to make us laugh despite the grim realities. Anne Lamott is one of our most beloved writers, and Plan B is a book more necessary now than ever. It will prove to be further evidence that, as The Christian Science Monitor has written, 'Everybody loves Anne Lamott.'

Anne Lamott (Author), Anne Lamott (Narrator)

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