false 160735 275893 1599957191 9781599957197 335 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173337287m/275893.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/275893.Shattered_Dreams_My_Life_as_a_Polygamist_s_Wife 3.59 962 commanded in marrying her
brother-in-law Verlan LeBaron, becoming
his second wife. When the
government raided the fundamentalist, polygamous
Mormon village of Short Creek, Arizona,
Irene and her family fled to
Verlan's brothers' Mexican ranch.
They lived in squalor and desolate
conditions in the Mexican desert
with Verlan's six brothers, one sister,
and numerous wives and children.
Readers will be appalled and
astonished, but most amazingly,
greatly inspired. Irene's dramatic
story reveals how far religion can
be stretched and abused and how one woman and her
children found their way out, into truth and redemption.]]> 160735 3.58 1001 350 6114317 0446538191 9780446538190 11 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6114317.Cult_Insanity_A_Memoir_of_Polygamy_Prophets_and_Blood_Atonement 3.28 25 Shattered Dreams, is the staggering chronicle of herstruggle to provide for her children in abject poverty and feelings of abandonment each time her husband left to be with one of his other wives. Irene was raised to believe polygamy was the way of life necessary for her ticket to heaven.

The hard knocks of her environment were just the beginning of Irene's shocking tale. Insanity ran rampant in her husband's family and was the source of inconceivable events that unfolded throughout Irene's adult life. CULT INSANITY takes readers deeper into her story to uncover the outrageous behavior of her brother-in-law Ervil -- a self-proclaimed prophet who determined he was called to set the house of God in order -- and how he terrorized their colony. Claiming to be God's avenger and to have a license to kill in the name of God, Ervil ordered the murders of friends and family members, eliminating all those who challenged his authority.

For those who were gripped by Shattered Dreams, the rest of the story will blow them away. CULT INSANITY is a riveting, terrifying memoir of polygamist life under the tyranny of a madman.]]> 160735 3.58 1001 350 7279724 0446580902 9780446580908 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7279724-shattered-dreams 5.00 1 160735 3.58 1001 350 7173694 1400163269 9781400163267 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7173694-cult-insanity 0.0 0 160735 3.58 1001 350