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The Outrageously Big Activity, Play and Project Book
The Outrageously Big Activity, Play and Project Book contains ideas for any occasion. Included are over 200 projects for children of all ages, with step-by-step photography to illustrate each project.
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512 pages, Hardcover
First published January 3, 2000
About the author
Joanne Hanks
4 books3 followersJoanne Hanks isn't your average ex-Mormon, ex-polygamist, ex-wife.
She's an accomplished portrait and landscape artist, an expert interior designer (she earned her design degree at Mormon Church-owned Brigham Young University), and a woman who learned the hard way to stand on her own feet after being raised to let others make her life decisions.
Most recently, Joanne has written "It's Not about the Sex" My Ass, a riveting account of her experiences as a "First Wife" in the Mormon-based polygamist cult that she and her husband joined after five years of marriage.
Born into a mainstream Mormon family in 1960 and the youngest of three, Joanne lived where her father's Air Force career took the family, which included Washington state, Maine, Florida, and California. After her father retired from the Air Force in 1972, the family settled in Orem, Utah, about 40 miles south of Salt Lake City.
Joanne married Jeff Hanks in 1987 in the Salt Lake Temple. Five years and three children later, the Hanks moved to Manti, Utah, and joined the Mormon-derived, polygamist cult The True and Living Church of Jesus Christ of Saints of the Last Days, or "TLC" for short. Seven years later, the Hanks did something that the religiously deluded and cult members rarely do. They saw through the madness and left.
While in the cult, the Hanks were featured on 20/20 (Barbara Walters and John Stossel) and by broadcast and print media in San Francisco, Great Britain, Brazil, Sweden, and others. After leaving the cult in 2000, they were featured on CNN (Paula Zahn Now) and in Vogue magazine.
In "It's Not about the Sex" My Ass, Joanne tells her crazy story with humor, satire, and insight. She levels about husband-sharing, "sister wives," the TLC "prophet" James Dee Harmston (who called himself a "celestial stud service" and sought divine guidance on threesomes), racism, sexual abuse, fraud, and manipulation. And she reveals how Harmston wiggled out of his failed prophecy that the Second Coming of Jesus would take place on March 26, 2000.
While Joanne hopes readers will enjoy "It's Not about the Sex" My Ass, she wrote with a sense of mission. "If the book leaves you at once amused and outraged, and on the lookout for how we dupe ourselves," Joanne explains, "I will have accomplished something worthwhile."
She's an accomplished portrait and landscape artist, an expert interior designer (she earned her design degree at Mormon Church-owned Brigham Young University), and a woman who learned the hard way to stand on her own feet after being raised to let others make her life decisions.
Most recently, Joanne has written "It's Not about the Sex" My Ass, a riveting account of her experiences as a "First Wife" in the Mormon-based polygamist cult that she and her husband joined after five years of marriage.
Born into a mainstream Mormon family in 1960 and the youngest of three, Joanne lived where her father's Air Force career took the family, which included Washington state, Maine, Florida, and California. After her father retired from the Air Force in 1972, the family settled in Orem, Utah, about 40 miles south of Salt Lake City.
Joanne married Jeff Hanks in 1987 in the Salt Lake Temple. Five years and three children later, the Hanks moved to Manti, Utah, and joined the Mormon-derived, polygamist cult The True and Living Church of Jesus Christ of Saints of the Last Days, or "TLC" for short. Seven years later, the Hanks did something that the religiously deluded and cult members rarely do. They saw through the madness and left.
While in the cult, the Hanks were featured on 20/20 (Barbara Walters and John Stossel) and by broadcast and print media in San Francisco, Great Britain, Brazil, Sweden, and others. After leaving the cult in 2000, they were featured on CNN (Paula Zahn Now) and in Vogue magazine.
In "It's Not about the Sex" My Ass, Joanne tells her crazy story with humor, satire, and insight. She levels about husband-sharing, "sister wives," the TLC "prophet" James Dee Harmston (who called himself a "celestial stud service" and sought divine guidance on threesomes), racism, sexual abuse, fraud, and manipulation. And she reveals how Harmston wiggled out of his failed prophecy that the Second Coming of Jesus would take place on March 26, 2000.
While Joanne hopes readers will enjoy "It's Not about the Sex" My Ass, she wrote with a sense of mission. "If the book leaves you at once amused and outraged, and on the lookout for how we dupe ourselves," Joanne explains, "I will have accomplished something worthwhile."
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