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Atlas Girl: Finding Home In The Last Place I Thought To Look Paperback – July 1, 2014

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In this lyrical memoir, a disillusioned pastor's daughter searches the globe for God and finds him in the most unexpected place-back home.

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"Brilliant and beautiful."~ Liz Curtis Higgs, bestselling author of Bad Girls of the Bible: And What We Can Learn from Them

"Emily tells a world-spanning story that this world needs in Atlas Girl!"
~ Jon Acuff, New York Times bestselling author of Start and Stuff Christians Like

"As you read, may you get lost and found, as I did, on your own road to home."
~ Jeff Goins, author of The In-Between
"Emily is an immensely gifted writer."
~ Tsh Oxenreider, author of Notes from a Blue Bike: The Art of Living Intentionally in a Chaotic World

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Emily Wierenga left home at age eighteen with no intention of ever returning.

Broken down by organized religion, a childhood battle with anorexia, and her parents' rigidity, she set out to find God somewhere else--anywhere else. Her travels took her across three continents in buses, cars, and planes, across mountains and over deep blue seas.

What she hadn't realized was that her faith was waiting for her the whole time--in the place she least expected it.

Poignant and passionate, Atlas Girl is a deeply personal story of the yearning we all share to be truly known, entirely forgiven, and utterly loved.

"Emily shares the unexpected beauty God has created in her broken places as he's made her heart whole again, and how he can do the same for you."--Holley Gerth, bestselling author of You're Already Amazing

"Her honesty is raw, real. Her faith is hard-won. And when it finally pours out, her love--oh, her love soars off the page and makes a nest in our hearts. Brilliant and beautiful."
--Liz Curtis Higgs, bestselling author of Bad Girls of the Bible

"This isn't just a book, this is a journey. Of grief and wonder, loss and gain. Emily tells a world-spanning story that this world needs!"--Jon Acuff, New York Times bestselling author of Start

"I felt like she was giving me an atlas of my own, asking me real, important questions about my own walk through life. Her story about loss, life, and love is worth its telling."--Tsh Oxenreider, author of Notes from a Blue Bike

Emily T. Wierenga is an award-winning journalist, columnist, artist, author, and blogger at www.emilywierenga.com. She speaks regularly about her journey with anorexia and lives in Alberta, Canada, with her husband, Trenton, and their two sons.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Baker Books (July 1, 2014)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 288 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0801016568
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0801016561
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.72 x 8.5 inches

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Emily T. Wierenga is an award-winning journalist, a columnist for the Christian Courier, a blogger, and a

commissioned artist. She is also the author of the memoirs God Who Became Bread, Atlas Girl and Making It Home, and the self-help resource Chasing Silhouettes: How to Help a Loved One Battling an Eating Disorder. Her writings have appeared in various print and online publications, including Christianity Today. She has been interviewed numerous times on 100 Huntley Street and has appeared on other programs and podcasts. In 2014, she was used by God to establish The Lulu Tree Foundation, a nonprofit that operates in villages around the world, equipping families to become sustainable through the local church. She is passionate about advocating for the poor. Her favorite things are traveling to Africa and doing church at a local mental health drop-in center. She also plays guitar, snowboards, and paints. To learn more, visit her personal website or connect with her on Instagram or Facebook.

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jviola79

A must read!

Reviewed in the United States on July 1, 2014

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I am not sure how or when I discovered Emily’s blog. All I know for certain is her writing struck a cord deep in my soul.

Then I read a novel written by her, A Promise In Pieces, which I loved and I was all in – wanting to read anything Emily would write. So I pre-ordered her memoir, Atlas Girl: Finding Home In The Last Place I Thought To Look and waited a very long time for it to arrive in my mailbox. A very long time.

It was worth the wait!

This is a memoir and so much more. From the first page, Emily weaves a story, her story, much the way a novel would read. It is full of emotions with rich details which draw you in immediately. I fell in love with each of the persons mentioned in this book. Emily’s honesty is raw as she shares painful experiences, breaking open her doubts, her anger and her faith.

This book is a journal of her travels, not only to foreign lands but of her journey with God.

It is a journey not of just survival but of overcoming in spite of the odds.

It is a love story weaving together the love of a man and a woman who were committed to make their relationship work. It is the love story of a daughter and her parents. It is a love story of a fragile woman and her God. And it is real.

My heart skipped a beat as I realized my husband and I were in Japan and China at the same time as Emily, visiting many of the same sights. I cried as she shared of her miscarriage and subsequent surgeries to rid her body of precancerous cells as it brought back my own memories. And I rejoiced as I fully identified with her words, “This is marriage; to be stronger, when the other is weak.”

Atlas Girl is a book about travel but more so, it is a book which demonstrates the lengths our God will travel to come after us, pursuing us in order to bring us back home to Him. And all the proceeds from this book go towards funding The Lulu Tree, a ministry “dedicated to preventing tomorrow’s orphans by equipping today’s mothers”, in Uganda.

This book is highly recommended and truly is a must read!

The book is available today. I want to urge you to order and read the book for two reasons – the book will greatly impact your life and it will support The Lulu Tree. There can be no better return from the purchase of a book than this!

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A Song of Love

Reviewed in the United States on June 27, 2014

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"The song is God, telling me He loves me. Telling me nothing can erase that love. That nothing I've done in the past can wreck my future so long as He is in it."-- Emily T. Wierenga

This book immediately drew me in... and I haven't wanted to put it down.
Such a beautiful journey of finding hope and love and real healing--
Both in family relationships, but also as an individual...as a person who desires to fully know and feel and believe the depth of God's unfailing love.

Emily writes with a transparency and vulnerability that makes this book feel like words shared between true friends...at times it was raw and the pain and heartache were vivid enough that I wept with her. But the picture she paints of faithful love and God's ability to heal, left me full of hope and longing for a closer walk with Him and with my own family.

We can learn much from one another's stories...seeing God's fingerprints in the midst of the heartache and also the redemption.

While I choked up over the sorrow, it was the fullness of love, real love...God's kind of love... that brought a steady stream of tears. Tender, pursuing, faithful love wins in this one and it's very much worth wading through the waters of sadness with Emily to get to the other side where joy reigns.

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Margie H. Mendez

Best memoir I've read in a while

Reviewed in the United States on May 5, 2015

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Best memoir I've read in a while. Like others, there are a couple of details I find uncomfortable, although I understand her family approved those things she decided to share. I admire her openness about her parents and their challenges, and praise God for the changes she was able to witness as they all grew in faith. Many must long for such a loving spouse, who confirms his love even in her hardest times. Her poetic style, struggles with anorexia and her Mom's cancer, as well as her variety of cultural experiences give wealth to this book. I do get confused at times with the skipping around timewise. In the end, I was encouraged to think I could write a memoir too, much as I have not faced the same challenges and would not dare be as open about certain details.

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