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With Leap, Terry Tempest Williams, award-winning author of Refuge, " "offers a sustained meditation on passion, faith, and creativity-based upon her transcendental encounter with Hieronymus Bosch's medieval masterpiece The Garden of Delights. Williams examines this vibrant landscape with unprecedented acuity, recognizing parallels between the artist's prophetic vision and her own personal experiences as a Mormon and a naturalist. Searing in its spiritual, intellectual, and emotional courage, show more Williams's divine journey enables her to realize the full extent of her faith and through her exquisite imagination opens our eyes to the splendor of the world. show less

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She is the award-winning author of Leap, An Unspoken Hunger, Refuge & most recently Red - A Desert Reader. She lives in Castle Valley, Utah. (Bowker Author Biography)

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Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, Biography & Memoir, Art & Design
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289.3092ReligionChristian denominationsOther denominations and sectsMormonismBiography And HistoryBiography
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BX8695 .W547 .A3Philosophy, Psychology and ReligionChristian DenominationsChristian DenominationsProtestantismOther Protestant denominationsMormons. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
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