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Title Rise [sound recording audiobook download] : how a house built a family / Cara Brookins.
Publisher [Place of publication not identified] : Macmillan Audio, 2017.
Description 1 online resource (1 audio file) : digital
Edition First edition.


Contents A house -- Bad habits -- Sticks and stones -- What I learned in first grade -- Truth tellers -- Coffee with cream -- Plan B is for sissies -- Black, white, and gray -- Shop not shopping -- Karma points -- Sounds easy -- The art of war -- A little to the left -- Loyalty won't save you -- One cookie at a time -- Firefighters have hoses -- What is down must go up -- Hear the words I mean -- I am my plumber -- Down by the river -- Glue me back together -- Aiming true -- Scramble to the finish -- You built your own damn house.
Performer Cara Brookins.
Summary After escaping an abusive marriage, Cara Brookins had four children to provide for and no one to turn to but herself. In desperate need of a home but without the means to buy one, she did something incredible. Equipped only with YouTube instructional videos, a small bank loan and a mile-wide stubborn streak, Cara built her own house from the foundation up with a work crew made up of her four children. It would be the hardest thing she had ever done. With no experience nailing together anything bigger than a bookshelf, she and her kids poured concrete, framed the walls and laid bricks for their two story, five bedroom house. She had convinced herself that if they could build a house, they could rebuild their broken family. This must-read memoir traces one family's rise from battered victims to stronger, better versions of themselves, all through one extraordinary do-it-yourself project.
System details Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Format: OverDrive Listen.
Format: OverDrive MP3 Audiobook.
Requires OverDrive app 3.0 (Windows) / 1.0 (Mac) / 1.0 (Windows Mobile)
Other edition Original 9781250095664
Subject Brookins, Cara.
Brookins, Cara -- Family.
Authors, American -- 21st century -- Biography.
Women authors, American -- Biography.
Divorced mothers -- Arkansas -- Little Rock -- Biography.
House construction -- Arkansas -- Little Rock.
Genre Autobiographies.
Audiobooks.
Other corporate author OverDrive, Inc.
ISBN 9781427282262
STANDARD # 048532F9-FF2B-44BA-8370-D4914241C6BE OverDrive