Vintage Rare 1968 Key To Happiness Beatrice Sparks Go Ask Alice Jays Journal

Description: Vintage Rare 1968 Key To Happiness Beatrice Sparks Go Ask Alice Jays Journal____________________________________________ Key To Happinessby Beatrice M. SparksPublished by Deseret Book (1968) Published by I have been a fan of the controversial author Beatrice Sparks ever since I read Jay's Journal and Go Ask Alice. I was surprised to find out that she was a local author only living in Provo, utah, only a few miles from my home. Unfortunately I found this out just months before she passed away in 2012. This rare edition is unknown by most of her fans...in fact, even on wikipedia this book is absent from her bibliography, as well as most other places, too. The only other copies of this book I can find are on Amazon for $200 each. I have never seen it on ebay. This book originally published in 1967 is for young women - it deals with LDS values and in finding happiness in being a daughter of God. It was even published by the LDS Church's, Deseret Books. It's really a great book despite being quite a different approach as her other books written later on in her carreer. It is my hope that this book finds its way into the hands of another Beatrice Sparks fan, rather than a book dealer. Condition:Excellent 1st Edition / 2nd Printing Hardcover Book! The binding is tight and all but 7 pages within are bright white with no writing, underlining, high-lighting, rips, tears, bends, or folds. These 7 pages include one page of the preface and 6 pages in the first chapter which have underlining and hi-lighting as shown in my photos. The covers have just slight wear! You will be happy with this rare book! Buy with confidence from a seller who takes the time to show you the details and not use just stock photos. Please check out all my pictures and email with any questions! Thanks for looking! About Beatrice Sparks:Beatrice Sparks (January 15, 1917 – May 25, 2012) was an American therapist and Mormon youth counselor who was known for producing books purporting to be the "real diaries" of troubled teenagers. The books deal with topical issues such as drug abuse, Satanism, teenage pregnancy or AIDS, and are presented as cautionary tales. Although Sparks presented herself as merely the discoverer and editor of the diaries, records at the U.S. Copyright Office show that in fact she is listed as the sole author for all but two of them. Beatrice Ruby Mathews Sparks was born in Goldburg, Custer County, Idaho and grew up in Logan, Utah. She began working with teenagers in 1955, after attending the University of California at Los Angeles and Brigham Young University. She worked as a music therapist at Utah State Mental Hospital and taught continuing education courses at BYU. Critics have questioned Sparks's qualifications and experience. Researchers have been unable to find a record of the Ph.D. she claimed on book jackets and in her résumé. One interviewer wrote that Sparks was "vague about specifics" when asked about her counselling qualifications and professional experience. Sparks stated that her experiences working with troubled adolescents made her want to produce cautionary tales that would keep other teens from falling into the same traps. Her first work, Go Ask Alice, was published under the byline "Anonymous" in 1971. In interviews conducted over the next few years, Sparks identified herself as the book's editor and related that Alice consisted partly of the actual diary of a troubled teen, and partly of fictional events based on Sparks's experiences working with other teens. Sparks was unable to produce the original diary for critics. Later editions of the book contained the standard disclaimer: "This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real locales are used fictitiously. Other names, places, characters, and incidents are the product of the author's imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental." In 1973, after the publication of Go Ask Alice, Marcella Barrett, a Pleasant Grove, Utah woman, approached Sparks to edit the journal of Barrett's deceased son Alden. Alden had suffered from depression and committed suicide at age sixteen and Barrett felt that his story might help other at-risk teens. The result was Jay's Journal, which tells the story of a teenage boy drawn into Satanism. Barrett's family was horrified by the book. They insisted that Alden had never been involved with the occult and that Sparks had used only 21 entries from his journal (out of 212 supposed entries that appeared in the finished book). Sparks defended the book, claiming she got the extra material from letters and interviews with Alden's friends. After Jay's Journal, Sparks produced many more "real diaries," including It Happened to Nancy: By an Anonymous Teenager (dealing with AIDS), Almost Lost: The True Story of an Anonymous Teenager's Life on the Streets (gang violence), Annie's Baby: The Diary of Anonymous, A Pregnant Teenager, Treacherous Love: The Diary of an Anonymous Teenager (pupil seduced by teacher), Kim: Empty Inside: The Diary of an Anonymous Teenager (eating disorders) and Finding Katie: The Diary of Anonymous, A Teenager in Foster Care. Copyright © 2018-2023 TDM Inc. The photos and text in this listing are copyrighted. I spend lots of time writing up my descriptions and despise it when un-original losers cut and paste my descriptions in as their own. It is against ebay policy and if you are caught, you will be reported to ebay and could be sued for copyright infringement and damages.

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Location: Orem, Utah

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