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Adopted children Psychology Adoption Psychological aspects Adoptive parents Catholic Church Liturgy Monastic and religious life Neurodiversité Ouvrages pour la jeunesse Norris, Kathleen 1947- Névroses obsessionnelles chez l'adolescent Ouvrages pour la jeunesse Parenting Spiritual lifeNorris, Kathleen
Summary: Poet Kathleen Norris' account of her two extended retreats at Benedictine monasteries and the resulting enrichment of her marriage, her daily life, and her poetry.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 255 NORNorris, Kathleen
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paulist Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 248.843 NORNorris, Kathleen
Summary: Kathleen Norris's masterpiece: a personal and moving memoir that resurrects the ancient term acedia, or soul-weariness, and brilliantly explores its relevancy to the modern individual and culture.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Relation NorrisNorris, Kathleen
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 1996
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 255 NORNorris, Kathleen
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ticknor & Fields 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978.3 NORTen Boom, Corrie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jove 1974
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Summary: Isaac Newton was not only briiliant, but secretive, vindictive and obsessive. Here is a portrait of the man, contradictions and all, than places him against the backdrop of seventeenth-century England, a time of plague, the Great Fire of London, and two revolutions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 NEWKrull, Kathleen
Summary: "Kathleen Krull sheds new light on the Benjamin Franklin--who considered science his true calling in life, not nation building--in this perceptive, fair-minded portrait."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 FRAKrull, Kathleen.
Summary: This biography profiles the life and times of German-born theoretical physicist Albert Einstein, whose contributions to the field earned him a Nobel Prize.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2009
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall & Co. 1990
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.8 NORNorris, Mary
Summary: Presents a chronicle of the author's lifelong love affair with words, filtered through her passion for all things Greek and her solo adventures in Greece.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 NORRIS, MARY NORKirkwood, Kathlyn J.
Summary: This moving memoir-in-verse tells about what it means to be an everyday activist and foot solider for racial justice, as Kathlyn recounts how she went from attending protests as a teenager to fighting as an adult for Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday tobecome a national holiday.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Versify, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 KIRHook, Peter
Summary: The bassist for the band Joy Division, the godfathers of alternative rock who reinvented music in the post-punk era, recounts how four young men from Manchester rose from the punk scene to create music that would define a generation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: It Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.6 HOONorris, J. E.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Virginia Book Co. 1972
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.3755 NORMedwick, Cathleen
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TERESA OF AVILA MEDSmall, Cathleen
Summary: What do Yoko Ono, Psy, and Pel have in common? They are all considered immigrants of extraordinary ability. What does this distinction mean, and how can someone earn it? Readers discover the answers to these and many more questions as they explore the lives of some of the most famous immigrants of extraordinary ability. The engaging, informative text provides readers with a closer look at this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lucent Press 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 305.9 SMAGordis, Daniel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.94 GORShorris, Earl
Summary: Documents the author's observations of circumstances reflected in a maximum-security prison and subsequent launch of a humanities college course for dropouts, immigrants and former inmates who eventually became high-achieving contributors to society.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 001.3071 SHOCrook, Marion
Summary: Adoptive parents can be bewildered or apprehensive and find themselves struggling in ways they hadn't anticipated. Marion Crook gently takes adoptive parents through the process of adoption from childhood to adulthood, helping to demystify the experience with compassion and reassurance. Meticulously researched but refreshingly free of academic jargon, this book will enlighten and empower...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arsenal Pulp Press 2016
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Summary: The creator of The Gong Show, The Dating Game, and other television game shows describes his career and shares a tongue-in-cheek glimpse of his personal life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.45 HARGlover, Lorri
Summary: Explores the family life of the Founding Fathers, providing intimate portraits of the households of such revolutionaries as George Mason, Patrick Henry, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.3 GLOCooke, Alistair
Summary: Shortly after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Cooke, a newly naturalized citizen, set out to see his country as it was undergoing a monumental change. He wanted to "see what the war had done to people, to the towns I might go through, to some jobs and crops, to stretches of landscape I loved and had seen at peace; and to let significance fall where it might." Working throughout the war, Cooke...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5373 COOCooke, Julia
Summary: "A lively, unexpected portrait of the jet-age stewardesses serving on iconic Pan Am airways between 1966 and 1975"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2021