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Adopted children Psychology Adoption Psychological aspects Adoptive parents Humor in the workplace United States History 19th century Juvenile literature Laughter Political aspects United States History 19th century Juvenile literature Norris, Kathleen 1947- Parenting Presidents Presidents United States Biography Juvenile literature United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Juvenile literatureNorris, 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: 248.862 NORCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Relation NorrisNorris, 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 NORKrull, 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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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 EINKrull, Kathleen.
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 NEWDorris, Michael.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall & Co. 1990
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 362.292 DorriKirkwood, 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 KIRMedwick, 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 SMACrook, 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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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649 CROGlover, 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 GLOCook, Kevin
Summary: Recounts the events of March 13, 1964, when a young woman in Queens was slain in plain sight of witnesses who heard her cries for help but chose not to get involved.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W W Norton & Co Inc 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1523 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
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 387.7Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 387.7 COOCopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Travel CookeCook, Kevin
Summary: "The untold story of a national trauma-NASA's Challenger explosion-and what really happened to America's Teacher in Space, illuminating the tragic cost of humanity setting its sight on the stars"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.12 COOCook, Kevin
Summary: A tribute to the professional achievements of the father-and-son team of Tom and Tom Morris cites their pivotal contributions to the founding of golf in the 1800s, the differences in their athletic styles, and young Tom's tragic early death.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gotham Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.352 COOFerris, William
Summary: Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, folklorist William Ferris toured his home state of Mississippi, documenting the voices of African Americans as they spoke about and performed the diverse musical traditions that form the authentic roots of the blues. Now, Give My Poor Heart Ease puts a searing selection of the artistically and emotionally rich voices from this invaluable documentary record....
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of North Carolina Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.643 FERCooke, Mervyn.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abbeville Press 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.65 COODuncombe, Laura Sook
Summary: Pirates are an enduring popular subject, depicted often in songs, stories, and Halloween costumes. Yet the truth about pirate women--who they were, why they went to sea, and what their lives were really like--is seldom a part of the conversation. In this Seven Seas history of the world's female buccaneers, A Pirate's Life for She tells the story of 16 women who through the ages sailed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press Incorporated 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 920 DUNCook, Kevin
Summary: "In The Dad Report, award-wining sportswriter Kevin Cook weaves a tapestry of uplifting stories in which fathers and sons--from sport's superstars to Cook and his own ball-playing father--share the game"--provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton and Company 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.357 COOLeider, Emily Wortis.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus & Giroux 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WEST, MAE LEIFlinn, Kathleen
Summary: This family history with recipes offers a flavorful tale spanning three generations as Flinn returns to the mix of food and memoir readers loved in her best-seller The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry. From a Route 66 trek to San Francisco to their Michigan farm to the shores of Florida, humor and adventure defines her family even in the worst of times. You'll savor Uncle Clarence's divine...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 FLICopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Food Flinn FlinnCoote, Stephen.
Contents: Vienna, 1815 -- Elba, 1814 -- The flight of the eagle, 27 February-20 March 1815 -- Paris, 21 March-12 June 1815 -- Waterloo, 12-21 June 1815 -- St. Helena, 21 June 1815-5 May 1821.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DaCapo Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.27 COOKrull, Kathleen.
Summary: A biography of one of America's greatest presidents, focusing on his use of wit and humor, and his love of language.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Children's Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2010