Teresa, Mother

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print in association with Ballantine Books 1995

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 271.97 TER

Winter, Jonah

Summary: Shares information on labor leader Mother Jones and her 1903 Children's Crusade protesting the dangerous conditions endured by child factory workers.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Schwartz & Wade Books 2020

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 JON

Teresa

Summary: During her lifelong service to the poor, Mother Teresa became an icon of compassion to people of all religions; her extraordinary contributions to the care of thousands whom nobody else was prepared to look after have been recognized and acclaimed throughout the world. Little was known, however, about her own spiritual heights, or her struggles. This collection of her writing and reflections,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2007

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TERESA, MOTHER TER

Gigliotti, Jim

Summary: Presents the life of an Albanian girl, Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, who became known as Mother Teresa and spent most of her life serving "the poorest of the poor" in Calcutta, India.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC 2015

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB BASKET TERESA

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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT People Who Mother

Jordan, Mary

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2005

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ANTONIA, MOTHER JOR

Macher, Tom

Summary: "From a searing new literary voice, a raw, compulsively readable memoir about a young man seeking hope, community, and ultimately recovery from addiction in a series of halfway houses and boys' homes--the first book to so vividly capture this world. In his late teens Tom Macher rebelled against a world that seemed stacked against him. Raised in a broken family and estranged from an absentee...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2018

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MACHER, TOM MAC

Moorer, Allison

Summary: Moorer turns her lyrical storytelling powers to recount the events leading up to the moment that forever altered her own life and that of her older sister, Shelby, with whom she shares an unbreakable bond. Gorgeously written, this work delves into the meaning of inheritance and destiny, shame, and trauma--and how it is possible to carve out a safe place in the world despite it all.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo Press 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MOORER, ALLISON MOO

Mosler, Layne.

Summary: "A delicious memoir that takes us from Buenos Aires to New York to Berlin as the author, driven by wanderlust and an unrelenting appetite, finds purpose, passion, and unexpected flavor. Layne Mosler's search for her next meal based on a recommendation from a cab driver starts in Buenos Aires: After leaving a tango club following a terrible turn on the dance floor, she impulsively asks her...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon 2015

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MOSLER, LAYNE MOS

Godfrey, Father.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Palphot Ltd. 1989

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.94 Godfr