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National Book Award winner: This story of a family torn apart by the Vietnam era is 'a magnificent portrayal of two noble men who broke each other's hearts' (Booklist). James Carroll grew up in a Catholic family that seemed blessed. His father, who had once dreamed of becoming a priest, instead began a career in J. Edgar Hoover's FBI, rising through the ranks and eventually becoming one of the most powerful men in the Pentagon, the founder of the...
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William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2001]
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English
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From childhood, acclaimed novelist A. Manette Ansay trained to become a concert pianist. But when she was nineteen, a mysterious muscle disorder forced her to give up the piano, and by twenty-one, she couldn't grip a pen or walk across a room. She entered a world of limbo, one in which no one could explain what was happening to her or predict what the future would hold. At twenty-three, beginning a whole new life in a motorized wheelchair, Ansay made...
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Jossey-Bass
Pub. Date
[2009]
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English
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Acclaimed for his writings on religious belief and spirituality, Paul Wilkes now recounts his lifelong search for God. Starting with his working-class upbringing in Cleveland, his story continues through lonely nights in a factory, working his way through college, a surprising confrontation during the Cuban Missile Crisis, a torrid romance on the Indian Ocean, acceptance into an Ivy League school, and entering the "perfect" marriage, which would eventually...
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Addison-Wesley Pub. Co
Pub. Date
1987.
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English
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Robert Coles first met Dorothy Day when he worked in one of her Catholic worker soup kitchens. He remained close to this inspiring and controversial woman until her death in 1980. His book confronts candidly the central puzzles of her life.
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Crossroad Publishing Company
Pub. Date
2003.
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English
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What's the difference between being possessed by Satan and hallucinating that you're possessed by Satan? To an 11-year old boy who's heard all about The Exorcist, nothing at all. Go to Hell and back with Steve Kissing in this autobiographical graphic novel that proves that real life is wilder than fiction.
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Denominations in America ; no. 6
Publisher
Greenwood Press
Pub. Date
1993.
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English