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      Harnessing Grief: A Mother’s Quest for Meaning and Miracles

      Maria Kefalas

      After Kefalas learned her youngest child was dying, she moved from rage to hope as she realized that when the worst things happen, grief can be harnessed like a superpower…

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      Working-Class Heroes: Protecting Home, Community, and Nation in a Chicago Neighborhood

      Maria Kefalas

      Chicago’s Southwest Side is one of the last remaining footholds for the city’s white working class, a little-studied and little-understood segment of the American population. This book paints a complex…

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      Loie’s Disease: A Book About Leukodystrophy

      Maria Kefalas

      Leukodystrophy is a life-limiting neurological disorder that can affect both children and adults.

      In an illustrated story based on her conversations with her children after their sister, Cal, was diagnosed…

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      Harnessing Grief: A Mother’s Quest for Meaning and Miracles

      Maria J. Kefalas

      The inspiring story of a mother who took unimaginable tragedy and used her grief as a force to do good by transforming the lives of others.

      When Maria Kefalas’s daughter…

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      Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood before Marriage

      Kathryn Edin,Maria Kefalas

      Why do so many poor American youth continue to have children before they can afford to take care of them? This title offers a look at what marriage and motherhood…

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      Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage

      Kathryn Edin,Maria J. Kefalas

      The authors provide a wholly new framework for understanding why poor women have lower rates of marriage and have children outside of wedlock.

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      Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage

      Kathryn Edin,Maria J. Kefalas

      Why do so many poor American youth continue to have children before they can afford to take care of them? This book looks at what marriage and motherhood mean to…

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      Fixing Genes and Treating Disease: A Book About Gene Therapy

      Maria Kefalas,Pat Carr

      This book is for families, patients, medical professionals and the patient advocacy community. It discusses the history and science of gene therapy in a manner young children can understand.

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      Hollowing Out the Middle: The Rural Brain Drain and What It Means for America

      Patrick J Carr (St. Joseph's University),Maria J Kefalas

      In 2001, with funding from the MacArthur Foundation, sociologists Patrick J. Carr and Maria J. Kefalas moved to Iowa to understand the rural brain drain and the exodus of young…

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      Coming of Age in America: The Transition to Adulthood in the Twenty-First Century

      What is it like to become an adult in twenty-first-century America? This book takes us to four very different places - New York City, San Diego, rural Iowa, and Saint…

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      Coming of Age in America: The Transition to Adulthood in the Twenty-First Century

      What is it like to become an adult in twenty-first-century America? This book takes us to four very different places - New York City, San Diego, rural Iowa, and Saint…

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