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  • Spot the Terrorist!

    Spot the Terrorist!

    by Lori Jakiela

    Lori Jakiela’s Spot the Terrorist! takes the reader on flights through the ordinary-turned-extraordinary, where the everyday experiences of a flight attendant become something much stranger and wilder. Adoptee Author: Lori Jakiela Publication Year: 2012 Critical Reviews Adoptee Reviews:  Other Reviews:  All Bookshop and Amazon links on this…

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  • The Bridge to Take When Things Get Serious

    The Bridge to Take When Things Get Serious

    by Lori Jakiela

    Her 70-year-old, cancer-stricken mother kills snakes with a broom. Her best friend believes in psychics and the Virgin Mary. Her new neighbor steals her CDs and her aunt sneaks cheese curls into the house. After seven years in New York, Lori Jakiela gives up her…

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  • Miss New York Has Everything

    Miss New York Has Everything

    by Lori Jakiela

    Her aunt was a nun who popped pills and did time in Narcotics Anonymous. Her father grew up during the Depression, believed he’d be the next Frank Sinatra, and ended up working in the mills. His daughter, Lori Jakiela, spent her suburban Pittsburgh childhood watching…

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  • Belief Is Its Own Kind of Truth, Maybe

    Belief Is Its Own Kind of Truth, Maybe

    by Lori Jakiela

    Belief Is Its Own Kind of Truth, Maybe is a book about mapping lives–the lives we are born with and the lives we are allowed to make for ourselves. Belief is part adoption narrative and part meditation on family, motherhood, nature vs. nurture, and what…

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