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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2006
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 641.8653 EDGLindhout, Amanda.
Summary: Amanda Lindhout's intimate account illuminates the psychology, motivations, and desperate extremism of her abductors. Kept in chains, starved and abused, she survives by imagining herself in a "house in the sky," finding strength and hope in the power of her own mind.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Pr 2013
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 070.92 LINCarter, Jimmy
Summary: "This is the story of President Jimmy Carter's post-presidency, the most admired and productive in the nation's history. through The Carter Center, which he and Rosalynn Carter founded in 1982, he and his dedicated colleagues have fought neglected diseases, waged peace in war zones, monitored elections in troubled nations, and built hope among some of the most forgotten and needy people in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2007
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 973.9260 CARDrury, Bob.
Summary: November, 1950. After General MacArthur ignores Mao's warnings and pushes his UN forces deep into North Korea, his 10,000 First Division Marines find themselves surrounded and hopelessly outnumbered by 100,000 Chinese soldiers near the Chosin Reservoir. Their only chance for survival is through the Toktong Pass, which will need to be held open at all costs. The mission fell to Captain William...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 951.904 DRUQuindlen, Anna.
Summary: Author Anna Quindlen reflects on how her life has unfolded in tandem with her dog's life and on the lessons she's learned by watching him: to roll with the punches, to take things as they come, to measure herself not in terms of the past or the future but of the present.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 818.5403 QUIGillon, Steven M.
Summary: Riding in an open-topped convertible through Dallas on November 22, 1963, Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson heard a sudden explosive sound at 12:30 P.M. The Secret Service sped him away to safety and at 1:20 P.M. he learned that JFK had been assassinated. Here historian Steven Gillon tells the story of how Johnson consolidated power in the twenty-four hours following the assassination - actions...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010
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Summary: Noted television actress, impassioned lifelong animal welfare advocate, and author, Betty White offers intimate and funny stories about her animal friends at the zoo, enhanced by four-color photographs. This book is the passion project she has been working on for more than a decade; a love letter to zoos and to the animals in them, from a woman who admits she likes animals better than humans...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2011
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 636.088 WHIRooney, Andrew A.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 814.54 ROOSummary: A revealing and intimate biography of Ted Kennedy. "No figure in American public life has had such great expectations thrust upon him, or has responded so poorly. But Ted Kennedy -- the youngest of the Kennedy children and the son who felt the least pressure to satisfy his father's enormous ambitions -- would go on to live a life that no one could have predicted: dismissed as a spent force in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 973.92092 LASBurrough, Bryan
Summary: Chronicles the rise and fall of one of the great economic and political powerhouses of the twentieth century--Texas oil--by weaving together the epic sagas of the industry's Big Four (Roy Cullen, H. L. Hunt, Clint Murchison, and Sid Richardson) in a story of wealth, power, family feuds, scandals, and bankruptcies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bryan Burrough 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 338.2 BURHollander, Nicole.
Summary: A guide to some of the most important decisions that come in one's mature years, for example: Accept the senior citizen discount or feign indignation?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 818.5402 HOLLangewiesche, William.
Summary: In this book journalist William Langewiesche takes us on a strange and unexpected journey into the fascinating world of advanced aviation. From the testing laboratories where engineers struggle to build a jet engine that can systematically resist bird attacks through the creation of the A320 in France, to the political and social forces seeking to minimize the impact of fly-by-wire technology...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 363.12 LANMatthews, Christopher
Summary: A personal history of a time when two great political opponents served together for the benefit of the country. The author was a top aide to Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill, who waged a principled war of political ideals with President Reagan from 1980 to 1986. Together, the two men forged compromises that shaped America's future and became one of history's most celebrated political pairings:...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 973.927 MATPaterniti, Michael
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning 2013
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 637.3092 PATAmbrose, Hugh.
Summary: In this companion to the HBO miniseries--Executive produced by Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg, and Gary Goetzman--Hugh Ambrose reveals the intertwined odysseys of four U.S. Marines and a U.S. Navy carrier pilot during World War II. This book deepens the story revealed in the miniseries and goes beyond it. Some of the five men whose story is told considered war a profession, others enlisted as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 940.54 AMBGould, Meredith
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2002
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 177.7 GOUKatz, Jon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2006
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 636.7088 KATKoeppel, Dan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2005
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Summary: Delves into the secretive, playful world of cats, debunking myths and honoring the feline's evolution from solitary jungle creature to human companion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2003
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 636.8 MASWeingarten, Gene.
Summary: Gene Weingarten and Gina Barreca present their individual viewpoints on men/women relationships.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2004
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2007
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 EISCheever, Susan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP 810.9 CHEKline, Barbara
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2005
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 649 KLILear, Martha Weinman.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008