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Alda, Alan Calhoun, Ada Gopnik, Adam. Lightman, Alan P. Nafisi, Azar. Standiford, Les. Sutherland, AmyAlda, Alan
Summary: The actor and founder of the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science traces his personal quest to understand how to relate and communicate better, from practicing empathy and using improv games to storytelling and developing better intuitive skills.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 153 ALDSutherland, Amy
Summary: "Drawing on her work at a shelter, her experiences living with her own two rescue dogs, and years of research, bestselling author and columnist Amy Sutherland takes us on an unforgettable journey into the special world of rescue and shelter dogs--and the growing number of dedicated people who are deeply invested in saving these precious lives"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 636.7 SUTNafisi, Azar.
Summary: Azar Nafisi, author of the beloved international bestseller Reading Lolita in Tehran, now gives us a stunning personal story of growing up in a family in Iran, moving memories of her life lived in thrall to a powerful and difficult mother, against the background of Iran during a time of revolution and change. A young girl's pain over family secrets and a mother's lost life, a young woman's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 NAFISI, AZAR NAFCalhoun, Ada
Summary: Calhoun presents an unflinching but also loving portrait of her own marriage, opening a long-overdue conversation about the institution as it truly is: not the happy ending of a love story or a relic doomed by high divorce rates, but the beginning of a challenging new chapter of which the first twenty years are the hardest.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 306.8 CALGopnik, Adam.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 2001
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 944 GOPStandiford, Les.
Summary: One July day in 1981, Reve Walsh allowed her six-year-old son Adam to try out a video game near a store's entrance while she shopped for lamps. When she returned Adam was gone. The shock of Adam's murder, and the inability of the police to find his killer, altered American innocence. Bringing Adam Home is the definitive account of this horrifying crime as well as a riveting story of a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2011
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 364.1523 STALightman, Alan P.
Summary: "A meditation on religion and science that explores the tension between our yearning for permanence and certainty, and the modern scientific discoveries that demonstrate the impermanent and uncertain nature of the world"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2018