Brands, H. W.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2003
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Summary: Tells the parallel stories of Daniel Burnham, the main architect of the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, and serial killer Henry H. Holmes, discussing the challenges Burnham faced in creating the hugely successful White City, and looking at how Holmes used the opportunities afforded by the fair to lure victims to their deaths.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Large Print Press (Gale, Cengage Learning) 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP 364.152 LARJames, Syrie.
Summary: Though poor, plain, and unconnected, Charlotte Bronte posses a deeply passionate side which she reveals only in her writings. It is the pages of her diary where Charlotte exposes her deepest feelings and desires--and the truth about her life, its triumps and shattering disappointments, her family, the inpiration behind her work, her scandalous secret passion for the man she can never have--and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC JAMDean, John W. (John Wesley)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2004
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 HARKerrison, Catherine
Summary: "Thomas Jefferson had three daughters: Martha and Maria by his wife, Martha Wayles Jefferson, and Harriet by his slave Sally Hemings. In Jefferson's Daughters, Catherine Kerrison, a scholar of early American and women's history, recounts the remarkable journey of these three women--and how their struggle to define themselves reflects both the possibilities and the limitations that resulted from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 920 KERLeaming, Barbara.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2002
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Summary: "I the span of fifteen years, Dr. Thomas Neill Cream murdered as many as ten people in the United States, Britain, and Canada. Poison was his weapon of choice. Structured around the doctor's London murder trial in 1892, The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream exposes the blind trust given to the medical practitioners, as well as the flawed detection methods, bungled investigations, corrupt...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022
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Summary: On Winston Churchill's first day as prime minister, Hitler invaded Holland and Belgium. Poland and Czechoslovakia had already fallen, and the Dunkirk evacuation was just two weeks away. For the next twelve months, Hitler would wage a relentless bombing campaign, killing 45,000 Britons. It was up to Churchill to hold the country together and persuade President Franklin Roosevelt that Britain was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP CHURCHILL LARUnger, Craig.
Summary: Author Craig Unger discusses the weave of influence, investment, and policy between the House of Saud and the House of Bush.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2004
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 327.7305 UNGGreenspan, Alan
Summary: Alan Greenspan shares the story of his life with an eye toward doing justice to the extraordinary amount of history that he has experienced and shaped. One of his goals is to draw readers along the same learning curve he followed, so that they gain a grasp of his own understanding of the underlying dynamics that drive world events. The book is a distillation of a life's worth of wisdom and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 332.11092 GREWingate, Lisa
Summary: "Louisiana, 1875: In the tumultuous aftermath of Reconstruction, three young women set off as unwilling companions on a perilous quest: Lavinia, the pampered heir to a now-destitute plantation; Juneau Jane, her illegitimate free-born Creole half-sister; and Hannie, Lavinia's former slave. Each carries private wounds and powerful secrets as they head for Texas, following dangerous roads rife...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2020
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 2000
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 973.7349 COFEllis, Joseph J.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 2000
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 JEFWills, Garry
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2003
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 JEFJohn Paul
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 2004