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Mills, Travis

Summary: "Retired U.S. Army staff sergeant Travis Mills, one of only five soldiers from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq to survive a quadruple amputation, shares the story of his remarkable recovery"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 MILLS, TRAVIS MIL

Morris, Heather

Summary: "In the midst of World War II, an English musician, Norah Chambers, places her eight-year-old daughter, Sally, on a ship leaving Singapore, desperate to keep her safe from the Japanese army as they move down through the Pacific. Norah remains to care for her husband and elderly parents, knowing she may never see her child again. Sister Nesta James, a Welsh-Australian nurse, has enlisted to tend...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC MOR

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Morris

Herman, Arthur

Summary: "How did two men move the world away from wars for land and treasure to wars over ideas and ideologies--a change that would go on to kill millions? In April 1917, Woodrow Wilson--champion of American democracy but also of segregation, advocate for free trade and a new world order based on freedom and justice--thrust the United States into the First World War in order to make the 'world safe for...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 940.3 HER

Edmonds, Chris (Christopher Waring)

Summary: "Part contemporary detective story, part World War II historical narrative, No Surrender is theinspiring truestory of Roddie Edmonds, a Knoxville-born enlistee who risked his life during the final days of World War II to save others from murderous Nazis, and the lasting effects his actions had on thousands of lives--then and now. Captured in the Battle of the Bulge, Master Sergeant Roddie...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 EDMONDS, RODDIE EDM

Murad, Nadia

Summary: "A memoir of Nadia Murad's time as a captive of the Islamic State, her escape, and her human rights activism"--Provided by publisher.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2018

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 MURAD, NADIA MUR

Beschloss, Michael.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2003

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 940.5314 BES

Thomas, Evan

Summary: From the bestselling author of "Sea of Thunder" comes a riveting narrative about America's ferocious drive towards empire during the Gilded Age, and the uncanny resemblance of the Spanish-American War to the Iraq War of today.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2010

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1 available in Adult Display, Call number: LP 973.891 THO

Nafisi, 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 NAF

LeRette, Scott Michael

Summary: "A father shares his autistic son's story and offers inspiration and advice for families facing similar challenges"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2015

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 616.8 LER

Mason, C. Nicole

Summary: "While showing us her own path out of poverty, Mason examines the conditions that make it nearly impossible to escape and exposes the presumption harbored by many--that the poor don't help themselves enough"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2017

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 MASON, C. NICOLE MAS

Noonan, William Sylvester.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2006

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 KENNEDY, JOHN F. JR. NOO

Fuller, Alexandra

Summary: Alexandra Fuller tells the idiosyncratic story of her life growing up white in rural Rhodesia as it was becoming Zimbabwe. The daughter of hardworking, yet strikingly unconventional English-bred immigrants, Alexandra arrives in Africa at the tender age of two. She moves through life with a hardy resilience, even as a bloody war approaches.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2011

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De Visé, Daniel

Summary: "A lively and revealing biography of Andy Griffith and Don Knotts, celebrating the powerful real-life friendship behind The Andy Griffith Show--one of America's most iconic television programs"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2015

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 920 DEV

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 920 deVise 2015

Patchett, Ann

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2004

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Kephart, Beth.

Summary: In the fall of 1991, Beth Kephart's son, Jeremy, was diagnosed with a broad spectrum of difficulties, including a behavioral disorder related to autism.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Beeler Large Print 1999

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 616.8588 KEP

Gilbert, Joanne D.

Summary: "Four stories of Polish women who resisted the Nazis during World War II"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 920 GIL

Barr, Nevada.

Summary: The author shares her journey from arrogance and atheism toward humility and a sense of being part of something greater than herself.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2003

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 BAR

Henion, Leigh Ann.

Summary: "One woman reclaims her sense of wonder by seeking out the globe's most incredible natural phenomena"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2015

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 HENION, LEIGH ANN HEN

Chesney, Will

Summary: "Two dozen Navy SEALs descended on Osama bin Laden's compound in May 2011. After the mission, only one name was made public: Cairo, a Belgian Malinois and military working dog. This is Cairo's story, and that of his handler, Will Chesney, a SEAL Team Operator whose life would be irrevocably tied to Cairo's. Starting in 2008, when Will was introduced to the SEAL canine program, he and Cairo...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022

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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP 921 CHESNEY

Cunningham, Chet.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2005

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 940.545 CUN

Kix, Paul

Summary: "A scion of one of the most storied families in France, Robert de La Rochefoucald was raised in magnificent chateaux and educated in Europe's finest schools. When the Nazis invaded and imprisoned his father, La Rochefoucald escaped to England and learned the dark arts of anarchy and combat--cracking safes and planting bombs and killing with his bare hands--from the officers of Special...

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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 LA ROCHEFOUCAULD, ROBERT DE KIX

Winters, Richard D.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press/Thomson/Gale 2006

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 940.5421 WIN

Goodavage, Maria

Summary: "The story of Marine K9 hero Lucca and the handlers who fought alongside her through two bloody wars in Iraq and Afghanistan"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2015

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 956.7 GOO

Stanton, Doug.

Summary: Following 9/11, a small band of Special Forces soldiers secretly entered Afghanistan and rode to war on horseback against the Taliban. Outnumbered forty to one, they pursued the enemy across the mountains and captured the strategic city of Mazar-i-Sharif. Bone-weary, they were welcomed by throngs of overjoyed Afghans in the streets. Then the action took an unexpected turn: the Horse Soldiers...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 958.1047 STA

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 958.1047 STA

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