Benjamin, Melanie
Summary: "A novel of the friendship and creative partnership between two of Hollywood's earliest female legends--screenwriter Frances Marion and superstar Mary Pickford"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BENPaul, Gill
Summary: Jackie Kennedy was beautiful, sophisticated, and contemplating leaving her ambitious young senator husband while recovering from the birth of a stillborn child. So when she's offered a holiday on the luxurious yacht owned by billionaire Ari Onassis, she says yes. Maria Callas is at the height of her operatic career and widely considered to be the finest soprano in the world. And then she's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print 2020
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC PAUBeschloss, 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 BESWoodside, Christine
Summary: "Drawing on original manuscripts and letters, Woodside shows how Rose reshaped her mother's story into a series of heroic tales that rebutted the policies of the New Deal. Their secret collaboration would lead in time to their estrangement. This fascinating look at the relationship between two strong-willed women is also the deconstruction of an American myth"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 920 WOOCoonts, Stephen
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Pub. 1995
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC COONTTurnbull, Bryn
Summary: Summer, 1926. When Thelma Morgan marries Viscount Duke Furness after a whirlwind romance, she is immersed in a gilded world of extraordinary wealth and privilege. For Thelma, the daughter of an American diplomat, her new life as a member of the British aristocracy is like a fairy tale-- even more so when her husband introduces her to Edward, Prince of Wales. Her marriage to Duke leads her to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC TURGarber, Elizabeth W.
Summary: "This haunting memoir describes visionary architect Woodie Garber's descent into madness and follows Elizabeth's inspiring journey to emerge from her abuse, gain understanding and freedom from her father's control, and go on to become a loving mother and a healer who helps others"--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 GARBER, ELIZABETH W GARCornwell, Bernard.
Summary: The rascally Thomas of Hookton, aka Le Batard, and his band of not-so-merry mercenaries are bidden by the Earl of Northhampton to unearth the lost sword of Saint Peter in this recreation of the Battle of the Poitiers in 1356 wherein a severely outnumbered English army defeats the French and captures the Poiters and French King John II.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harperluxe 2013
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Cornwell 2013Harvey, Kristy Woodson
Summary: "Four women. One family heirloom. A secret connection that will change their lives...and history as they know it. Present Day: Julia Baxter's wedding veil, bequeathed to her great-grandmother by a mysterious woman on a train in the 1930s, has passed through generations of her family as a symbol of a happy marriage. But on the morning of her wedding day, something tells Julia that even the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022
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Summary: "A novel of enduring friendship based on the true-life account of Mary Anna Curtis Lee, great-granddaughter of Martha Washington and wife of General Robert E. Lee, and Selina Norris Gray, a slave girl who became Mary's housekeeper and confidante"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC LOVZusak, Markus
Summary: Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel -- a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2006
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Summary: "Daisy Shoemaker can't sleep. With a thriving cooking business, full schedule of volunteer work, and a beautiful home in the Philadelphia suburbs, she should be content. But her teenage daughter can be a handful, her husband can be distant, her work can feel trivial, and she has lots of acquaintances, but no real friends. Still, Daisy knows she's got it good. So why is she up all night? While...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Weiner 2021Higham, Scott.
Summary: It was the mystery that gripped the nation during the summer of 2001: the sudden disappearance of young intern Chandra Levy and the possible involvement of Congressman Gary Condit. And then the case went cold. But Chandra Levy haunted. Six years after her disappearance, investigative editors of the Washington Post pitched two Pulitzer Prize-winning authors their idea: Revisit the case and find...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 364.1523 HIGChiaverini, Jennifer
Summary: After Wisconsin graduate student Mildred Fish marries brilliant German economist Arvid Harnack, she accompanies him to his German homeland, where a promising future awaits. In the thriving intellectual culture of 1930s Berlin, the newlyweds create a rich new life filled with love, friendships, and rewarding work--but the rise of a malevolent new political faction inexorably changes their fate....
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CHIHannah, Kristin
Summary: "'Women can be heroes, too.' When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances Frankie McGrath hears these unexpected words, it is a revelation. Raised on idyllic Coronado Island and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing, being a good girl. But in 1965 the world is changing, and she suddenly imagines a different choice for her life. When her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2024
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Summary: In 1772, Catherine the Great sends trusted warrior Toma Nicolescu to protect the Cantemir family, but when their daughter, Lucine, steals his heart, he is forced to keep silent while another lad begins courting her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC DEKKix, 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 KIXLoftis, Larry
Summary: "As the U.S. enters the Second World War, the young college graduate is desperate to aid in the war effort, but no one is interested in a bright-eyed young woman whose only career experience is modeling clothes. Aline's life changes when, at a dinner party, she meets a man named Frank Ryan and reveals how desperately she wants to do her part for her country. Within a few weeks, he helps her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP B GRIFFITH LOFSchieffer, Bob.
Summary: This book brings together 168 of Bob Schieffer's essays--from the hard issues of today to the human stories that show us who we are--along with a wealth of new material.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 973.929 SCHFlook, Maria.
Summary: The mysteries of Christa Worthington's life come to the surface when she is found murdered in a remote Cape Cod town just after New Years Day in 2002.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2004
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 364.1523 FLODelany, Vicki
Summary: "As the proprietor and head pastry chef of Tea by the Sea, a tearoom on the picturesque bluffs of Cape Cod, Lily Roberts has her hands are full. But nothing keeps her busier than steering her sassy grandmother, Rose, away from trouble. Rose operates the B & B adjacent to Lily's tea shop ... for now. Real estate developer Jack Ford is pushing hard to rezone nearby land, with an eye toward...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2023
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Summary: Inspired by actual events, this novel offers a fascinating account of a crucial but little-remembered moment in American history that follows three courageous women who bravely risked their lives and liberty in the fight to win the vote.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CHIWood, Tracey Enerson
Summary: "She built a monument for all time. Then she was lost in its shadow. Emily Warren Roebling refuses to live conventionally--she knows who she is and what she wants, and she's determined to make change. But then her husband Wash asks the unthinkable: give up her dreams to make his possible. Emily's fight for women's suffrage is put on hold, and her life transformed when Wash, the Chief Engineer...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2020
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WOOGreen, Hank
Summary: "A young woman becomes an overnight celebrity before realizing she's part of something bigger, and stranger, than anyone could have possibly imagined when she makes a video of a giant sculpture in New York that goes viral"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2019