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Thorndike Press large print nonfiction seriesCheever, Susan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2007
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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
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 155.67 LEAMayes, Frances.
Summary: The celebrated "bard of Tuscany " (New York Times) lyrically chronicles her continuing love affair with Tuscany's people, art, cuisine, and lifestyle. Frances Mayes offers her readers a deeply personal memoir of her present-day life in Tuscany, encompassing both the changes she has experienced since Under the Tuscan Sun and Bella Tuscany appeared, and sensuous, evocative reflections on the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 945.5 MAYPreston, Diana
Summary: Examines the sinking of the Lusitania on May 17, 1915 by a German torpedo which killed 1200 civilians.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2002
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 940.45 PREMatthews, 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 PATAbramson, Jill
Summary: This book is a a work of narrative nonfiction that chronicles the author's first year with her Golden Retreiver, Scout, based on her blog of the same name from The New York Times. Is is an instructive and entertaining chronicle of a puppy's first year, by the author, the managing editor of The New York Times. One summer day, she brought home a nine-week-old golden retriever named Scout. Over...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press/Gale Cengage Learning 2011
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 636.7 ABREdwards, Elizabeth
Summary: "She's one of the most beloved political figures in the country, and on the surface, seems to have led a charmed life. In many ways, she has. Beautiful family. Thriving career. Supportive friendship. Loving marriage. But she's no stranger to adversity. Many know of the strength she had shown after her son, Wade, was killed in a freak car accident when he was only sixteen years old. She would...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009
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Summary: A moving meditation on coping with the loss of the animals that have enriched our lives. Jon Katz returns with a thoughtful exploration of the ways in which people grieve for their pets. Filled with helpful advice, philosophical questions, and emotional reflections about Katz's own animals, this book is about far more than just the grieving process; it's also a comfort to heartbroken pet...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2011
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Summary: "He was a teenage volunteer at a nursing home on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. She was a wheelchair-bound resident in her nineties. He was poor, Hispanic, living in a rented room in the barrio, separated from his family. Her life was comfortable, and her family visited as often as possible. But when Margaret Oliver's daughter hired Elvis Checo to look in on her mother a few afternoons a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2006
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 305.262 KLEMezrich, Ben
Summary: Looks at how a group of M.I.T. students employed simple math and complex disguises to win nearly $4 million at blackjack tables in Las Vegas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2003
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 364.172 MEZAmbrose, 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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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 598.072 KOEMasson, J. Moussaieff (Jeffrey Moussaieff)
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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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 818.54 WEIWukovits, John F.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2007
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 EISDe Blasi, Marlena.
Summary: Author Marlena de Blasi on a journalistic assignment to the mountains of Sicily tells of the Villa Donnafugata, a castle in Sicily, and of Tosca, the villa's patroness who recounts her lifelong love story with the last prince of Sicily.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 914.5 DE BFranken, Al.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2006
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 973.931 FRAMcCullough, David G.
Summary: Based on extensive research in both American and British archives, 1776 is the story of Americans in the ranks, men of every shape, size, and color, farmers, schoolteachers, shoemakers, no-accounts, and mere boys turned soldiers. And it is the story of the British commander, William Howe, and his highly disciplined redcoats who looked on their rebel foes with contempt and fought with a valor...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2005
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2005