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Summary: Identical twins Christa and Cara Parravani were raised up from poverty by a determined single mother. Gifted and beautiful, the girls sheltered each other from family violence and loss by inventing their own haven of creativity. They earned scholarships to a prestigious college, pursued careers in the arts, and paired off in early marriages. Then an act of brutality sent Cara into a downward...
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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 921 PARRAVANI, CHRISTA PARStrayed, Cheryl
Summary: Traces the personal crisis the author endured after the death of her mother and a painful divorce, which prompted her ambition to undertake a dangerous thousand-mile solo hike that both drove her to rock bottom and helped her to heal.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Large Print Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning 2013
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 STRAYED, CHERL STRSherr, Lynn
Summary: The definitive biography of Sally Ride, America's first woman in space, by the ABC reporter who covered NASA during its transformation from a test-pilot boys' club to a more inclusive elite. This is a rich portrait of a fascinating woman whose life intersected with revolutionary social and scientific changes in America. Warm and admiring but unsparing, it makes this extraordinarily talented and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 RIDE, SALLY SHEEliot, Marc.
Summary: One of the top box-office draws of the 1960s and '70s with classics like The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape, The Thomas Crown Affair and Bullitt, Steve McQueen is renowned as one of the most exciting and iconic actors to ever come out of Hollywood. Filled with original research, new interviews, and rare photos, this definitive biography of "the King of Cool" includes intimate details of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2011
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 MCQUEEN, STEVE ELIKlein, Edward
Summary: She was perhaps the most famous, most scrutinized, most talked about woman of our century. From the moment Jacqueline Kennedy stepped into the White House, she inspired a generation of Americans and changed the face of a nation. But underneath the glitter and the hype, just who was Jackie? Now, in this carefully detailed chronicle, Edward Klein, the former editor in chief of The New York Times...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 1999
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2006
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 LEMMON, JACK LEMRickles, Don.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2007
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 RICKLES, DON RICRussell, Jan Jarboe
Summary: A biography of LBJ's wife and a centering force in his life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2000
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 JOHNSON, LADY BIRD RUSSteinbach, Alice.
Summary: Eight years ago Alice Steinbach, a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for the Baltimore Sun, decided to take a break from her life. She took a leave from job, friends, and family for a European journey of self-discovery, and her first book, Withourt Reservations, was the result. But once Steinbach had opened the door to a new way of living, she found herself unwilling to return to the old...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2004
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 STEINBACH, ALICE STEAuchincloss, Louis.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2002
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2002
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 O'DONNELL, ROSIE ODOHamill, Dorothy.
Summary: The dazzling smile, the signature haircut, the staple spin. Dorothy Hamill grew up on the ice, working toward the dream she was to accomplish by age nineteen: Olympic gold in figure skating. But life was not the picture of perfection it appeared to be. Dorothy faced a painful inner struggle--though she did not know about the depression that ran in her family until much later in life. Weeks and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2007
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 HAMILL, DOROTHY HAMTurque, Bill.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2000