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Bush, George W. (George Walker) 1946- Humor Country life Italy Sicily De Blasi, Marlena Travel Italy Sicily Human-animal relationships Large type books National characteristics, Sicilian Presidents United States Election 2004 Sicily (Italy) Social life and customs 20th century United States History Revolution, 1775-1783 United States Politics and government 2001-2009 HumorGillon, Steven M.
Summary: Riding in an open-topped convertible through Dallas on November 22, 1963, Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson heard a sudden explosive sound at 12:30 P.M. The Secret Service sped him away to safety and at 1:20 P.M. he learned that JFK had been assassinated. Here historian Steven Gillon tells the story of how Johnson consolidated power in the twenty-four hours following the assassination - actions...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 973.922 GILWhite, Betty
Summary: Noted television actress, impassioned lifelong animal welfare advocate, and author, Betty White offers intimate and funny stories about her animal friends at the zoo, enhanced by four-color photographs. This book is the passion project she has been working on for more than a decade; a love letter to zoos and to the animals in them, from a woman who admits she likes animals better than humans...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2011
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 636.088 WHISummary: A revealing and intimate biography of Ted Kennedy. "No figure in American public life has had such great expectations thrust upon him, or has responded so poorly. But Ted Kennedy -- the youngest of the Kennedy children and the son who felt the least pressure to satisfy his father's enormous ambitions -- would go on to live a life that no one could have predicted: dismissed as a spent force in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 973.92092 LASBurrough, Bryan
Summary: Chronicles the rise and fall of one of the great economic and political powerhouses of the twentieth century--Texas oil--by weaving together the epic sagas of the industry's Big Four (Roy Cullen, H. L. Hunt, Clint Murchison, and Sid Richardson) in a story of wealth, power, family feuds, scandals, and bankruptcies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bryan Burrough 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 338.2 BURHollander, Nicole.
Summary: A guide to some of the most important decisions that come in one's mature years, for example: Accept the senior citizen discount or feign indignation?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 818.5402 HOLLangewiesche, William.
Summary: In this book journalist William Langewiesche takes us on a strange and unexpected journey into the fascinating world of advanced aviation. From the testing laboratories where engineers struggle to build a jet engine that can systematically resist bird attacks through the creation of the A320 in France, to the political and social forces seeking to minimize the impact of fly-by-wire technology...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 814.54 ROOEdge, John T.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2006
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 641.8653 EDGLindhout, Amanda.
Summary: Amanda Lindhout's intimate account illuminates the psychology, motivations, and desperate extremism of her abductors. Kept in chains, starved and abused, she survives by imagining herself in a "house in the sky," finding strength and hope in the power of her own mind.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Pr 2013
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Summary: "This is the story of President Jimmy Carter's post-presidency, the most admired and productive in the nation's history. through The Carter Center, which he and Rosalynn Carter founded in 1982, he and his dedicated colleagues have fought neglected diseases, waged peace in war zones, monitored elections in troubled nations, and built hope among some of the most forgotten and needy people in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2007
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 973.9260 CARDrury, Bob.
Summary: November, 1950. After General MacArthur ignores Mao's warnings and pushes his UN forces deep into North Korea, his 10,000 First Division Marines find themselves surrounded and hopelessly outnumbered by 100,000 Chinese soldiers near the Chosin Reservoir. Their only chance for survival is through the Toktong Pass, which will need to be held open at all costs. The mission fell to Captain William...
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 951.904 DRUQuindlen, Anna.
Summary: Author Anna Quindlen reflects on how her life has unfolded in tandem with her dog's life and on the lessons she's learned by watching him: to roll with the punches, to take things as they come, to measure herself not in terms of the past or the future but of the present.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 818.5403 QUICheever, 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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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 PREAbramson, 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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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 155.9 KATKleinfield, Sonny.
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 MEZDe 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