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Thomas Merton
(97)
Summary: Thomas Merton remains one of America's most beloved Christian mystics of the 20th century, gathering legions of admirers every day. Choosing to Love the World presents an essential collection of...
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LARGE PRINT
Call #: LP 248.34 MER
Location: Large Print Nonfiction
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Georgia Witkin
(35)
Summary: Grandparents today are healthier, more active, and more youthful and young at heart than their predecessors. Dr. Georgia Witkin, senior editor of Grandparents.com, draws on her experience as a...
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LARGE PRINT
Call #: LP 306.8745 WIT
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Laura Hillenbrand
(897,348)
Summary: On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil, gasoline, and blood. Then, on the ocean...
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LARGE PRINT
Call #: LP 940.5472 HIL
Location: Large Print Nonfiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Michelle Obama
(947,022)
Summary: In a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most iconic and compelling women of our era. As First Lady of the United States of America, she helped...
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LARGE PRINT
Call #: LP B OBAMA
Location: Large Print Nonfiction
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Shirley MacLaine
(395)
Summary: What if hope is the most dangerous emotion? What if a frog had wings? What if our political leaders actually led? What if Downton Abbey was full of Americans? What if, for some reason, I couldn't be...
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LARGE PRINT
Call #: LP B MACLAINE
Location: Large Print Nonfiction
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Taya Kyle
(4,598)
Summary: The widow of American Sniper Chris Kyle shares their private journey, a moving and universal chronicle of love and family, service and patriotism, grief and sacrifice, faith and purpose.
LARGE PRINT
Call #: LP B KYLE
Location: Large Print Nonfiction
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Sue Grafton
(6,572)
Summary: Includes stories that detail Alphabet series heroine Kinsey Millhone's origins, as well as true tales of the author's past.
LARGE PRINT
Call #: LP B GRAFTON
Location: Large Print Nonfiction
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Doris Kearns Goodwin
(179,659)
Summary: This multiple biography is centered on Lincoln's mastery of men and how it shaped the most significant presidency in the nation's history. Historian Goodwin illuminates Lincoln's political genius, as...
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LARGE PRINT
Call #: LP 973.7 GOO
Location: Large Print Nonfiction
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Drew Gilpin Faust
(6,436)
Summary: Historian Drew Gilpin Faust explores the Civil War's death toll from every angle, delineating the ways death changed not only individual lives but the life of the nation and its understanding of the rights and responsibilities of citizenship.
LARGE PRINT
Call #: LP 973.7 FAU
Location: Large Print Nonfiction
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Penelope Lively
(1,153)
Summary: "The memory that we live with ... is the moth-eaten version of our own past that each of us carries around, depends on. It is our ID; this is how we know who we are and where we have been." Memory...
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LARGE PRINT
Call #: LP B LIVELY
Location: Large Print Nonfiction
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Tavis Smiley
(1,333)
Summary: Presents a revealing and dramatic chronicle of the 12 months leading up to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination.
LARGE PRINT
Call #: LP B KING
Location: Large Print Nonfiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Nell Mohney
(17)
Summary: Inspiration and encouragement for people asking "What am I missing?"
LARGE PRINT
Call #: LP 248.4 MOH
Location: Large Print Nonfiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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Debbie Macomber
(553)
Summary: Novelist Macomber applies the best of her fiction-writing skills to true stories that illustrate the profound impact focusing on a single word-- such as balance, surrender, or believe-- for a whole year can bring.
LARGE PRINT
Call #: LP 248.4 MAC
Location: Large Print Nonfiction
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Bill O'Reilly
(34,947)
Summary: Details the events leading up to the murder of the most influential man in history: Jesus of Nazareth. Nearly two thousand years after this beloved and controversial young revolutionary was brutally...
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LARGE PRINT
Call #: LP 232.96 O'RE
Location: Large Print Nonfiction
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Lynn Sherr
(1,796)
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...
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LARGE PRINT
Call #: LP B RIDE
Location: Large Print Nonfiction
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Brad Meltzer
(5,036)
Summary: Everyone knows the story of Abraham Lincoln's assassination in 1865, but few are aware of the original conspiracy to kill him four years earlier in 1861, literally on his way to Washington, D.C., for...
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LARGE PRINT
Call #: LP 973.7 MEL
Location: Large Print Nonfiction
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Erik Larson
(640,595)
Summary: Two men, each handsome and unusually adept at his work, embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized America's rush toward the twentieth century. Daniel Hudson Burnham, a renowned...
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LARGE PRINT
Call #: LP 364.1523 LAR
Location: Large Print Nonfiction
copies in: 0 of 1
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by
James Herriot
Series:
All Creatures Great And Small
(139,340)
Summary: For over thirty years, generations of readers have thrilled to James Herriot's marvelous tales, deep love of life, and extraordinary storytelling abilities. In All Creatures Great and Small, we meet...
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LARGE PRINT
Call #: LP 636.089 HER
Location: Large Print Nonfiction
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Joshua Hammer
(10,595)
Summary: To save precious centuries-old Arabic texts from Al Qaeda, a band of librarians in Timbuktu pulls off a brazen heist worthy of Ocean's Eleven. In the 1980s, a young adventurer and collector for a...
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LARGE PRINT
Call #: LP 025.82 HAM
Location: Large Print Nonfiction
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Tara Westover
(1,330,686)
Summary: Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches and...
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LARGE PRINT
Call #: LP 370 WES
Location: Large Print Nonfiction
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Elie Wiesel
(1,165,927)
Summary: A personal and unforgettable account of the appalling horrors of Hitler's reign of terror. Through the eyes of 14-year-old Eliezer, we behold the tragic fate of the Jews from the little town of...
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LARGE PRINT
Call #: LP 940.5318 WIE
Location: Large Print Nonfiction
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Elton John
(56,843)
Summary: Christened Reginald Dwight, he was a shy boy with Buddy Holly glasses who grew up in the London suburb of Pinner and dreamed of becoming a pop star. By the age of twenty-three he was performing his...
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LARGE PRINT
Call #: LP B JOHN
Location: Large Print Nonfiction
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Susan Cain
(15,069)
Summary: Bittersweetness is a tendency to states of longing, poignancy, and sorrow; an acute awareness of passing time; and a curiously piercing joy when beholding beauty. It recognizes that light and dark,...
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LARGE PRINT
Call #: LP 155.2 CAI
Location: Large Print Nonfiction
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Cheryl Strayed
(748,132)
Summary: In the wake of her mother's death, Cheryl Strayed's family scattered and her marriage was destroyed. Four years later, twenty-six years old with nothing to lose, Cheryl made the decision to hike the...
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LARGE PRINT
Call #: LP B STRAYED
Location: Large Print Nonfiction
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Tom Brokaw
(2,097)
Summary: Longtime NBC Nightly News anchor and political commentator Tom Brokaw offers his own take on the infamous events of the 1960s, as well as on his own life during that arduous period.
LARGE PRINT
Call #: LP 973.92 BRO
Location: Large Print Nonfiction
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Michael Hingson
(10,240)
Summary: At 12:30 a.m. on 9/11, Roselle whimpered at Michael Hingson's bedside. When the trained guide dog was "on the clock," nothing could faze her. But without her harness she was free to be scared of the...
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LARGE PRINT
Call #: LP 974.7 HIN
Location: Large Print Nonfiction
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by
Rob Edelman
(48)
LARGE PRINT
Call #: LP B LANSBURY
Location: Large Print Nonfiction
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Patrick Radden Keefe
(88,088)
Summary: "A stunning, intricate narrative about a notorious killing in Northern Ireland and its devastating repercussions. In December 1972, Jean McConville, a thirty-eight-year-old mother of ten, was dragged...
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LARGE PRINT
Call #: LP 364.1523 KEE
Location: Large Print Nonfiction
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