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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption (Large Print)
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption (Large Print)
by Laura Hillenbrand
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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 surface, a face appeared.  It was that of a young... (read more)

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It Worked for Me LP: In Life and Leadership (Large Print)
It Worked for Me LP: In Life and Leadership (Large Print)
by Colin Powell
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It Worked for Me is filled with vivid experiences and lessons learned that have shaped the legendary career of the four-star general and former Secretary of State Colin Powell. At its heart are Powell's "Thirteen Rules"—notes he gathered over the... (read more)

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Rather Outspoken: My Life in the News (Large Print)
Rather Outspoken: My Life in the News (Large Print)
by Dan Rather
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This memoir by Dan Rather -- one of the most pre-eminent journalists of our time -- is told in a straightforward and conversational manner so that you hear his distinctive voice on every page. Rather, -- who has won every prestigious journalism award in... (read more)

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Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance (Large Print)
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance (Large Print)
by Barack Obama
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In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father&... (read more)

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God, If You're Not Up There, I'm F*cked: Tales of Stand-Up, Saturday Night Live, and Other Mind-Altering Mayhem (Large Print)
God, If You're Not Up There, I'm F*cked: Tales of Stand-Up, Saturday Night Live, and Other Mind-Altering Mayhem (Large Print)
by Darrell Hammond
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A raw, poignant, and often hilarious look inside the troubled life and mind of an American comic icon From his harrowing childhood filled with physical and emotional abuse, to a lifetime of alcoholism and self-mutilation, psychiatric hospitalizations... (read more)

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Shakespeare: The World as Stage (Large Print)
Shakespeare: The World as Stage (Large Print)
by Bill Bryson
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William Shakespeare, the most celebrated poet in the English language, left behind nearly a million words of text, but his biography has long been a thicket of wild supposition arranged around scant facts. With a steady hand and his trademark wit, Bill... (read more)

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Marlene: Marlene Dietrich, a Personal Biography (Large Print) (Thorndike Biography)
Marlene: Marlene Dietrich, a Personal Biography (Large Print) (Thorndike Biography)
by Charlotte Chandler
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In Marlene, the legendary Hollywood icon is vividly brought to life, based on a series of conversations with the star herself and with others who knew her well. In the mid-1970s Charlotte Chandler spoke with Marlene Dietrich in Dietrich's Paris apartment.... (read more)

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90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death and Life (Large Print)
90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death and Life (Large Print)
by Don Piper
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Now available in a special edition for readers age 9-12, 90 Minutes in Heaven is the runaway bestseller about one man's experience with death and life. When Don Piper's car collided with a semi-truck he was pronounced dead at the scene. For the next 90... (read more)

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Me (Large Print)
Me (Large Print)
by Katharine Hepburn
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Admired and beloved by movie audiences for over sixty years, four-time Academy Award-winner Katharine Hepburn is an American classic. Now Miss Hepburn breaks her long-kept silence about her private life in this absorbing and provocative memoir. A NEW... (read more)

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A Long Way from Home (Large Print) (Random House Large Print Biography)
A Long Way from Home (Large Print) (Random House Large Print Biography)
by Tom Brokaw
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In this beautiful memoir, Tom Brokaw writes of America and of the American experience. From his parents' life in the Thirties, on to his boyhood along the Missouri River and on the prairies of South Dakota in the Forties, into his early journalism career... (read more)

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An Hour Before Daylight: Memories of a Rural Boyhood (Large Print)
An Hour Before Daylight: Memories of a Rural Boyhood (Large Print)
by Jimmy Carter
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In an American story of enduring importance, Jimmy Carter re-creates his Depression-era boyhood on a Georgia farm, before the civil rights movement that changed it and the country. In what is sure to become a classic, Carter writes about the powerful... (read more)

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My Life So Far (Large Print)
My Life So Far (Large Print)
by Jane Fonda
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In this extraordinary memoir, Fonda reveals intimate details and personal truths she hopes "can provide a lens through which others can see their lives and how they can live them a little differently." Surprising, candid, and wonderfully written, it is... (read more)

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This Child Will Be Great (09 Edition)
This Child Will Be Great (09 Edition)
by Sirleaf
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In January 2006, after fourteen years of brutal civil conflict in the Republic of Liberia, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf—Africa’s “Iron Lady”—was sworn in as president, an event that marked a tremendous turning point in the history of... (read more)

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The Girls from Ames: A Story of Women and a Forty-Year Friendship (Large Print) (Large Print Press)
The Girls from Ames: A Story of Women and a Forty-Year Friendship (Large Print) (Large Print Press)
by Jeffrey Zaslow
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From the coauthor of the million-copy bestseller The Last Lecture comes a moving tribute to female friendships, with the inspiring story of eleven girls and the ten women they became. Meet the Ames Girls: eleven childhood friends who formed a special... (read more)

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My Happy Days in Hollywood: A Memoir (Large Print)
My Happy Days in Hollywood: A Memoir (Large Print)
by Garry Marshall
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With the television hits The Odd Couple, Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley, and Mork & Mindy, and movies like The Flamingo Kid, Beaches, Pretty Woman, and The Princess Diaries under his belt, Garry Marshall has been among the most successful writers,... (read more)

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Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son (Large Print)
Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son (Large Print)
by Michael Chabon
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning author— "an immensely gifted writer and a magical prose stylist" (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times)—offers his first major work of nonfiction, an autobiographical narrative as inventive, beautiful, and powerful as... (read more)

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A Natural Woman: A Memoir (Large Print)
A Natural Woman: A Memoir (Large Print)
by Carole King
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A memoir by the iconic singer-songwriter chronicling her story from her beginnings in Brooklyn through her remarkable success as one of the world's most acclaimed musical talents, to her present day as a leading performer and activist. From her marriage... (read more)

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Down But Not Out: Large Print Edition
Down But Not Out: Large Print Edition
by Mary Anne Butler
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Even in the worst of times there is hope-IF you are prepared to keep fighting. It was the worst of times-the Great Depression-and for one family it spelled disaster. Within a few years they had gone from a beautiful home in Westchester County, to a... (read more)

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Happens Every Day: An All-Too-True Story (Large Print) (Thorndike Biography)
Happens Every Day: An All-Too-True Story (Large Print) (Thorndike Biography)
by Isabel Gillies
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Isabel Gillies had a wonderful life -- a handsome, intelligent, loving husband; two glorious toddlers; a beautiful house; the time and place to express all her ebullience and affection and optimism. Suddenly, that life was over. Her husband, Josiah... (read more)

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The Peace Negotiations (Large Print Edition)
The Peace Negotiations (Large Print Edition)
by Robert Lansing
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This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts... (read more)

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