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Life Beyond Measure LP: Letters to My Great-Granddaughter (Large Print)
by Sidney Poitier  Publisher Comments Sidney Poitier is one of the most revered actors in the history of Hollywood. He has overcome enormous obstacles in extraordinary times and is a role model for many Americans because of his convictions, bravery, and grace. Poitier reflects on this...
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Rescuing Sprite: A Dog Lover's Story of Joy and Anguish (Large Print) (Thorndike Basic)
by Mark R. Levin Publisher Comments Although Mark Levin is known as a constitutional lawyer and a nationally syndicated broadcaster, he is, first and foremost, a dog lover. In 1998, he and his family welcomed a half-Border Collie/half-Cocker Spaniel they named Pepsi into their lives. Six...
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Three Cups of Tea (Large Print) (Wheeler Softcover)
by Greg Mortenson Publisher Comments The astonishing, uplifting story of a real-life Indiana Jones and his humanitarian campaign to use education to combat terrorism in the Talibans backyard Anyone who despairs of the individuals power to change lives has to read the story of Greg Mortenson,...
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Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance (Large Print)
by Barack Obama Publisher Comments 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—a...
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The Sum of Our Days LP: A Memoir (Large Print)
by Isabel Allende Publisher Comments In this heartfelt memoir, Isabel Allende reconstructs her own life in the wake of tragic loss—the death of her daughter, Paula. Recalling the past thirteen years from the daily correspondence she shared with her mother in Chile, Allende bares her...
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Willie Nelson: An Epic Life (Large Print)
by Joe Nick Patoski Publisher Comments From his first performance at age four, Willie Nelson was driven to make music and live life on his own terms. But though he is a songwriter of exceptional depth - Crazy was one of his early classics - Willie only found success after abandoning Nashville...
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The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography (Large Print)
by Sidney Poitier Publisher Comments "I have no wish to play the pontificating fool, pretending that I've suddenly come up with the answers to all life's questions. Quite that contrary, I began this book as an exploration, an exercise in self-questing. In other words, I wanted to find out...
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Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia (Large Print)
by Elizabeth Gilbert Publisher Comments This beautifully written, heartfelt memoir touched a nerve amoung both readers and reviewers. Elizabeth Gilbert tells how she made the difficult choice to leave behind all the trappings of modern American success (marriage, house in the country, career...
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Peter Jennings: A Reporter's Life (Large Print) (Thorndike Nonfiction)
by Kate (edt) Darnton Synopsis The words of Peter Jenningss family, friends, and colleagues paint an intimate and comprehensive portrait of the late, legendary journalist and news anchor....
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Dean and Me: A Love Story (Random House Large Print Biography)
by James Kaplan Publisher Comments They were the unlikeliest of pairs—a handsome crooner and a skinny monkey, an Italian from Steubenville, Ohio, and a Jew from Newark, N.J.. Before they teamed up, Dean Martin seemed destined for a mediocre career as a nightclub singer, and Jerry...
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90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death and Life (Large Print)
by Don Piper Publisher Comments Now available in large print and Spanish editions, 90 Minutes in Heaven is the runaway best seller of one man's experience with death and life. As Baptist minister Don Piper was driving home from a conference, his car collided with a semi truck that...
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The Life and Adventures of Kit Carson; The Nestor of the Rocky Mountains- From Facts Narrated by Him (Large Print Edition)
by De Witt C. Peters Synopsis The pages here presented to the public form a book of facts. They unfold for the student- as does no other work yet extant- the great interior wilderness of the territories belonging to the United States.' (From original Author Preface)...
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James Arness: An Autobiography (Large Print)
by James Arness Publisher Comments James Arness gives a full account of his early years, his family, his military career, his film work in Hollywood which included appearances in the cult-favorite science fiction movies Them and The Thing. He had a long run on Gunsmoke, a role in the...
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John Paul the Great: Remembering a Spiritual Father (Large Print) (Large Print Press)
by Peggy Noonan Synopsis The author brings her sharp observations, acute sensibility, warmth, and wit to the life of the pope and shows the personal effect his journey had upon her and millions of others. Written with heart and depth, this is at once a moving elegy and a...
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The Peace Negotiations (Large Print Edition)
by Robert Lansing Synopsis Of these seven subjects of difference the most important were those relating to the League of Nations and the Covenant though our opposite views as to Shantung were more generally known and more frequently the subject of public comment....
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William of Germany (Large Print Edition)
by Stanley Shaw Synopsis The Englishman who would understand the Emperor and his time must imagine a country with a monarchy, a government, and a people-in short, a political system-almost entirely different from his own....
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T. de Witt Talmage as I Knew Him (Large Print Edition)
by Mrs T. De Witt Talmage Synopsis I write this story of my life first of all for my children....
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Personal Experiences of S. O. Susag (Large Print Edition)
by S. O. Susag Synopsis While this meeting was in progress Brother Tiffany Flint from Milwaukee came down and asked me to come and hold a two weeks' meeting for him, but I had no open dates. In those days I was, at times, booked ahead as many as forty-two meetings, so I had to...
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Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography (Large Print Edition)
by Theodore, Iv Roosevelt Synopsis We of the great modern democracies must strive unceasingly to make our several countries lands in which a poor man who works hard can live comfortably and honestly- and in which a rich man cannot live dishonestly nor in slothful avoidance of duty; and...
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Personal Recollections of Pardee Butler (Large Print Edition)
by Pardee Butler Synopsis WITH REMINISCENCES, BY HIS DAUGHTER, MRS. ROSETTA B. HASTINGS....
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