Publication date: 2006-11
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Review The Green Years (Isis Nonfiction) / Ulverscroft Large Print:
Publication date: 2001-01-01
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Review Dona Gracia of the House of Nasi / Publisher\'s Row / Varda Books:The noted historian Cecil Roth presents the first full-length biography of Dona Gracia in the English language.
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Publication date: 2007-01-03
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Review The Life of Samuel Johnson Volume II of II[EasyRead Large Edition] / ReadHowYouWant.com:In Boswell’s “The Life of Samuel Johnson”, one of the most gigantic figures of English literature is exposed with unparalleled immediacy and originality. This biography also details Johnson\'s prolific years in London where he gained popularity as a writer.
Publication date: 2003-01
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Review Spitfire Into Battle / Ulverscroft Large Print:
Authors
- Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
Dewey code: 920
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Review Spain / ReadHowYouWant.com:Sketches by Boz is Dickens earliest work in fiction writing. He started his career by writing humorous sketches using the pen-name ""Boz"". This collection was first published in 1836 and portrays life, people and their attitudes. These sketches are a reflection of the genius that was Dickens.
Publication date: 2000-02
Dewey code: 920
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Review The Prefab Kid: A Postwar Childhood in Kent (Reminiscence) / ISIS Large Print Books:
Creator: John Addington Symonds
Publication date: 2002-01
Dewey code: 709
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Review The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini / North Books:Benvenuto Cellini was a celebrated Renaissance sculptor and goldsmith; a passionate craftsman who was admired and resented by the most powerful political and artistic personalities in sixteenth-century Florence, Rome and Paris. He was also a murderer and a braggart, a shameless adventurer who at different times experienced both papal persecution and imprisonment, and the adulation of the royal court. Inn-keepers and prostitutes, kings and cardinals, artists and soldiers rub shoulders in the pages of his notorious autobiography: a vivid portrait of the manners and morals of both the rulers of the day and of their subjects. Written with supreme powers of invective and an irrepressible sense of humour, this is an unrivalled glimpse into the palaces and prisons of the Italy of Michelangelo and the Medici.
Publication date: 2002-03
Dewey code: 818.5209
Price: $27.95
Review No More Words: A Journal of My Mother, Anne Morrow Lindbergh / Thorndike Press:In 1999 Anne Morrow Lindbergh, the famed aviator and author, moved from her home in Connecticut to the farm in Vermont where her daughter, Reeve, and Reeve's family live. Mrs. Lindbergh was in her nineties and had been rendered nearly speechless years earlier by a series of small strokes that also left her frail and dependent on others for her care. "No More Words" is a moving and compassionate memoir by Reeve Lindbergh of the final seventeen months of her mother's life. Reeve Lindbergh is an accomplished author who had learned to write in part by reading her mother's many books - among them the international bestseller "Gift from the Sea" - and also by absorbing her mother's careful and intimate way of examining the world around her. So Reeve's inability to communicate with her mother, a woman long recognized in her family and throughout the world as a gifted communicator, left her daughter deeply saddened and frustrated. Worse, from time to time Mrs. Lindbergh would offer a comment or observation that seemed harsh, shocking, or simply unrelated to the events around her, leaving Reeve anxious and distressed about what her mother might be thinking. Anyone who has had to care for an elderly parent disabled by Alzheimer's or stroke will understand immediately the heartache and anguish Reeve suffered. Reeve writes with great sensitivity and sympathy for her mother's plight, while also analyzing her own conflicting feelings. [+]Mrs. Lindbergh was fortunate to have full-time care, but a tremendous emotional burden still fell on Reeve. And even as she worried about her mother's long silences and enigmatic remarks, and monitored her daily care, Reeve had her husband and son tolook after. But mixed with the sadness and responsibility were moments of humor and happiness, and even an eventual understanding, all the more treasured for being so unexpected. "No More Words" is a tender tribute from daughter to mother, from one writer to another who was her model and mentor. It is a loving and poignant work, rich with insight into life's final stage. Her daughter's tender account of Anne Morrow Lindbergh's final 22 months is a fitting epitaph for an author who revealed her inner life with an honesty and sensitivity that have inspired generations of readers since Gift from the Sea was first published in 1955. This new volume also makes a fine companion for Under a Wing, Reeve Lindbergh's previous memoir about her parents' complex marriage and her own struggle to grapple with the legacy of her famous father, Charles Lindbergh. Yet it's not necessary to know anything about Anne's writing or Charles's exploits as an aviator to be moved by No More Words, which chronicles a day-to-day drama of worry, guilt, anger, and unexpected joy that will be familiar to anyone who has cared for an elderly, ailing parent. Drawing on a diary she kept from the time her mother came to live with her in May 1999 until Anne's death at age 94 in February 2001, Reeve Lindbergh deals first and foremost with her shock that her literate, articulate mother no longer had much use for words. "From the beginning of my life," she writes, "everything I understood was made plain to me in her language. at each moment of my need she spoke the words I needed. " But after a series of strokes, Anne spoke less and less, and not everything she said made sense. Reeve had to find meaning for herself; she had to accept her mother's increasing remoteness and take pleasure from the moments when Anne seemed to come back to her. She traces that process in spare, eloquent prose complemented by excerpts from her mother's works: "It was very important to me that her writing voice, too, should be heard," Reeve states. "The truth about this book is that it is not mine but ours. " -Wendy Smith.
Publication date: 2003-01
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Review Threads of Time: The True Story of a Bedford Family (Reminiscence) / Ulverscroft Large Print:
Publication date: 2006-12
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Review Clouds on My Windows (Isis Nonfiction) / Ulverscroft Large Print:
Publication date: 2006-10-18
Dewey code: 808
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Review The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (Large Print) / Echo Library:This large print title is set in Tiresias 16pt font as recommended by the RNIB.
Publication date: 2002-01
Price: $32.50
Review Too Young to Be a Hero / Ulverscroft Large Print:
Publication date: 2007-01
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Review Shadows of the Workhouse (Isis Nonfiction) / Ulverscroft Large Print:In this follow up to CALL THE MIDWIFE, Jennifer Worth, a midwife working in the docklands area of East London in the 1950s tells more stories about the fascinating people she encountered. There's the story of Jane who cleaned and generally helped out at Nonnatus House - she was taken to the workhouse as a baby and was allegedly the illegitimate daughter of an aristocrat. Peggy and Frank's parents both died within 6 months of each other and the children were left destitute. At the time, there was no other option for them but the workhouse. The Reverend Thornton-Appleby-Thorton, a missionary in Africa, comes to visit the Nonnatus nuns and Sister Julienne acts as matchmaker. And Sister Monica Joan, the eccentric ninety-year-old nun, is accused of shoplifting some small items from the local market. She is let off with a warning, but then Jennifer finds stolen jewels from Hatten Garden in the nun's room. The case is taken to court and Sister Monica Joan becomes a cause celebre. These stories give a fascinating insight into the lives of the poor in 1950s London, of the shadow of the workhouse that always hung over their lives but also of the resilience and spirit that enabled ordinary people to overcome their difficulties.
Publication date: 1989-08
Dewey code: 791.45028092
Price: $19.95
Review Benny Hill Story (Transaction Large Print Books) / ISIS Large Print Books:
Publication date: 1985-09
Dewey code: 823.912
Price: $16.95
Review Agatha Christie: A Biography / Large Print (Charnwood Library) / Ulverscroft Large Print:
Publication date: 2005-12
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Review Warburton's War: The Life of Maverick Ace Adrian Warburton DSO / Ulverscroft Large Print:Although Adrian Warburton (known to all as Warby) became one of the most highly decorated pilots of World War II, he began his military career as a below-average misfit with 22 Squadron of Coastal Command and was sent to Malta to avoid trouble in the UK. Known at first as a loner, when given his command, the spectacular results he achieved enabled his unconventional behavior to be over-looked. Fearless in the air, the maverick ace shot down nine enemy aircraft and won fame in Malta for his invaluable photo reconnaissance work at Taranto, Sicily and North Africa. On April 12th, 1944 Warburton departed in an aircraft on an unusual mission over Europe. Both plane and pilot disappeared without trace, giving rise to a host of rumors that his disappearance was intentional. For almost 60 years the mystery remained unsolved, until a painstaking international search unearthed the truth. Based on interviews with nearly 150 of Warby's colleagues, and updated by historian Chris Goss with recently unearthed information, Warburton's War paints a picture of a fascinating man, who with 350 operational missions from Malta alone became a living legend and an enigma among the aces of WWII.
Edition: Largeprint
Publication date: 1992-10
Price: $20.95
Review Canals Are My Life / Ulverscroft Large Print:
Edition: Lrg
Publication date: 1999-03
Dewey code: 796
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Review Out of Their League (Transaction Large Print Books) / Isis Large Print Books:Dave Meggyesy had been an outside linebacker with the St. Louis Cardinals for seven years when he quit at the height of his career to tell about the dehumanizing side of the game—about the fraud and the payoffs, the racism, drug abuse, and incredible violence. The original publication of Out of Their League shocked readers and provoked the outraged response that rocked the sports world in the 1970s. But his memoir is also a moving description of a man who struggled for social justice and personal liberation. Meggyesy has continued this journey and remains an active champion for players’ rights through his work with the National Football League Players Association (NFLPA). He provides a preface for this Bison Books edition.
Publication date: 2006-11
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Review Undercover Operator (Isis Nonfiction) / Ulverscroft Large Print:
Publication date: 2006-05-09
Dewey code: 982.6
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Review Miracle in the Andes: 72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home (Random House Large Print (Cloth/Paper)) / Random House Large Print:In the first hours there was nothing, no fear or sadness, just a black and perfect silence. Nando Parrado was unconscious for three days before he woke to discover that the plane carrying his rugby team, as well as their family members and supporters, to an exhibition game in Chile had crashed somewhere deep in the Andes. He soon learned that many were dead or dying—among them his own mother and sister. Those who remained were stranded on a lifeless glacier at nearly 12,000 feet above sea level, with no supplies and no means of summoning help. They struggled to endure freezing temperatures, deadly avalanches, and then the devastating news that the search for them had been called off. As time passed and Nando’s thoughts turned increasingly to his father, who he knew must be consumed with grief, Nando resolved that he must get home or die trying. He would challenge the Andes, even though he was certain the effort would kill him, telling himself that even if he failed he would die that much closer to his father. It was a desperate decision, but it was also his only chance. So Nando, an ordinary young man with no disposition for leadership or heroism, led an expedition up the treacherous slopes of a snow-capped mountain and across forty-five miles of frozen wilderness in an attempt to find help. Thirty years after the disaster Nando tells his story with remarkable candor and depth of feeling. [+]Miracle in the Andes—a first person account of the crash and its aftermath—is more than a riveting tale of true-life adventure: it is a revealing look at life at the edge of death and a meditation on the limitless redemptive power of love.
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The Green Years (Isis Nonfiction), Dona Gracia of the House of Nasi, The Life of Samuel Johnson Volume II of II[EasyRead Large Edition], Spitfire Into Battle, Spain, The Prefab Kid: A Postwar Childhood in Kent (Reminiscence), The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini, No More Words: A Journal of My Mother, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Threads of Time: The True Story of a Bedford Family (Reminiscence), Clouds on My Windows (Isis Nonfiction), The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (Large Print), Too Young to Be a Hero, Shadows of the Workhouse (Isis Nonfiction), Benny Hill Story (Transaction Large Print Books), Agatha Christie: A Biography / Large Print (Charnwood Library), Warburton's War: The Life of Maverick Ace Adrian Warburton DSO, Canals Are My Life, Out of Their League (Transaction Large Print Books), Undercover Operator (Isis Nonfiction), Miracle in the Andes: 72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home (Random House Large Print (Cloth/Paper))Top headlines: Toddler OK after key lodged in his eye: The CAT scan of little Nicholas Holdermans head shows the car key he fell on stuck to the hilt in his eye, penetrating his brain. 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