Publication date: 2002-06
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Review Adamant Eve: Memories of a Fragmented Childhood (Reminiscence) / Ulverscroft Large Print:
Publication date: 2001-11
Dewey code: 355
List Price: $21.99
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Review Darling Girl / Isis Audio Books:
Publication date: 1993-08
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $29.99
Price: $29.99
Review Vera Brittain's Diary 1939-1945 (Charnwood Large Print Library Series) / Ulverscroft Large Print:
Publication date: 2007-10-03
Dewey code: 365.45092
List Price: $30.95
Price: $21.99
Review Prisoner of Tehran (Thorndike Press Large Print Biography Series) / Thorndike Press:What would you give up to protect your loved ones? Your life?In her heartbreaking, triumphant, and elegantly written memoir, Prisoner of Tehran, Marina Nemat tells the heart-pounding story of her life as a young girl in Iran during the early days of Ayatollah Khomeini's brutal Islamic Revolution. In January 1982, Marina Nemat, then just sixteen years old, was arrested, tortured, and sentenced to death for political crimes. Until then, her life in Tehran had centered around school, summer parties at the lake, and her crush on Andre, the young man she had met at church. But when math and history were subordinated to the study of the Koran and political propaganda, Marina protested. Her teacher replied, "If you don't like it, leave. " She did, and, to her surprise, other students followed. Soon she was arrested with hundreds of other youths who had dared to speak out, and they were taken to the notorious Evin prison in Tehran. Two guards interrogated her. One beat her into unconsciousness; the other, Ali, fell in love with her. Sentenced to death for refusing to give up the names of her friends, she was minutes from being executed when Ali, using his family connections to Ayatollah Khomeini, plucked her from the firing squad and had her sentence reduced to life in prison. [+]But he exacted a shocking price for saving her life - with a dizzying combination of terror and tenderness, he asked her to marry him and abandon her Christian faith for Islam. If she didn't, he would see to it that her family was harmed. She spent the next two years as a prisoner of the state, and of the man who held her life, and her family's lives, in his hands. Lyrical, passionate, and suffused throughout with grace and sensitivity, Marina Nemat's memoir is like no other. Her search for emotional redemption envelops her jailers, her husband and his family, and the country of her birth - each of whom she grants the greatest gift of all: forgiveness.
Authors
- Goldie Hawn with Wendy Holden
Publication date: 2005-10-19
Dewey code: 791.43028092
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Review A Lotus Grows In The Mud / Thorndike Press:A New York Times Bestseller In this candid and unconventional memoir, Goldie Hawn invites us to join her in a look back at the remarkable people and events that have touched her. It is a joyous - and sometimes surprising - spiritual journey of the heart in search of enlightenment. With the effervescent humor and generosity that are familiar to everyone, Goldie talks about the lessons she's learned and the wisdom she feels she's been given, in the hope of giving something back.
Publication date: 2004-08
List Price: $23.99
Price: $19.79
Review Flowers of the Fairest / Ulverscroft Large Print:
Publication date: 2007-02-08
Dewey code: 920
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Review Stephen A. Douglas (Large Print Edition): A Study in American Politics / BiblioBazaar:The dramatic moments in the colonizing of coastal New England have passed into song story and sober chronicle; but the farther migration of the English people from tide-water to interior has been too prosaic a theme for poets and too diverse a movement for historians.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1998-08-26
Dewey code: 794.73092
Price: $14.95
Review Minnesota Fats: Never Behind the Eight Ball / Cool Springs Press:
Edition: Large type edition
Publication date: 2004-03
List Price: $23.99
Price: $19.85
Review Three Cheers for the Next Man to Die (Reminiscence) / Ulverscroft Large Print:
Publication date: 2005-12-22
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $25.90
Price: $22.50
Review Notes on Life and Letters (Large Print) / Echo Library:This classic large print title is printed in 16 point Tiresias font as recommended by the Royal National Institute for the Blind
Edition: Largeprint
Publication date: 1999-07
Dewey code: 796.352092
Price: $23.95
Review Training a Tiger: A Father's Guide to Raising a Winner in Both Golf and Life / G. K. Hall & Company:An educator, top-ranked college ball player and Green Beret who served in Vietnam, Earl Woods reveals the instruction and training secrets that went into raising a child who might be the greatest golfer ever. His teaching method starts with the simplest swings: Putting, chipping and pitching, and doesn't introduce the full swing until the basics have been mastered. The book includes dozens of games and competitions to make golf fun and interesting, teaches mental toughness and emphasizes skills, posture, balance, set-up and grip. There are also some subtler points for parents to consider: when and how to introduce golf (or any sport) to their child; how to lay the groundwork for open communication; and how to cultivate the right attitude toward competition. Through an intelligent mix of instruction, humor and common sense, Training a Tiger helps parents everywhere lead their kids to love the game, and to play it with confidence, patience, proficiency and passion.
Publication date: 2004-02
List Price: $23.99
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Review Apricots on the Nile: A Memoir with Recipes / Ulverscroft Large Print:Cairo, 1937: French-born Colette Rossant is waiting out World War II among her father's Egyptian-Jewish relatives. From the moment she arrives at her grandparents' belle époque mansion by the Nile, the five-year-old Colette finds companionship and comfort among the other "outsiders" in her home away from home - the cooks and servants in the kitchen. The chef, Ahmet, lets Colette taste the ful; she learns how to make sambusaks for her new friends; and she shops for semits and other treats in the Khan-al-Khalili market. Colette is beginning to understand how her family's culture is linked to the kitchen. and soon she will claim Egypt's food, landscape, and people as her own. Apricots on the Nile is a loving testament to Colette's adopted homeland. With dozens of original recipes and family photographs, Colette's coming-of-age memoir is a splendid exploration of old Cairo in all its flavor, variety, and wide-eyed wonder.
Publication date: 2001-11
Dewey code: 809
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Review I Remain, Your Son Jack (Reminiscence) / Isis Audio Books:
Publication date: 2007-03-11
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Review My Stroke! / Warren L. Braun:Look at the effects of a stroke from the first hand account from Warren L. Braun. He takes you on a journey of his experiences.
Creator: Barbara Finn Hewitt
Edition: Lrg
Publication date: 1996-06
Dewey code: 946.942004130092
Price: $23.95
Review A Cottage in Portugal / Thomas T. Beeler Publisher:A high-spirited account follows the experiences of Richard and Barbara Hewitt, who left the United States to renovate a three-hundred-year-old cottage in a remote Portuguese village. 15,000 first printing.
Publication date: 2000-07
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $19.95
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Review Paper Daughter: A Memoir / ISIS Large Print Books:When she was five years old, M. Elaine Mar and her mother emigrated from Hong Kong to Denver to join her father in a community more Chinese than American, more hungry than hopeful. While working with her family in the kitchen of a Chinese restaurant and living in the basement of her aunt's house, Mar quickly masters English and begins to excel in school. But as her home and school life-Chinese tradition and American independence-become two increasingly disparate worlds, Mar tries desperately to navigate between them. Adolescence and the awakening of her sexuality leave Elaine isolated and confused. She yearns for storebought clothes and falls for a red-haired boy who leads her away from the fretful eyes of her family. In his presence, Elaine is overcome by the strength of her desire-blocking out her family's visions of an arranged marriage in Hong Kong. From surviving racist harassment in the schooIyard to trying to flip her straight hair like Farrah Fawcett, from hiding her parents' heritage to arriving alone at Harvard University, Mar's story is at once an unforgettable personal journey and an unflinching, brutal look at the realities of the American Dream. Born in Hong Kong to parents who immigrated there from the Toishan region of mainland China, Elaine Mar came to America in 1972, when she was not quite 6. Colorado was quite a shock to a girl who had previously shared a five-room apartment with four other families. [+]"She must be rich," Man Yee (her Chinese name) thought, emerging from the basement room where she and her parents slept to explore her Aunt Becky's three-bedroom house in a working-class Denver neighborhood. Not so: her aunt, father, and other relatives worked in the kitchen of a restaurant owned by others, and Mar's pungent memoir of her odyssey from poor immigrant to Harvard undergraduate shatters stereotypes about Asians as the "model minority. " She was a smart girl and a good student who soon preferred the American name Elaine and "only spoke Chinese when absolutely necessary," but she found it hard to decipher the "cultural cues" on which social success in school depended. Honestly chronicling conflicts with her parents, whose horizons and expectations seemed unbearably limited, Mar outlines her youthful rebellion and their response with mature understanding. Her observation of American life is as clear-eyed and unsentimental as her self-portrait of a girl adrift between two cultures. -Wendy Smith.
Publication date: 2007-02
Dewey code: 792.028092
Price: $30.95
Review Just One More Thing / Thorndike Press:In Just One More Thing Falk takes us on an acting journey that begins not in Hollywood but in Hartford, where he worked as a management analyst for the Connecticut State Budget Bureau. His time there was no more successful than an earlier attempt to find work with the Central Intelligence Agency. At loose ends, Falk turned to an old college interest: acting. He came to prominence as an actor in 1956 in the highly successful Off-Broadway revival of The Iceman Cometh with Jason Robards. Although he worked continuously for the next three years, bouncing from one Off-Broadway theater to the next, a theatrical agent advised him not to expect much work in motion pictures because of his glass eye. Surgeons had removed his right eye, along with a malignant tumor, when he was three years old. But in 1958, the actor made the jump to Hollywood, where he landed his first movie, Murder Incorporated, and was nominated for an Oscar. Falk became a favorite among moviegoers, yet it was through television that he reached his widest audience as Lt. Columbo, winning four Emmys for the role. Just One More Thing is pure Peter Falk, reading as if he's sitting next to you, chuckling as he recalls a remarkable past.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2005-08-24
Dewey code: 940.542142092
Price: $29.45
Review Biggest Brother: The Life of Major Dick Winters, the Man Who Led the Band of Brothers / Thorndike Press:They were Easy Company, 101st Army Airborne - the "Band of Brothers" - a fighting unit whose members became legendary in the annals of World War II combat for their bravery, their ability to get the job done against nearly insurmountable odds, and their unswerving loyalty to one another in the face of death. Here, for the first time, is the compelling story of the man who led them - an ordinary man who became an extraordinary hero.
Edition: Large Print Ed
Publication date: 2003-01
Price: $21.99
Review A First Rate Tragedy / ISIS Large Print Books:
Edition: Largeprint
Publication date: 1993-01
Price: $15.95
Review Mario Lanza: A Biography (Lythway Large Print Series) / MacMillan Publishing Company:
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Douglas (Large Print Edition): A Study in American Politics, Minnesota Fats: Never Behind the Eight Ball, Three Cheers for the Next Man to Die (Reminiscence), Notes on Life and Letters (Large Print), Training a Tiger: A Father's Guide to Raising a Winner in Both Golf and Life, Apricots on the Nile: A Memoir with Recipes, I Remain, Your Son Jack (Reminiscence), My Stroke!, A Cottage in Portugal, Paper Daughter: A Memoir, Just One More Thing, Biggest Brother: The Life of Major Dick Winters, the Man Who Led the Band of Brothers, A First Rate Tragedy, Mario Lanza: A Biography (Lythway Large Print Series)Top headlines: Q&A: Policing School Shootings: A disturbed 14-year-old wounds four before killing himself in Clevelandjust another spasm of violence in another bloody year for Americas schools. 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