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| 1. The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir (Random House Large Print) by Random House Large Print | |
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(17 October, 2006)
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Features Subjects: 1. Biography
2. Biography / Autobiography
3. Bryson, Bill
4. Childhood Memoir
5. General
6. Humor
7. Literary
8. Regional Subjects - Midwest
9. Travel writers
10. United States
11. Humor / General | |
| 2. Dispatches from the Edge LP: A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival by HarperLargePrint | |
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(13 June, 2006)
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Editorial Review In 2005, two tragedies--the Asian tsunami and Hurricane Katrina--turned CNN reporter Anderson Cooper into a media celebrity. Read more Features Reviews (148)
Subjects: 1. Biography & Autobiography
2. Biography / Autobiography
3. Biography/Autobiography
4. Editors, Journalists, Publishers
5. Entertainment & Performing Arts - Television Personalities
6. Journalism
7. Personal Memoirs
8. Television - General
9. Television Journalism | |
| 3. The Confession LP by HarperLargePrint | |
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(07 November, 2006)
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Subjects: 1. Biography & Autobiography
2. Biography / Autobiography
3. Biography/Autobiography
4. Homosexuality
5. New Jersey - State Government
6. Political
7. Biography & Autobiography / Political | |
| 4. 90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death and Life by Revell | |
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(September, 2006)
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Subjects: 1. Biography & Autobiography
2. Biography / Autobiography
3. Biography And Autobiography
4. Biography/Autobiography
5. Miraculous Phenomena
6. Parapsychology - Near-Death Experience
7. Religious
8. Biography & Autobiography / Religious | |
| 5. Flyboys: A True Story of Courage by Little, Brown and Company | |
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(30 September, 2003)
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Subjects: 1. Atrocities
2. Biography
3. Chichi Island
4. History
5. History - Military / War
6. History: American
7. Japan
8. Military
9. Military - Aviation
10. Military - General
11. Military - United States
12. Military - World War II
13. Prisoners and prisons, Japanese
14. World War, 1939-1945
15. Biography & Autobiography / Military | |
| 6. What I Know for Sure (Random House Large Print) by Random House Large Print | |
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(10 October, 2006)
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Subjects: 1. Biography
2. Biography / Autobiography
3. Discrimination & Racism
4. People of Color
5. Personal Memoirs
6. Radio personalities
7. Social Science
8. Sociology
9. Television personalities
10. United States
11. Social Science / Discrimination & Race Relations | |
| 7. Ten Rings LP: My Championship Seasons by HarperLargePrint | |
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(02 September, 2003)
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Editorial Review Near the end of Yogi Berras memoir, Read more Features Reviews (5)
Read more Subjects: 1. Baseball - General
2. Baseball managers
3. Baseball players
4. Biography
5. Biography / Autobiography
6. Large type books
7. Personal Memoirs
8. Sports
9. Sports & Recreation
10. Sports - Baseball
11. Sports - General
12. Sports And Games
13. United States
14. Sports & Recreation / Baseball / General | |
| 8. Never Have Your Dog Stuffed: And Other Things I've Learned (Random House Large Print) by Random House Large Print | |
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(27 September, 2005)
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Editorial Review Alan Alda's autobiography travels a path less taken. Instead of a sensationalist, name-dropping page-turner, Alda writes about his life as a memory play, an exercise in recollecting his childhood, his parents (dad Robert was a veteran on stage, film, and vaudeville), and his career. You want to know about Alda's most famous work, the eleven years on Read more Features Reviews (58)
Subjects: 1. Actors
2. Biography
3. Biography & Autobiography
4. Biography / Autobiography
5. Biography/Autobiography
6. Entertainment & Performing Arts - Actors & Actresses
7. General
8. Individual Actors And Actresses
9. Large type books
10. Personal Memoirs
11. United States
12. Biography & Autobiography / General | |
| 9. Big Russ and Me (Random House Large Print) by Random House Large Print | |
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(11 May, 2004)
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Editorial Review Veteran newsman and Read more Features Reviews (69)
Subjects: 1. 1950-
2. American Journalism
3. Biography
4. Biography & Autobiography
5. Biography / Autobiography
6. Biography/Autobiography
7. Buffalo
8. Editors, Journalists, Publishers
9. Entertainment & Performing Arts - General
10. Entertainment & Performing Arts - Television Personalities
11. Fathers and sons
12. Large type books
13. New York (State)
14. Personal Memoirs
15. Russert, Tim
16. Russert, Tim,
17. Television (Performing Arts)
18. Television journalists
19. United States
20. Biography & Autobiography / General | |
| 10. Fear No Evil by Walker Large Print | |
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(March, 1986)
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Subjects: 1. 1933-
2. Biography
3. Biography / Autobiography
4. Cancer
5. Christian life
6. England
7. General
8. Health
9. Large Print
10. Patients
11. Watson, David C. K.,
12. Watson, David C. K | |
| 11. Thorndike American History - Large Print - A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America (Thorndike American History - Large Print) by Thorndike Press | |
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(15 August, 2005)
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Editorial Review Benjamin Franklin began the "the most taxing assignment of his life" at the age of 70: to secure the aid of the French monarchy in helping the fledgling United States establish their republic. The job required tremendous skill, finesse, and discretion, and as Stacy Schiff makes clear in this brilliant book, Franklin was the ideal American, perhaps the only one, to take on the task, due in large part to his considerable personal prestige. One of the most famous men in the world when he landed in France in December 1776, his arrival caused a sensation--he was celebrated as a man of genius, a successor to Newton and Galileo, and treated as a great dignitary, even though the nation he represented was less than a year old and there were many doubts as to whether it would see its second birthday. Though he had no formal diplomatic training and spoke only rudimentary French, Franklin managed to engineer the Franco-American alliance of 1778 and the peace treaty of 1783, effectively inventing American foreign policy as he went along, in addition to serving as chief diplomat, banker, and director of American naval affairs. Read more Features Reviews (26)
Subjects: 1. Artists, Architects, Photographers
2. Biography & Autobiography
3. Biography/Autobiography
4. Europe - France
5. Foreign relations
6. France
7. History - General History
8. History - U.S.
9. International Relations - General
10. Large type books
11. United States
12. United States - Revolutionary War
13. Fiction | |
| 12. The Facts of Life (and Other Dirty Jokes) (Random House Large Print) by Random House Large Print | |
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(08 January, 2002)
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Features Reviews (23)
Subjects: 1. 1933-
2. Biography
3. Biography & Autobiography
4. Biography / Autobiography
5. Biography/Autobiography
6. Composers & Musicians - General
7. Country music
8. Country musicians
9. Genres & Styles - Country & Bluegrass - General
10. Large type books
11. Nelson, Willie,
12. United States
13. Biography & Autobiography / Composers & Musicians | |
| 13. Cary Grant: The Biography (Random House Large Print) by Random House Large Print | |
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(21 September, 2004)
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Features Reviews (27)
Subjects: 1. 1904-
2. Biography
3. Biography & Autobiography
4. Biography / Autobiography
5. Biography/Autobiography
6. Entertainment & Performing Arts - General
7. Grant, Cary,
8. Large type books
9. Motion picture actors and actr
10. Motion picture actors and actresses
11. United States
12. Biography & Autobiography / Entertainment & Performing Arts | |
| 14. Thorndike Distribution - Large Print - Teacher Man: A Memoir (Thorndike Distribution - Large Print) by Thorndike Press | |
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(15 December, 2005)
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Editorial Review For 30 years Frank McCourt taught high school English in New York City and for much of that time he considered himself a fraud. During these years he danced a delicate jig between engaging the students, satisfying often bewildered administrators and parents, and actually enjoying his job. He tried to present a consistent image of composure and self-confidence, yet he regularly felt insecure, inadequate, and unfocused. After much trial and error, he eventually discovered what was in front of him (or rather, behind him) all along--his own experience. "My life saved my life," he writes. "My students didn't know there was a man up there escaping a cocoon of Irish history and Catholicism, leaving bits of that cocoon everywhere." At the beginning of his career it had never occurred to him that his own dismal upbringing in the slums of Limerick could be turned into a valuable lesson plan. Indeed, his formal training emphasized the opposite. Principals and department heads lectured him to never share anything personal. He was instructed to arouse fear and awe, to be stern, to be impossible to please--but he couldn't do it. McCourt was too likable, too interested in the students' lives, and too willing to reveal himself for their benefit as well as his own. He was a kindred spirit with more questions than answers: "Look at me: wandering late bloomer, floundering old fart, discovering in my forties what my students knew in their teens." Read more Features Reviews (172)
Subjects: 1. Biography
2. Biography & Autobiography
3. Biography / Autobiography
4. Biography/Autobiography
5. Elements In The U.S. Population
6. High school teachers
7. Irish Americans
8. Large type books
9. Literary
10. New York
11. New York (State)
12. Teaching At The Secondary School Level
13. Biography & Autobiography / Literary
14. Fiction | |
| 15. Miracle in the Andes: 72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home by Random House Large Print | |
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(09 May, 2006)
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Subjects: 1. Aircraft accidents
2. Andes Region
3. Biography / Autobiography
4. Cannibalism
5. Mountaineering
6. Personal Memoirs
7. Sports
8. Sports & Recreation
9. Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc
10. Travelers
11. Biography & Autobiography / General | |
| 16. No Excuses LP by HarperLargePrint | |
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(07 November, 2006)
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Features Reviews (1)
Subjects: 1. Biography & Autobiography 2. Biography / Autobiography 3. Biography/Autobiography 4. Collegiate Athletic Programs 5. Football 6. Football - General 7. Sports - Football 8. Sports - General 9.&n | |