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Moon Over Manifest
Clare Vanderpool
Hardcover (Thorndike Press, June 1, 2011)Twelve-year-old Abilene Tucker is the daughter of a drifter who, in the summer of 1936, sends her to stay with an old friend in Manifest, Kansas, where he grew up, and where she hopes to find out some things about his past.
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Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
J. D. Vance
Hardcover (Thorndike Press Large Print, Jan. 4, 2017)A #1 New York Times Bestseller Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis ― that of white working-class Americans. The decline of this group, a demographic of our country that has been slowly disintegrating over forty years, has been reported on with growing frequency and alarm, but has never before been written about as searingly from the inside.
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Code Name Verity
Elizabeth Wein
Library Binding (Thorndike Press, Aug. 7, 2013)In 1943, a British fighter plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France and the survivor tells a tale of friendship, war, espionage, and great courage as she relates what she must to survive while keeping secret all that she can.
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Hothead
Jr. Cal Ripken, Kevin Cowherd
Hardcover (Thorndike Press, April 1, 2011)Twelve-year-old Connor Sullivan, All-Star third baseman on his Babe Ruth League team, has a terrible temper and problems at home, but when the sports editor of the school paper threatens to publish an embarrassing story about his tantrums, Connor must make a change.
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Team Of Rivals
Doris Kearns Goodwin
Hardcover (Thorndike Press, May 15, 2013)Originally published: New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005. A New York Times Bestseller Basis for the movie Lincoln On May 18‚ 1860‚ William H. Seward‚ Salmon P. Chase‚ Edward Bates‚ and Abraham Lincoln waited for the results from the Republican National Convention. Lincoln won‚ Goodwin demonstrates‚ because of his extraordinary ability to put himself in the place of other men. It was this capacity that enabled Lincoln as president to bring his disgruntled opponents together and marshal their talents to the task of preserving the union and winning the war. This product is part of: Popular and Narrative Nonfiction - Large Print Standing Order Plan The Thorndike Popular and Narrative Nonfiction - Large Print Standing Order Plan offers a broad range of current and bestselling nonfiction titles, along with biographies, histories, social commentaries, travelogues, politics, essays and humor. Five titles shipped every other month. Actual Large Print covers may be different from those shown.
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The Horse Whisperer
Nicholas Evans
Hardcover (Thorndike Pr, Nov. 1, 1995)After her teenage daughter and the girl's horse are injured in a tragic accident, Annie Graves journeys across the continent in search of Tom Booker, the Horse Whisperer, in the hope that he can use his ancient gift to help both the horse and the maimed girl
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City of Thieves
David Benioff
Hardcover (Thorndike Pr, Sept. 11, 2008)None
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Salt: A World History
Mark Kurlansky
Hardcover (Thorndike Pr, July 1, 2002)FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. A history of salt notes its role as currency, in the establishment of trade routes and cities, and as an agenda of war, noting key figures who played major parts in its manufacture and distribution.
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The Secret Place
Tana French
Hardcover (Thorndike Press, Sept. 10, 2014)Investigating a photograph of a boy whose murder was never solved, aspiring Murder Squad member Stephen Moran partners with Detective Antoinette Conway to search for answers in the cliques and rivalries at a Dublin boarding school.
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Alfred Kropp: The Seal of Solomon
Rick Yancey
Hardcover (Thorndike Pr, Feb. 6, 2008)The last descendant of Sir Lancelot, teenage misfit Alfred Kropp is drawn back as an operative for the Office of Interdimensional Paradoxes and Extraordinary Phenomenon to battle a group of demons bent on freeing themselves from the confines of an ancient relic.
