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Books in Thorndike Press Large Print Nonfiction Series series

  • The Bible: A Biography

    Karen Armstrong

    Hardcover (Thorndike Pr, Jan. 22, 2008)
    Examines the Bible's complex history, the social and political environment in which oral history became written scripture, how the various books were collected into a single volume, and its acceptance as Christianity's sacred text.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson's First Season

    Jonathan Eig

    Hardcover (Thorndike Pr, July 18, 2007)
    A chronicle of the 1947 baseball season during which Jackie Robinson broke the race barrier offers a sixtieth anniversary tribute based on interviews with Robinson's wife, daughter, and teammates.
  • Next Year in Havana

    Chanel Cleeton

    Library Binding (Thorndike Press Large Print, May 16, 2018)
    Havana, 1958. A sugar baron's daughter, nineteen-year-old Elisa Perez is sheltered from the growing political unrest -- until she embarks on a clandestine affair with a passionate revolutionary. Miami, 2017. After the death of her beloved grandmother, freelance writer Marisol Ferrera travels to Cuba to scatter Elisa's ashes in the country of her birth. Arriving in Havana, Marisol comes face-to-face with the contrast of Cuba's timeless beauty and its perilous political climate. When more family history comes to light and Marisol finds herself attracted to a man with his own secrets, she'll need the lessons of her grandmother's past to help her understand the true meaning of courage.
  • 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
  • Little Princes: One Man's Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal

    Conor Grennan

    Hardcover (Thorndike Press, Feb. 16, 2011)
    Describes how the author's three-month service as a volunteer at the Little Princes Orphanage in war-torn Nepal became a passionate commitment for advocacy and reform when he discovered that many of his young charges were victims rescued from human traffickers. (biography & autobiography).
  • Holes

    Louis Sachar

    Library Binding (Thorndike Press Large Print, Aug. 2, 2017)
    "Thorndike Press Large Print The Literacy Bridge"--Verso.
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  • Sophie: The Incredible True Story of the Castaway Dog

    Emma Pearse

    Hardcover (Thorndike Press, April 20, 2012)
    Documents the true story of a young Australian blue heeler who was lost overboard in the Great Barrier Reef and who swam through shark-infested waters to an isolated nature preserve, where she survived unassisted for five months before being miraculously rescued. (pets).
  • The Wright Brothers

    David McCullough

    Hardcover (Thorndike Press, May 20, 2015)
    Chronicles the dramatic story-behind-the-story about the Wright brothers, sharing insights into the disadvantages that challenged their lives and their mechanical ingenuity. By the Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning author of Truman. (biography & autobiography). Simultaneous.
  • Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her

    Melanie Rehak

    Hardcover (Thorndike Pr, March 8, 2006)
    An examination of the Nancy Drew stories and their influence on American girlhood since the 1930s explores mysteries related to the character's creators, and her role in shaping the modern American woman's identity.
  • City of Thieves

    David Benioff

    Hardcover (Thorndike Pr, Sept. 11, 2008)
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