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Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
429 pages (large print) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A riveting, deeply personal memoir of more than twenty years of death-scene investigations by New York City death investigator Barbara Butcher. Barbara Butcher was early in her recovery from alcoholism when she found an unexpected lifeline: a job at the Medical Examiner's Office in New York City. The second woman ever hired for the role of Death Investigator in Manhattan, she was the first to last more than three months. The work was gritty, demanding,...
7082) Furnishing eternity
Author
Publisher
HighBridge Audio
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
5 audio discs (6.5 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
David Giffels grew up fascinated by his father's dusty, tool-strewn workshop and the countless creations--some practical, others fantastical--it inspired. So when he enlisted his eighty-one-year-old dad to help him with the unusual project of building his own casket, he thought of it mostly as an opportunity to sharpen his woodworking skills and to spend time together. But life, as it usually does, had other plans. With wisdom and humor, Giffels grapples...
7083) These precious days
Author
Publisher
Harper Audio
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
9 audio discs (11 hr., 15 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A literary alchemist, Patchett plumbs the depths of her experiences to create gold: engaging and moving pieces that are both self-portrait and landscape, each vibrant with emotion and rich in insight. Turning her writer's eye on her own experiences, she transforms the private into the universal, providing listeners a way to look at their own worlds anew, and reminds how fleeting and enigmatic life can be.
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
9 books (xi, 276 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm), in a cloth bag ; 38 x 46 cm
Language
English
Description
January 1988. Martin Pistorius, aged twelve, fell inexplicably sick. First he lost his voice and stopped eating. Then he slept constantly and shunned human contact. Doctors were mystified. Within eighteen months he was mute and wheelchair-bound. Martin's parents were told an unknown degenerative disease left him with the mind of a baby and less than two years to live. Martin was moved to care centers for severely disabled children. The stress and...
Author
Series
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
1 audio disc (4 hr., 28 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In Evolving in Monkey Town, Rachel Held Evans recounts her experiences growing up in Dayton, Tennessee, a town that epitomized Christian fundamentalism during the Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925. With fearless honesty, Evans describes how her faith survived her doubts and challenges readers to re-imagine Christianity in a postmodern context, where knowing all the answers isn't as important as asking the questions.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
7 audio discs (9 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Vanity Fair photo editor Rachel DeLoache Williams's new friend Anna Delvey, a self-proclaimed German heiress, always picked up the check. So when Anna proposed an all-expenses-paid trip to Marrakech, Rachel jumped at the chance. When Anna's credit cards mysteriously stopped working, Rachel began fronting costs, told she would be reimbursed. More than $62,000 was charged to her credit cards and instead of repayment, a shocking trail of deception emerged....
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
870L
Physical Desc
8 books (xiii, 334 pages ; 25 cm), in a cloth bag ; 38 x 46 cm
Language
English
Description
Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches and sleeping with her "head-for-the-hills bag." In the summer she stewed herbs for her mother, a midwife and healer, and in the winter she salvaged in her father's junkyard. Her father distrusted the medical establishment, so Tara never saw a doctor or nurse....
7089) Come up and get me
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
1 audio disc (approximately 9 hr.) : digital, MP3 ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A few years after his release from a North Vietnamese prisoner-of-war camp in 1973, Colonel Joseph Kittinger retired from the Air Force. Restless and unchallenged, he turned to ballooning, a lifelong passion as well as a constant diversion for his imagination during his imprisonment. His primary goal was a solitary circumnavigation of the globe, and in its pursuit he set several ballooning distance records, including the first solo crossing of the...
7090) This side of wild
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
[2015].
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
3 audio discs (approximately 3 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Gary Paulsen is an adventurer who competed in two Iditarods, survived the Minnesota wilderness, and climbed the Bighorns. None of this would have been possible without his truest companion: his animals. Sled dogs rescued him in Alaska, a sickened poodle guarded his well-being, and a horse led him across a desert. Through his interactions with dogs, horses, birds, and more, Gary has been struck with the belief that animals know more than we may fathom....
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2019]
Lexile measure
990L
Physical Desc
1 book club set, in a cloth bag ; 38 x 46 cm
Language
English
Description
Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement. Touching and powerful, each poem is both accessible and emotionally charged, each line a glimpse into a child's soul as she searches for her place in the world. Woodson's...