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2021) Esther
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
Large print edition ; Unabridged.
Physical Desc
599 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
A glittering Persian king has a vast empire that reaches farther than where the sun meets the horizon. He is bathed in riches and commands a frightening military force. He possesses power beyond any other mortal man and rules his kingdom as a god. Anything he desires, he has. Any woman he wants, he possesses. Thousands of them. Young virgins from all across his many lands. A Jewish girl is ripped from her hut by the king's brutish warriors and forced...
2022) Matchless
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
Large print ; Unabridged edition.
Physical Desc
302 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Horace and Augusta Tabor left Maine to seek their fortune and ended up in the mining camps of Colorado. While Horace panned for gold, Augusta prepared meals for miners. Eventually, she opened a store and became postmistress while raising their young son. One day they were happily at work -- Augusta in the store and Horace as mayor of Leadville with his finger in every political pie -- and the next day Horace struck it rich. From then on, everything...
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 book club bag ; in container
Language
English
Description
"In her twenties, Belle da Costa Greene is hired by J. Pierpont Morgan to curate a collection of rare manuscripts, books, and artwork for his newly built Morgan Library. Belle becomes a fixture on the New York society scene and one of the most powerful people in the art and book world, known for her impeccable taste and shrewd negotiating for critical works as she helps build a world-class collection. But Belle has a secret, one she must protect at...
Author
Series
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
121 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Introduces readers to two brave Black women who stood up against segregation, setting in motion the Montgomery Bus Boycott and showing the nation how positive change can start with a single defiant act" --
2025) The last woman standing
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Physical Desc
391 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Two decades after the Civil War, Josephine Marcus, the teenage daughter of Jewish immigrants, is lured to Tombstone, Arizona, with the promise of marriage to Johnny Behan, one of Arizona's famous lawmen. When the silver-tongued Behan proves unreliable, Wyatt Earp who emerges as Josephine's match and ignites a rivalry destined for the history books" -- Provided by publisher.
2026) War collection
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (958 min.) : sound, black and white, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The eagle and the hawk : World War I drama about rival pilots with opposing codes of honor and a reluctant hero struggling to deal with the horrors of war.
The last outpost : World War I drama about a British prisoner of war who is rescued from a firing squad by his mysterious cellmate John Stevenson.
Wake Island : Based on the true story of a handful of U.S. Marines holding out against an overwhelming Japanese air, land and sea assault.
Bengal...
2027) Doc Holliday's woman
Author
Pub. Date
1995
Edition
Large print ed.
Physical Desc
365 pages (large print) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Physical Desc
189 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Sam Bass was just a farm boy from Indiana, but he wound up in Texas and became one of the most notorious outlaws in the history of the Old West. Texas history has often referred to Bass as 'Texas' Beloved Bandit' or 'Robin Hood on a Fast Horse.' Jerry Guin's historical novel The Bandit takes an unflinching look at the life and times of Sam Bass, from his almost accidental incursion into a life of lawlessness to his ill-fated end, and provides a vivid...
2029) Custer, Terry, and me
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Large print ed. ; Unabridged.
Physical Desc
270 pages (large print) ; 22 cm
Language
English
2030) The iceman
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
Blu-ray version ; Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Inspired by actual events, follows notorious contract killer Richard Kuklinski from his early days in the mob until his arrest for the murder of more than one hundred men. Appearing to be living the American dream as a devoted husband and father, in reality Kuklinski was a ruthless killer-for-hire. When finally arrested in 1986, neither his wife nor his daughters had any clue about his real profession.
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
1 book club in a cloth bag ; (38 x 39 cm)
Language
English
Description
"Pino Lella wants nothing to do with the war or the Nazis. He's a normal Italian teenager--obsessed with music, food, and girls--but his days of innocence are numbered. When his family home in Milan is destroyed by Allied bombs, Pino joins an underground railroad helping Jews escape over the Alps, and falls for Anna, a beautiful widow six years his senior. In an attempt to protect him, Pino's parents force him to enlist as a German soldier--a move...
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
270 pages (large print) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The expedition to cross the North American continent led by Lewis and Clark was an epic mission that included incredible deprivation. In Calling the Wind, the explorers have spent the long, wet winter on the Pacific Coast and are eager to head home. Their homebound voyage will begin upriver on the mighty Columbia River, and proceed over the mountain ranges that nearly ended their lives. Beaten down by the demands of wilderness travel, the party doesn't...
2033) The Political Dr. Seuss
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD-R) (84 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
1 kit in a cloth bag ; (40 x 49 cm) + 1 folder
Language
English
Description
The only legitimate child of Lord Byron, the most brilliant, revered, and scandalous of the Romantic poets, Ada was destined for fame long before her birth. Estranged from Ada's father, who was infamously "mad, bad, and dangerous to know," Ada's mathematician mother is determined to save her only child from her perilous Byron heritage. Banishing fairy tales and make-believe from the nursery, Ada's mother provides her daughter with a rigorous education...
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
8 books (358 pages ; 22 cm), in a cloth bag ; 38 x 46 cm
Language
English
Description
A tale based on the story of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, the only Americans put to death for espionage during the Cold War, traces the experiences of their friend and neighbor, who takes in the couple's young sons when they are arrested by the FBI in 1950.
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
8 books (383, 16 pages) in a cloth bag ; (40 x 49 cm) + 1 folder
Language
English
Description
A cloth bag containing eight copies of the title.
1917 ... It was inexplicable, impossible, but it had to be true--didn't it? When two young cousins, Frances Griffiths and Elsie Wright from Cottingley, England, claim to have photographed fairies at the bottom of the garden, their parents are astonished. But when one of the great novelists of the time, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, becomes convinced of the photographs' authenticity, the girls become a national...
2037) Herod's lost tomb
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (50 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Explores an Israeli archaeologist, Ehud Netzer's, decades-long search for the King of the Jews' fabulously carved mausoleum and coffin.
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Lexile measure
HL 760L
Physical Desc
10 books (262, 11 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cm), in a cloth bag ; 38 x 46 cm
Language
English
Description
"In April 1942, Lale Sokolov, a Slovakian Jew, is forcibly transported to the concentration camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau. When his captors discover that he speaks several languages, he is put to work as a Tätowierer (the German word for tattooist), tasked with permanently marking his fellow prisoners. Imprisoned for more than two and a half years, Lale witnesses horrific atrocities and barbarism--but also incredible acts of bravery and compassion....
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
8 books (212, 16 pages ; 24 cm), in a cloth bag ; 38 x 46 cm
Language
English
Description
"In Marjorie Herrera Lewis's debut historical novel the inspiring true story of high school teacher Tylene Wilson--a woman who surprises everyone as she breaks with tradition to become the first high school football coach in Texas--comes to life. Football is the heartbeat of Brownwood, Texas. Every Friday night for as long as assistant principal Tylene Wilson can remember, the entire town has gathered in the stands, cheering their boys on. Each September...
2040) Galileo
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
Letterboxed [1.85:1] ; Enhanced for 16x9.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (138 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English