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	Gilbert, Elizabeth, 1969- Committed : a skeptic makes peace with marriage Large print ed.   Waterville, Me. : Thorndike Press, 2010. Call Number: LP 306.81 G373C 2010 Owned by: FERNHILL KING Summary: At the end of Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert fell in love with Felipe, a Brazilian-born man of Australian citizenship. Resettling in America, the couple swore eternal fidelity, but also never to get legally married. The U.S. government gave them a choice: either get married, or Felipe would never be allowed to enter the country again. Sentenced to wed, Gilbert tackles her fears of marriage. Divorced women United States Biography.   Date added: Feb 01
	Rule, Ann. But I trusted you : and other true cases Large print ed.   Detroit : Wheeler Pub., 2009. Call Number: LP 364.1523 R861B 2009 Owned by: KING Murder United States Case studies.   Date added: Jan 19
	Mortenson, Greg. Stones into schools : promoting peace with books, not bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan Large print ed.   Detroit : Thorndike Press, c2009. Call Number: LP 371.82342 M842S 2009 Owned by: MAIN WHEELOCK Summary: In this dramatic first-person narrative, Greg Mortenson picks up where "Three Cups of Tea" left off in 2003, recounting his relentless, ongoing efforts to establish schools for girls in Afghanistan; his extensive work in Azad Kashmir and Pakistan after a massive earthquake hit the region in 2005; and the unique ways he has built relationships with Islamic clerics, militia commanders, and tribal leaders even as he was dodging shootouts with feuding Afghan warlords and surviving an eight-day armed abduction by the Taliban. Girls' schools Afghanistan.   Date added: Jan 19
	Curtis, Tony, 1925- American prince : a memoir Large print ed.   Detroit : Large Print Press, 2009, c2008. Call Number: LP 791.43028 C946A 2008 Owned by: WHEELOCK Summary: The legendary actor chronicles his odyssey from hard-knock childhood as the son of immigrant parents to Hollywood success, detailing his days as a tinseltown playboy, the film industry during Hollywood's Golden Era, and his life as an artist at the age of eighty. Motion picture actors and actresses United States Biography.   Date added: Jan 19
	Jacobs, A. J., 1968- The guinea pig diaries : my life as an experiment Large print ed.   Detroit : Thorndike Press, 2009. Call Number: LP 814.6 J151G 2009 Owned by: MAIN MOORE SWASEY WHEELOCK Summary: A.J. explores the big issues of our time--happiness, dating, morality, marriage--by immersing himself in eye-opening situations. In his role as human guinea pig, Jacobs fearlessly takes on a series of life-altering challenges that provides readers with equal parts insight and humor. (And drives his patient wife, Julie, to the brink of insanity.) Among the many adventures: He outsources his life to a team of people in Bangalore, India. He spends a month practicing Radical Honesty, in which you say what's on your mind. He goes to the Academy Awards disguised as a movie star, to understand the strange and warping effects of fame. He commits himself to ultimate rationality, using cutting-edge science to make the best decisions possible. He attempts to follow George Washington's rules of life. And, for a month, he followed his wife's every whim.--From publisher description. Conduct of life Humor.   Date added: Jan 19
	Brenner-Wonschick, Hannelore, 1951- The Girls of Room 28 : friendship, hope, and survival in Theresienstadt Large print ed.   Detroit : Thorndike Press, 2009. Call Number: LP 940.5318 B7518G 2009 Owned by: MOORE WHEELOCK Summary: From 1942 to 1944, twelve thousand children passed through the Theresienstadt internment camp on their way to Auschwitz. Only a few hundred of them survived the war. In the mid-1990s, German journalist Hannelore Brenner met ten of these child survivors--women in their late seventies today. Weaving these interviews with excerpts from diaries that were kept secretly during the war and samples of the art, music, and poetry created at Theresienstadt, Brenner gives us an unprecedented picture of daily life there, and of the extraordinary strength, sacrifice, and indomitable will that combined to make survival possible. Jewish children in the Holocaust Czech Republic Terezin (Severocesky kraj) Biography.   Date added: Jan 19
	Beevor, Antony, 1946- D-day : the battle for Normandy Large print ed.   Detroit : Thorndike Press, 2009. Call Number: LP 940.542142 B3934D 2009 Owned by: MAIN WHEELOCK Summary: D-Day: The Battle for Normandy is the first major account in twenty years to cover the invasion from June 6, 1944 up to the liberation of Paris on August 25. It is the first book to describe not only the experiences of the American, British, Canadian and German soldiers, but also the terrible suffering of the French caught up in the fighting. D-Day will surely be hailed as the consummate account of the Normandy invasion. World War, 1939-1945 Campaigns France Normandy.   Normandy (France) History, Military 20th century. Date added: Jan 19