In the winter of 1939 in the cold snow of no-man?s-land, two loners met and began an extraordinary journey. One was an orphaned puppy, abandoned as his owners fled Nazi forces. The other was Czech airman Robert Bozdech, who found the tiny German shepherd he named “Ant” after being shot down on a daring mission over enemy lines. …
Hard Choices: A Memoir (Thorndike Press Large Print Popular and Narrative Nonfiction Series)
Product Description Hillary Rodham Clinton’s inside account of the crises, choices, and challenges she faced during her four years as America’s 67th Secretary of State, and how those experiences drive her view of the future. “All of us face hard choices in our lives,” Hillary Rodham Clinton writes at the start of this personal chronicle of years at …
Seal Team Six (Thorndike Press Large Print Biographies & Memoirs Series)
A New York Times Bestseller — When the Navy sends their elite, they send the SEALS. When the SEALS send their elite, they send SEAL Team Six …SEAL Team Six is a secret unit tasked with counterterrorism, hostage rescue, and counterinsurgency. Now Howard Wasdin takes readers deep into their world — beginning with the …
A Dangerous Inheritance (Thorndike Press Large Print Historical Fiction)
Two women separated by time are linked by the most famous murder mystery in history, the Princes in the Tower. Lady Katherine Grey has already suffered more than her fair share of tragedy. Newly pregnant, she has incurred the wrath of her formidable cousin, Queen Elizabeth I, who sees her as a rival to her insecure throne. Alone …
Reagan: The Life (Thorndike Press Large Print Biographies & Memoirs Series)
From master storyteller and New York Times bestselling Historian H. W. Brands comes the definitive biography of a visionary and transformative president In his magisterial new biography, H. W. Brands brilliantly establishes Ronald Reagan as one of the two great presidents of the twentieth century, a true peer to Franklin Roosevelt. Reagan conveys with sweep and vigor how the confident …
A New York Times Bestselling Author After more than forty years, Charles Manson continues to mystify and fascinate us. One of the most notorious criminals in American history, Manson and members of his mostly female commune killed nine people, including pregnant actress Sharon Tate. Now, drawing on new information, bestselling author Jeff Guinn tells the definitive story of …
Her image appeared in periodicals and advertisements roughly twenty times daily; she rivaled FDR and Edward VIII as the most photographed person in the world. Her portrait brightened the homes of countless admirers: from a black laborer s cabin in South Carolina and young Andy Warhol s house in Pittsburgh to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover s recreation …
Arguing that wheat plays a leading role in the nation’s obesity epidemic, a guide to losing weight by eliminating wheat from a diet applies nutritional guidelines to a plan also designed to address various related health …
A New York Times Bestseller — A Pulitzer Prize?winning AuthorAfter his Pulitzer Prize?winning history of the Allied triumph in North Africa, Rick Atkinson follows the strengthening armies as they invade Sicily in July 1943 and, mile by bloody mile, fight their way north. The decision to invade Europe?s so-called soft underbelly was controversial, but once under way the …
The multiple prize-winning author of Memory Wall A blind child, Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris near the Museum of Natural History, where he works as the master of its thousands of locks. When the Nazis occupy Paris and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo. In a mining town in Germany, the orphan …