May 14, 2013
New Arrivals · Large Print Nonfiction
These titles were recently added to the collection of the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County.
I, Rhoda : a memoir
May 7, 2013
Harper, Valerie, 1939-
Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, 2013.
391 pages (large print), 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm.
The backyard parables : lessons on gardening, and life
May 7, 2013
Roach, Margaret.
405 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Bunker Hill : a city, a siege, a revolution
May 3, 2013
Philbrick, Nathaniel.
817 pages, 16 pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations ; 23 cm.
AARP Facebook : tech to connect
April 25, 2013
Collier, Marsha.
295 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 29 cm.
Includes index.
Why worry? : stop coping and start living
April 25, 2013
Tristan, Kathryn.
319 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Originally published as: Anxiety rescue (Chesterfield, MO : Dancing Eagle Press, c2007).
Great jobs for everyone 50+ : finding work that keeps you happy and healthy-- and pays the bills
April 25, 2013
Hannon, Kerry.
565 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Super brain : unleashing the explosive power of your mind to maximize health, happiness, and spiritual well-being
April 25, 2013
Chopra, Deepak.
529 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Originally published: New York : Harmony Books, c2012.
Includes index.
Cooked : a natural history of transformation
April 23, 2013
Pollan, Michael, author.
689 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
The great pearl heist : London's greatest thief and Scotland Yard's hunt for the world's most valuable necklace
April 15, 2013
Crosby, Molly Caldwell.
397 pages (large print), [8] pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 23 cm.
Lifesaving lessons : notes from an accidental mother
April 15, 2013
Greenlaw, Linda, 1960-
359 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Wild : from lost to found on the Pacific Crest Trail
April 15, 2013
Strayed, Cheryl, 1968-
Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, 2013.
623 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
The dog lived (and so will I) : a memoir
April 15, 2013
Rhyne, Teresa J.
499 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Heaven changes everything : living every day with eternity in mind
April 15, 2013
Burpo, Todd.
249 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Proof of heaven : a neurosurgeon's journey into the afterlife
April 11, 2013
Alexander, Eben.
281 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
"Thorndike Press large print basic"--Title page verso.
Near-death experiences, or NDEs, are controversial. Thousands of people have had them, but many in the scientific community have argued that they are impossible. Dr. Eben Alexander was one of those people. A highly trained neurosurgeon who had operated on thousands of brains in the course of his career, Alexander knew that what people of faith call the “soul†is really a product of brain chemistry. NDEs, he would have been the first to explain, might feel real to the people having them, but in truth they are simply fantasies produced by brains under extreme stress. Then came the day when Dr. Alexander’s own brain was attacked by an extremely rare illness. The part of the brain that controls thought and emotion—and in essence makes us human— shut down completely. For seven days Alexander lay in a hospital bed in a deep coma. Then, as his doctors weighed the possibility of stopping treatment, Alexander’s eyes popped open. He had come back. Alexander’s recovery is by all accounts a medical miracle. But the real miracle of his story lies elsewhere. While his body lay in coma, Alexander journeyed beyond this world and encountered an angelic being who guided him into the deepest realms of super-physical existence. There he met, and spoke with, the Divine source of the universe itself. This story sounds like the wild and wonderful imaginings of a skilled fantasy writer. But it is not fantasy. Before Alexander underwent his journey, he could not reconcile his knowledge of neuroscience with any belief in heaven, God, or the soul. That difficulty with belief created an empty space that no professional triumph could erase. Today he is a doctor who believes that true health can be achieved only when we realize that God and the soul are real and that death is not the end of personal existence but only a transition.
Friendkeeping : a field guide to the people you love, hate, and can't live without
March 22, 2013
Klam, Julie.
243 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Originally published: New York : Riverhead Books, c2012.
Ive got a secret -- Through sick and thin -- Missed connections -- Thanks, but I'm fine... really -- My friend has gone nuts -- Three's company -- From @friends to IRL -- Sisters (and brothers) from other mothers -- Call of duty -- Don't be a drain -- Rules of war -- When the dog bites, when the bee stings -- You hate my husband, I hate your wife -- Thanks, I needed that -- Absence makes the heart work harder -- You've got to have friends.
Examines friendship in all its modern varieties, both online and in person, and explores how to keep friends in the face of intimidating odds including disliking a spouse or being happy in their misfortunes.
The still point of the turning world
March 22, 2013
Rapp, Emily.
335 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
"Like all mothers, Emily Rapp had ambitious plans for her first and only child, Ronan. He would be smart, loyal, physically fearless, and level-headed, but fun. He would be good at crossword puzzles like his father. He would be an avid skier like his mother. Rapp would speak to him in foreign languages and give him the best education. But all of these plans changed when Ronan was diagnosed at nine months old with Tay-Sachs disease, a rare and always-fatal degenerative disorder. Ronan was not expected to live beyond the age of three; he would be permanently stalled at a developmental level of six months. Rapp and her husband were forced to re-evaluate everything they thought they knew about parenting. They would have to learn to live with their child in the moment; to find happiness in the midst of sorrow; to parent without a future. The Still Point of the Turning World is the story of a mother's journey through grief and beyond it. Rapp's response to her son's diagnosis was a belief that she needed to "make my world big"--to make sense of her family's situation through art, literature, philosophy, theology and myth. Drawing on a broad range of thinkers and writers, from C.S. Lewis to Sylvia Plath, Hegel to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Rapp learns what wisdom there is to be gained from parenting a terminally ill child. In luminous, exquisitely moving prose she re-examines our most fundamental assumptions about what it means to be a good parent, to be a success, and to live a meaningful life"-- Provided by publisher.
The girls of Atomic City : the untold story of the women who helped win World War II
March 22, 2013
Kiernan, Denise.
655 pages (large print), 16 unnumbered pages : ill. ; 23 cm
Originally published: New York : Touchstone/Simon & Schuster, 2013.
Revelation, August 1945 -- Everything will be taken care of : train to nowhere, August 1943. Tubealloy : the Bohemian Grove to the Appalachian Hills, September 1942 -- Peaches and pearls : the taking of Site X, Fall 1942. Tubealloy : Ida and the atom, 1934 -- Through the gates : Clinton Engineer Works, Fall 1943. Tubealloy : Lise and fission, 1938 -- Bull pens and creeps : the Project's welcome for new employees. Tubealloy : Leona and success in Chicago, December 1942 -- Only temporary : spring into Summer, 1944. Tubealloy : the quest for product -- To work. Tubealloy : the couriers -- Rhythms of life. Tubealloy : Security, censorship, and the press -- The one about fireflies. Tubealloy : pumpkins, spies, and chicken soup, Fall 1944 -- The unspoken : sweethearts and secrets. Tubealloy : combining efforts in the New Year -- Curiosity and silence. Tubealloy : the project's crucial spring -- Innocence lost. Tubealloy : hope and the haberdasher, April-May 1945 -- Sand jumps in the desert, July 1945 -- The gadget revealed -- Dawn of a thousand suns -- Life in the new age.
In this book the author traces the story of the unsung World War II workers in Oak Ridge, Tennessee through interviews with dozens of surviving women and other Oak Ridge residents. This is the story of the young women of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, who unwittingly played a crucial role in one of the most significant moments in U.S. history. The Tennessee town of Oak Ridge was created from scratch in 1942. One of the Manhattan Project's secret cities, it did not appear on any maps until 1949, and yet at the height of World War II it was using more electricity than New York City and was home to more than 75,000 people, many of them young women recruited from small towns across the South. Their jobs were shrouded in mystery, but they were buoyed by a sense of shared purpose, close friendships, and a surplus of handsome scientists and Army men. But against this wartime backdrop, a darker story was unfolding. The penalty for talking about their work, even the most innocuous details, was job loss and eviction. One woman was recruited to spy on her coworkers. They all knew something big was happening at Oak Ridge, but few could piece together the true nature of their work until the bomb "Little Boy" was dropped over Hiroshima, Japan, and the secret was out. The shocking revelation: the residents of Oak Ridge were enriching uranium for the atomic bomb. Though the young women originally believed they would leave Oak Ridge after the war, many met husbands there, made lifelong friends, and still call the seventy-year-old town home. The reverberations from their work there, work they did not fully understand at the time, are still being felt today.
Trusting God day by day : 365 daily devotions
March 21, 2013
Meyer, Joyce, 1943-
New York : FaithWords, 2012.
1062 p. (large print) ; 19 cm.
God loves you : he always has--he always will
March 21, 2013
Jeremiah, David, 1941-
New York : FaithWords Large Print, 2012.
xviii, 374 p. (large print) ; 24 cm.
God is love -- God loves you even when you don't love him -- God's love never quits -- God loved you before you were born -- God carved his love in stone -- God loves you when he's correcting you -- God wrote his love in red -- God's love will never let you go -- God wants you to be with him forever -- God's love changes everything.
Ike's bluff : president Eisenhower's secret battle to save the world [large print]
March 21, 2013
Thomas, Evan, 1951-
New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2012.
x, 655 p. (large print) : ill. ; 25 cm.
Introduction: Tell no one. Duty: 1953-1956. Confidence ; The card player ; Positive loyalty ; Cross of iron ; Gentleman's agreement ; Deception ; Learning to love the bomb ; The chamber pot ; Strange genius ; "Don't worry, I'll confuse them" ; Meeting Mr. Khrushchev ; The devil's grip ; Bows and arrows ; Rising storm ; Subtle and brutal -- Honor: 1957-1961. Dark star ; The great equation ; The strong say nothing ; Guns of August ; Missile gap ; Looking for a partner ; Sweet words ; A regular pixie ; "The pilot's alive" ; "I'm just fed up!" ; The underestimated man -- Epilogue: Peace.
Behind the bland smile and apparent simplemindedness, Eisenhower was a brilliant, intellectual tactician, and a master of calculated duplicity. Facing the Soviet Union, China, and his own generals, some of whom believed a first strike was the only means of survival, Eisenhower would make his boldest and riskiest bet yet, one of such enormity that there could be but two outcomes: the survival of the world, or its end.
An Amish kitchen
March 11, 2013
481 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
A taste of faith / Kelly Long -- A spoonful of love / Amy Clipston -- A recipe for hope / Beth Wiseman.
The man who saw a ghost : the life and work of Henry Fonda
March 11, 2013
McKinney, Devin.
704 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 23 cm
Springfield, 1839 -- The elephant and the black dog -- A time of living violently -- The big soul -- Ways of escape -- A sort of suicide -- The right man -- The wrong man -- New frontier and hidden agenda -- He not busy being born -- The old man himself -- Omaha, 1919.
Henry Fonda's performances--in The Grapes of Wrath, Young Mr. Lincoln, The Lady Eve, 12 Angry Men, On Golden Pond--helped define "American" in the twentieth century. He worked with movie masters from Ford and Sturges to Hitchcock and Leone. He was a Broadway legend. He fought in World War II and was loved the world over. Yet much of his life was rage and struggle. Why did Fonda marry five times--tempestuously to actress Margaret Sullavan, tragically to heiress Frances Brokaw, mother of Jane and Peter? Was he a man of integrity, worthy of the heroes he played, or the harsh father his children describe, the iceman who went onstage hours after his wife killed herself? Why did suicide shadow his life and art? What memories troubled him so? McKinney's Fonda is dark, complex, fascinating, and a product of glamour and acclaim, early losses and Midwestern demons--a man haunted by what he'd seen, and by who he was.
Nothing daunted : the unexpected education of two society girls in the West
March 11, 2013
Wickenden, Dorothy.
Waterville, Me. : Thorndike Press, 2013.
511 p. (large print) : ill. ; 23 cm.
A captivating full-length book derived from a widely read and much beloved New Yorker piece about Wickenden's grandmother and her grandmother's best friend who left their affluent East Coast lives to "rough it" as teachers in the wilds of Colorado in 1916.
What money can't buy : the moral limits of markets
March 1, 2013
Sandel, Michael J.
Thorndike, Me. : Center Point Pub., 2012.
335 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.
Introduction : markets and morals. Market triumphalism ; Everything for sale ; The role of markets ; Our rancorous politics -- 1. Jumping the queue. Airports, amusement parks, car pool lanes ; Hired line standers ; Ticket scalpers ; Concierge doctors ; Markets versus queues ; Yosemite campsites ; Papal masses ; Springsteen concerts -- 2. Incentives. Cash for sterilization ; The economic approach to life ; Paying kids for good grades ; Bribes to lose weight ; Selling the right to immigrate ; A market in refugees ; Speeding tickets and subway cheats ; Tradable procreation permits ; Tradable pollution permits ; Carbon offsets ; Paying to kill an endangered rhino ; Ethics and economics -- 3. How markets crowd out morals. Hired friends ; Bought apologies and wedding toasts ; The case against gifts ; Auctioning college admission ; Coercion and corruption ; Nuclear waste sites ; Donation days and day-care pickups ; Blood for sale ; Economizing love -- 4. Markets in life and death. Janitors insurance ; Betting on death ; Internet death pools ; Insurance versus gambling ; The terrorism futures market ; The lives of strangers ; Death bonds -- 5. Naming rights. Autographs for sale ; Corporate-sponsored home runs ; Luxury skyboxes ; Moneyball ; Bathroom advertising ; Ads in books ; Body billboards ; Branding the public square ; Branded lifeguards and nature trails ; Police cars and fire hydrants ; Commercials in the classroom ; Ads in jails ; The skyboxification of everyday life.
Should we pay children to read books or to get good grades? Should we allow corporations to pay for the right to pollute the atmosphere? Is it ethical to pay people to test risky new drugs or to donate their organs? What about hiring mercenaries to fight our wars? Auctioning admission to elite universities? Selling citizenship to immigrants willing to pay? In What Money Can't Buy, Michael J. Sandel takes on one of the biggest ethical questions of our time: Is there something wrong with a world in which everything is for sale? If so, how can we prevent market values from reaching into spheres of life where they don't belong? What are the moral limits of markets?
Visiting Tom : a man, a highway, and the road to Roughneck Grace
March 1, 2013
Perry, Michael, 1964-
Thorndike, Me. : Center Point Pub., 2012.
319 p. (large print) : ill. ; 23 cm.
Originally published: New York : Harper, c2012.
Tom is 82-year-old Tom Hartwig, an old-timer best known locally for building and firing homemade cannons. Toiling in a shop that Perry describes as an "antique store stocked by Rube Goldberg, curated by Hunter Thompson, and rearranged by a small earthquake," Tom works from scratch to make everything from shovel handles to parts for quarter-million-dollar farm equipment. He has an endless reservoir of stories dating back to the days of his prize Model A. Visiting Tom is dominated by the elderly man's equanimity and ultimately by unvarnished tenderness. Tuesdays with Morrie meets Shop Class as Soulcraft as Michael Perry, a middle-aged father of daughters, finds guidance and inspiration in visits with his octogenarian, cannon-shooting neighbor. Visiting Tom celebrates the wisdom, heart, and sass of a vanishing generation that embodies the indomitable spirit of small-town America.
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