Plucked from our shelves....
You can expect best-sellers, romances and mysteries-- we do have those in large print, of
course. But publishers have begun to
offer a broader spectrum of titles, reflecting the fact that large print
readers now include:
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Exercisers on stationary
bicycles
- Midnight readers who don't
want to wake a significant other by turning on a bright light
- People who find that
standard publications tire their eyes
- Those who find they read
faster when the print is larger
- Serious readers who depend
on having a larger type size
Recent additions to the Large Print collection at the
Fairport Public Library include:
Luncheon of the Boating Party, by Susan Vreeland.
Renoir said he wanted to paint only the women
he loved, and this is a fictional account of the origin of the famous boating
party painting.
Diary of a Bad Year, by J. M. Coetzee.
An elderly author, an attractive secretary
with a grasping boyfriend-but a totally unexpected story, by a Nobel-winning
author.
Three Cups of Tea, by Greg Mortensen.
An abortive attempt to climb K-2, the world's
2nd tallest mountain, leads Mortensen to an even greater adventure
promoting the education of rural Afghan and Pakistani girls and, indirectly,
world peace.
Fine Just the Way It Is, by Annie Proulx.
Short stories by the National Book Award and
Pulitzer winner who brought us Brokeback Mountain.
The Reserve, by Russell Banks.
Moral quandaries set in the Adirondacks of
the thirties.
When You Are Engulfed in Flames, by David Sedaris.
Sparkling essays combine the cringe-worthy
with the laugh-out-loud.
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