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English
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After Rachel Childs, a former journalist, suffers an on-air mental breakdown, she lives as a virtual shut-in. In all other respects, however, she enjoys an ideal life with an ideal husband. Until a chance encounter on a rainy afternoon causes that ideal life to fray. As does Rachel's marriage. As does Rachel herself. Sucked into a conspiracy thick with deception, violence, and possibly madness, Rachel must find the strength within herself to conquer...
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English
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Fifty years and many changes have ensued since the paper was founded by an enigmatic millionaire, and now, amid the stained carpeting and dingy office furniture, the staff’s personal dramas seem far more important than the daily headlines. Kathleen, the imperious editor in chief, is smarting from a betrayal in her open marriage; Arthur, the lazy obituary writer, is transformed by a personal tragedy; Abby, the embattled financial officer, discovers...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c1996
Physical Desc
227 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Suspense novel set in California, the Caribbean, and Washington D.C., tells the story of Elena McMahon, a reporter for the Washington Post in 1984 who walks off the job and into a world of arms dealing, covert action, and assassination.
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An inksetter in New York, Quoyle returns to his family's longtime home, a small fishing town in Newfoundland, with his young daughter, after a traumatizing experience with her mother, who sold her to an illegal adoption agency. Though Quoyle has had little success thus far in life, his shipping news column in the local newspaper finds an audience, and his experiences in the town begin to change his life.
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (106 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Circa 1939 ace city reporter Polly Perkins has noted the sudden disappearances of many of the world's most famous scientists. After the city falls under attack of giant flying robots, she decides to team up with her ex-boyfriend, aviation officer Joe 'Sky Captain' Sullivan and flys around the world in search of the evil mastermind, Dr. Totenkopf, whose plan it is to create a new world by destroying the one of today.
8) Seeing red
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Kerra Bailey is a TV journalist hot on the trail of a story guaranteed to skyrocket her career to new heights. Twenty-five years ago, Major Franklin Trapper became a national icon when he was photographed leading a handful of survivors to safety after the bombing of a Dallas hotel. For years, he gave frequent speeches and interviews but then suddenly dropped out of the public eye, shunning all media. Now Kerra is willing to use any means necessary...
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Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
246 p. : photographs ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
At a time when mainstream news media are hemorrhaging and doomsayers are predicting the death of journalism, take heart: the First Amendment is alive and well in small towns across America. In Emus Loose in Egnar, award-winning journalist Judy Muller takes the reader on a grassroots tour of rural American newspapers, from an Indian reservation in Montana to the Alaska tundra to Martha’s Vineyard, and discovers that many weeklies are not just surviving,...
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Series
Darling Dahlias mysteries volume 9
Language
English
Description
Spring 1935 finds the little Alabama town of Darling excited about their new local radio station, WDAR; but there are problems brewing at the newspaper, where a trio of new hires causes headaches for editor Charlie Dickens.
Author
Series
Nancy Clancy volume 8
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
126 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
When she decides that the articles in the latest issue of the Third Grade Gazette are not interesting enough, Nancy sets out to find some news worth reporting on.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
Shots rang out in Savannah's grandest mansion in the misty,early morning hours of May 2, 1981. Was it murder or self-defense? For nearly a decade, the shooting and its aftermath reverberated throughout this hauntingly beautiful city of moss-hung oaks and shaded squares. John Berendt's sharply observed, suspenseful, and witty narrative reads like a thoroughly engrossing novel, and yet it is a work of nonfiction. Berendt skillfully interweaves a hugely...
Author
Series
Allison Coil mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Midnight Ink
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
x, 396 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
A chewed-up corpse high in the Flat Tops Wilderness Area leaves Colorado hunting guide Allison Coil mystified. Obvious signs suggest the dead man is the victim of a mountain lion attack, but Allison’s instincts tell her otherwise. Miles away in downtown Glenwood Springs, a controversial candidate for U.S. Senate is shot during a campaign stop as newspaper reporter Duncan Bloom watches, dodging the long-range gunfire. Trapline follows Coil and Bloom...
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Series
Wolf gift chronicles volume 1
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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The time is the present. The place, the rugged coast of northern California. A bluff high above the Pacific. A grand mansion full of beauty and tantalizing history set against a towering redwood forest. A young reporter on assignment from the San Francisco Observer . . . an older woman, welcoming him into her magnificent, historic family home that he has been sent to write about and that she must sell with some urgency . . . A chance encounter between...
16) Radical Wolfe
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (76 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"From a beat reporter at the Washington Post to an overnight sensation as the leader of the New Journalism movement, Tom Wolfe was at the forefront of reshaping how American stories are told. Recognizing the importance of overlooked subcultures and communities, Wolfe documented everything from rural stock car drivers to hippies in Haight Ashbury to the Apollo Astronauts, and his ability to bridge cultural and class divides while tackling stories central...
Author
Series
Geronimo Stilton. Original volume 7
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
116 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Geronimo's sister Thea drags him to Transratania on a mission to rescue their cousin who is trapped there. They soon discover that Transratania is the land of vampire bats.
18) Peeled
Author
Language
English
Description
Something?s rotten in the heart of apple country!
Hildy Biddle dreams of being a journalist. A reporter for her high school newspaper, The Core, she?s just waiting for a chance to prove herself. Not content to just cover school issues, Hildy?s drawn to the town?s big story?the haunted old Ludlow house. On the surface, Banesville, USA, seems like such a happy place, but lately, eerie happenings and ghostly sightings are making Hildy take
...19) One wrong step
Author
Series
Borderline volume 2
Publisher
Pocket Star Books
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
364 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
She never planned to get involved with her ex again, especially not in his murder.... But that's just what happens when Celie Wells has an encounter with her former husband, and he turns up dead an hour later. Now, after working hard to distance herself from his crooked ways and shady connections, she finds she's smack dab in the middle of his murder investigation. And it isn't just the police who have their eye on her, but an enraged drug lord who...
20) Take two
Author
Series
My sister the vampire volume 5
Publisher
Egmont
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
244 p. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Eighth-grade twins Olivia and Ivy and their friends try to prevent a nosy television reporter, Serena Star, from uncovering the secret community of vampires in Franklin Grove.
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