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New York Times bestselling author Francine Rivers returns to the California frontier in this sweeping, romantic tale of a displaced New England suffragette, a former Union soldier disinherited by his Southern family, and the town they join forces to save. 1875. When Kathryn Walsh arrives in tiny Calvada, a mining town nestled in the Sierra Nevadas, falling in love is the farthest thing from her mind. Banished from Boston by her wealthy stepfather,...
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A cautionary tale about the rise of fascism in the United States first published in 1935. During the presidential election of 1936, Doremus Jessup, a newspaper editor, observes with dismay that many of the people he knows support the candidacy of a fascist, Berzelius Windrip. When Windrip wins the election, he forcibly gains control of Congress and the Supreme Court, and, with the aid of his personal paramilitary storm troopers, turns the United States...
4) Unpunished
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2017.
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English
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"Maggie Gardiner, a forensic expert who studies the dead, and Jack Renner, a homicide cop who stalks the living, form an uneasy partnership to solve a series of murders"--
A copy editor at the Cleveland Herald is found hanging above the grinding wheels of the newspaper assembly line. Forensic investigator Maggie Gardiner has her suspicions about this apparent suicide, and when the evidence suggests murder, Maggie has no choice but to place her trust...
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Revisit book one in Kat Martin's fan-favorite Heart trilogy!
As publisher of the weekly London ladies' gazette Heart to Heart, Krista Hart is known for her outspoken views on such unpopular issues as social reform—risking her reputation and her very safety with every controversial article. She refuses to be intimidated, although she knows full well it makes her the target of angry opposition.
When she encounters a powerful...
As publisher of the weekly London ladies' gazette Heart to Heart, Krista Hart is known for her outspoken views on such unpopular issues as social reform—risking her reputation and her very safety with every controversial article. She refuses to be intimidated, although she knows full well it makes her the target of angry opposition.
When she encounters a powerful...
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Bad Axe County novels volume 3
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English
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"A record heat wave suffocates remote rural Wisconsin as the local sheriff tracks down a killer hidden in the depths of the community in this atmospheric, race-to-the-finish mystery"--
Sheriff Heidi Kick has a dead body on her hands: a homeless young man last seen alive miles from the Bad Axe. The medical examiner confirms what Sheriff Kick has been experiencing in her own reoccurring nightmares of late: the victim was buried alive. As the relentless...
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2016.
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200 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"From an American master comes another "beautifully languid, emotionally intense tale" (Entertainment Weekly), this time of a newspaper editor's fateful decision to expose a small-town fugitive. Ned Ayres, the son of a judge in an Indiana town in midcentury America, has never wanted anything but a newspaper career--in his father's appalled view, a "junk business," a way of avoiding responsibility. The defining moment comes early, when Ned is city...
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Ladies of Summerhill volume 2
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2011.
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English
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During the summer of 1900 Charlotte Hale, a native Newporter and secretary for the Rhode Island Reporter, accepts an undercover assignment as governess to Daniel Wilmont's children in order to gather evidence against him. But as he helps her rediscover God, Charlotte learns that Daniel is an honorable man. When they unexpectedly fall in love, Charlotte realizes she must defend Daniel against those determined to destroy his reputation.
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2013.
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In the winter of 1920, a bequest draws Morrie Morgan back to Butte, Montana, with his bride, Grace. But the mansion bestowed by a former boss proves to be less windfall than money pit. And the town, with its polyglot army of miners struggling against the ruthless Anaconda Copper Mining Company, seems on the verge of implosion. These twin dilemmas catapult Morrie into his new career as editorialist for the Thunder, the fledgling union newspaper.
10) Full blast
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There's never a dull moment for the resident's of Beaumont, South Carolina. Lately, a heat wave's spiked the mercury-and everyone's sex drive.
12) Press
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[2019]
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2 videodiscs (approximately 350 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Set in the world of newspapers in London, it's past riven by hacking scandals, it's present at the mercy of the digital age and the 24-hour news cycle, it's future uncertain, this razor sharp and observant drama explores the current, turbulent media landscape and the ethical dilemmas that journalists and editors face each day.
13) Attachments
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Beth and Jennifer know their company monitors their office e-mail, but they still spend all day sending each other messages, gossiping about their coworkers at the newspaper and baring their personal lives like an open book. When Lincoln applied to be an Internet security officer, he hardly imagined he'd be sifting through other people's inboxes like some sort of electronic Peeping Tom. Lincoln is supposed to turn people in for misusing company e-mail,...
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In this stirring biography, Samuel Adams joins the first tier of founding fathers, a rank he has long deserved. With eloquence equal to that of Thomas Jefferson and Tom Paine, Adams helped ignite the flame of liberty and played a pivotal role in the events leading up to the bloody confrontation with the British. Gifted young historian and newspaperman Ira Stoll has written a gripping account of the man who was the Revolution's moral conscience.
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2023.
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"A monumental work of nonfiction that gives a first-row seat to the epic power struggle between politics, money, media, and tech -- for fans of Maggie Haberman's Confidence Man and Jane Mayer's Dark Money. Marty Baron took charge of The Washington Post newsroom in 2013, after nearly a dozen years leading The Boston Globe. Just seven months into his new job, Baron received explosive news: Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, would buy the Post, marking...
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Walker family (Melissa Tagg) volume 2
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English
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"In small-town Iowa, a newspaper editor and a political speechwriter who have both experienced heartbreak begin working together to save the local paper, butting heads at first but slowly kindling sparks of interest in each other"--
Maple Valley, Iowa. Amelia Bentley's new life as a newspaper editor is shaken when the small-town paper is in danger of closing. Her one hope: a lead on an intriguing story that just might impress the new publisher......
17) Wordplay
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2006.
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1 videodisc (approximately 94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (12 pages)
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A journey into the world of Will Shortz, the crossword puzzle editor at The New York Times. Shortz has spent his entire lifetime studying, creating and editing puzzles, and has built a huge following along the way including Bill Clinton and Bob Dole.
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2021.
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424 pages ; 24 cm
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"There are Dark Forces at work in our world (and in Manchester in particular) and so thank God The Stranger Times is on hand to report them. A weekly newspaper dedicated to the weird and the wonderful (but more often the weird) of modern life, it is the go-to publication for the unexplained and inexplicable . . . At least that's their pitch. The reality is rather less auspicious. Their editor is a drunken, foul-tempered and -mouthed husk of a man...
19) Flint's gift
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The adventures in the Old West of Sam Flint, the owner of a newspaper in a district where there is fighting between cattlemen and sheep ranchers. When some gunmen invade the town, Flint joins forces with a rancher to fight them, an uneasy alliance as both men are in love with the same woman.
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