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2023.
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"Rona Jaffe's beloved novel of mid-century NYC women in the workplace that paved the way for the #MeToo movement and iconic cultural touchstones like Mad Men, now for the first time in Penguin Classics, in a 65th anniversary edition with an introduction by New Yorker staff writer Rachel Syme A Penguin Classic When Rona Jaffe's superb page-turner was first published in 1958, it changed contemporary fiction forever. Some readers were shocked, but millions...
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2023.
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vii, 273 pages ; 23 cm
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"Susan B. Ellingson (SB to those who know her) publishes a struggling newspaper with the help of a retired librarian. Near the mining town of Iron, Minnesota, waters split three ways along the Laurentian Divide, carrying minerals and contaminants to Hudson's Bay, the Great Lakes, and the Gulf of Mexico. When a corporation seeks a permit to dig for copper and nickel and store potentially harmful mining waste nearby, locals divide into pro-mining and...
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YA EN 2ª EDICIÓN. Mediante las iniciativas personales de mujeres excéntricas, desafiantes, únicas, Londres ha sido y sigue siendo un lugar donde los libros tienen vida propia y sus libreras, una manera más libre de estar en el mundo. Este libro aborda la historia de más de una treintena de libreras y de sus establecimientos en el Londres de los últimos dos siglos. Recorremos la mítica Charing Cross Road, donde abrieron sus librerías las sufragistas...
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2024.
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"What if everything you know about the worst night of your life turns out not to be true? Nine years ago, with the world's eyes on her, Charlie Colbert fled. The press and the police called Charlie a "witness" to the nightmarish events at her elite graduate school on Christmas Eve--events known to the public as "Scarlet Christmas"--though Charlie knows she was much more than that. Now, Charlie has meticulously rebuilt her life: She's the editor-in-chief...
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[2023]
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356 pages ; 24 cm.
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When he discovers stranded Cuban refugees during a fishing outing turned tragedy, newsman Luke Blackburn becomes the center of a media firestorm that threatens to blow up his marriage while his star investigative reporter slowly pieces together a story of corruption and cartel money in his refuge, Key West.
The newsman in Luke Blackburn shuns the spotlight when he and his old friend, now the county mayor in Key West, discover stranded Cuban refugees...
6) Groove Found
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A memoir to entertain and inspire anyone who is wondering if there can be a more fulfilling way to work, wishing for a better business life, dreaming of the possibilities that could come from working remotely.
Frustrated with her corporate job writing for the top music industry magazine, Susan leaps into the unknown during the worldwide economic meltdown of 2008-2009. Despite having little money, she quickly forms her micro-mini-media company-of-one...
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2023.
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"Marty Baron took charge of The Washington Post newsroom in 2013. Seven months into his new job, Baron received explosive news: Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, would buy the Post. Just over two years later, Donald Trump won the presidency. In the face of Trump's unceasing attacks, Baron steadfastly managed the Post's newsroom, during a period of rapidly changing societal dynamics. In Collision of Power, Baron recounts this with the tenacity of...
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A dual biography of two media titans- Rupert Murdoch and Ted Turner.
When Ted Turner started out in business, he owned a small billboard company in rural Georgia. Over the decades, he built a multi-billion empire that included CNN, Turner Classic Movies (TCM), MGM studios, and the Atlanta Braves. Risk-taking, careful planning, and steely determination are the hallmarks of this brash, outspoken, and wildly successful media mogul. On the...
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The Executive Editor of People Magazine provides an unfiltered and hilarious look at her life alongside the rich and famous, as she reveals how being a fan-girl lead to celebrity close encounters she could only dream of growing up.
From the NY Post's "Page Six" to Good Housekeeping and now People, Kate Coyne has spent years on the front lines of the entertainment industry, feeding our insatiable appetite for celebrity news and gossip. I'M YOUR BIGGEST...
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What was it like to grow up as an urban urchin under bombs in Nazi Germany? Did he have a real childhood? Did he play pranks on grownups, as young rascals do in normal times? Could he be shielded against Nationalist ideology? In Urchin at War, Uwe Siemon-Netto answers these questions in the affirmative with humour and drama.
The son of a lawyer blinded in World War I, he describes the parallel universe in which his bourgeois family lived in Leipzig....
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A middle aged author declining in popularity. An up and coming literary agent with an eye for genius. A partnership that would forge a prodigious legacy in American literature.
Henry James was a middle-aged author who had established himself on a transatlantic scale when he employed James Brand Pinker as his literary agent in 1898. The changing preferences of a growing audience of readers along with James's self-defeating practice of shifting from...
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Dorothy Butler Gilliam, whose 50-year-career as a journalist put her in the forefront of the fight for social justice, offers a comprehensive view of racial relations and the media in the U.S.
Most civil rights victories are achieved behind the scenes, and this riveting, beautifully written memoir by a "black first" looks back with searing insight on the decades of struggle, friendship, courage, humor and savvy that secured what seems commonplace...
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America is known as the Land of Freedom. It's the land that allows you to develop your own thoughts and opinions, though it's proven that a lot of popular figures will never say what they truly think because of their fear of backlash.
But not Tucker Carlson.
Go on a captivating journey that explores and analyzes the meteoric rise and eventual firing of Tucker Carlson, one of the most polarizing figures in modern media.
This meticulously researched...
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En un mundo donde abunda la falta de motivación y la información vacía y exagerada, Keila arroja luz desde su experiencia al narrar siete relatos reales e inspiradores, acerca de cómo ha logrado hazañas que algunos consideran imposibles: fundar una empresa cuando vivía en medio de la miseria, comprar su primer carro de lujo con apenas treinta años, viajar por cuatro continentes sin mucho presupuesto o entrevistar a personalidades de fama mundial...
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Compelling essays from Peabody and Emmy-award winning newsman Dan Rather
With his distinctive blend of frontline determination and a journalist's knack for a good story, former CBS anchorman Dan Rather looks at the awesome struggles and everyday accomplishments he's witnessed at home and around the globe. Ranging from the Iraq conflict to a schoolyard shooting in Arkansas, from the Oklahoma City bombing to encounters with world-renowned figures such...
16) 9/11 With Potus
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Imagine, you're with the President in Florida, when America was attacked on 9/11. Buckle your seat belt - You're in the White House Travel Pool. It's gonna get wild! As told by Cameramen, Reporters, and WH Staff - All with the President, The week of 9/11. Revealing NEW stories!
News Cameraman, Chris Carlson was there, and is your guide. On the morning of 9/11, The Bush White House had no idea what was happening. The President and the White House...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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xxxiii, 435 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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"In June of 1889 in San Francisco, John Muir-iconic environmentalist, writer, and philosopher-meets face-to-face for the first time with his longtime editor Robert Underwood Johnson, an elegant and influential figure at The Century magazine. Before long, the pair, opposites in many ways, decide to venture to Yosemite Valley, the magnificent site where twenty years earlier, Muir experienced a personal and spiritual awakening that would set the course...
18) On Fire Island
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2023.
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302 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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"A book editor spends one last summer on Fire Island in this sparkling and surprising new novel from the author of A Shoe Story. As a book editor, Julia Morse lived and breathed stories. Whether with her pen to a manuscript or curled up with a book while at her beloved Fire Island cottage, her imagination alight with a good tale, she could anticipate practically any ending. The ending she'd never imagined was her own. To be fair, no one expects to...
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