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"The award-winning journalist and co-host of CBS Saturday Morning tells the candid and deeply personal story of her mother's abandonment and how the search for answers forced her to reckon with her own identity and the secrets that shaped her family for five decades."--
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Lee and Bob Woodruff share the story of their romance, their career pursuits, and their determination in the face of a tragedy that captivated America, Bob's near-fatal brain injury suffered when an explosive device detonated near the tank he was riding in while reporting on the Iraq War.
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From top CNN anchor and special correspondent Soledad O'Brien comes a highly personal look at her biggest reporting moments from Hurricane Katrina, the tsunami in Southeast Asia, the devastating Haiti earthquake, and to the historic 2008 U.S. elections and high profile interviews with everyday Americans. Drawing on her own unique background as well as her experiences at the front lines of the most provocative issues in today's society, and from her...
9) Gaily, gaily
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Elek Books
Pub. Date
1963.
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English
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With the vigor and gusto invariably associated with his personality and his works, Ben Hecht recreates in this volume the lusty Chicago of the early twentieth century, as seen from its underside by a cub reporter on a great metropolitan daily. He introduces the reader to a vast cast of eccentric characters-bums, criminals, prostitutes, politicians, and poets, not to mention the police. He conducts you to the scenes of the crimes. He invites you to...
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Plume
Pub. Date
[2009]
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English
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"For award-winning photojournalist Alison Wright, traveling in packed vehicles around third world countries was just part of a day's work--until the fateful afternoon her bus careened around a dangerous blind curve in rural Laos and collided head-on with a logging truck. In an instant of crushed metal and shattered glass, her whole life changed..."--p.[4] of cover.
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Harper
Pub. Date
[2010]
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English
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Strong, sassy, always surprising-and titled after a Saturday Night Live "Weekend Update" monologue by Tina Fey-Bitch Is the New Black is a deliciously addictive memoir-in-essays in which Helena Andrews goes from being the daughter of the town lesbian to a hot-shot political reporter… all while trying to answer the question, "can a strong, single, and successful black woman ever find love?" Fans of Sloane Crosley (I Was Told There'd Be Cake) will...
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Atheneum
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1976.
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English
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In this captivating first-person account, Eric Sevareid describes in thrilling detail his time as a journalist covering international affairs during World War II. From a young man in North Dakota to an instrumental figure in establishing CBS as an international news organization, Sevareid witnessed the shaping of America's journalistic landscape. His experiences provide an invaluable glimpse into the trials and tribulations of a dogged reporter. With...
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After his father's heart attack in 1984, Peter Godwin began a series of pilgrimages back to Zimbabwe, the land of his birth, from Manhattan, where he now lives. On these frequent visits to check on his elderly parents, he bore witness to Zimbabwe's dramatic spiral downwards into the jaws of violent chaos, presided over by an increasingly enraged dictator. And yet long after their comfortable lifestyle had been shattered and millions were fleeing,...
