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From the author of The Italian Teacher, this acclaimed debut novel set in Rome follows the topsy-turvy lives of the denizens of an English language newspaper.
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
Janet Maslin, The New York Times • The Economist • NPR • Slate • The Christian Science Monitor • Financial Times • The Plain Dealer • Minneapolis Star Tribune...
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
Janet Maslin, The New York Times • The Economist • NPR • Slate • The Christian Science Monitor • Financial Times • The Plain Dealer • Minneapolis Star Tribune...
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Pub. Date
2013.
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English
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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.
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2016.
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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...
4) Simply sexy
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English
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It all started with a not-so-innocent sprig of mistletoe...
In retrospect, Rina Lowell should have known that Emma Montgomery's mistletoe was a matchmaking ploy.
Rina is new to Ashford, to her newspaper job, to her whole life. And she can't wait to write "Hot Stuff", a series of columns that will definitively pin down what men really want.
When Emma maneuvers her under that pesky sprig of evergreen with Ashford's prodigal son, Rina can't resist...
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English
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"Logan Harrison is looking for a wife. As the Lord Provost of Edinburgh, he needs a conventional and diplomatic woman who will stand by his side and help further his political ambitions. He most certainly does not need Mairi Sinclair, the fiery, passionate, fiercely beautiful woman who tries to thwart him at every turn. But if she's so wrong for him, why can't he stop kissing her? He is completely bewitched. Mairi Sinclair has never met anyone like...
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Series
Publisher
North Country Press
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
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Jack McMorrow, a former New York Times reporter has come to Maine to run the weekly local newspaper. When a seemingly friendless and ineffective staff photographer is found drowned in the river, McMorrow wonders why, and wonders why the local police don't wonder more.
8) Attachments
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English
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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,...
11) Full blast
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English
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From bestselling authors Janet Evanovich and Charlotte Hughes
The next in the hot new Full series featuring Max Holt and Jamie Swift—filled with even more fast-paced action, crazy characters, steamy sex, suspense, and non-stop hilarity
This time the town of Beaumont, South Carolina, is going to hell in a hand basket. It all starts when Jamie decides to increase revenues for her newspaper by starting a personal ads section.
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Series
Publisher
Walker
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
A travelling medicine show arrives in a town in Wyoming Territory, but instead of health it brings death, some of the bottles containing poison. Newspaperman Lobo Blacke, a former marshall who was paralyzed by an outlaw's bullet, sifts through the suspects. By the author of Written in Fire.
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Publisher
Wyndham Books
Pub. Date
[1982]
Language
English
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The irascible and incorruptible editor, C.B. Greenfield, and his questioning colleague, Maggie Rome, set out to determine whether there is a link between a dead domestic, a rash of buglaries, a vacant school building, and the women's movement.
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Pub. Date
2008.
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English
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Priscilla Bollingsworth, a young, ambitious female NYPD detective, investigates the killing of a powerful newspaper editor. She teams up with Jude Hurley, a clever, rebellious reporter, and together they navigate the ink-infested waters whose denizens include the paper's resentful old guard, scheming careerists, a bumbling publisher, a steely executive editor, and a rival newspaper tycoon named Lester Moloch. But the waters thicken considerably when...
20) Unmentionables
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Publisher
Akashic Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Marian Elliott Adams, an outspoken advocate for sensible undergarments for women, sweeps onto the Chautauqua stage under a brown canvas tent on a sweltering August night in 1917, and shocks the gathered town of Emporia with her speech: How can women compete with men in the work place and in life if they are confined by their undergarments? The crowd is further appalled when Marian falls off the stage and sprains her ankle, and is forced to remain...