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2021
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A deeply personal exploration of fatherhood, addiction, and resiliency from Craig Melvin, news anchor of NBC’s Today show.
For Craig Melvin this book is more an investigation than a memoir. It's an opportunity to better understand his father; to interrogate his family's legacy of addiction and despair but also transformation and redemption; and to explore the challenges facing all dads—including Craig himself,
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Myanmar, shrouded in mystery, misunderstood and isolated for half a century.
After a whirlwind romance in Bangladesh, Australian journalist Jessica Mudditt and her Bangladeshi husband Sherpa arrive in Yangon in 2012, just as the military junta is beginning to relax its ironclad grip on power. It is a high-risk atmosphere; a life riddled with chaos and confusion as much as it is with wonder and excitement.
Jessica joins a small team of old-hand expat...
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Soon to be a major motion picture!
“Kill the Messenger” tells the story of the tragic death of Gary Webb, the controversial newspaper reporter who committed suicide in December 2004. Webb is the former San Jose Mercury News reporter whose 1996 "Dark Alliance" series on the so-called CIA, crack cocaine connection created a firestorm of controversy and led to his resignation from the paper amid escalating attacks on his work by the mainstream media....
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"Del Rincón a los Medios" es la autobiografía del reconocido periodista internacional de la canal de television CNN en español Fernando Del Rincon. Es un presentador multi-nominado y ganador del premio Emmy y también dos veces ganador de "Mejor Presentador de Noticias" por la prestigiosa revista People en español.
Esta narrativa está elaborada desde la perspectiva de Fernando mientras reflexiona sobre su éxito como adulto, y cómo no siempre...
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This book will take you from the early days of my life as I re-live it, and you see it through the retrospective mirror of my eyes. Hopefully you will be equally amazed reading this book as I was writing it. I will delve deep into the darkest area of my experiences, from childhood to adulthood, taking you from my earliest days, growing up in New York, and then working as a New York City Transit Cop, through my experience as a New York City Detective....
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In spite of the near over-load of electronic communication devices which may or may not always have the accurate information that Americans want and need...
There Will Always Be The Need for a "Hometown Newspaper".
These are the vehicles of which necessary information is passed.
How Long?
As long as there are local public school athletics, cheer leaders, spelling contests as well as stock show blue ribbon winners distributed.
Community hometown...
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Good Day! , the critically-acclaimed biography about the legendary Paul Harvey, is now in paperback! In this heartwarming book, author Paul J. Batura tells the all-American story of one of the best-known radio voices in history. From his humble beginnings to his unparalleled career of more than 50 years with ABC radio, Paul Harvey narrated America's story day by day, through wars and peace, through the threat of communism and the crumbling of old...
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The iconic broadcasting legend dusts down his suitcase for a final journey around the globe, revisiting locations of significance to his life and career.
"You might say I'm set in my airways. I'm one of those lucky people whose professional and private lives blend exactly." Alan Whicker, 2007.
This sumptuous book to accompany the major BBC TV series of the same name, is a glorious celebration of 50 years in front of the camera.
For as long as most...
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"Estos son los bienes que heredo de mi familia por línea de sangre: pazos de artritis, tapias de sordera, latifundios de miopía, secanos de calvicie, orejas de soplillo como blasón y tendencia a discutir a gritos en nuestros Consejos de Administración que son las comidas familiares. Pero lo que más valoro es la inmunidad a las ideologías. Creo que eso salda a mi favor el balance del peso tétrico del patrimonio familiar."
Soto Ivars.
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El trabajo, la amistad, el dinero, el mercado, la fidelidad, la polémica y la literatura. Todos estos factores que intervienen de un modo u otro en el ecosistema del libro se conjugan en estas memorias de Guilermo Schavelzon para recorrer, a través de sus recuerdos y encuentros con autores como Ricardo Piglia, Augusto Roa Bastos, Mario Benedetti, Julio Cortázar, Gabriel García Máquez, Beatriz Guido, Quino, Juan José Saer, Juan Rulfo, Elena Poniatowska,...
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This is a book of anecdotes - a product of my reflections on both my personal and professional life as a young Tunisian female journalist, coming to work for the 'largest broadcaster in the world' and live in the big city, that is London all by myself. The book traces the Tunisia I grew up in in the sixties - few years after it gained its independence from France, where my parents and I belonged to very different worlds. I come from a traditional...
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Es una intensa evocación testimonial de la historia personal e íntima del Luis Spota, novelista,periodista, funcionario público, dramaturgo, guionista y director de cine. Con sobriedad y equilibrio su pareja de vida, la escritora y actriz Elda Peralta hace un análisis de su compleja personalidad y nos revela el sentido de una vida dedicada a la literatura y el periodismo. Esta edición conmemora el 31 aniversario de la muerte del periodista.
13) News Junkie
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In News Junkie, the cutthroat worlds of journalism, politics, and high finance are laid bare by Jason Leopold, whose addictive tendencies led him from a life of drug abuse and petty crime to become an award-winning investigative journalist who exposed some of the biggest corporate and political scandals in recent American history. Leopold broke key stories about the California energy crisis and Enron Corporation's infamous phony trading floor as a...
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Journalist and publisher Brandt Ayers's journey takes him from the segregated Old South to covering the central scenes of the civil rights struggle, and finally to editorship of his family's hometown newspaper, The Anniston Star. The journey was one of controversy, danger, a racist nightrider murder, taut moments when the community teetered on the edge of mob violence that ended well because of courageous civic leadership and wise hearts of black...
15) The Talking Cure
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As a kid growing up in Queens, Mike Feder identified with Scheherazade of The Thousand and One Nights: "The idea of someone having to tell a new tale every night to prevent their head getting chopped off seemed sadly familiar to me." Back then, the author's audience was his mentally ill mother, who used to stay in the house all day with the shades drawn, and then insist that her son tell her stories so that she might vicariously experience the world...
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Nationally syndicated columnist and prolific author Walter E. Williams recalls some of the highlights and turning points of his life. From his lower middle class beginnings in a mixed but predominantly black neighborhood in West Philadelphia to his department chair at George Mason University, Williams tells an "only in America" story of a life of achievement.
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Book Preview: #1 I had known Omar since I'd started working in Afghanistan, and he'd always dreamed of living in the West. His aspiration had grown urgent as the civil war intensified and his city was torn apart by bombings.
#2 I had been sleeping little since I returned from Sanaa, but my tiredness left me as the scene came into focus: the Hindu Kush snowcaps, the slums on the hillside,...
19) Citizen Newhouse
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An acclaimed biographer takes on one of the world's most elusive media moguls in Citizen Newhouse. The harvest of four years and over 400 interviews, Carol Felsenthal's book is an unauthorized investigative biography that paints a tough yet even-handed portrait.
Here is the father, Sam Newhouse, who developed a formula for creating newspaper monopolies in small metropolitan markets and turned it into a huge family fortune. And the sons: Si in the...
20) Alistair Cooke
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One of the preeminent journalists of the twentieth century, Alistair Cooke has enjoyed a truly extraordinary career in print, radio, and television. Born into a working-class family and christened Alfred, Cooke swiftly broke free of his modest origins and became the foremost commentator on American life and politics, first for the British press and eventually for the entire world. Alistair Cooke: A Biography is both a fascinating record of one man's...
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