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This is a memoir for anyone who has ever fallen in love in Paris, or with Paris—and for anyone who has ever had their heart broken or their life upended. In this remarkably honest memoir, award-winning journalist and distinguished author Kati Marton presents an impassioned and romantic story of love, loss, and life after loss. Paris is at the heart of this deeply moving account. At every stage of her life, Paris offers Marton beauty and excitement,...
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Jimm Juree, a backup crime reporter for the "Chiang Mai Daily Mail," fears her career is going to suffer when her mother sells the family home and she is forced to move to a rural village on the coast of southern Thailand, but she begins to see opportunities to further her ambitions when a van with the skeletal remains of two vintage-era hippies is found in a farmer's field, and an abbot at a local Buddhist temple is murdered.
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In the years after the Civil Rights Act of 1964, women in the workplace still found themselves relegated to secretarial positions or locked out of jobs entirely. This was especially true in the news business, a backwater of male chauvinism where a woman might be lucky to get a foothold on the "women's pages." But when a pioneering nonprofit called National Public Radio came along in the 1970s, and the door to serious journalism opened a crack, four...
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Nora Ephron was one of the most popular, accomplished, and beloved writers in American journalism and film.
“Nora Ephron: A Biography” is the first comprehensive portrait of the Manhattan-born girl who forged a path of her own, earning accolades and adoration from critics and fans alike. Author Kristin Marguerite Doidge explores the tremendous successes and disappointing failures Ephron sustained in her career as a popular essayist turned screenwriter...
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A witty tale of romantic rivalry and second chances by the New York Times-bestselling author who "only gets better with each book" (The New York Times).
Having grown up with four brothers in upstate New York, journalist Chastity O'Neill is tired of being just one of the guys. When she returns to her hometown, she decides it's time to get in touch with her feminine side. While doing a story on local heroes, she meets a hunky doctor who is the perfect...
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New York City, 1915 The Lusitania has just been sunk, and headlines about a shooting at J.P. Morgan's mansion and the Great War are splashed across the front page of every newspaper. Capability "Kitty" Weeks would love nothing more than to report on the news of the day, but she's stuck writing about fashion and society gossip over on the Ladies' Page-until a man is murdered at a high society picnic on her beat. Determined to prove her worth as a journalist,...
28) Heart of Courage
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Under the pert pen name Lady Smart," opinionated Lindsey Graham crusades for social change among London's elite, writing for the ladies' gazette Heart to Heart . But Lindsey's greatest campaign begins when her brother Rudy, a notorious rake, is accused of murdering a string of prostitutes. Her confidence in his innocence is bolstered when an anonymous letter arrives naming Viscount Merrick as the killer. Lindsey launches her own investigation into...
30) Heart of Fire
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Heart trilogy volume 2
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From a New York Times–bestselling author, a "Victorian [romance] blessed with a strong plot and a rich . . . cast . . . a surefire crowd pleaser" (Publishers Weekly).
As a viscount's daughter, vivacious Coralee Whitmore is perfectly placed to write about London's elite in the outspoken ladies' gazette, Heart to Heart. But beneath her fashionable exterior beats the heart of a serious journalist.
So when her sister's death is dismissed as...
31) The lady's mine
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1875. Kathryn Walsh arrives in tiny Calvada, a mining town nestled in the Sierra Nevadas. Banished from Boston by her wealthy stepfather, she has come to claim an inheritance from the uncle she never knew: a defunct newspaper office on a main street overflowing with brothels and saloons, and a seemingly worthless mine. Moved by the oppression of the local miners and their families, Kathryn decides to relaunch her uncle's newspaper-- and finds herself...
32) 1979
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"A Scottish journalist is drawn into a world of corruption, terror, and murder in the new novel by "one of crime fiction's most eminent writers" ( Entertainment Weekly ). The year started badly and only got worse -- blizzards, strikes, power cuts, and political unrest were the norm. For investigative journalist Allie Burns, however, someone else's bad news was the unmistakable sound of opportunity knocking, and 1979 is ripe with possibilities. But...
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