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Light Messages Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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A longtime journalist grounded in facts confronts stories that ask for faith. Throughout his thirty years on the air, television reporter Scott Mason has interviewed countless people who unexpectedly offered up miracle stories. Such as the legendary golf broadcaster who makes for a wonderful personality profile--and then says, "Oh, and by the way, I died and came back to life.-Or the sole survivor of a plane crash who describes his harrowing ordeal...
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Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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"The long-awaited autobiography from one of Australia's most popular, much-loved and enduring media stars, Lisa Wilkinson. Lisa Wilkinson has lived much of her life in the public eye. One of Australia's most respected journalists and media personalities, her warm, intelligent and elegant presence has graced our television screens for many years, where she has shared, shaped and even shifted many important national conversations. But it all could have...
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Publisher
WildBlue Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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"[Weaves] together her own story and a stranger-than-fiction true-crime tale ... gripping prose that by turns is tragic and hilarious." -- Stephen Hinshaw, author of Another Kind of Madness This remarkable memoir by a Pulitzer Prize- and Polk Award-winning journalist takes readers on a wild, tragicomic ride from the criminal courtrooms of California's Silicon Valley to the Himalayan mountains of Pakistan to the deserts of Ethiopia. In delightful,...
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Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Colorful, riveting reportage from a one-of-a-kind Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and New York Times -bestselling author. In his career as a legendary New York City newspaper columnist, Jimmy Breslin "leveled the powerful and elevated the powerless for more than fifty years with brick-hard words and a jagged-glass wit" ( The New York Times ). How the Good Guys Finally Won : Following the burglary of the Democratic National Committee headquarters...
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Worth Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of The Professor and the Madman tells you what you need to know--before or after you read Simon Winchester's book. Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed reader. This short summary and analysis of The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester includes: Historical context Chapter-by-chapter summaries Detailed...
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English
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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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English
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For more than 70 years, Gifford's Ice Cream and Candy Company was associated with nothing but pleasure for native Washingtonians and visitors to the nation's capital. Few knew the dark truth ... Behind the iconic business's happy facade lay elaborate schemes, a crushing bankruptcy, two million dollars of missing cash, and a tragic suicide. As the last Gifford heir unfolds his story with remarkable immediacy and candor, he reveals the byzantine betrayals...
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English
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Many great artists have had at least intermittent doubts about their own abilities. But The Education of Henry Adams is surely one of the few masterpieces to issue directly from a raging inferiority complex. The author, to be sure, had bigger shoes to fill than most of us. Both his grandfather and great-grandfather were U.S. presidents. His father, a relative underachiever, scraped by as a member of Congress and ambassador to the Court of St. James....
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English
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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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Español
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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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English
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Summary, Analysis & Review of Megyn Kelly's Settle for More by Instaread Preview: In her memoir Settle for More, Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly looks back on her life and describes her winding road to fame and the many obstacles she encountered along the way. From her vantage as one of the most-watched newscasters in the country, the 45-year-old journalist blends autobiographical reflection with harrowing accounts of the harassment she experienced at...
13) Llegar al mar
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Español
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Llegar al mar. Las sílabas imitan la repetición del oleaje y su misterio, anuncian un paisaje entrañable en el horizonte, nos sitúan al pie de una aventura escrita en los espacios en blanco de la vida diaria -esos que la imaginación y la casualidad llenan con
Sorpresas e invenciones. El aniversario personal, la novedad literaria, las presencias que van y vienen a compás de la querencia y la memoria, la relectura de los clásicos, el paseo por...
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When two or more people find sufficient in common to call themselves 'us', they will strengthen their togetherness by looking for a 'them' to dislike.
INDARJIT'S LAW
It's fashionable to talk of 'hate crime' as if a small minority of people are infected with a virus of hate against those they see as different. It is not like that. Prejudice and fear of difference affects us all.
I learnt about my Sikh religion almost as an outsider looking in to...
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English
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This memoir by Dan Rather is told in a straightforward and conversational voice, and covers all the important moments of his journalistic career, including a frank accounting of his dismissal from CBS, the Abu Ghraib story, the George W. Bush Air National Guard controversy, new insights on the JFK assassination, the origin of "Hurricane Dan" as well as inside stories about all the U.S. Presidents he covered and all the top personalities Dan has either...
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English
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Get the Summary of Jason Diamond's Searching for John Hughes in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Searching for John Hughes" is a memoir by Jason Diamond that chronicles his journey as a writer and his obsession with the films of John Hughes. Diamond's narrative weaves through his experiences working at a bakery, his strained relationship with his parents, and his struggles with depression and identity. He recounts...
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English
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The intellectual and cultural battles now raging over theism and atheism, conservatism and secular progressivism, dualism and monism, realism and antirealism, and transcendent reality versus material reality extend even into the scientific disciplines. This stunning new volume captures this titanic clash of worldviews among those who have thought most deeply about the nature of science and of the universe itself. Unmatched in its breadth and scope, The...
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Français
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Quand je parle à Janette Bertrand de la prémisse de mon enquête sur la vie des vedettes - n'y a-t-il pas trop d'autobiographies? N'est-ce pas là un effet pervers du vedettariat? - elle me rabroue. Lorsque j'ajoute que je veux du même souffle écrire mon autobiographie avec une bonne dose de mauvaise foi, car je suis aussi animé d'une petite envie d'entrer au panthéon des personnalités québécoises, son jugement est impitoyable: «Tu ne peux...
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Español
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Este es un libro lleno de pensamientos, ideas , experiencias que he vivido y que Dios ha sembrado en mi corazón y mi mente para hacer uno de mis sueños realidad, se que me ha falta mucho por aprender pero estoy segura es que estoy afirmando mis pasos para seguir en proceso de creatividad.
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English
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In 1987, the death of Ben Linder, the first American killed by President Reagan's "freedom fighters" - the U.S.-backed Nicaraguan Contras - ignited a firestorm of protest and debate. In this landmark first biography of Linder, investigative journalist Joan Kruckewitt tells his story.
In the summer of 1983, a 23-year-old American named Ben Linder arrived in Managua with a unicycle and a newly earned degree in engineering. In 1986, Linder moved from...
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