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1) The Store
Author
Language
English
Description
Imagine a future of unparalleled convenience. A powerful retailer, The Store, can deliver anything to your door, anticipating the needs and desires you didn't even know you had. Most people are fine with that, but not Jacob and Megan Brandeis. New York writers whose livelihood is on the brink of extinction, Jacob and Megan are going undercover to dig up The Store's secrets in a book that could change the entire American way of life -- or put an end...
Publisher
The New Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
ix, 309 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Crusading journalists from Sinclair Lewis to Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein have played a central role in American politics: checking abuses of power, revealing corporate misdeeds, and exposing government corruption. Muckraking journalism is part and parcel of American democracy. But how many people know about the role that muckraking has played around the world? This groundbreaking new book presents the most important examples of world-changing...
Author
Language
English
Description
Patrick Radden Keefe has garnered prizes ranging from the National Magazine Award to the Orwell Prize to the National Book Critics Circle Award for his meticulously-reported, hypnotically-engaging work on the many ways people behave badly. Rogues brings together a dozen of his most celebrated articles from The New Yorker. As Keefe says in his preface "They reflect on some of my abiding preoccupations: crime and corruption, secrets and lies, the permeable...
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Darrin Bainbridge is your typical playboy in need of love, but not yet ready. He is a freelance journalist trying to break his big story. After a visit from his mother, Darrin gets an idea. He has heard all kinds of stories about "Hollywood" ministers who hold their church services on television, live in nice houses, drive nice cars, and have lots of money and women. Darrin is disgusted by it all especially when his mother Priscilla starts shouting
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Series
Deadly reunions novels volume 3
Language
English
Description
Investigative reporter Jillian Carter knows it's time to put the past to rest. She's tired of looking over her shoulder, letting a killer go free. She's no longer the scared kid who changed her name and disappeared. Now, no matter what the cost, Jillian must do what she is trained to do -- ferret out the truth and expose it. Senator Frank Hoffman committed murder ten years ago -- and Jillian watched it happen. Didn't she? Not even the enigmatic and...
Author
Language
English
Description
"The mistress of high tension" (The New Yorker) and undisputed Queen of Suspense Mary Higgins Clark brings us another New York Times bestselling novel that she "prepares so carefully and executes with such relish" (The New York Times Book Review) about the murder of a respected doctor—and his beautiful young wife charged with the crime.
Dr. Gary Lasch, famous Greenwich, Connecticut doctor and founder of the HMO...
Dr. Gary Lasch, famous Greenwich, Connecticut doctor and founder of the HMO...
9) Distress
Author
Publisher
HarperPrism
Pub. Date
1997.
Physical Desc
342 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
10) Blood brothers
Author
Series
Sign of seven trilogy volume 1
Language
English
Description
"In the town of Hawkins Hollow, it's called The Seven. Every seven years, on the seventh day of the seventh month, strange things happen. It began when three young boys -- Caleb, Fox, and Gage -- went on a camping trip to The Pagan Stone... It is only February, but Caleb Hawkins -- descendant of the town founders -- has already seen and felt the stirrings of evil. Though he can never forget the beginning of the terror in the woods twenty-one years...
11) Deadline
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
℗2000, ©1981.
Physical Desc
7 CDs (8 hours) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Although Dalton Walker is an award-winning journalist, his attempt to write fiction has gone nowhere. So he hires on at a small New Jersey newspaper, the Tribune, hungry again for the excitement of headlines and hard-hitting features. His job begins with covering a child's death in a fire and a showgirl's Amish background.
13) Deadline-U.S.A
Series
Publisher
Twentieth-Century Fox
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (87 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An editor at a newspaper due to fold in three days intends to use the remaining time to expose the criminal activities of a vicious crime boss.
14) Indigo and Ida
Author
Language
English
Description
"Indigo, an eighth-grade investigative reporter, is torn between fighting a racist school policy and keeping her friends--until she discovers a series of letters written by Black journalist and activist Ida B. Wells"--
15) The paperboy
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[1995]
Edition
First trade edition.
Physical Desc
307 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Author
Series
Amos Walker novels volume 30
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
When a young would-be journalist needs his protection, but is suspiciously vague why or from whom, PI Amos Walker--faced with a sketchy novelist, a fugitive whistleblower and a career assassin--searches for answers but instead finds a dead body.
17) Madwoman
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
288 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 1887, young Nellie Bly sets out for New York and a career in journalism, determined to make her way as a serious reporter, whatever that may take. But life in the city is tougher than she imagined. Down to her last dime and desperate to prove her worth, she comes up with a dangerous plan: to fake insanity and have herself committed to the asylum on Blackwell's Island. There, she will work undercover to expose the asylum's wretched conditions....
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (111 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A Chicago reporter finds himself stuck in a decade-old murder investigation when he follows a newspaper ad offering a cash reward for information leading to the arrest of the killer.
19) Fair warning
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Veteran reporter Jack McEvoy has taken down killers before, but when a woman he had a one-night stand with is murdered in a particularly brutal way, McEvoy realizes he might be facing a criminal mind unlike any he's ever encountered. McEvoy investigates - against the warnings of the police and his own editor - and makes a shocking discovery that connects the crime to other mysterious deaths across the country. But his inquiry hits a snag when he...
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