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California History 19th century Fiction Gold miners California Fiction Journalists Fiction Large type books Lord, Emma (Fictitious character) Fiction Newspaper publishing Fiction Newspaper publishing West (U.S.) Fiction Washington (State) Fiction Women journalists Fiction Women newspaper editors California FictionSummary: Citizen Kane: The story of Charles Foster Kane, a newspaper tycoon whose life is investigated by a magazine reporter trying to discover the meaning of Kane's dying word: "Rosebud".
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CITRivers, Francine
Summary: In 1875, Kathryn Walsh settles in frontier California. Moved by the oppression of local miners, she decides to relaunch her uncle's newspaper, putting her in the spotlight of Calvada's most powerful men.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC RIVRachman, Tom.
Summary: Rachman's debut follows the topsy-turvy private lives of the reporters, editors, and executives of an international English-language newspaper as they struggle to keep it-- and themselves-- afloat.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC RACRachman, Tom.
Summary: An "imperfect" crew of reporters and editors working for an international English language newspaper stumble toward an uncertain future as the era of print news gives way to the Internet age. The story is set against the gorgeous backdrop of Rome.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RACFerber, Edna
Summary: Epic western about the Cravat family settling the Oklahoma prairie. Yancy Cravat is a newspaperman and lawyer who helps found the town of Osage. An adventurer, he finds town-life stifling and seeks his thrills even further into the frontier. His wife ends up becoming a town leader when his absences leave her no other choice.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday, Doran and Company 1930
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC FERSummary: This historical drama is based on the events surrounding the release of the Pentagon Papers, documents which detailed the history of the United States' political and military involvement in Vietnam. The story centers on Kay Graham, the first female newspaper publisher in the country (specifically of the Washington Post), as well as her tough editor, Ben Bradlee. The two become involved in an...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA POSCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE POSCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Post 2018Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD POSDaheim, Mary.
Summary: When Alpine's newspaper, "The Advocate," narrowly escapes a potential hostile takeover, Emma Lord finds herself on the top of the suspect list when the person behind the bid turns up dead.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M DAHEvanovich, Janet.
Summary: Jamie Swift, owner of a local South Carolina newspaper, and her enigmatic partner, millioniare playboy Max Holt, posing as husband and wife as they become involved with a corrupt minister, a gang of gangsters on the loose, a hound dog named Fleas, and a wise-cracking computer whiz.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Paperbacks 2003
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC EVATruman, Margaret
Summary: When two women are found murdered in the nation's capital, crime reporter Joe Wilcox invents a serial killer stalking the city, but the sudden appearance of his mentally ill brother, Michael, leads Joe to suspect that Michael could be the real thing.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TRUSummary: In the most dazzling debut feature in cinema history, twenty-five-year-old writer-producer-director-star Orson Welles synthesized the possibilities of sound-era filmmaking into what could be called the first truly modern movie. In telling the story of the meteoric rise and precipitous fall of a William Randolph Hearst-like newspaper magnate named Charles Foster Kane, Welles not only created the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA CITChristie, Judy Pace
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2011
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CHRMartinez, Al.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MARArcher, Jeffrey
Summary: The ambitions of two men--Keith Townsend, the son of a millionaire newspaper owner, and Richard Armstrong, son of an illiterate Jewish peasant, who escapes the Nazis, changes his name, and embarks on a ruthless campaign for power--collide on a global scale.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollinsPublishers 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ARCDaheim, Mary
Summary: When the opening night of the Alpine Council Dramatic Club's latest production culminates in the murder of one of the actors, local newspaper editor Emma Lord assists sheriff Milo Dodge in solving the mystery.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAHDaheim, Mary.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2006
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M DAHGrisham, John.
Summary: In 1970s Mississippi, nine years after receiving a life sentence for rape and murder, the son of a brutally powerful bootlegging family is paroled and jurors start turning up dead.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2007
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Summary: "Val McDermid's award-winning, internationally bestselling novels have captivated readers for over three decades. In her new novel 1979, she returns to the past with the story of an investigative journalist whose work leads her into a world of corruption, terror, and murder. It's only January, and the year has already brought blizzards, strikes, power cuts, and political unrest. But for...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MCDCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCDRivers, Francine
Summary: New York Times bestselling author Francine Rivers returns to the California frontier in this sweeping, romantic tale of a displaced New England suffragette, a former Union soldier disinherited by his Southern family, and the town they join forces to save. 1875. When Kathryn Walsh arrives in tiny Calvada, a mining town nestled in the Sierra Nevadas, falling in love is the farthest thing from her...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC RIVRivers, Francine
Summary: New York Times bestselling author Francine Rivers returns to the California frontier in this sweeping, romantic tale of a displaced New England suffragette, a former Union soldier disinherited by his Southern family, and the town they join forces to save. 1875. When Kathryn Walsh arrives in tiny Calvada, a mining town nestled in the Sierra Nevadas, falling in love is the farthest thing from her...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RIVCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC RIVCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RIVCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RIVCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Rivers 2022Christie, Judy Pace
Summary: Lois Barker trades her corporate life at a large paper in the Midwest for the ownership of The Green News-Item, a twice-weekly newspaper in rural North Louisiana. As the not-so-proud new owner, Lois is obliged to keep the paper for a least a year, despite her doubts and fears.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CHRPatterson, James
Summary: The Wolfs, the most powerful family in California, have a new head-thirty-six-year-old former high school teacher Jenny Wolf. That means Jenny now runs the prestigious San Francisco Tribune. She also controls the legendary pro football team, the Wolves. And she hopes to solve her father's murder.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC PATCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC PATCole, Marjorie Kowalski.
Summary: Gus Traynor is the editor of a small weekly newspaper in Fairbanks, Alaska. His idealism has been consistently tested but remains mostly intact, and he prides himself on his independence of spirit. As he says, "I won't be kept inside any building I don't want to be in." So when big business threatens the awe-inspiring Alaskan wilderness that he holds dear, Gus calls for support from his best...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COLPratchett, Terry.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2000
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PRASheldon, Sidney.
Summary: In his rise to the presidency of the United States, lawyer Oliver Russell felt he had to jettison his love, Leslie Stewart. But Leslie also rose, becoming a newspaper tycoon in Washington and now she intends to even the score.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 1997