Cohen, Deborah
Summary: "Married foreign correspondents John and Frances Gunther intimately understood that it isn't only impersonal, economic forces that propel history, bringing readers so close to the front lines of history that they could feel how personal pathologies became the stuff of geopolitical crises. Together with other reporters of the Lost Generation--American journalists H.R. Knickerbocker, Vincent...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2022
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Summary: In 1973, after covering the assassination of Chilean President Salvador Allende for Time magazine, Eisendrath decided to not let a career stand in the way of growing roots and building a life. He moved with his wife and two young sons to Michigan, a part of the world imagined and carved into 160-acre homesteads by Thomas Jefferson. At Overlook Farm, the Eisendraths would be his heirs. These...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mission Point Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 EISENDRATH, CHARLES R. EISSummary: A reporter sent to Europe to cover a peace conference falls in love with a diplomat's daughter, but discovers that her father is the head of a Nazi spy ring.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Castle Hill Productions 2004
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE FORConant, Jennet
Summary: "Marguerite Higgins was both the scourge and envy of the journalistic world. A longtime reporter for the New York Herald Tribune, she first catapulted to fame with her dramatic account of the liberation of Dachau at the end of World War II. Brash, beautiful, ruthlessly competitive, and sexually adventurous, she forced her way to the front despite being told the combat zone was no place for a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HIGGINS, MAGGIE CONSummary: A full-throttle espionage thriller, starring Joel McCrea as a green Yank reporter sent to Europe to get the scoop on the imminent war. It's wall-to-wall witty repartee, head-spinning plot twists, and brilliantly mounted suspense set pieces, including an ocean plane crash climax with astonishing special effects.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE FORGorani, Hala
Summary: "Emmy Award-winning international journalist Hala Gorani weaves stories from her time as a globe-trotting correspondent and anchor with her own lifelong search for identity as the daughter of Syrian immigrants. What is it like to have no clear identity in a world full of labels? How can people find a sense of belonging when they have never felt part of a "tribe?" And how does a blonde-haired,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A reporter assumes the identity of a dead man. The more he does this, the further he is from his true identity. When he finds himself in danger, will he be able to become himself once again, or will it be too late?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2006
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PASBrooks, Geraldine.
Summary: Preserved in the cellar of her parents' home in Sydney were letters Brooks had received as a teenager from several international pen pals, around whom she spun a romantic view of the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books/Doubleday 1999
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Summary: A moving and powerfully dynamic World War II novel about two American journalists and an Englishman, who together race the Allies to Occupied Paris for the scoop of their lives. Normandy, 1944. To cover the fighting in France, Jane, a reporter for the Nashville Banner, and Liv, an Associated Press photographer, have endured enormous danger and frustrating obstacles--including strict military...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Clayton 2015Gregorio, Katharine
Summary: "Illuminating a thrilling untold chapter of the Cold War, The Double Life of Katharine Clark shares the forgotten story of a remarkable woman who pioneered a career in a male-dominated profession. In 1955, Katharine Clark became the first female American wire reporter behind the Iron Curtain, forging a career as a journalist, befriending a leading Communist, and risking her life to smuggle away...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CLARK, KATHARINE GREChavira, Ricardo
Summary: Journalist Ricardo Chavira writes about the challenges growing up as part of a marginalized community and his work in the most elite US newsrooms while covering the Southwest, Mexico and Central America during civil wars and massive migrations.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arte Público Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHAVIRA, RICARDO CHAWalters, Minette.
Summary: Reporter Connie Burns vows to expose a British mercenary who is using the chaos of the war in Africa to hide his sadistic, misogynistic fantasies and murderous intentions, but her efforts to reveal the truth have devastating consequences when Connie is taken hostage and held for three terrifying days.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2006
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FICTION WaltersNordland, Rod
Summary: In 2019, a Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent who reported in over 150 countries, many in violent upheaval, was diagnosed with a fatal brain tumor, which gave him the strength to face more personal conflicts, in this unforgettable final dispatch that reveals how facing the unknown can change our relationship to the world around us.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2024
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 915.104 HESMcCleary, Carol.
Summary: "History, mystery, and murder are the traveling companions of Nellie Bly, the world's first female investigative reporter. In No Job for a Lady, Nellie defies the wrath of her editor and vengeful ancient gods while setting out to prove a woman has what it takes to be a foreign correspondent in dangerous Victorian times. Pyramids, dark magic, and dead bodies are what the intrepid Nellie...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCCMeldrum, Andrew.
Summary: When American-born journalist Andrew Meldrum arrived in Harare in 1980, he planned to stay for only three years-but he quickly fell in love with the country and its people. Newly independent from Britain, Zimbabwe was infused with the optimism of new nation-building, but over the twenty years he lived there, Meldrum watched as President Robert Mugabe gradually consolidated power and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 968.9105 MELDRUM, Andrew MELWren, Christopher S. (Christopher Sale)
Summary: Walking tours through regions in New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vermont, and New Hampshire are complemented by the author's description of ecological oddities, natural element challenges, and his rite of passage into retirement.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974 WREHansen, Suzy
Summary: "A revelatory reflection on America's role in the world from the perspective of a young woman who has been living in Istanbul for the past six years"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HANSEN, SUZY HANKalb, Marvin L.
Summary: "In the book Kalb captures the excitement of being present at the creation of a whole new way of bringing news immediately to the public. And what news. Cold War tensions were high between Eisenhower's America and Khrushchev's Soviet Union. Kalb is at the center, occupying a unique spot as a student of Russia tasked with explaining Moscow to Washington and the American public. He joins a cast...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brookings Institution Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KALB, MARVIN KALWortman, Marc (Marc Josef)
Summary: Describes how Franklin D. Roosevelt quietly used his power and all the tools he had to assist Winston Churchill in fighting the Axis long before the United States' official entry into World War II. --Publisher
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.917 WORKlay, Phil
Summary: "Neither Mason, a U.S. Army Special Forces medic, nor Lisette, a foreign correspondent, has emerged from America's long post-9/11 wars in Iraq and Afghanistan unscathed. Yet war also exerts a terrible draw that neither can shake--the noble calling, the camaraderie, the life-and-death stakes. Where else in the world can such a person go? All roads lead to Colombia, where the US, with its...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KLAWren, Christopher S
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.41 WREAdam, Paul
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arcade Pub. 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ADAClayton, Meg Waite
Summary: "A World War II novel about two American journalists and an Englishman, who together race the Allies to Occupied Paris for the scoop of their lives"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016