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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Editors, Journalists, Publishers BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women Journalists Journalists United States Biography Roberts, Cokie Television journalists Television journalists United States Biography United States Women journalists Women journalists United States BiographyCouric, Katie
Summary: In this memoir, Katie Couric reveals what was going on behind the scenes of her sometimes tumultuous personal and professional life--a story she's never shared, until now.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Book Group 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 COURIC, KATIE COUHinojosa, Maria
Summary: Hinojosa relates the history of US immigration policy that has brought us to where we are today, as she shares her experience growing up Mexican American on the south side of Chicago. For thirty years she has reported on stories and communities in America that often go ignored by the mainstream media, documenting the existential wasteland of immigration detention camps for news outlets that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HINCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B HINOJOSA HINRoberts, Steven V.
Summary: Cokie Roberts' husband Steve Roberts reflects not only on her many accomplishments, but on how she lived each day with a devotion to helping others. For Steve, Cokie's private life was as significant and inspirational as her public one. Her commitment to celebrating and supporting other women was evident in everything she did, and her generosity and passion drove her personal and professional...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ROBERTS, COKIE ROBRoberts, Steven V.
Summary: Cokie Roberts' husband Steve Roberts reflects not only on her many accomplishments, but on how she lived each day with a devotion to helping others. For Steve, Cokie's private life was as significant and inspirational as her public one. Her commitment to celebrating and supporting other women was evident in everything she did, and her generosity and passion drove her personal and professional...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 ROBERTS, COKIE ROBTur, Katy
Summary: "When a box from her mother showed up on Katy Tur's doorstep, months into the pandemic and just as she learned she was pregnant with her second child, she didn't now what to expect. The box contained thousands of hours of video - the work of her pioneering helicopter journalist parents. They grew rich and famous for their aerial coverage of Madonna and Sean Penn's secret wedding, the Reginald...
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Publisher / Publication Date: One Signal Publishers/Atria 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TUR, KATY TURCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B TUR TURMitchell, Jerry
Summary: "An award-winning investigative reporter shares the real-life detective story of how Klansmen came to justice in notorious unsolved civil rights cold cases--decades after they had gotten away with murder"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 MITKnudsen, Michelle
Summary: Introduces young readers to the life of the pioneering investigative reporter, her record-breaking trip around the world, and her undercover work on behalf of the mentally ill.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel 2021
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Summary: "Sweetbitter meets Brotopia in a story of self-discovery and breaking barriers as a female journalist during the second wave of tech by award-winning investigative reporter and former CNN Senior Tech Correspondent Laurie Segall"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SEGALL, LAURIE SEGFarrell, Mary Cronk
Summary: ". . . tells the story of French-born Catherine Leroy, one of the Vietnam War's few woman photographers, who documented some of the fiercest fighting in the twenty-year conflict. Despite being told that women didn't belong in a "man's world," she was cool under fire, gravitated toward the thickest battles, went along on the soldiers' slogs through the heat and mud of the jungle, crawled through...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books, an imprint of Abrams 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 LERO'Reilly, Séamas
Summary: Séamas O'Reilly's mother died when he was five, leaving him, his ten (!) brothers and sisters, and their beloved father in their sprawling bungalow in rural Derry. It was the 1990s; the Troubles were a background rumble, but Séamas was more preoccupied with dinosaurs, Star Wars, and the actual location of heaven than the political climate. ­An instant bestseller in Ireland, Did Ye Hear...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 O'REILLY, SEAMAS O'REConant, 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 CONHull, Anne
Summary: "Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Anne Hull grew up in rural Central Florida, barefoot half the time and running through the orange groves her father's family had worked for generations. The ground trembled from the vibrations of bulldozers and jackhammers clearing land for Walt Disney World. "Look now," her father told her as they rode through the mossy landscape together. "It will all be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B HULL HULBaron, Martin
Summary: "A monumental work of nonfiction that gives a first-row seat to the epic power struggle between politics, money, media, and tech -- for fans of Maggie Haberman's Confidence Man and Jane Mayer's Dark Money. Marty Baron took charge of The Washington Post newsroom in 2013, after nearly a dozen years leading The Boston Globe. Just seven months into his new job, Baron received explosive news: Jeff...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 070.4 BARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B BARON BARMcGrath, Charles
Summary: "A wistful look back at family, youth, and the intoxicating magic of New England summers, as well as a rumination on friendship and loss, by an esteemed writer and essayist and the former editor of The New York Times Book Review. We all have vivid memories of summers past and the bright skin of youth: of those first days when school has ended; of long days of leisure and pleasure reading...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MCGRATH, CHARLES MCGKroeger, Brooke
Summary: "An essential history of women in American journalism, showcasing the most renowned trailblazers since 1840"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 070.4082 KROBelorusets, Yevgenia
Summary: "The young artist and writer Yevgenia Belorusets was in her hometown of Kyiv when Putin's "special military operation" against Ukraine began on the morning of February 24, 2022. With the shelling of Kyiv, Kharkiv, Odessa, and Kherson, the war with Russia had clearly, irreversibly begun: "I thought, this has been allowed to happen, it is a crime against everything human, against a great common...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Directions Publishing Corporation 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 947.7086 BELHaspel, Tamar
Summary: "Michael Pollan's In Defense of Food meets Barbara Kingsolver's Animal, Vegetable, Miracle in this part memoir, part how-to guide by Tamar Haspel (author of the Washington Post column Unearthed) about the unexpected joys of what she calls "first-hand food"--meals we grow, forage, fish, or even hunt from the world around us"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HASPEL, TAMAR HASKelly, Mary Louise
Summary: "The time for do-overs is over. Ever since she became a parent, Mary Louise Kelly has said "next year." Next year will be the year she makes it to her son James's soccer games (which are on weekdays at 4 p.m., right when she is on the air on NPR's All Things Considered, talking to millions of listeners). Drive carpool for her son Alexander? Not if she wants to do that story about Ukraine and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KELLY, MARY LOUISE KELCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B KELLY KELKrakauer, Jon
Summary: "The gripping articles collected in Classic Krakauer--originally published in magazines such as The New Yorker, Outside, and Smithsonian--show why he is considered a standard-bearer of modern journalism. Spanning an extraordinary range of subjects and locations, these pieces take us from a horrifying avalanche on Mount Everest to a volcano poised to obliterate a big chunk of Seattle; from a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 KRASummary: An in-depth look at Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi's life, work, and murder amidst the complexity of U.S.-Saudi Arabia relations. Exclusive interviews explore Khashoggi's con nections with Saudi rulers, Middle Eastern jihadists, and fellow global journalists, as well as his enduring global legacy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC KINChrisinger, David
Summary: "The Soldier's Truth brings to life Ernie Pyle's years as a combat journalist in World War II. With a background in helping veterans and other survivors of trauma come to terms with their experiences through storytelling, the author brings empathy and insight to bear on Pyle's experiences. A tribute to an ordinary American hero whose impact on the war is still little understood, as well as a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PYLE, ERNIE CHRGellman, Barton
Summary: "Edward Snowden chose three journalists to tell the stories in his Top Secret trove of NSA documents: Barton Gellman of The Washington Post, Glenn Greenwald of The Guardian and filmmaker Laura Poitras, all of whom would share the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. Poitras went on to direct the Oscar-winning Citizenfour. Greenwald wrote an instant memoir and cast himself as a pugilist on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.1273 GELHunter-Gault, Charlayne
Summary: "Charlayne Hunter-Gault is an eminent Dean of American journalism, a vital voice whose work chronicled the civil rights movement and so much of what has transpired since then. My People is the definitive collection of her reportage and commentary. Spanning datelines in the American South, South Africa and points scattered in between, her work constitutes a history of our time as rendered by the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.48 HUNKing, Neil
Summary: "A stunning, revelatory memoir about a 330-mile walk from Washington, D.C., to New York City--an unforgettable pilgrimage to the heart of America across some of our oldest common ground. Neil King Jr's desire to walk from Washington, D.C., to New York City began as a whim and soon became an obsession. Determined to rediscover what matters in life and to see our national story with new eyes,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2023