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  • Tell Them I Didn't Cry

    A Young Journalist's Story of Joy, Loss, and Survival in Iraq

    When she arrived in Iraq in May 2004 as the most junior member of the Washington Post bureau staff, Jackie Spinner entered a war zone where traditional reporting had become impossible. Bombs were a daily occurrence and kidnapping an ever-present threat for American journalists. Yet "the longer I stayed, the more Iraq felt like my home," she writes.Tell Them I Didn't Cry is Jackie's vivid and ... Read more

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  • Peter Gzowski

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    Born in 1934, Peter Gzowski covered most of the last half of the century as a journalist and interviewer. This biography, the most comprehensive and definitive yet published, is also a portrait of Canada during those decades, beginning with Gzowski’s days at the University of Toronto’s The Varsity in the mid 1950s, through his years as the youngest-ever managing editor of Maclean’s in the 1960s ... Read more

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  • Amy: My Search for Her Killer: Secrets and Suspects in the Unsolved Murder of Amy Mihaljevic

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  • The World According to Breslin

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    Classic columns from the legendary New York journalist—"a master of the tough-talking, thoroughly researched, contentious, street-wise vignette" ( San Francisco Chronicle ).Although his career spans decades, the seven years that Jimmy Breslin spent at the New York Daily News sparked some of his finest work. When New York City tumbled into economic and social chaos at the end of the 1970s, Breslin ... Read more

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  • Sister of Silence: A Memoir (Appalachian Families Book 1)

    by Daleen Berry ...
    Follow Daleen Berry's personal journey from coal miner's wife to teen mom to award-winning journalist to New York Times best-selling author. After a shotgun wedding, Daleen found herself barefoot and pregnant—and by age twenty-one, the mother of four. After realizing she was an abused wife, Daleen became determined to break the silence that shatters women and children's lives. A riveting true ... Read more

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    The former CBS foreign correspondent provides an invaluable look back at his life—and the events that forged the twentieth century.A renowned journalist and author of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, William L. Shirer chronicles his own life story—in a personal history that parallels the greater historical events for which he served as a witness. In the first of a three-volume series, Shirer ... Read more

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    From one of America’s most revered journalists–a richly entertaining roundup of the extraordinary individuals with whom he crossed paths in our nation’s capital and of the events that marked the twentieth century.Here are firsthand profiles of Washington insiders that only an insider himself could have given us: Franklin D. Roosevelt counting out enough cigarettes to get through a half-hour ... Read more

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  • Mandela, Mobutu, and Me

    A Newswoman's African Journey

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    The Romance of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ginevra King, His First Love

    F. Scott Fitzgerald was a handsome, ambitious sophomore at Princeton when he fell in love for the first time. Ginevra King, though only sixteen, was beautiful, socially poised, and blessed with the confidence that considerable wealth can bring.Their romance began instantly, flourished in heartfelt letters, and quickly ran its course–but Scott never forgot it. Now, for the first time, scholar and ... Read more

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  • Flirting with Danger

    Confessions of a Reluctant War Reporter

    Former star correspondent for CNN, Siobhan Darrow covered the world’s hottest war zones over the last two decades, reporting from the front lines in Moscow, Chechnya, the Balkans, Albania, Israel, and Northern Ireland. Her fearless pursuit of stories placed her in countless life-threatening situations, prompting Darrow to wonder what about her character so attracted her to adrenaline, and so ... Read more

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