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City editor
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Walker, Stanley |
Interesting review of the role of the city editor on a large metropolitan newspaper in the 1920s and 1930s. Walker talks about the more colorful stories, editors, and reporters of that era. Sort of a… |
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Attachments
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Rainbow Rowell |
"Hi, I'm the guy who reads your e-mail, and also, I love you . . . "
Beth Fremont and Jennifer Scribner-Snyder know that somebody is monitoring their work e-mail. (Everybody in the newsroom knows.… |
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Carolina rose
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Tracy Sumner |
A young woman who challenges the restrictive conventions of 1850 South Carolina, Charlie Whitney is struggling to make a success of her father's newspaper, a job that becomes further complicated by t… |
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From the earth, a cry
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Ian Kenneally |
John Boyle O'Reilly (1844-1890) is one of Ireland's remarkable and least known historical figures who lived two very different lives. This is a study of O'Reilly's short but extraordinary life. |
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Sweet Thunder
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Ivan Doig |
In the winter of 1920, a quirky bequest draws Morrie Morgan back to Butte, Montana, from a year-long honeymoon with his bride, Grace. But the mansion bestowed by a former boss upon the itinerant char… |
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Visible spirits
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Steve Yarbrough |
"The Mississippi Delta, fabled "South of the South," is replete with plantations carved from the wilderness, rich soil and King Cotton, with field chants and blues laments, violence and tragedy. In t… |
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Pereira maintains
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Antonio Tabucchi |
In the sweltering summer of 1938 in Portugal, a country under the fascist shadow of Spain, a mysterious young man arrives at the doorstep of Dr Pereira. So begins an unlikely alliance that will resul… |
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In the presence of the enemy
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Elizabeth George |
Dennis Luxford has made a career out of exposing scandal, and when he is offered another government "sleaze" story, his hesitation seems inexplicable. But at the heart of the scoop lies the kidnappin… |
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Los imperfeccionistas
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Tom Rachman |
411 pages ; 19 cm |
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Passages from our times
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Dan Donovan |
This story is written as if it were a book being done by a character within the story. He is James Patrick Kilmurry, and in the story he is the political editor of "The New York Chronicle". This news… |
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Dust bunnies and dead bodies
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Janis Thornton |
Small-town newspaper editor Crystal Cropper never takes "no" for an answer, hates to be called a "senior citizen," and uses the power of her pen to expose corruption in her small town. Cleaning lady … |
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Edith D. Pope and her Nashville friends
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Simpson, John A. |
"Founded in 1893, the Confederate Veteran was a monthly magazine devoted to the wartime reminiscences of Confederate soldiers. In 1913 founding editor Sumner A. Cunningham died, and his longtime secr… |
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C.B. Greenfield, the Tanglewood murder
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Lucille Kallen |
Mystery and music at Tanglewood Music Center in Massachusetts, featuring amateur sleuths C.B. Greenfield (owner of the fictitious *Sloan's Ford Reporter*) and his reporter Maggie Rome. Wonderful desc… |
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Introducing C. B. Greenfield
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Lucille Kallen |
A hit-and-run accident activates Maggie and C.B. to find the villain, and a small Westchester community is found to have many skeltons in its closets. |
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It Can't Happen Here
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Sinclair Lewis |
It Can't Happen Here is a semi-satirical American political novel published in 1935. It's Plot centers around newspaperman Doremus Jessup's struggle against the fascist regime of America' new presid… |
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Race Man
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Ann Field Alexander |
"Best known for his crusade against lynching in the 1880s, John Mitchell Jr. was also involved in a number of civil rights crusades that seem more contemporary to the 1950s and 1960s than the turn of… |
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Little boy blues
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Malcolm Jones |
From one of our most astute cultural observers, a piercing memoir about a family's breakup and the need simultaneously to embrace and distance ourselves from the people and events that shape us. Nort… |
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