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Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
A hustler from a family of hustlers, Javi Perez, after college graduation, writes a viral essay embellishing his life story, which lands him a gig at a legendary magazine, but when his childhood best friend is released from prison, Javi offers to cut him in on the deal in exchange for his silence.
Author
Publisher
DEBOLSILLO
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
"Un editor yuppie y su socio visitan Acapulco con el pretexto de escribir un reportaje sobre los lugares oscuros del puerto y buscando pasa un buen rato. Pero sus deseos se pierden en la frialdad inexcusable del destino cuando un huracán arrasa el puerto y los obliga a modificar sus planes. La tormenta desnuda lo que permanecía escondido: mientras uno reniega de la situación, el otro se hunde en la vida cotidiana de Acapulco. Narrada con la soltura...
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Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"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, blue-eyed woman who's never lived in the Middle East honor...
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
In 1968 Dublin, Nicoletta Sarto, an ambitious junior reporter for the Irish Sentinel, investigates the 25-year-old mystery of actress Julia Bridge's disappearance and her link to a woman who facilitated abortions, and becomes immersed in the illegal abortion industry, stirring up long-buried secrets from her own past.
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"The cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer and the journalist intent on cracking her case, inspired by a true story. There are two things that I can simply not tolerate: feminists and margarine. Gourmet cook Manako Kajii sits in Tokyo Detention Center convicted of the serial murders of lonely businessmen, who she is said to have seduced with her delicious home cooking. The case has captured the nation's imagination...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
The definitive biography of the most successful female broadcaster of all time -- Barbara Walters -- a woman whose personal demons fueled an ambition that broke all the rules and finally gave women a permanent place on the air, written by bestselling author Susan Page. Barbara Walters was a force from the time TV was exploding on the American scene in the 1960s to its waning dominance in a new world of competition from streaming services and social...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"An award-winning journalist, TV political analyst, and creator of TheGrio documentary, Afro-Latinx Revolution: Puerto Rico, recounts her experiences as an African American and Puerto Rican woman, reflecting on her improbable journey from Syracuse to Harvard, hedge fund boardrooms to newsrooms, and beyond in pursuit of America's infinite opportunities. Part inspiring memoir, part cultural analysis, with remarkable self-determination, Natasha S. Alford...
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Biracial and bisexual, Lily learns to navigate high society parties, microaggressions at work and her relationship with her girlfriend after accepting a ride home from a fashion world business titan who can advance her career and love life.
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"Birdie Robinson thought she'd gotten everything she wanted out of life: fame, adoration and an A-list career as Hollywood's most beloved ingenue. But after an on-set feud goes viral, she's forced to go into hiding in the one place where no one would think to find her: her childhood home. Wallowing in her bedroom, she stumbles upon an anonymous love letter from a former boyfriend and decides that a very public reunion with her nameless suitor could...
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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1921, Chicago. Nelly Sawyer is the daughter of the "wealthiest Negro in America," whose affluence catapulted his family to the heights of Black society. After the unexpected death of her only brother, Nelly becomes the premier debutante overnight. But Nelly has aspirations beyond society influence and marriage. For the past year, she has worked undercover as an investigative journalist, sharing the achievements and tribulations of everyday Black people...
11) American mother
Author
Publisher
Etruscan Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"In late 2021, Diane Foley sat at a table across from her son's killer, Alexanda Kotey, a member of the ISIS group known as "The Beatles" who plead guilty to the kidnapping, torture, and murder of her son seven years before. Kotey was about to go serve life imprisonment and this was Diane's chance to talk to the man who had been involved with brutally taking her son's last breath. What would she say to his killer? What would he reveal to her? Might...
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"It's 1990 in London and Tom Hargreaves has it all: a burgeoning career as a reporter, fierce ambition and a brisk disregard for the "peasants"--ordinary people, his readers, easy tabloid fodder. His star seems set to rise when he stumbles across a sensational scoop: a dead child on a London estate, grieving parents beloved across the neighborhood, and the finger of suspicion pointing at one reclusive family of Irish immigrants and "bad apples": the...
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"From one of our leading experts on disinformation, this inventive biography of the rogue WWII propagandist Thomas Sefton Delmer confronts hard questions about the nature of information war: what if you can't fight lies with truth? Can a propaganda war ever be won? In the summer of 1941, Hitler ruled Europe from the Atlantic to the Black Sea. Britain was struggling to combat his powerful propaganda machine, crowing victory and smearing his enemies...
Author
Publisher
Avid Reader Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"From Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of The Elephant in the Room comes the first inside account of the Westminster Dog Show-America's oldest and most beloved dog show-following one dog on his quest to become a champion"--
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