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1) Bittersweet
Author
Language
English
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Description
In Bittersweet, Danielle Steel has written a novel for our times, a story of choices and new beginnings.
India Taylor lived in a world of manicured lawns and neatly maintained calendars: a merry-go-round of Little League, piano lessons, and Cape Cod summer vacations. With four wonderful children, India believed in commitment and sacrifice, just as she believed in Doug, the man she married 17 years before. For India, this was the promise...
India Taylor lived in a world of manicured lawns and neatly maintained calendars: a merry-go-round of Little League, piano lessons, and Cape Cod summer vacations. With four wonderful children, India believed in commitment and sacrifice, just as she believed in Doug, the man she married 17 years before. For India, this was the promise...
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Series
Dave Robicheaux novels volume 10
Language
English
Description
Dave helps a journalist investigate rumors of police brutality in the Iberia Parish jail. It becomes difficult to proceed when he learns that her father was also murdered in that jurisdiction.
Author
Publisher
powerHouse Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Compiles the work of David Gilkey, a celebrated conflict photographer who helped NPR bring vivid life to big and small stories with global impact. Known for chronicling pain and beauty in war and conflict, he was on assignment in Helmand, Afghanistan in 2016 when he and NPR's Afghan interpreter, Zabihullah Tamanna were killed by a Taliban ambush of their convoy. Considered one of the best photojournalists in the world, his death made headlines around...
4) Hard beat
Author
Series
Driven novels volume 3
Publisher
New American Library, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Foreign war correspondent Tanner Thomas is addicted to living on the edge. Needing the adrenaline rush of his job to help him cope with a personal loss, he throws himself back into the game, concentrating all his energy on getting the next big story. But when he meets his new photojournalist, Beaux Croslyn, he can't help but feel like he's losing his focus--and maybe risking more... With secrets she won't address, Beaux is far from your ordinary woman....
7) Gorko-slatko
Author
Series
Biblioteka Ambrozija volume knj. 40
Publisher
V.B.Z
Pub. Date
2001, c1999
Language
Bosnian
Author
Series
When in Rome volume 1
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Growing up the lone Asian in a community of WASPs, Annie has always felt out of place. Her solution? Start a family of her own. Not easy when every man she's dated, including her ex-fiance, finds "his person" right after breaking up with Annie. Even worse than canceling the wedding eight weeks beforehand? Learning the "other woman" plans to walk down the aisle wearing her wedding gown. New plan--find a fresh, man-free start. Too bad her exit strategy...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
Leaving her successful job after the unexpected death of her famous father, photojournalist Serena Stone risks her life to save a former lover and discovers an archive of her late father's work in war-torn Libya that reveals a shocking truth about her parents' marriage.
Author
Series
Razor Bay volume 1
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
"He's the last man on earth she should want... For a guy she's fantasized about throttling, Jake Bradshaw sure is easy on the eyes. In fact, he seriously tempts inn manager Jenny Salazar to put her hands to better use. Except this is the guy who left Razor Bay--and his young son, Austin, whom Jenny adores like her own--to become a globe-trotting photojournalist. He can't just waltz back and claim Austin now. Jake was little more than a kid himself...
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A secretary determined to become a photojournalist in 1979 accompanies her Kurdish boyfriend to a wedding in northern Iraq where she is awakened to a world of constant threat and captures a tragic moment on film that upends her life.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The first biography of pioneering photojournalist Dickey Chapelle, who from World War II through the early days of Vietnam got her story by any means necessary as one of the first female war correspondents. "I side with prisoners against guards, enlisted men against officers, weakness against power." From the beginning of World War II through the early days of Vietnam, groundbreaking female photojournalist and war correspondent Dickey Chapelle chased...
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022].
Language
English
Description
"A woman embarks on an unexpected journey into her past in an engrossing novel about identity, family secrets, and rediscovering the need to belong. Meena Dave is a photojournalist and a nomad. She has no family, no permanent address, and no long-term attachments, preferring to observe the world at a distance through the lens of her camera. But Meena's solitary life is turned upside down when she unexpectedly inherits an apartment in a Victorian brownstone...
16) Berlin syndrome
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A passionate holiday romance takes an unexpected and sinister turn when Australian photojournalist Clare wakes up locked in Andi's Berlin apartment. And he has no intention of letting her go again.
Author
Series
Windy City saga volume 3
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A birthday excursion turns deadly when the SS Eastland capsizes with insurance agent Olive Pierce and her best friend on board. After her escape, Olive discovers her friend is among the missing victims. When she begins investigating the accident, more setbacks arise. Finding the truth will take all she's got to beat those who want to sabotage her progress"--
19) Aftershock
Author
Series
Pendulum trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Headline
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Having survived the lethal Pendulum conspiracy, photographer John Wallace atones for his past mistakes. DI Patrick Bailey clings to the hope that he can, at last, return to a normal life in London. FBI investigator, Christine Ash, alone and paranoid, hunts down the remaining members of the ruthless fanatical Foundation. But when masked assassins strike at the heart of the UK establishment, a shocking threat emerges that forces the three to reunite....
20) Bonfire night
Author
Publisher
John Scognamiglio Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
A press photographer in 1936 London attends an anti-fascism protest in East London where she befriends a brilliant, Jewish medical student and is exposed to the dangers and demands of his world ahead of World War II.
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