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Author
Publisher
Distributed by Random House Mondadori
Pub. Date
2008, c2007
Language
Español
Description
Presents the author's life, from her childhood in Mexico to becoming a television presenter in the United States, and describes how she used the power of positive thinking to achieve her dreams and discover her true vocation.
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Introduces the life of Nellie Bly who, as a "stunt reporter" for the New York World newspaper in the late 1800s, championed women's rights and traveled around the world faster than anyone ever had.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Growing up gifted and working-class poor in the foothills of the Ozarks, Monica and Darci became fast friends. The girls bonded over a shared love of reading and learning, even as they navigated the challenges of their tumultuous family lives and declining town -- broken marriages, alcohol abuse, and shuttered stores and factories. They pored over the giant map in their middle-school classroom, tracing their fingers over the world that awaited them,...
70) Cronkite
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Offers a candid look at the renowned, yet fiercely private, journalist and news anchor who reported on some of the biggest stories of the twentieth century.
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
An influential music columnist for the New York Post presents an insider's assessment of major rock-and-roll personalities while tracing her career and the genre's evolution throughout the past four decades.
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Ericka Schickel's memoir of growing up in the shadow of her writer father and neglectful mother in 1970s and '80s Manhattan, getting thrown out of boarding school after being seduced by a teacher, and the mid-life consequences which include leaving her marriage for a notorious crime writer"--
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Emmy Award-winning NPR journalist Maria Hinojosa shares her personal story interwoven with American immigration policy's coming-of-age journey at a time when our country's branding went from "The Land of the Free" to "the land of invasion.""--
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...
Author
Publisher
BenBella Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"In The Drudge Revolution, investigative journalist and author of Newtown: An American Tragedy Matthew Lysiak pulls back the curtain on the world's most powerful journalist, for the first time telling the inside story of how one man's visionary belief in the potential of the internet, coupled with the post-Fairness Doctrine growth of conservative talk radio and the rise of cable news and social media, created the perfect storm that seized the narrative...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
The story of a son's quest to understand the mystery of his father's death--a universal memoir about the secrets families keep and the role they play in making us who we are. After Visiting Friends is the story of a son who goes in search of the truth and finds not only his father, but a rare window into a world of men and newspapers and fierce loyalties that no longer exists.
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