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1021) 500K/MO!! As Epic-Poet!
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If you're between the ages of 6 and 118, AND if you're one of the elite "7 in 9 people who consider themselves writers," then Vincent "Vinnie The Weasel" Vulpikonek's 500k/MO!! as EPIC-POET! is the only essential guide YOU'll need to achieve all of YOUR goals, literary and (much-more importantly) financial. Ably assisted by Mentor-Helpmeet-Editor-At-Largess™, Mister C.N. Sumbvert, The Weasel addresses absolutely every subject across The Writing-World,...
1023) Sarah's Key
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Anchor Bay Entertainment
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2011
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In modern-day Paris, a journalist finds her life becoming entwined with a young girl whose family was torn apart during the notorious Vel d'Hiv round up, which took place in Paris, in 1942. She stumbles upon a family secret which will link her forever to the destiny of a young Jewish girl, Sarah.
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If you loved Kate Moore's The Radium Girls or Sonia Purnell's A Woman of No Importance, you'll be enthralled with this untold true story of how Katharine Clark, a trailblazing journalist, exposed the truth about Communism to the world.
In 1955, Katharine Clark, the first American woman wire reporter behind the Iron Curtain, saw something none of her male colleagues did. What followed became one of the most unusual adventure stories of the Cold War....
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36 real authors give us an in depth look at their successes, their mistakes, and their careers as writers.
There is nothing in the world as incredible as creating something and getting to hear about other people enjoying it. You know that you've made a change in someone's life, even if it's only in a small way. It's one of the best feelings in the world.
Everyone who becomes a professional author does so for different reasons. They each face different...
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Former Boston Globe reporter Tina Cassidy delivers a remarkable account of one year in the life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, America's favorite first lady and an international icon. 1975 was a year of monumental changes for Jackie: it was the year she lost her second husband, shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis, saved one of New York City's cultural landmarks at Grand Central Station, and found her true calling-not as a powerful man's wife or the...
1028) Snowed in with a Colton
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"When organized crime threatens journalist Luca Rossi's life, he assumes a fake identity. Now he's "Luke Bishop," keeping to himself at a dude ranch. With a snowstorm and threats to his life closing in, proprietor Aubrey Colton needs his help. Suddenly he's playing cowboy amid deadly conditions and fighting his feelings for her. But can Aubrey and Luca both survive their killer attraction...and the bull's-eye on their backs?" --Back cover.
1029) One night on the island
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"From the New York Times bestselling author of One Day in December...When a double-booking at a remote one-room cabin accidentally throws two solace-seekers together, it feels like a cruel twist of fate. But what if it's fate of a different kind? Spending her thirtieth birthday alone is the last thing that dating columnist Cleo wanted, but she is going on a solo retreat--at the insistence of her boss--in the name of re-energizing herself and adding...
1030) Cold wind: a mystery
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"Beth Rivers is still in Alaska. The unidentified man who kidnapped her in her home of St. Louis hasn't been found yet, so she's not ready to go back. But as October comes to a close, Benedict is feeling more and more like her new home. Beth has been working on herself: She's managed to get back to writing, and she's enjoying these beautiful months between summer and winter in Alaska. Then, everything in Benedict changes after a mudslide exposes a...
1031) Murder at Ochre Court
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After a disappointing year in New York City, Emma Cross has returned to Newport, Rhode Island, determined to report on hard news. For now she's covering the social event of the season at Ochre Court, a coming-out ball designed to showcase Cleo Cooper-Smith, who will be on display as Cleopatra in an elaborate tableau vivant. As Cleo ascends to her throne the recently installed modern electricity goes out, plunging into room into darkness. When the...
1032) Scrublands
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"In the vein of The Dry and Before the Fall, a town's dark secrets come to light in the aftermath of a young priest's unthinkable last act in this arresting and searing debut thriller. In Riversend, an isolated rural community afflicted by an endless drought, a young priest does the unthinkable, killing five parishioners before being taken down himself. A year later, accompanied by his own demons from war-time reporting, journalist Martin Scarsden...
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"Once an essential skill, the ability to build a clinker boat, first innovated by the Vikings, can seem incomprehensible today. Yet it was the clinker, with its overlapping planks, that afforded us access to the oceans, and its construction has become a lost art that calls to the do-it-yourselfer in all of us. John Gornall heard the call. A thoroughly unskilled modern man, Gornall set out to build a traditional wooden boat as a gift for his newborn...
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This complete summary of "Molly Ivins" by Bill Minutaglio and W. Michael Smith presents the account of the life of one of America's most courageous and influential journalists, written by two people who worked closely alongside her during her lifetime. It celebrates the contributions that Ivins made to journalism and feminism, and outlines how her conservative Texas upbringing did not stop her from pursuing her own values and being motivated by her...
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Born in colonial India in 1912, Lawrence Durrell established his literary reputation as a citizen of the Mediterranean. After attending school in England, Durrell escaped the country he dubbed "Pudding Island" for the Greek island of Corfu, only to make another escape-this time from Nazi invasion-to Egypt. His experiences in wartime Alexandria led to a quartet of novels, beginning with Justine, that are collectively considered some of the great masterpieces...
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ESSENTIAL reading for anyone dreaming of published books. Ava Greene, author of four self-published books, presents sorely-missing information and guidance independent authors can't survive without. She clarifies who might be capable of handling their publishing solo (thus saving money) and who's better off paying for assistance to avoid some of the rigors. She reveals what no one wants to talk about, some misleading hype, the lifestyle to expect,...
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CHASING SHADOWS tells the story of a young man who pays a heavy price for pursuing his own dream. When he announces that he intends to be a poet instead of a doctor, his working class family thinks he's gone crazy. They send him to psychiatrists who shoot electricity though his brain, warn him that he'll never hold a job, and confide that he will suffer from nervous breakdowns all his life. After a stint in a state mental hospital, he spends the '60's...
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Scouting for Grant and Meade is comprised of the popular recollections of Judson Knight, former chief scout of the Army of the Potomac from August 1864 to June 1865. Originally beginning as a serialized column in the armed forces service paper National Tribune, Knight's column Fighting Them Over Again offers a rare glimpse into the comings and goings of scouts behind enemy lines during the American Civil War. A must-have for any history buff, Scouting...
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William Robert Sivel, 1908-1982, ingénieur du son avant même que le métier existât sous cette appellation, fut le benjamin de l'expédition. Ses notes de voyage, reprises dans les dernières années de sa vie, donnent un éclairage inattendu et vivant sur le quotidien des membres de l'équipe et sur les aventures parfois piquantes vécues en cours de route.
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An intimate history of the journalists who covered Canadian history, and made some of their own. The history of the press gallery is rich in anecdotes about the people on Parliament Hill who have covered 23 prime ministers and 42 elections in the past 150 years. Mining the archives and his own interviews, Robert Lewis turns the spotlight on the watchers, including reporters who got too close to power and others who kept their distance. The Riel Rebellion,...
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