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Letters of enchantment volume 2
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English
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Two weeks after returning home from the front, Iris and Attie seize another chance to report on Dacre's movements, while Roman, who's lost his memory and is stuck in Dacre's realm, becomes entangled in a mysterious pen pal correspondence, leading to a pivotal decision that could impact the course of the war and his relationship with Iris.
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Frankie and friends volume 1
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2023.
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English
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"In a charming new chapter-book series by a social-change advocate, young Frankie emulates her journalist mama by reporting on household news with the help of her sister and unlikely news crew"--
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2024.
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"A novel about a journalist in pursuit of a story about a child who survived a cult mass suicide, which may not be all that it appeared to be, told in Janice Hallett's signature original and innovative style of emails, messages, news clips, and screenplay excerpts"--
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Skink novels (Carl Hiaasen) volume 2
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[2005]
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English
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When the precious clue-tongued mango voles at the Amazing Kingdom of Thrills on North Key Largo are stolen by heartless, ruthless thugs, Joe Winder wants to uncover why, and find the voles. Joe is lately a PR man for the Amazing Kingdom theme park, but now that the voles are gone, Winder is dragged along in their wake through a series of weird and lethal events that begin with the sleazy real-estate agent/villain Francis X.
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Good Day! , the critically-acclaimed biography about the legendary Paul Harvey, is now in paperback! In this heartwarming book, author Paul J. Batura tells the all-American story of one of the best-known radio voices in history. From his humble beginnings to his unparalleled career of more than 50 years with ABC radio, Paul Harvey narrated America's story day by day, through wars and peace, through the threat of communism and the crumbling of old...
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Au début des années 1980, Martine Maelschalck débute sa carrière de journaliste, sa machine à écrire sous le bras. Elle découvre avec émerveillement un monde qui sent l'encre et le papier, o l'on rédige parfois ses articles sur un coin de table et o les numéros de téléphone fixe valent de l'or. Un univers d'hommes, machos, fumeurs, buveurs, mais bourrés de talent. Vingt-cinq ans plus tard, elle dirigeait la rédaction de L'Écho, pianotait...
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Get the Summary of Tom Brokaw's Never Give Up in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Never Give Up" by Tom Brokaw is a rich narrative that intertwines personal anecdotes and historical events, offering a unique perspective on mid-20th-century America. The story begins with the Brokaw family's settlement in South Dakota, where they establish The Brokaw House, a community hub. It follows the life of Red Brokaw, Tom's...
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Get the Summary of Meg Kissinger's While You Were Out in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Raised in a North Shore Chicago neighborhood, the Kissinger children grew up in a large Catholic community. The family, with five girls and three boys born between 1952 and 1964, each had distinct personalities. Their mother, Jean, a former debutante with a genius IQ, struggled with the demands of motherhood and secretly used...
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[2021]
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English
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"In the summer of 2015, Ross Douthat was moving his family, with two young daughters and a pregnant wife, from Washington, D.C., to a sprawling farmhouse in a picturesque Connecticut town when he acquired a mysterious and devastating sickness. It left him sleepless, crippled, wracked with pain--a shell of himself. After months of seeing doctors and descending deeper into a physical inferno, he discovered that he had a disease which according to CDC...
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Marginaux. C'est l'étiquette donnée à ceux qui ne font rien comme les autres.
Fiers de l'être, c'est la réaction de Raymond Viger et de Danielle Simard devant cette désignation. C'est également une invitation à embrasser les possibilités qui résident au-delà des normes. Parce 25 ans d'intervention auprès des jeunes marginaux façonnent une perception unique du monde.
Marginaux et fiers de l'être, c'est la chronique des événements...
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“Prelude to the Past” is the remarkable story of a young Jewish girl growing up in Germany during the years leading up to the First World War. She experienced adulthood during the tumultuous years between the two World Wars, becoming one of the most important journalistic figures of the period. This tumultuous era comes to life through the eyes of a powerful, passionate, strong, yet vulnerable Jewish woman who not only recorded the events of the...
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2024.
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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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A FASCINATING ACCOUNT OF ONE GENERATION OF REMARKABLE AMERICANS WHO EMERGED FROM THEIR PIONEER ROOTS TO HELP SHAPE SOME OF THE KEY EVENTS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY.
Charlie Ross and Harry Truman were boyhood friends and classmates in Independence, Missouri. Charlie Ross went on to help found the School of Journalism at the University of Missouri and later became the Washington correspondent for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch where he was awarded a Pulitzer...
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"After doing my research, soliciting and collecting all the articles, I started to think of a way to put together a book on the Earl. I had several ideas: one was doing a kind of 'rock star' presentation of the Earl as the best way to bring out his unique personality and qualities as an artist, writer, performer and bookshop proprietor as well as highlighting the wide range of interests throughout his life. Secondly, there was a desire to put together...
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"This is the most glamorous book you'll read this year. Or any year."-Washington Post
When forty-year-old Alison Rose got a job as a receptionist at the New Yorker in the mid-80s, she was taken up by the writers there-"a tribe of gods," who turned her from a semi-recluse into a full-fledged writer for the magazine. These kindred souls formed an impromptu club: Insane Anonymous (a "whole other world that was better than sane"). Rose was unlike...
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Josie Fanon was at her husband Frantz Fanon's side from 1949 until his death in 1961. She is the onl person who knew him unreservedly. Josie Fanon committed suicide on January 10, 1989 in El Biar, Algiers. She is buried in El Kettar Cemetery in Algers. Born Marie-Joseph Dublé in Lyon, France, she was 58 years old.
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"Spring, 1890. The long New York winter is over, the buds are blossoming, and romance is in the air. But not all's right in Gilded-Age Manhattan. Genevieve, a society journalist, and her fiancé, Daniel, are working with photographer Dagmar Hansen on an investigation into the House of Refuge, a children's workhouse, inspired by Daniel's near incarceration when he was young. Genevieve is also working on her own piece for the Globe about the Sunflower...
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To know the story of the life and times of Judge Gilbert Merritt is to understand modern U.S. politics of the mid to late 20th century-how it came to be, and how it worked-particularly in the American South.
Judge Gilbert Merritt and his circle of young lawyers and journalists in Nashville were among the South's earliest Kennedy Democrats in the late 1950s. Their brash political strivings, though not always victorious at the polls, affected the shape...
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