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81) Attachments
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Beth and Jennifer know their company monitors their office e-mail, but they still spend all day sending each other messages, gossiping about their coworkers at the newspaper and baring their personal lives like an open book. When Lincoln applied to be an Internet security officer, he hardly imagined he'd be sifting through other people's inboxes like some sort of electronic Peeping Tom. Lincoln is supposed to turn people in for misusing company e-mail,...
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
It was August 25, 2006, my first on-camera studio open for the CBS News broadcast 60 Minutes. Executive Producer Jeff Fager poked his head in the dressing room." Good luck, Brotha! You've come a long way to get here. You've earned it."
...If only he knew. My mind flashed back to elementary school, when a therapist had informed my mother, "I'm sorry, Mrs. Pitts, your son cannot read."
In Step Out on Nothing, Byron Pitts chronicles his astonishing...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1930, two novice paddlers-Eric Sevareid and Walter C. Port-launched a secondhand 18-foot canvas canoe into the Minnesota River at Fort Snelling for an ambitious summer-long journey from Minneapolis to Hudson Bay. Without benefit of radio, motor, or good maps, the teenagers made their way over 2,250 miles of rivers, lakes, and difficult portages. Nearly four months later, after shooting hundreds of sets of rapids and surviving exceedingly bad conditions...
Author
Publisher
Center Street
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Journalist Baier "reflects on past challenges as he looks forward with hope, chronicling the steps on his path to national prominence as a television anchor, as well as his unexpected journey into the world of pediatric cardiac disease"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
White tells his emotional, incredible true story of crime and redemption, vanity and spirituality, as he discovers happiness and fulfillment in an unlikely place--imprisonment in The Long Center, the last leper colony in the U.S.
Author
Publisher
Abrams Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Among the fabled tycoons of the Gilded Age--Carnegie, Rockefeller, Vanderbilt--is a forgotten figure: Mrs. Frank Leslie. For twenty years she ran the country's largest publishing company, Frank Leslie Publishing, which chronicled postbellum America in dozens of weeklies and monthlies. A pioneer in an all-male industry, she made a fortune and became a national celebrity and tastemaker in the process. But Miriam Leslie was also a byword for scandal:...
Author
Publisher
Lippincott
Pub. Date
1961.
Language
English
Description
During a fierce snowstorm, an abandoned and hungry animal howls at the back door of nature writer Hal Borland's farmhouse, announcing the beginning of a transformational friendship Hal Borland and his wife Barbara have recently moved onto a hundred-acre farm in northwest Connecticut, where both hope to write and live in harmony with nature. From his New England home, Borland travels the country searching for material for his New York Times "outdoor...
Author
Series
BookShots volume novel
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Magazine editor Jane Avery spends her nights alone with Netflix and Oreos--until the Dress turns her loose. Suddenly she's surrendering to dark desires, and New York City has become her erotic playground. But what began as a fantasy will go too far--and her next conquest could be her last.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"The definitive biography of the beloved-often controversial-co-creator of many legendary superheroes, A Marvelous Life: The Amazing Story of Stan Lee presents the origin of "Stan the Man," who spun a storytelling web of comic book heroic adventures into a pop culture phenomenon: the Marvel Universe. Stan Lee was the most famous American comic book creator who ever lived. Thanks, especially, to his many cameos in Marvel movies and TV shows, Lee was-and...
91) Genius
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The story of Max Perkins, a book editor who oversaw the works of authors Thomas Wolfe, Ernest Hemingway, and F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Author
Publisher
Congdon & Weed
Pub. Date
[1983]
Language
English
Description
This collection of more than a hundred anecdotes and essays from the legendary journalist, New York Times columnist, and author of the bestselling memoir Growing Up offers wise and sharply witty reflections on an extraordinary array of topics, ranging from youth, wealth, the media, and the joy of anger to the difference between "dinner" and "supper."
Author
Series
Bailey Weggins mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A "novel of fashion in the digital age, The Knockoff is the story of Imogen Tate, editor-in-chief of Glossy magazine, who finds her twenty-something former assistant Eve Morton plotting to knock Imogen off her pedestal, take over her job, and reduce the magazine, famous for its lavish 768-page September issue, into an app"--Amazon.com.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"This book is a message from autistic people to their parents, friends, teachers, coworkers and doctors showing what life is like on the spectrum. It's also my love letter to autistic people. For too long, we have been forced to navigate a world where all the road signs are written in another language."--
Garcia began writing about autism because he was frustrated by the media's coverage of the myths that the disorder is caused by vaccines, the narrow...
Author
Publisher
MVP Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
"Mark Rosen was hired by WCCO television at the age of 17 and has been a part of the 'CCO team for more than four decades. During that time he has become one of the most popular and respected sports media celebrities in the Twin Cities, state, and region--a true icon on the Minnesota sports scene. In this first-person account, Rosen shares his experiences working with athletes, journalists, and a variety of local notables. He describes the most memorable...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis never wrote a memoir, but she told her life story and revealed herself in intimate ways through the nearly 100 books she brought into print during the last two decades of her life as an editor at Viking and Doubleday. Based on archives and interviews with Jackie's authors, colleagues, and friends, this book mines this significant period of her life to reveal both the serious and the mischievous woman underneath the glamorous...
100) Let me finish
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Autobiography of Roger Angell's early years growing up in New York with his mother, Katharine White, founding editor of "The New Yorker" and his step-father, author E.B. White.
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