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Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c1993
Description
Meghan Collins is a young reporter covering a story about a female stabbing victim. The vistims bears a striking resemblance to Meghan. What's really strange is that it seems this killing might be connected to an explosion in which Meghan's father died four months earlier. The investigation of these deaths takes Meghan down a treacherous path.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
"Richard MacMurray, a cable news talking head, is paid handsomely to pontificate on the issues of the moment. On New Year's Day he is scheduled to be a guest on a prominent morning talk show. As he awaits the broadcast, the network interrupts with news that a jet airliner has crashed in Dallas and that everyone aboard has perished. Within an hour, amateur videotape surfaces of the plane's last moments, transforming the crash into a living image: familiar,...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
The author charts Jon Stewart's unlikely rise to political stardom, from his early stand-up days and the short-lived but acclaimed The Jon Stewart Show. Drawing on interviews with current and former colleagues, she reveals how things work behind the scenes at The Daily Show.
27) Oprah Winfrey
Author
Series
Publisher
Weigl Publishers
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
This book profiles the life and accomplishments of Oprah Winfrey, well-known talk-show host, actress, and successful businesswoman.
28) Blueprints
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
"Caroline MacAfee is a skilled carpenter, her daughter Jamie, a talented architect. Together they are the faces of Gut It!, a home renovation series on local public television." When life brings sudden changes, both women ask themselves, "Who am I?...as the blueprints they've built their lives around suddenly need revising."--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
Description
"The compelling, inspiring, and comically sublime story of one man's coming-of-age, set during the twilight of apartheid and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed, "--Amazon.com.
Noah's path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show began with a criminal act: his birth. Born to a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa mother, at the time such a union was punishable by five years in prison. As he struggles to find himself in a...
Author
Publisher
Howard Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 7
Description
You know him from the hit A&E show "Duck Dynasty." Now you can enjoy Uncle Si's tall tales, crazy exploits, and quirky one-liners in one raucous collection. Uncle Si has a limitless supply of stories about his childhood, duck hunting adventures, his days in Vietnam, and everything in between. Now the best of those tales are gathered into this roaring book. And as Uncle Si recounts his outlandish tales, he weaves in an up-close look into his personal...
Author
Publisher
Howard Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
"When Victoria Arlen was eleven-years-old, she contracted two rare diseases simultaneously and fell into a mysterious vegetative state. For two years her mind was dark, but in the third year, her mind broke free, and she was able to think clearly and to hear and feel everything - but no one knew. When she was fifteen-years-old, against all odds and medical predictions, she was finally able to communicate through eye blinks, and she gradually regained...
34) Even in darkness
Author
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
c2013.
Description
Former TV evangelist Joy Miller's reclusive life is disturbed when three people from her past are killed an she is contacted by an old enemy.
Joy Miller, once a famed TV evangelist, retired years before when two tragedies struck her family: the first leading her husband to suicide; the second leaving her son dead and his wife and daughter estranged from her. She now lives a lonely, reclusive life, until a package arrives in the mail containing graphic...
Author
Publisher
John Murray
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"BAFTA-winning actor, voice of everything from Monkey to the Cadbury's Caramel Rabbit, creator of a myriad of unforgettable characters from Lady Whiteadder to Professor Sprout, MIRIAM MARGOLYES, OBE, is the nation's favourite (and naughtiest) treasure. Now, at the age of 80, she has finally decided to tell her extraordinary life story - and it's well worth the wait. Find out how being conceived in an air-raid gave her curly hair; what pranks led to...
37) Going there
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
In this memoir, the iconic media star discusses her professional and personal life, including losing her husband at a young age, her historic turn as anchor of the CBS Evening News, and experiences dealing with gender inequality.
For more than 40 years Couric has been an iconic presence in the media world. In her brutally honest memoir, she reveals how she has balanced her personality, intellectual curiosity and desire to be taken seriously while...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
Five years ago Amanda Pierce was excitedly preparing to marry her college sweetheart in Palm Beach. Then, with their guests and families on site, Amanda disappeared. In present-day New York City, Amanda's desperate mother begs producer Laurie Moran and her Under Suspicion television team to investigate Amanda's disappearance. Soon she and the team are re-creating the night of the disappearance at the Florida resort with Amanda's friends and family...
Author
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
"Love isn't always a piece of cake... Laurie Davis has always followed her passion. After escaping family drama to start a new life in New York City, she's up for whatever challenges life brings. So when an opportunity arises for her to use her travel industry expertise and serve as an assistant and tour guide for her idol, Pamela Lambert-Leigh, star of television's Tea-Time with Pamela, she jumps at the chance. But Laurie's exciting adventure ends...
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Description
His private life shattered amid rumors of his mother's witchcraft activities, Eddie Alley leaves his Depression-era Virginia hometown to begin a television career in New York and finds the past returning years later when he offers shelter to a homeless teen.
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