Although Patricia M. Boyer won a scholarship to McMaster University with the highest mathematics marks in Ontario and graduated at age 19, literature and languages were her specialty. She first worked as a public librarian, next as a...
Journalists
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Author:Boyer, Patricia M., Wallin, PamelaSummary: -
Author:Kavanagh, PeterSummary:CBC journalist Peter Kavanagh was just an infant when he was diagnosed with paralytic polio and suffered permanent paralysis in the lower part of his left leg. As a child, Kavanagh endured painful medical procedures to even out the...
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Author:Barzanji, Jalal, Salih, Sabah A., Saul, John RalstonSummary:The style of my book must be in small pieces, as my life has been in pieces. (Jalal Barzanji) From 1986 to 1988 poet and journalist Jalal Barzanji endured imprisonment and torture under Saddam Hussein's regime because of his literary...
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Author:Loy, TeeganSummary:With the winter Olympics on the horizon, Cody Mikkelson’s editor assigns him several stories about athletes in the area with gold medal aspirations. But there’s a catch: Cody has to try all the sports when he interviews the athletes—and...
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Author:Sa, RachelSummary:"Seventeen-year-old Sherri arrives in Lewton excited to start a summer job working as a student reporter. Instead of a thriving community, she finds a creepy ghost town, gripped by a dark secret. Most of the local stores have been...
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Iraq, 1991: Operation Desert Storm. In a terrible friendly fire incident, an U.S. helicopter massacres a small convoy of American MPs. Among the dead: a mysterious American civilian engineer discovered by the soldiers behind enemy lines...
- Author:O'Loughlin, EdSummary:
It was February 2020 when Ed O’Loughlin unexpectedly heard that Charlotte, a friend from the old days, had just died young and before her time. He realised that he was being led to reappraise his life, his family, and his career as a...
- Author:Sussman, PaulSummary:
Detective Arieh-Ben Roi of the Jerusalem police investigates the murder of a well-known Israeli journalist and discovers a connection to the mysterious death of a 1930s Egyptologist, who had claimed to have uncovered a labyrinth of...
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Author:Thompson, Hunter S.Summary:Traces the course of Thompson's life as a rebel--from a smart-mouthed Kentucky kid flouting all authority to a convention-defying journalist who came to personify a wild fusion of fact, fiction, and mind-altering substance.
- Author:BENCHLEY, PeterSummary:
Newsman Blair Maynard is curious. In one small area of the Caribbean, 610 boats have disappeared in 3 years, with the loss of 2,000 lives. There has to be a reason.
- Author:Oakley, ColleenSummary:
Sometimes all you need is one person to really see you. Piper Parrish's life on Frick Island-a tiny, remote town smack in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay-is nearly perfect. Well, aside from one pesky detail: Her beloved husband,...
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Author:Quinn, KateSummary:A battle-haunted English journalist and a Russian female bomber pilot join forces to track the Huntress, a Nazi war criminal gone to ground in America.
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When a young man is found dead near a remote northern California town, police label it an accident or suicide. But journalist Arnold Rednapp learns of suspicious circumstances and suspects a community-wide conspiracy.
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Author:Lagercrantz, DavidSummary:Lisbeth Salander has been forged by a brutal childhood and horrific abuse. And repeated attempts on her life. The ink embedded in her skin is a constant reminder of her pledge to fight against the injustice she finds on every side....
- Author:Power, SamanthaSummary:
Pulitzer-Prize winner Samantha Power is widely known as the moral voice of her generation. A relentless advocate for promoting human rights, she has been heralded by President Barack Obama as one of America's "foremost...
- Author:Douthat, Ross GregorySummary:
In this vulnerable, insightful memoir, the New York Times columnist tells the story of his five-year struggle with a disease that officially doesn't exist, exploring the limits of modern medicine, the stories that we unexpectedly...
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Author:Hawkins, GordonSummary:This biography explores what drove William Smith to change his name, in the gold fields of California in the 1850s, to Amor De Cosmos. Hawkins traces how De Cosmos became one of the most feared journalists in British Columbia and then...
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Author:Keene, Brian, Mamatas, NickSummary:A hilarious, shocking, terrifying thrill ride across the American landscape, The Damned Highway pays homage to the gonzo journalism of Hunter S. Thompson and the uncanny terrors of H. P. Lovecraft! Horror legend Brian Keene (The Rising...
- Author:Mackrell, JudithSummary:
The riveting, untold history of a group of heroic women reporters who revolutionized the narrative of World War II -from Martha Gellhorn, who out-scooped her husband, Ernest Hemingway, to Lee Miller, a Vogue cover model turned war...
- Author:Winspear, JacquelineSummary:
As Europe buckles under Nazi occupation, Maisie Dobbs investigates a possible murder that threatens devastating repercussions for Britain's war efforts in this latest installment in the New York Times bestselling mystery series....
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