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Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
From National Public Radio's Cake Lady, Melissa Gray, comes this collection of more than 50 cake recipes and cake-making tips accompanied by 24 color photos.
A collection of more than 50 cake recipes, accompanied by cake-making tips. Bake your way through this book, hone your skills, and learn to trust your senses as you bake cakes that make people roll their eyes with pleasure.
Author
Publisher
Abrams
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In the years after the Civil Rights Act of 1964, women in the workplace still found themselves relegated to secretarial positions or locked out of jobs entirely. This was especially true in the news business, a backwater of male chauvinism where a woman might be lucky to get a foothold on the "women's pages." But when a pioneering nonprofit called National Public Radio came along in the 1970s, and the door to serious journalism opened a crack, four...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Two men, each handsome and unusually adept at his chosen work, embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized Americas rush toward the twentieth century. The architect was Daniel Hudson Burnham, the fairs brilliant director of works and the builder of many of the countrys most important structures, including the Flatiron Building in New York and Union Station in Washington, D.C. The murderer was Henry H. Holmes,...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers ; | Distributed by Blackstone Audio
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
The extraordinary life and legacy of legendary journalist Cokie Roberts-a trailblazer for women-remembered by her friends and family.
Through her visibility and celebrity, Cokie Roberts was an inspiration and a role model for innumerable women and girls. A fixture on national television and radio for more than 40 years, she also wrote five bestselling books focusing on the role of women in American history. She was portrayed on Saturday Night Live,...
Author
Publisher
Praeger
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
"National Public Radio's first employee, Jack W. Mitchell, examines the dreams that inspired those who created it, the all-too-human realities that grew out of those dreams, and the criticism public radio has incurred from both sides of the political spectrum. The first producer of NPR's legendary "All Things Considered," Mitchell tells the story of public radio from the point of view of an insider, a participant, and a thoughtful observer. He traces...
6) My father's business: the small-town values that built dollar general into a billion-dollar company
Author
Publisher
Center Street, Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
The first-person account of the family that changed the American retail landscape that Dave Ramsey calls a must-read.
Longtime Dollar General CEO Cal Turner, Jr. shares his extraordinary life as heir to the company founded by his father, Cal Turner, Sr., and his grandfather, a dirt farmer turned Depression-era entrepreneur. Cal's narrative is at its heart a father-son story, from his childhood in Scottsville, Kentucky, where business and family were...