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Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"From award-winning journalist Jane Ferguson, an unflinching memoir of ambition and war-from the Troubles to the fall of Kabul. In Northern Ireland in the 1980s and '90s, war was a secret, and young Jane Ferguson wanted to know the truth. For her, war was called the Troubles, bomb threats and military checkpoints on the way to school were commonplace, and an uncle's gunshot wound in IRA crossfire was disguised as a cow kick. Jane developed a penchant...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2017.
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IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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From Taylor Jenkins Reid, "a genius when it comes to stories about life and love" (Redbook), comes an unforgettable and sweeping novel about one classic film actress's relentless rise to the top, the risks she took, the loves she lost, and the long-held secrets the public could never imagine. Aging and reclusive Hollywood movie icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about her glamorous and scandalous life. But when she chooses unknown...
1923) Where they lie: a novel
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
In 1968 Dublin, Nicoletta Sarto, an ambitious junior reporter for the Irish Sentinel, investigates the 25-year-old mystery of actress Julia Bridge's disappearance and her link to a woman who facilitated abortions, and becomes immersed in the illegal abortion industry, stirring up long-buried secrets from her own past.
1924) Geronimo Stilton
Author
Series
Geronimo Stilton volume s 20 and 21
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Geronimo Stilton, which was originally written in Italian, is a tale about a talking mouse that lives in New Mouse City on Mouse Island, where he works as a journalist for The Rodent's Gazette. Included here are adventure books 20 and 21: Surf's Up, Geronimo!; and The Wild, Wild West!
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
[2023].
Language
English
Description
"How do partners in long-lasting relationships live together without driving each other up a wall? After forty years of marriage, Michaele Weissman has a few answers. When they first meet, John— a dashing European, a Latvian refugee, a physics PhD— is hoping to settle down. Michaele, a fast-talking American college student, is hungry for an independent life as a writer and historian. 'I am too young, and you are too Latvian,' the twenty-year-old...
1927) Ace in the hole
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Chuck Tatum is an amoral newspaper reporter caught in dead -end Albuquerque who happens upon the story of a lifetime. He will do anything to ensure he gets the scoop.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Ian Fleming's greatest creation, James Bond, has had an enormous and on going impact on our culture. What Bond represents about ideas of masculinity, the British national psyche and global politics has shifted over time, as has the interpretation of the life of his author. But Fleming himself was more mysterious and subtle than anything he wrote. Ian's childhood with his gifted brother Peter and his extraordinary mother set the pattern for his ambition...
1929) Anna: the biography
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
As a child, Anna Wintour was a tomboy with no apparent interest in clothing but, seduced by the miniskirts and bob haircuts of swinging 1960s London, she grew into a fashion-obsessed teenager. Her father, an influential newspaper editor, loomed large in her life, and once he decided she should become editor-in-chief of Vogue, she never looked back. Impatient to start her career, she left high school and got a job at a trendy boutique in London—an...
1930) The Cary Grant box set
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
The awful truth: One of the best "screwball" comedies of the thirties, in which a separated couple do their best to spoil one another's love affair while awaiting their divorce.
His girl Friday: A newspaper editor and his ex-wife star reporter exchange verbal insults in his effort to keep her on the job by offering her a prison story scoop.
The talk of the town: A suspected murderer hides out with an unsuspecting professor and his landlady, and...
1931) Hannah Arendt
Publisher
Zeitgeist Video
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
A brilliant biopic of the influential German-Jewish philosopher and political theorist. Arendt's reporting on the 1961 trial of ex-Nazi Adolf Eichmann in The New Yorker, controversial both for her portrayal of Eichmann and the Jewish councils, introduced her now-famous concept of the 'Banality of Evil.' Using footage from the actual Eichmann trial and weaving a narrative that spans three countries, von Trotta beautifully turns the often invisible...
Author
Publisher
Center Street
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Carrie Sheffield grew up fifth of eight children with a violent, mentally ill, street-musician father who believed he was a modern-day Mormon prophet destined to become U.S. president someday. She and her seven siblings were often forced to live as vagabonds, remaining on the move across the country. They frequently subsisted in sheds, tents, and, most notably, motorhomes. They often lived a dysfunctional drifter existence, camping out in their motorhome...