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WKBA news in Chicago is reeling. Their ratings are the lowest in town, and company morale has plummeted. At the end of their ropes, five women band together to correct injustices and hopefully shoot WKBA up the ratings chart. Their ideas are inventive, and their convictions are infectious, but they'll need to crack the good-old-boys network before they ever get a chance to prove themselves. Through Yolanda Joe's sharp observations about this cutthroat...
2) Hard news
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Rune series volume 3
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English
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From the bestselling author of the Bone Collector novels, soon to be an NBC series
Rune is an aspiring filmmaker with more ambition than political savvy, paying her dues as an assistant cameraperson for the local news. But she's got her eyes on the prize, the network's hot newsmagazine, Current Events—and she's got the story she knows will get her there.
Poking around in the video archives, Rune spots a taped interview...
Rune is an aspiring filmmaker with more ambition than political savvy, paying her dues as an assistant cameraperson for the local news. But she's got her eyes on the prize, the network's hot newsmagazine, Current Events—and she's got the story she knows will get her there.
Poking around in the video archives, Rune spots a taped interview...
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Breaking news volume 2
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IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
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AD 540L
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English
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In this story, told in the form of a television broadcast, the bears and their cub catch two escaping prisoners who are hiding at the carnival.
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Sexually abused at the hands of her father, Laura decides to dispense with a husband to have a child. She picks out a stranger and seduces him. The child grows up to be a man and murders his girlfriend. Was Laura's policeman brother right when he warned her that violence is in their blood?
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I couldn't believe the letter in my hands. Nine years. Nine damn years I'd worked my butt off for one of the largest companies in America, and I was fired with a form letter when I returned home from a week in Aruba. All because of a video taken when I was on vacation with my friends--a private video made on my private time. Or so I thought... Pissed off, I cracked open a bottle of wine and wrote my own letter to the gazillionaire CEO telling him...
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The rise of a radio tycoon. He is Jack Lear who after college buys a station in 1930s Boston and marries well. The novel follows his rise as he acquires new stations, radio and TV, and new wives, during World War II a British countess, afterwards an American congresswoman. There is a downside to his success, however, as his children don't turn out too well.
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Frederica Potter series volume 4
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English
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This triumphant conclusion to A. S. Byatt's great quartet of postwar English life and manners stands on its own as a magical and thought-provoking novel of ideas made flesh. Frederica, the spirited heroine of The Virgin in the Garden, Still Life, and Babel Tower, falls almost by accident into a career in television in London, while tumultuous events in her home county of Yorkshire threaten to split her world. In the late 1960s, the languages of religion,...
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Breaking news volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
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AD 510L
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English
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"In this story (told in the form of a television broadcast), bears emerge from hibernation demanding to be fed."
10) The Snow Show
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2008
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IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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A cooking show goes on location to the North Pole to demonstrate the recipe for making snow.
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2022.
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English
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"Marlowe Banks's life has come apart at the seams. Her engagement ended abruptly. Her latest costume design was shredded by critics. Her student loans are overdue. Her parents have never been more disappointed. Desperate to hide from her failures, Marlowe flees New York City to embrace invisibility in Los Angeles as a menial Production Assistant on a popular TV show. While sorting socks and taking care of her boss' spoiled Weimaraner, no one can confront...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
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GN 580L
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English
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In this story, told in the form of a television broadcast, the bear family, and other forest and domestic animals are abducted by an alien spaceship, releasing a world-wide media frenzy.
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Too much, Texas volume 1
Too much Texas volume 01
Too much Texas volume 1
Too Much Texas novel volume 02
Too much Texas volume 01
Too much Texas volume 1
Too Much Texas novel volume 02
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Mary Dell Templeton prefers the quiet charms of Too Much, Texas to the bright lights of Dallas any day. She's relieved to be moving back to her hometown-and bringing her cable TV show, Quintessential Quilting, with her. There are just a couple of wrinkles in her plan. Her son, Howard, who is her talented cohost and color consultant, and who happens to have Down syndrome, wants to stay in Dallas and become more independent. Meanwhile, Mary Dell's new...
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"Maddy Carson loves her job as a Script Supervisor on the hit show, The Wrong Doctor, as much as she loathes fake boobs, juice cleanses, oversized designer sunglasses, and all other things "Hollywood." Super-organized and down-to-earth, Maddy has maintained a strict dating rule throughout her ten years in L.A.: "No Actors!" But she is seeing someone in the industry, Craig, one of the Executive Producers for the show... and technically her boss. ...
15) Open carry
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Arliss Cutter novels volume 1
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English
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"U.S. Marshal Arliss Cutter is a born tracker. Raised in the swamplands of Florida, he honed his skills in the military, fought in the Middle East, and worked three field positions for Marshal Services. When it comes to tracking someone down-or taking someone out-Cutter's the best. But his newest assignment is taking him out of his comfort zone to southeast Alaska. Cold, dark, uninhabited forests that are often shrouded in fog. And it's the kind of...
16) Deep doo-doo
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
780L
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English
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When they discover the power of the transmitter they built, eleven-year-old Bennet and his best friend Pete send out television broadcasts using Pete's dog to challenge the current governor in his bid for reelection.
17) Impasse
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Esther Branson is an aspiring broadcast news anchor whose rise to the top takes on a grave pallor when she begins to take a deepr look at the stories she covers every day. Her finace', however, is a high-powered executive who has helped to fashion Esther's career and who is convinced that her goal .
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Mary-Kate and Ashley in action! volume episode 3
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[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Twin sleuths Misty and Amber go undercover as workers at a candy factory to find out why the new candy Fubble d'Bubble is interfering with television reception across the country.
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