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"Look for me there," news legend Tim Russert would tell his son, Luke, when confirming a pickup spot at an airport, sporting event, or rock concert. After Tim died unexpectedly, Luke kept looking for his father, following in Tim's footsteps and carving out a highly successful career at NBC News. After eight years covering politics on television, Luke realized he had no good answer as to why he was chasing his father's legacy. As the son of two accomplished...
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KEY News thrillers volume 7
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Just before the KEY News crew arrives for a big promotional broadcast fron Newport, Rhode Island, the skeleton of a socialite who had disappeared fourteen years ago is found in a dank runnel beneath a famous mansion. Then her daughter is found at the bottom of Cliff Walk. Now, the whole town is talking about the scandal and a killer whose work may be just beginning.
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Private justice volume 3
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"Spotting a familiar-looking child in the mall, Kate Marshall is convinced he is the son she thought died in a boating accident along with her husband three years ago. With police skeptical of her story, she turns to private investigator Connor Sullivan, a former Secret Service agent, to discover the truth"--
65) Down to the wire
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Reporter Chris Turley from the Bergen News, is about to meet an anonymous tipster at a Teaneck, N.J., park to discuss “corruption by a high-level government official” when an explosion rips through an office building opposite the park. Chris makes headline news by saving five people from the wreckage. Chris’s source, who calls himself “P.T.,” soon starts to brag about a killing spree (using remotely detonated bombs and poison darts), which...
66) The suspect
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Kate Waters novels (Fiona Barton) volume 3
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The New York Times bestselling author of The Widow returns with a brand new novel of twisting psychological suspense about every parent's worst nightmare ... When two eighteen-year-old girls go missing in Thailand, their families are thrust into the international spotlight: desperate, bereft, and frantic with worry. What were the girls up to before they disappeared? Journalist Kate Waters always does everything she can to be first to the story, first...
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"Twenty-four-year-old Cheyenne Florian has just received her dream job offer. On the strength of a few vlogs, she's recruited to be the new correspondent on the recently hatched Independent News Network, INN.With the slogan “Because independent thinking is the only way out,” INN has branded itself as innovative. Yet once Cheyenne joins the INN team, she finds age-old dynamics in play. Some of the female staff resent her meteoric rise, while a...
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"On the day John F. Kennedy is inaugurated, Claire--a young wife and mother obsessed with the glamor of Jackie--struggles over the decision of whether to stay in a loveless but secure marriage, or to follow the man she loves and whose baby she may be carrying. Decades earlier in 1919, Vivien Lowe--an obituary writer--is searching for her lover who disappeared in the Great San Francisco Earthquake of 1906. By telling the stories of the dead, Vivien...
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"In this propulsive debut novel from the host of the #1 true crime podcast Crime Junkie, a journalist uncovers her hometown's dark secrets when she becomes obsessed with the unsolved murder of her childhood neighbor - and the disappearance of another girl twenty years later. You can't ever know for sure what happens behind closed doors .... Everyone from Wakarusa, Indiana, remembers the infamous case of January Jacobs, who was discovered in a ditch...
70) Bruce Almighty
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[2003]
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Bruce Nolan is a discontented TV reporter who believes the entire universe is stacked against him. After a bad day, Bruce flies into a rage and blames God for making his life so miserable. God responds by endowing Bruce with all of His divine powers and challenges him to take on "The Big Job" to see if he can do it any better.
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The "CBS Evening News" anchor and "60 Minutes" correspondent presents a memoir from the frontlines of international journalism that includes firsthand insights into major historical events and world leaders.
"Don't ask the meaning of life. Life is asking, what's the meaning of you? With this provocative question, Truth Worth Telling introduces us to unforgettable people who discovered the meaning of their lives in the historic events of our times....
74) A private war
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[2019]
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In a world where journalism is under attack, Marie Colvin is one of the most admired war correspondents of today. She is fearless and rebellious, driven to the frontlines of conflicts across the globe. After being hit by a grenade, she wears a distinctive eye patch and is still as comfortable with London's elite as she is confronting dictators. Her mission to show the true cost of war leads her, along with war photographer Paul Conroy, to embark on...
75) The third target
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When New York Times foreign correspondent J. B. Collins hears rumors that an al-Qaeda splinter cell-ISIS-has captured a cache of chemical weapons inside Syria, Collins knows this is a story he must pursue at all costs. Does the commander of the jihadist faction really have the weapons? If so, who is the intended target? The U.S.? Israel? Or someone else? With tensions already high, the impending visit of the American president to the region could...
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On an early morning in November, a couple boards a private plane bound for Geneva, flying into a storm. Soon after, it simply drops off the radar and its wreckage is later uncovered in the Alps. Among the disappeared is Matthew Lerner, an insider at Swiss United, a powerful offshore bank. His young widow, Annabel, is left grappling with the secrets he left behind, and as she begins a desperate search for answers, she determines that Matthew's death...
77) The informant
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FBI Special Agent Victoria Santos is on the trail of a serial murderer who does not seem to fit any specific profile when she gets unexpected help from Miami Tribune reporter Mike Posten, who has been contacted by a caller who claims to be able to predict the killings.
78) Christmas child
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As Christmas draws near, Jack finds himself disconnecting from the holidays, his job, and ultimately his wife. His latest assignment as a journalist takes him to Dallas, but a mysterious photograph draws him to the town of Clearwater, Texas. It is here he discovers the town's life-sized, intricately carved nativity. As Jack delves into the mysteries surrounding the nativity and its creator, he uncovers secrets from his past, reunites with the family...
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Majie Failey gives us the only history extant of the Indianapolis News. She was Society Editor in the 1950s and touches on past history as well as greats like W. Phillipi, Gene Pulliam Jr and Fremont Powers and Bill Wildhack. She also covers Indianapolis social history, including the Blue Book and Dramatic Club. Updates by Nelson Price.
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