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  • What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures - This anthology of Gladwell's "New Yorker" essays is like a greatest-hits compilation from one of the most gifted and influential journalists in America and author of the bestsellers "The Tipping Point, Blink," and "Outliers." Annotation: This antho...
  • The Case for the Real Jesus: A Journalist Investigates Current Attacks on the Identity of Christ - From college classrooms to the Internet, the historic picture of Jesus is under an intellectual onslaught. In "The Case for the Real Jesus," a bestselling author and journalist takes on this fierce attack on the traditional portrait of Christ.
  • Nemesis: The True Story of Aristotle Onassis, Jackie O, and the Love Triangle That Brought Down the Kennedys - A longtime investigative journalist uncovers one of the great untold stories of twentieth-century international intrigue, and the secrets it has held ntil now. Shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis and Bobby Kennedy, two of the world's richest and most powerful men, disliked one a...
  • The Case for Christ: A Journalist's Personal Investigation of the Evidence for Jesus by Lee Strobel, ISBN 0310209307 - Using the dramatic scenario of an investigative journalist pursuing a hot story, Lee Strobel uses his experience as a reporter for the "Chicago Tribune" to interview experts from the fields of science, philosophy, and history in an attempt to force the truth about Jes...
  • Young, Restless, Reformed: A Journalist's Journey with the New Calvinists - From places like John Piper's den, Al Mohler's office, and Jonathan Edwards's college, Christianity Today journalist Collin Hansen investigates what makes today's young Calvinists tick.
  • Death Of A Dynasty (Widescreen) - Enter the closed doors of Damon Dash's and Jay-Z's hip-hop empire. Shot in New York city, "Death Of A Dynasty" centers around Dave Katz (Ebon Moss-Bachrach), a journalist at a hip-hop magazine who is sent on assignment to uncover the often comedic underworld of Roc-a-...
  • The Case for a Creator: A Journalist Investigates Scientific Evidence That Points Toward God - A journalist investigates the latest scientific discoveries to see whether they form a solid basis for believing in God.
  • The Case for Christ: A Journalist's Personal Investigation of the Evidence for Jesus with Book by Lee Strobel, ISBN 0310226058 - Using the dramatic scenario of an investigative journalist pursuing his story and leads, Lee Strobel uses his experience as a reporter for the Chicago Tribune to interview experts about the evidence for Christ from the fields of science, philosophy, and history. Winner of the G...
  • White News: The Untold Story of Racism in American Media and the Journalists Who Fought It - Two award-winning journalists present an alternative history of the media in America that puts race at the center of the story.
  • Las Vegas Warrior (Full Frame) - When investigative journalist Chase Somete and her team are given an assignment about a new martial arts kick boxing fight in Las Vegas, they are less than enthusiastic. But when a fighter is killed in competition, her instincts invite her to pursue the story. Something just do...
  • The Case for Christmas: A Journalist Investigates the Identity of the Child in the Manger - By focusing on the "hows" and "whys" of Christmas, this warm yet journalistic book will help believers reaffirm their faith while guiding seekers as they pursue solid answers. With material from "The Case for Christ," this book is designed to be a ...
  • Mujeres Revolucionarias (Full Frame) - "Frida Kahlo" - (July 6, 1907 - July 13, 1954) was a Mexican painter who depicted the indigenous culture of her country in a style combining Realism, Symbolism and Surrealism. An active communist supporter, she was the wife of Mexican muralist and cubist painter Diego...
  • Long Way Home: A Bigfoot Story (2-Disc Special Edition) (Full Frame) - Journalist and former Miami Herald reporter DJ Galloway is determined to uncover the truth behind a series of Bigfoot sightings and animal killings in Transylvania County, North Carolina, but what he finds in these darkened backwoods proves more terrifying than anything he ever...
  • Welcome To Sarajevo (Full Frame) - Woody Harrelson ("Play It To The Bone"), Academy Award-winner Marisa Tomei (Best Supporting Actress, 1992, "My Cousin Vinny"), and Stephen Dillane ("The Hours") team up and deliver powerhouse performances in this true story of courage and daring! L...
  • Deep Water - "Deep Water" is the stunning true story of the fateful voyage of Donald Crowhurst, an amateur yachtsman who enters the most daring nautical challenge ever - the very first solo, non-stop, round-the-world boat race. "The Sailor's Story" - Interviews With ...
  • Preaching That Connects: Using the Techniques of Journalists to Add Impact to Your Sermons by Mark Galli, ISBN 0310386217 - The authors find the keys to effective, captivating communication in the principles of journalistic writing. This book shows--not just tells--how to write a whole sermon, from introduction to conclusion, through abundant illustrations from well-known preachers.
  • Sarah Jane Adventures: The Complete Second Season (Anamorphic Widescreen) - Investigative journalist Sarah Jane Smith, one-time companion to that strange "wanderer in time and space" known as the Doctor, is back for a second, expanded, series of alien-busting adventures. When Sarah's adopted son, Luke, first became part of Sarah Jane's life, ...
  • The Case for Faith: A Journalist Investigates the Toughest Questions to Christianity by Lee Strobel, ISBN 031024188X - Designed especially for teenagers, this student edition of a bestseller is a journalist's thought-provoking, fun-to-read investigation of Christianity. Charts, quotes & illustrations.
  • The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood - In the tradition of "Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight," a world-renowned journalist presents a haunting memoir of a war-torn Liberian childhood and her return to her native country, 20 years after her family's flight, to reunite with the foster sister they left behind.
  • Recovering Charles - As a photographic journalist, Luke Millward had seen some of the world's most desolate places. But the images of the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina had made him physically ill. That's because Luke's estranged father, a long-suffering musician and alcoholic who lived in New Orle...
  • A Question of Murder - The combined expertise of one of the leading forensic pathologists in the world and an accomplished true-crime journalist come together in this riveting page-turner filled with many details about notable cases available nowhere else.
  • Little Pink House: A True Story of Defiance and Courage - When Suzette Kelo refused to sell her home to make way for a pharmaceutical plant, her city decided to exercise its power of eminent domain and launched one of the most extraordinary legal cases of modern times. An award-winning investigative journalist details how one woman le...
  • The Private Patient - With all the qualities that P. D. James's readers have come to expect: a masterly psychological and emotional richness of characterization, a vivid evocation of place and a credible and exciting mystery. When the notorious investigative journalist, Rhoda Gradwyn, books into Mr....
  • The Soloist: A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music - A moving story of a remarkable bond between a journalist in search of a story and a homeless, classically trained musician, "The Soloist" is soon to be a major motion picture from DreamWorks, starring Jamie Foxx and Robert Downey, Jr.
  • Eye of My Heart: 27 Writers Reveal the Hidden Pleasures and Perils of Being a Grandmother - This compilation of 28 original essays by noted journalists, novelists, and essayists--each one a grandmother--delves into what it means to be a grandmother today.
  • Driving Mr Albert: A Trip Across America with Einstein's Brain by Michael Paterniti, ISBN 038533303X - Albert Einstein's brain floats in a Tupperware bowl in a gray duffel bag in the trunk of a Buick Skylark barreling across America. Driving the car is journalist Michael Paterniti. Sitting next to him is an eighty-four-year-old pathologist named Thomas Harvey, who performed the ...
  • Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche by Haruki Murakami, ISBN 0375725806 - It was a clear spring day, Monday, March 20, 1995, when five members of the religious cult Aum Shinrikyo conducted chemical warfare on the Tokyo subway system using sarin, a poison gas twenty-six times as deadly as cyanide. The unthinkable had happened, a major urban transit sy...
  • Moon Acadia National Park - Journalist and Maine native Hilary Nangle knows the best ways to enjoy Acadia National Park, from biking through coastal forests and exploring iconic lighthouses to visiting quant towns with great shopping and seafood. Nangle offers unique strategies that help organize trips ar...
  • Betrayal: The Life and Lies of Bernie Madoff - From Emmy award-winning journalist Kirtzman comes an in-depth personal look at Bernie Madoff--the architect of the biggest financial fraud in history.
  • Womenomics: Write Your Own Rules for Success - Television journalists Shipman and Kay describe the business revolution that redefines success and finally lets women work the way they really want.
  • The Forever War - National Bestseller Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award A "New York Times Book Review" Best Book of the Year One of the Best Books of the Year: "New York Times," "Washington Post," "Los Angeles Times," "USA Today,&...
  • Chain of Blame: How Wall Street Caused the Mortgage and Credit Crisis - In the summer of 2007, the subprime empire that Wall Street had built all came crashing down. On average, fifty lenders a month were going bust-and the people responsible for the crisis included not just unregulated loan brokers andcon artists, but also investment bankers and h...
  • Fire and Ice - Sophie Rose, a tough and determined newspaper reporter, is the daughter of Bobby Rose, a suave, charming, and handsome gentleman who also happens to be a notorious big-time thief. The major Chicago daily where Sophie works insists she write an expose about her roguish father. I...
  • My Fathers' Daughter: A Story of Family and Belonging - A smart young journalist returns to the country in which she was born, eventually reaching the tiny village in Eritrea. This work is the story of that journey--and the return to the family she didn't know she had.
  • The Best of Outside: The First 20 Years by Outside Magazine, ISBN 0375703136 - The man-eating proclivities of Komodo dragons. The complicated art of being a cowgirl. A picaresque ramble with a merry band of tree-cleaners. The big-wave crusaders of the world's best surfers. For the past twenty years, Outside magazine has set the standard for original and e...
  • The King of Vodka: The Story of Pyotr Smirnov and the Upheaval of an Empire - From a distinguished journalist comes an epic biography of vodka pioneer Pyotr Smirnov, whose business empire still spans the globe today.
  • Moon Scotland - Journalist Luke Waterson spent his summers in Scotland as a child and offers an insider's perspective on the region, from pub-crawling in Glasgow to climbing Ben Nevis, Scotland's highest peak. Waterson provides ideas for great trips, such as a Weeklong Highland Fling and a Cov...
  • Time Out Morocco: Perfect Places to Stay, Eat & Explore - "Time Out Morocco" takes readers to 20 of the most alluring destinations in this underexplored jewel of a country. All the major cities are included, plus bijou small towns, spectacular beaches, dramatic desert landscapes, and breathtaking mountain trails. For urban-m...
  • Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency - Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Gellman documents how Vice President Dick Cheney redefined the role of the American vice presidency, assuming unprecedented responsibilities and making it a post of historic power.
  • Heart of Fire - In this second novel of Martin's deliciously passionate trilogy, journalist Coralee Whitmore vows to uncover the truth about her sister's death. She suspects the notorious Earl of Tremaine was her sister's lover. Corrie soon finds the Earl is not all he seems, nor is she immune...
  • The Prince of Providence: The Rise and Fall of Buddy Cianci, America's Most Notorious Mayor - Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Stanton chronicles the rise and fall of Buddy Cianci, America's most notorious mayor, in a classic story of wiseguys, feds, and politicians on a carousel of crime and redemption.
  • The Postcard - In this tender novel and its sequel, two people from different worlds discover a long-kept secret--and forbidden love. Rachel Yoder has resigned herself to life as an Amish widow. Though painfully shy, she and her young daughter help her parents run a bed-and-breakfast in Lanca...
  • Havana Nocturne: How the Mob Owned Cuba- And Then Lost It to the Revolution - An award-winning journalist and historian offers the complete story of how the Mob infiltrated Havana in the 1950s, made a fortune--and lost it all to Fidel Castro. 16-page b&w photo insert.
  • Somebody Told Me: The Newspaper Stories of Rick Bragg by Rick Bragg, ISBN 0375725520 - With his bestselling All Over but the Shoutin', Rick Bragg gave us memorable stories of his own childhood. In Somebody Told Me, he offers the best of his work as a Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist writing the remarkable stories of others. For twenty years, Bragg has focused ...
  • Emergency: This Book Will Save Your Life - Combining wit and journalistic detail, "Plan B" follows Strauss's journey toward obtaining a second citizenship in a small Caribbean island--and offers a wry commentary on the future of America in a time of uncertainty.
  • Where the Heart Leads - After graduating from Boston Tech, Kansas-born Mennonite Thomas Ollenburger wonders what God has in store for him. When he meets Daphne and accepts a position as a journalist at her father's Boston newspaper, his job requires him to support a presidential candidate with questio...
  • A Year in High Heels: The Girl's Guide to Everything from Jane Austen to the A-List - From rocking red shoes in summer to perfecting your postholiday thank-you notes, "A Year in High Heels" is the ultimate style guide for all fashion-forward females. Fashion journalist and bestselling author Camilla Morton has gathered together an eclectic collection o...
  • In the Hot Zone: One Man, One Year, Twenty Wars [With DVD] - In this fascinating journalistic memoir, Yahoos first news correspondent takes an adventurous and poignant look at world conflict and the future of media. Photos throughout.
  • The Red Leather Diary: Reclaiming a Life Through the Pages of a Lost Journal - A "New York Times" journalist discovers a discarded old diary--a find that introduces her to an extraordinary woman and a glamorous, forgotten time. Evocative and entrancing, "The Red Leather Diary" recreates the romance and glitter of 1930s New York. Photos...
  • The Freedom Agenda: Why America Must Spread Democracy (Just Not the Way George Bush Did) - Traub, a journalist for "The New York Times Magazine," traces the history of America's democratic evangelizing and describes the rise and fall of the Freedom Agenda during the Bush years.
  • Hand of Evil - Former television journalist Ali Reynolds finds her new life in her hometown of Sedona threatened, in this masterful story that travels over generations, revealing two very different women with the same horrifying secret.
  • Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer, ISBN 0385494785 - A bank of clouds was assembling on the not-so-distant horizon, but journalist-mountaineer Jon Krakauer, standing on the summit of Mt. Everest, saw nothing that "suggested that a murderous storm was bearing down." He was wrong. The storm, which claimed five lives and l...
  • A Crime So Monstrous: Face-To-Face with Modern-Day Slavery - Based on four years of research in over a dozen countries across the globe, journalist Skinner provides a shocking expos of the inner workings of the modern-day slave trade. Maps.
  • Poisoned Profits: The Toxic Assault on Our Children - In the tradition of "The Truth About the Drug Companies" and "Silent Spring" two veteran environmental journalists expose how corporate America is poisoning the nation's children with toxic chemicals.
  • History of African-American Artists: From 1792 to the Present - A landmark work of art history: lavishly illustrated and extraordinary for its thoroughness, A History of African-American Artists -- conceived, researched, and written by the great American artist Romare Bearden with journalist Harry Henderson, who completed the work after Bea...
  • The Sun and the Moon: The Remarkable True Account of Hoaxers, Showmen, Dueling Journalists, and Lunar Man-Bats in Nineteenth-Century New Yor - This work tells the delightful, entertaining, and surprisingly true story of how, in the summer of 1835, a series of articles in the "Sun" newspaper convinced the citizens of New York that the moon was inhabited. "The Sun and the Moon" offers the remarkable ...
  • The Irregulars: Roald Dahl and the British Spy Ring in Wartime Washington - Following her bestselling accounts of the most guarded secrets of the Second World War, Conant offers a rollicking true story of spies, politicians, journalists, and intrigue in the highest circles of Washington during the tumultuous days of World War II. 16 pages of b&w ph...
  • Peter Jennings: A Reporter's Life - The bulk of the interviews in this oral history were conducted in the days immediately following the anchorman's death from lung cancer in August 2005. Friends and fellow reporters retrace every step of his career, offering an intimate portrait of the late journalist and news a...
  • The Armageddon Rag - Onetime underground journalist Sandy Blair has traveled far from his radical roots in the '60s--until the bizarre and brutal murder of a millionaire rock promoter draws him back. As Sandy sets out to investigate the crime, he finds himself on a magical mystery tour of the pent-...
  • Plain Secrets: An Outsider Among the Amish - Journalist Mackall writes about his surprising friendship with an Amish family trying to live a simple life in a complex world.
  • Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century - Many had questioned the probability that Hunter S. Thompson would ever write a memoir. But the enigmatic legend of letters bucked the odds, resulting in a hilarious account of the making of the Gonzo journalist.
  • House of Bush, House of Saud: The Secret Relationship Between the World's Two Most Powerful Dynasties - Newsbreaking and controversial, an award-winning investigative journalist uncovers the 30-year relationship between the Bush family and the house of Saud and explains its impact on American foreign policy, business, and national security.
  • Everything They Had: Sports Writing from David Halberstam - This work delivers the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist's unique vision of sports, with an intimate and personal collection that reveals the ideals of a culture steeped in integrity, loyalty, and character.
  • Vets Under Siege: How America Deceives and Dishonors Those Who Fight Our Battles - An award-winning Washington journalist reports firsthand accounts that expose the shameless mistreatment of America's young servicemen and women--from recruiters' deceptions and a lack of armor in battle to shoddy, disgusting conditions at Walter Reed and other medical facilities.
  • Black and White and Dead All Over - From the author of the bestselling "Neanderthal" comes a cunning, pitch-perfect portrait of the declining--if not yet murderous--newspaper industry and a mystery that entertains from first to last. Darnton is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for "The New York ...
  • Do or Die: For the First Time, Members of America's Most Notorious Gangs--The Crips and The..... by Leon Bing, ISBN 0060922915 - Fiercely compelling and widely acclaimed, Do or Die is the first inside account of street gangs and their brutal world. Journalist Leon Bing, who gained ther four years, lets the gang members discuss for themselves their lives, loves, and battles.
  • The World Without Us - Weisman, an award-winning journalist, offers readers a penetrating--and sometimes terrifying--take on how the planet would respond without the relentless pressure of the human presence.
  • The President's Daughter by Mariah Stewart, ISBN 0345447395 - BLOODLINE Dina McDermott is on top of the world. Attractive and independent at thirty, she runs her own business, funded by a generous inheritance. But an explosive chain of events will soon be set into motion--and her perfect life will spin out of control. A journalist wit...
  • The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X, ISBN 0345379756 - With its first great victory in the landmark Supreme Court decision, Brown vs. Board of Education in 1954, the Civil Rights movement gained the powerful momentum it needed to sweep forward into its crucial decade, the 1960s. As voices of protest and change rose above the din of...
  • The Water Clock - Small-town journalist Philip Dryden thinks hes caught his big break when a frozen corpse is found in the trunk of a car. However, another body soon turns up and the crimes are linked to a murder from 30 years ago. Now Dryden starts to see just how big--and dangerous--this case ...
  • Frost/Nixon - By 1972 Richard Nixon had ended the Vietnam war, achieved diplomatic breakthroughs with Russia and China, presided over a period of economic stability at home, and was on the verge of a landslide re-election . . . until he decided to cover up a third-rate burglary. Watergate wa...
  • I'm Not Your Friend, I'm Your Parent: Helping Your Children Set the Boundaries They Need...and Really Want - A "Fox News" host and busy mother of eight offers the antidote to permissive parenting by giving parents permission to be in charge. With entertaining stories from her own family and those of others she has encountered in her profession as a journalist, she tackles pa...
  • Dunkirk Crescendo - As spring 1940 unfolds in Paris, war is inevitable. AP journalist Josephine Marlow is asked to undertake a dangerous journey back into the borders of the Reich. French colonel Andre Chardon knows that the undefeated Fhrer will not hold back his Blitzkrieg long from France. But ...
  • The Science of Fear: Why We Fear the Things We Shouldn't--And Put Ourselves in Greater Danger - From terror attacks to the war on terror, real estate bubbles to the price of oil, sexual predators to poisoned food from China, our list of fears is ever-growing. And yet, we are the safest and healthiest humans in history. Irrational fear seems to be taking over, often with t...
  • Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets by David Simon, ISBN 0804109990 - "Remarkable . . . a true crime classic . . . a journalistic masterpiece. . . . (A) saga of a brutal, bloody, bewildering year in the Baltimore Police Department's homicide unit. . . . This is interior reporting at its finest".--"Associated Press". An Edgar A...
  • Matar A Pablo Escobar: La Caceria del Criminal Mas Buscado del Mundo = Killing Pablo - Killing Pablo is the inside story of the brutal rise and violent fall of the Colombian cocaine cartel kingpin, whose criminal empire held a nation of thirty million hostage--a reign of terror that would end only with his death. In an intense, up-close account, award-winning jou...
  • Latin American Heroes: Liberators and Patriots from 1500 to the Present by Jerome Adams, ISBN 0345383842 - Many North Americans are unaware of the history and politics of Latin America, and Latin American Heroes goes a long way to redress this lack of knowledge. These profiles of twenty-three history makers offer a unique view of Latin America through the eyes of men and women who d...
  • Frommer's Portable Big Island of Hawaii - Frommer's Portable Guides offer all the detailed information and insider advice of a Frommer's Complete Guide--but in a concise, pocket-sized format. Perfect for the short-term traveler who insists on value and doesn't want to wade through or carry a full-size guidebook, this s...
  • Message from Nam by Danielle Steel, ISBN 0440209412 - As a journalist, Paxton Andrews would experience Vietnam firsthand. We follow her from high school in Savannah to college in Berkeley and then to work in Saigon. For the soldiers she knew and met there, Viet Nam would change their lives in ways they could never have imagined....
  • The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America - From the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author of "Backlash" comes an unflinching dissection of the mind of America after 9/11.
  • Talking Irish: The Oral History of Notre Dame Football by Steve Delsohn, ISBN 0060937157 - An entertaining fusion of fact, legend, and lore, Notre Dame football has transcended the boundaries of the sport and the university to become a time-honored American tradition. For its legions of devoted fans and alumni, Talking Irish vividly captures it all: the exhilarating ...
  • Shadow Warriors: The Untold Story of Traitors, Saboteurs, and the Party of Surrender - Investigative journalist Timmerman contends that partisan bureaucrats at the State Department, the CIA, and other key agencies, together with Democratic politicians, are actively undermining Bush administration policy at every turn, thus gutting Americas ability to fight the Wa...
  • The Rise and Fall of the American Teenager: A New History of the American Adolescent Experience by Thomas Hine, ISBN 0380728532 - Journalist Thomas Hine makes a brilliant, provocative, and entertaining examination of the creation and history of a unique social invention--the American teenager.
  • Reasons to Believe: One Man's Journey Among the Evangelicals and the Faith He Left Behind - From a veteran journalist and former "60 Minutes" producer comes an intimate portrait and chronicle of the Evangelical movement, and the story of how this lapsed believer came to terms with his faith.
  • Without Reservations: The Travels of an Independent Woman by Alice Steinbach, ISBN 0375758453 - "In many ways, I was an independent woman," writes Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Alice Steinbach. "For years I'd made my own choices, paid my own bills, shoveled my own snow." But somehow she had become dependent in quite another way. "I had fallen ...
  • Baltimore Blues by Laura Lippman, ISBN 0380788756 - Losing her job as a reporter, Tess Monaghan accepts a friend's request to follow his fiancee. Utilizing her journalist's instincts, Tess learns that the woman is a kleptomaniac and may be having an affair with her boss. After revealing her findings, the boss is murdered and Tes...
  • The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean, ISBN 044900371X - In Susan Orlean's mesmerizing true story of beauty and obsession is John Laroche, a renegade plant dealer and sharply handsome guy, in spite of the fact that he is missing his front teeth and has the posture of al dente spaghetti. In 1994, Laroche and three Seminole Indians wer...
  • From This Day Forward by Cokie Roberts, ISBN 0060959541 - Now in paperback and with a new Introduction, journalists Cokie and Steve Roberts take a look at the institution of marriage, American style, including their own match of 33 years. With a narrative similar to "We Are Our Mother's Daughters", they use personal recollec...
  • The Case for Christ: A Journalist Investigates the Toughest Questions to Christianity by Lee Strobel, ISBN 0310246083 - A student edition of Lee Strobel's prize-winning The Case for Faith, created by the same writers, Strobel and Jane Vogel, who produced the popular The Case for Christ--Student Edition.
  • Obama: A Promise of Change - From the veteran "Chicago Tribune" journalist who knows him best comes a comprehensive biography of the presidential hopeful America can't stop talking about: Barack Obama.
  • Body Politic: Dispatches from the Women's Health Revolution - Science journalist and women's health advocate Seaman brings together an essential collection of essays, interviews, and commentary by leading activists, writers, doctors, and sociologists to celebrate the progress of the women's health movement.
  • The Last Hellion by Loretta Chase, ISBN 0380776170 - Bold journalist Lydia Grenville tackled and publicly bested one of London's most notorious wastrels. Yet it's the dashing aristocrat who broke up the incident that ignites her imagination and sends scandalous thoughts into her head. Amused by the sultry vixen's behavior, Vere M...
  • Not a Good Day to Die: The Untold Story of Operation Anaconda - An eyewitness account of Operation Anaconda in Afghanistan--from one of the top journalists and war correspondents in the country.
  • Charley's Web - Filled with complex characters and a plot rich with intrigue, this suspenseful thriller by a "New York Times"-bestselling author is the story of an ambitious journalist whose foray into the mind of a killer puts her own family in jeopardy.
  • Frommer's Hawaii [With Foldout Map] - Featuring gorgeous color photos of the stunning beaches, this guide written by one of Hawaii's most noted journalists is hands-down the most reliable, up-to-date, and comprehensive guide to the islands. Original.
  • In Nixon's Web: A Year in the Crosshairs of Watergate - L. Patrick Gray, the FBI director who maintained his silence for more than 30 years, tells the last untold story of Watergate. This book was completed and expanded by his son, journalist Ed Gray, who has supplemented the text with previously unreleased documents.
  • 8 Ball Chicks: A Year in the Violent World of Girl Gangs by Gini Sikes, ISBN 0385474326 - Dismissed by the police as mere adjuncts to or gofers for male gangs, girl gang members are in fact often as emotionally closed off and dangerous as their male counterparts. Carrying razor blades in their mouths and guns in their jackets for defense, they initiate drive-by shoo...
  • Infiltration: How Muslim Spies and Subversives Have Penetrated Washington - In this startling book, investigative journalist Sperry uses revealing new interviews and classified documents to courageously explain how, for the past 30 years, Islamist extremists have been covertly working to destroy America's constitutional government and the Judeo-Christi...
  • Those Who Trespass: A Novel of Television and Murder by Bill O'Reilly, ISBN 0767913817 - Investigating the murders of television executives and journalists in the competitive world of broadcast news, New York City detective Tommy O'Malley encounters stiff competition in the form of a beautiful tabloid reporter.
  • The Case for Christ by Lee Strobel, ISBN 0310247799 - In this unabridged audio CD edition of his Gold Medallion Award-winning book, Lee Strobel uses the dramatic scenario of an investigative journalist pursuing his story and leads-and his experience as a reporter for the Chicago Tribune-to interview experts about the evidence for ...
  • Going Bridal: How to Get Married Without Losing Your Mind by Li Robbins, ISBN 0071426124 - Why let the stress of wedding planning make you lose your sense of humor . . . or your mind? When a typically savvy woman starts to feel like wedding planning is making her cuckoo, she's obviously . . . Going Bridal! In these pages journalist Li Robbins, who coined the term, ta...
  • Stories Done: Writings on the 1960s and Its Discontents - A veteran music journalist and the NBCC award-winning author of "Shot in the Heart" profiles George Harrison, Ken Kesey, Allen Ginsberg, and other icons of the 1960s and 1970s, offering an impassioned eulogy for an era. B&w photos throughout.
  • The Hardest Working Man: How James Brown Saved the Soul of America - Acclaimed journalist Sullivan tells the story of the night James Brown kept the peace in the wake of the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.--and delivered hope with an immortal performance in Boston.
  • Spook Country - The latest "New York Times" bestseller by the author of "Pattern Recognition" offers the story of an investigative journalist who is assigned the task of finding a spook--an intelligence agent who refuses to sleep in the same place twice.
  • The Last Juror - Grisham's #1 "New York Times" bestseller returns readers to Ford County, Mississippi, the locale for "A Time to Kill." A young journalist becomes caught up in the sensational trial of a savage killer whose vengeful vow has a devastating effect on the small t...
  • To Cork or Not to Cork: Tradition, Romance, Science, and the Battle for the Wine Bottle - The author of the surprise hit "Judgment of Paris" uncorks another fascinating, extensively researched expos on wine: to cork or not to cork. Calling on his journalistic training and passion for wine, Taber traces the history of the cork and examines its modern substi...
  • Ernie Pyle's War: America's Eyewitness to World War II - WINNER OF A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD Ernie Pyle, better than any other World War II journalist, conveyed the triumphs and tribulations of the common soldier trying to survive a brutal conflict. From North Africa and Normandy, Anzio and Okinawa -- where he died -- Pyle...
  • Mexico by James A. Michener, ISBN 0449221873 - "Astounding...Fast-moving, Intriguing...James Michener is back in huge, familiar form with MEXICO." LOS ANGELES DAILY NEWS Here is the story of an American journalist who travels to Mexico to report on the upcoming duel between two great matadors, but who is ultimat...
  • War Journal: My Five Years in Iraq - NBC News' Engel, the most dynamic and longest-serving television journalist in Iraq, provides a vivid, earthy account of the war. 8 pages of b&w photographs.
  • The Truth by Terry Pratchett, ISBN 0380818191 - The denizens of Ankh-Morpork fancy they've seen just about everything. But then comes the Ankh-Morpork Times, struggling scribe William de Worde's upper-crust newsletter turned Discworld's first paper of record. An ethical journalist, de Worde has a proclivity for investigating...
  • The Spirited Walker: Fitness Walking for Clarity, Balance, and Spiritual Connection by Carolyn Scott Kortge, ISBN 0060647361 - No matter how fast or how far you walk, no matter what your goals or fitness level, wheter you walk on a treadmill or in a forest, alone or with companions, this guide will lead you along a path of mental and physical exercise that travels from sole to soul. Author Carolyn Scot...
  • La Fragancia de la Flor del Cafe - With this novel, author Ana Veloso takes us to Brazil at the end of the 1800?s. The story tells of the forbidden love affair between a beautiful, intelligent and independent woman ?born to rich feudal coffee growers, and a journalist whose ideals make him an advocate for the ab...
  • Eating the Sun: How Plants Power the Planet - The everyday miracle of photosynthesis is the topic of this accessible book by an award-winning science journalist, who received high praise for his last book, "Mapping Mars.
  • BBC History Of World War II (12-Disc) (Full Frame, Widescreen) - How could a political party as fundamentally evil and overtly racist as the Nazis come to power? Why was Japan, known for its admirable treatment of POWs in WWI, responsible for such grim atrocities in the Second World War? This comprehensive collection not only examines the de...
  • Talent Is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else - Expanding on a landmark cover story in "Fortune" magazine, a top journalist debunks the myths of exceptional performance. Colvin offers evidence that top performers in any field are not determined by inborn talents but from practice and perseverance honed over decades.
  • Lonely Planet Indonesia - The most up-to-date guidebook to Indonesia on the market includes grid-referenced maps and a specialist Arts & Crafts chapter. Acclaimed journalist John Martinkus writes features on troubled Aceh and Papua.
  • American Dream: Stories from the Heart of Our Nation by Dan Rather, ISBN 006093770X - The bestselling author and award-winning TV journalist crosses the nation to find everyman's version of the universal ideal--the American dream.
  • A Time to Die - Its been ten years since a bullet left journalist Lexie Murrough paralyzed. Black Ops commando Deke Bronson is grateful Lexie has no memory of the incident, for hes never been able to forgive himself. After Lexie, whos now the head of an international charity, receives threats,...
  • Black Lightning by John Saul, ISBN 0449225046 - "HIS MOST EFFECTIVE THRILLER TO DATE. . . [A] COMPELLING READ." --The Seattle Times For five years Seattle journalist Anne Jeffers has pursued the horrifying story of a sadistic serial killer's bloody reign, capture, trial, and appeal--crusading to keep the wheels...
  • Pauline Frommer's New York City: Spend Less, See More - Named Winner of Best Guidebook for 2006 by the North American Travel Journalists Association, this title is completely updated for 2009, with information on places to explore, bargains to snag, and more. Original.
  • What Every Young Person Should Know about War by Chris Hedges, ISBN 0743255127 - Acclaimed "New York Times" journalist and author Chris Hedges offers a critical -- and fascinating -- lesson in the dangerous realities of our age: a stark look at the effects of war on combatants. Utterly lacking in rhetoric or dogma, this manual relies instead on ba...
  • Peter Jennings: A Reporter's Life - The bulk of the interviews in this oral history were conducted in the days immediately following the anchorman's death from lung cancer in August 2005. Friends and fellow reporters retrace every step of his career, offering an intimate portrait of the late journalist and news a...
  • How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed by Slavenka Drakulic, ISBN 0060975407 - Hailed by feminists as one of the most important contributions to women's studies in the last decade, this gripping, beautifully written account describes the daily struggles of women under the Marxist regime in the former republic of Yugoslavia. "Drakulic is a journalist ...
  • Bant/Spec His Way: The Unauthorized Biography of Frank Sinatra by Kitty Kelley, ISBN 0553265156 - This is the book Frank Sinatra failed to stop, the unauthorized biography of one of the most elusive public figures of our time. Celebrated journalist Kitty Kelley spent three years researching government documents (Mafia-related material, wiretaps and secret testimony) and int...
  • Moscow Rules - In the new thriller from the "New York Times"-bestselling author of "The Secret Servant," the death of a journalist leads Gabriel Allon to Russia, where he finds that in terms of spycraft, even he has something to learn. Unabridged. 9 CDs.
  • Plain Secrets: An Outsider Among the Amish - Journalist Mackall writes about his surprising friendship with an Amish family trying to live a simple life in a complex world.
  • The War Behind Me: Vietnam Veterans Confront the Truth about U.S. War Crimes - A seasoned journalist uncovers a secret archive of hundreds of war crime investigations, tracks down the people involved, and emerges with a disturbing and revelatory story of what really happened in Vietnam.
  • A Suitable Vengeance by Elizabeth George, ISBN 0553295608 - Award-winning author Elizabeth George gives us an early glimpse into the lives of Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley, forensic scientist Simon Allcourt-St. James, and Lady Helen Clyde in a superlative mystery that is also a fascinating inquiry into the crimes of the heart. Lynle...
  • Blindsided: Lifting a Life Above Illness: A Reluctant Memoir - With a new Afterword, this "New York Times" bestseller chronicles and celebrates a life brimming with accomplishment and adversity as the author--veteran journalist Cohen--struggles for emotional and physical health.
  • The Accidental Connoisseur: An Irreverent Journey Through the Wine World - Enchanting, delightful, entertaining, and, above all, down to earth, this wine book is like no other, as a journalist takes readers on a personal voyage through a little-known world.
  • Atravesando Fronteras: Un Periodista En Busca de Su Lugar En El Mundo by Jorge Ramos, ISBN 0060559292 - "Emmy Award-winning TV journalist and author of "The Other Face of America" (2002), Ramos this time explores the immigrant experience from the perspective of his own career in journalism."--"Booklist.
  • Memoria de Mis Putas Tristes - An elderly journalist decides to celebrate 90th year in a grand way, giving himself a present that will make him feel like he's still alive: a young virgin. In the brothel of a picturesque town, the moment comes where he sees the girl from the back, completely naked, and his li...
  • Amazing...But False!: Hundreds of "Facts" You Thought Were True, But Aren't - "Edison invented the lightbulb--and motion pictures. Camels store water in their humps. Captain Kidd was a notorious pirate." What do these so-called "facts" have in common? They're all false! Every one is a myth that, through time, has achieved the status o...
  • Hospital: Man, Woman, Birth, Death, Infinity, Plus Red Tape, Bad Behavior, Money, God and Diversity on Steroids - A bestselling author and award-winning journalist follows a year in the life of a big urban hospital, painting a revealing portrait of how medical care is delivered in America today.
  • The Scourge of God - From a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, historian, and naturalist comes a thrilling novel of the clashing of civilizations, as Attila the Hun struggles to overthrow the Roman Empire.
  • Ballad of the Whiskey Robber: A True Story of Bank Heists, Ice Hockey, Transylvanian Pelt Smuggling, Moonlighting Detectives, and Broken Hearts - "Rubenstein has found a story of the sort that would make even the most dry-mouthed journalist slobber. Sometimes sad, often hilarious, and always absurd."--"New York Times Book Review.
  • Out There: The In-Depth Story of the Astronaut Love Triangle Case That Shocked America - A master crime journalist delivers this in-depth account of the love triangle involving space shuttle astronaut Lisa Nowak, who in an apparent fit of jealously drove non-stop from Houston to Florida to confront the woman she believed to be her romantic rival. photos. Original.
  • Stepmotherhood: How to Survive Without Feeling Frustrated, Left Out, or Wicked by Cherie Burns, ISBN 0609807447 - If you're one of the more than 15 million stepmothers in the country, you know the particular trials--and joys--of stepfamily dynamics today. You wonder if you're doing the right thing and, as a stepmother, many of your specific questions are unique. In this second edition of S...
  • Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White by Frank H. Wu, ISBN 046500640X - Mixing anecdotes, legal cases, and journalistic reporting, a leading voice in America's Asian community tackles what it means to be Asian American in contemporary America.
  • Hostel/The Mothman Prophecies (Widescreen) - "Hostel" - Presented by genre master Quentin Tarantino ("Kill Bill, Vol. 1 & 2") and directed by Eli Roth ("Cabin Fever"), "Hostel" is a shocking and relentless film in the tradition of "Saw" about two American backpackers (...
  • Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense (and Stick You with the Bill) - Bestselling author and acclaimed journalist Johnston shows how for the past three decades, the government began to offer favorable treatment to certain groups. But for every subsidy and regulatory change that helps one person, another pays the price.
  • The Dead Cat Bounce by Sarah Graves, ISBN 055357857X - dead cat bounce "n. Stock market jargon for a small, temporary rise in a stock's trading price after a sharp drop. Since she bought her rambling old fixer-upper of a house, Jacobia Tiptree has gotten used to finding things broken. But her latest problem isn't so easily r...
  • Hoop Dreams: A True Story of Hardship and Triumph by Ben Joravsky, ISBN 0060976896 - Award-winning journalist Ben Joravsky vividly brings to life all the richness and subtlety of the experiences of Arthur Agee and William Gates, two gifted urban hoopsters determined to make it to the NBA, in this intimate, suspenseful, and heart-wrenching adaptation of the awar...
  • Killing Pablo by Mark Bowden, ISBN 0142000957 - A tour de force of investigative journalism -- this is the story of the violent rise and fall of Pablo Escobar, the head of the Colombian Medellin cocaine cartel. Escobar's criminal empire held a nation of thirty million hostage in a reign of terror that would only end with his...
  • Me and Kaminski - From the internationally bestselling author comes a provocative and wickedly funny novel about two unpredictable men--one an artist and the other a journalist--who together embark on an unexpected adventure with uproarious results.
  • Media Training 101 by Sally Stewart, ISBN 0471271551 - Written by a seasoned journalist and public relations professional, "Media Training 101 is your essential guide to handling the news media. A former USA Today reporter and consultant to major companies, Sally Stewart leads you through every step in developing a communicati...
  • Fourth Hand by John Irving, ISBN 0345449347 - While reporting a story from India, New York journalist Patrick Wallingford inadvertently becomes his own headline when his left hand is eaten by a lion. In Boston, a renowned surgeon eagerly awaits the opportunity to perform the nation's first hand transplant. But what if the ...
  • You Are Here: Exposing the Vital Link Between What We Do and What That Does to Our Planet - A leading environmental journalist travels to the most fragile places on Earth to show how what individuals do at home affects people, places, and things across the globe. 8-page 4-color photo insert.
  • Napoleon's Pyramids - An 18th-century explorer travels to Egypt as part of Napoleon's great expedition, where he stumbles into a deadly 6,000-year-old mystery. Dietrich, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, is also the author of "The Scourge of God" and "Hadrian's Wall.
  • Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal - In his"New York Times" bestseller, National Magazine Award-winning journalist Eric Schlosser charts the fast food industry's enormous impact on our health, landscape, economy, politics and culture as he transforms the way America thinks about what it eats.
  • Aun Ahora = Even Now - SPANISH EDITION: Shane Galanter is ready to put down roots after years of searching. But is he making the right choice? Or is there a woman somewhere who remembers a love that hasn't faded with time? Lauren Gibbs is a successful international war correspondent who gave up on ha...
  • The Pirate's Dilemma: How Youth Culture Is Reinventing Capitalism - An award-winning music journalist explores the ways that youth culture and rapidly evolving technology are working together to breed innovation and explosively transform mainstream society.
  • One Billion Customers: Lessons from the Front Lines of Doing Business in China - From one of the most successful journalist/businessmen ever to do business inChina comes a blueprint for succeeding in the worlds fastest-growing consumermarket.
  • The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever - Hitchens, acclaimed journalist and bestselling author of "God Is Not Great," selects and introduces an illuminating collection of the most essential and influential writings for the non-believer, including selections from Charles Darwin, Thomas Jefferson, Richard Dawk...
  • Resort to Murder by Carolyn Hart, ISBN 0380807203 - Recently recovered from pneumonia, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Henrie O joins her grandchildren at an elegant oceanfront hotel for the wedding of her former son-in-law, Lloyd, to Connor Bailey, a beautiful widow with a dark past. Soon, Henrie is embroiled in a deadly puzz...
  • The Poet of Baghdad: A True Story of Love and Defiance - In the winter of 1979 Nabeel Yasin, Iraq's most famous young poet, fled Iraq with his wife and son. Written by a journalist who has spent many years in the Middle East, and who is a close friend of Yasin's, "Nabeel's Song" is the gripping story of a family and its fat...
  • The Distinguished Guest by Sue Miller, ISBN 0060930004 - The Distinguished Guest chronicles the visit of an ailing woman to her son and his family. Lily Maynard is proud, chilly, difficult, and famous for writing, at age seventy-two, a memoir about the dissolution of her marriage years earlier and the spiritual and political crises t...
  • Last Amer Man by Elizabeth Gilbert, ISBN 0142002836 - In this National Book Award finalist, acclaimed journalist and fiction writer Gilbert focuses on the fascinating true story of Eustace Conway, who left his comfortable suburban home at the age of 17 to move into the Appalachian Mountains, where for the last 20 years he has live...
  • Bush's Law: The Remaking of American Justice - From a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist comes this devastating chronicle of the Bush administration's attempt to undermine the rule of law in post-9/11 America.

 
 

 
 
 
 
 

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