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"Ask mother" says the message scrawled in lipstick at a muder scene by an unknown serial killer who preys on women. It's a sensational story - if it bleeds, it leads - and a news conglomerate offers a big promotion to the high-level company exec who solves the case. So begins the wheeling, dealing and backstabbing of the competing media hotshots as they vie to unmask the so-called Lipstick Killer.
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Willie Stark is an uncorrupted small-town mayor in 1950s Louisiana. He gets picked by the political machine to run as a wild card candidate in the upcoming gubernatorial race. But, when Willie realizes that he is being manipulated, he veers off on his own to become the darling of the electorate's downtrodden and forgotten hicks. Covering the campaign for a local paper is Jack Burden, whose editorial pieces become so admiring of Willie that he's fired....
563) Friends call me Bat
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"William Barclay "Bat" Masterson lived an extraordinary life it would be impossible to imagine. If it weren't true, no one would believe it. Bat Masterson lived the West when the West was wild. His significance in Western history remains largely unknown to most of us. His story encounters some of the West's most deadly gunfighters and dangerous desperados. He counted among his friends a veritable "Who's Who" in old West history. He walked away from...
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The six degrees of helter skelter: A hauntingly unique retelling of the notorious Manson Family Murders. With original Manson Family music recordings, rare vintage photos of the story's major players, and never-before-seen autopsy reports, viewers are taken on an insightful exploration of over 40 key locations associated with the spree that rocked Los Angeles-- and shocked the world-- in August 1969.
The Ted Bundy story: The true story of a crime...
565) Playing possum
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Kristy Farrell mystery volume 3
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"When animals start mysteriously disappearing from the Pendwell Wildlife Refuge, former English-teacher-turned-magazine-reporter Kristy Farrell is on the case. Days later, the body of the refuge's director is found in a grassy clearing. Kristy, assisted by her veterinarian daughter, investigates and discovers strong motives among the suspects, including greed, infidelity, revenge, and blackmail. As Kristy delves further, she finds herself up against...
566) Comrade X
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Soviet streetcar conductor Theodore is as lovely as a Botticelli angel and as forbidding as a Moscow winter. American reporter "Mac" Thompson is hunky and self-confident. Together, in pre-World War II Russia, the two share an adventure involving secret identities, a marriage of convenience, hairbreadth escapes and a thrilling tank-chase as Mac tries to help Theodore leave for the USA one step ahead of the corrupt secret police.
567) Everything to me
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When she jets down to the Caribbean, Dakota Merrick doesn't expect to spend the night with Trent Walker at his luxurious island hideaway. The bad blood between the music columnist and the ultra-charming jazz producer vanishes with their first kiss. Dakota's enchanted by the erotic atmosphere of the world-class resort and the passionate music she and Trent are making together. Trent knows he shouldn't trust the ambitious reporter. But living out his...
568) The Virgin of Juarez
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In the border town of Ciudad Juarez, hundreds of young women have been brutally murdered with no arrests. Investigating these serial killings, reporter Karina Danes meets Mariela, a rare survivor of one of these vicious attacks.
571) Smak wojny
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Andrzej Brenner volume 2
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"Smak wojny to uderzająco prawdziwa, pełna przemocy, ale również poruszająca powieść, od której nie sposób się oderwać. Fabuła powieści Smak wojny rozgrywa się kilka lat przed wydarzeniami znanymi czytelnikom z bestsellerowej Wieży komunistów. Tym razem Andrzej Brenner, niezależny dziennikarz i awanturnik, jako korespondent wojenny zostaje wysłany wraz ze swoim przyjacielem do Kosowa, gdzie osobiście doświadcza chaosu będącego...
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My weirder school volume 3
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"¡Es el Día de las Profesiones en la Escuela Prima Aria! La Sra. Lía es la reportera del periódico local y vendrá para ayudar a los chico a crear su propio periódico para que escriban acerca de la escuela. ¿Qué pasará cuando A.J. y su pandilla se conviertan en reporteros investigadores? ¿Quién va a ser despedido? ¿Quién terminará en la cárcel?"--
On Career Day at Ella Mentry School, local reporter Mrs. Lía helps A.J. and his fellow...
574) Love is a racket
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New York Globe columnist Jimmy Russell prowls his Broadway beat, digging up the racy gossip his readers devour with their morning toast and cup of Joe. It's a glamorous life-until Jimmy's attempt to help his actress girlfriend out of a jam ends with him shoving a dead mobster over the balcony of a Manhattan penthouse. Director William A Wellman combines the two genres of crime and tabloid journalism in this snappy Pre-Code comedy-melodrama.
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Over the course of her career, journalist Marie Brenner has profiled heroes, villains, and those who fall in-between. This collection includes profiles of war correspondent Marie Colvin, teenage activist Malala Yousafzai, Donald Trump, and Richard Jewell, whose life was turned upside-down after being wrongfully named as a suspect in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics bombing.
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Rush hour : A wise-cracking cop from L.A. and a high-flying cop from Hong Kong join forces to track down a kidnapper.
Rush hour 2: It's vacation time for Det. Carter and he finds himself alongside Det. Lee in Hong Kong wishing for more a little more excitement. Lee is out to track down a Triad gang lord who may be responsible for killing two men at the American Embassy in Hong Kong. Things get complicated as the pair stumble onto a counterfeiting...
577) Bylines in blood
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"In the future, the very concept of truth has died. Politicians invent their own facts, and independent newspapers no longer exist. In this world, private detectives serve as ronin, searching out the hard truths that people are desperate to keep hidden. The best of these is Satya, a former journalist turned gumshoe who runs every lead to ground. But Satya has just received her hardest case yet: her former editor has been murdered. Someone wanted him...
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Letters between two young girls, one in Washington, D.C., and eager to become a newspaper reporter, the other in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, determined to take flying lessons, chronicle not only events in the year leading up to the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, but also the pain of having their fathers in the war. Includes epilogue with facts and photographs.
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Geronimo Stilton reporter 3 in 1 volume no. 4
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Three great Geronimo Stilton Reporter cases in one volume! Famouse news reporter Geronimo Stilton would be more than happy to spend his days behind his desk working, reading, or playing a relaxing game of chess with his family. But, adventure always seems to come knocking on his door and Stilton is launched paw-first into capers in the underbelly of New Mouse City or in exotic locals around the world. Never one to miss out on an opportunity for a...
580) An eye for an eye
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Detective Kate Young volume 1
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"DI Kate Young is on leave. She's the force's best detective, but her bosses know she's under pressure, on medication and overcoming trauma. So after her bad judgement call leads to a narrowly averted public disaster, they're sure all she needs is a rest. But when Staffordshire Police summon her back to work on a murder case, it's a harder, more suspicious Kate Young who returns. With a new ruthlessness, she sets about tracking down a clinical, calculating...