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701) Resistance
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
Journalist Zoe Meadows has taken a break from hard-hitting investigative reporting to spend more time with her family, which is how she finds herself doing celebrity Q&As at an outdoor music festival near the Scottish border. She and her friends, who run a food truck, head north, along with 150,000 festival goers for a weekend of music and camping.
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Appears on list
Description
Meredith May recalls the first time a honeybee crawled on her arm. She was five years old, her parents had recently split and suddenly she found herself in the care of her grandfather, an eccentric beekeeper who made honey in a rusty old military bus in the yard. That first close encounter was at once terrifying and exhilarating for May, and in that moment she discovered that everything she needed to know about life and family was right before her...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016
Description
Tell me: The most hated woman in Savannah, Georgia, is about to be set free. Twenty years ago, beautiful Blondell O'Henry was convicted of murdering her eldest daughter, Amity, and wounding her two other children. The prosecution argued that Blondell wanted to be rid of them to be with her lover. But Blondell's son has now recanted his crucial testimony... Reporter Nikki Gillette is determined to get the truth, and this time it's personal. Amity...
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"On November 14, 1889, newspaper reporter Nellie Bly set out on the trip of a lifetime. Equipped with just one small bag of necessities, she planned to circle the globe in a mere 75 days. In a time of steamships, locomotives, and horse-drawn carriages, few thought she could do it. But bravery and determination carried her through. How did Bly complete her historic journey, and what is its enduring legacy? Find out in an easy-to-read graphic novel...
706) Homecoming
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Description
Eleven-year-old Joel Gustafsson and his father live in the isolated forests of northern Sweden. Luckily, Joel finds companionship in a mysterious Norwegian elkhound wandering the streets, and together they discover a whole different side of town.
707) Abbott
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
While investigating police brutality and corruption in 1970s Detroit, journalist Elena Abbott uncovers supernatural forces being controlled by a secret society of the city's elite. In the uncertain social and political climate of 1972 Detroit, hard-nosed, chain-smoking tabloid reporter Elena Abbott investigates a series of grisly crimes that the police have ignored. Crimes she knows to be the work of dark occult forces. Forces that took her husband...
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
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Description
"The bestselling author of The Paris Wife returns to the subject of Ernest Hemingway in a novel about his passionate, stormy marriage to Martha Gellhorn--a fiercely independent, ambitious young woman who would become one of the greatest war correspondents of the twentieth century In 1937, twenty-eight-year-old Martha Gellhorn travels alone to Madrid to report on the atrocities of the Spanish Civil War and becomes drawn to the stories of ordinary...
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
"Journalist and NBC reporter Mariana Atencio's fresh, compelling voice resonates powerfully on current cultural topics, such as immigration and global poverty, encouraging individual readers to use their lives to make the world a better place."--Publisher's description.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
"A year and a half after the summer that changed her life, Maggie Thrash wishes she could change it all back. She's trapped in a dark depression and flunking eleventh grade, befuddling her patrician mother while going unnoticed by her father, a workaholic federal judge. The only thing Maggie cares about is her cat, Tommi--who then disappears somewhere in the walls of her cavernous house. So her search begins--but Maggie's not even really sure what...
711) USS Christmas
Pub. Date
2020
Description
Maddie (Jen Lilley), a reporter for a Norfolk newspaper, embarks on a Tiger Cruise during Christmastime where she meets a handsome naval officer (Trevor Donovan) and stumbles upon a mystery in the ship's archive room.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"An inspiring picture book biography of Ida B. Wells-who was an educator, journalist, feminist, businesswoman, newspaper owner, public speaker, suffragist, civil rights activist, and women's club leader-as told by her great-granddaughter, Michelle Duster"--