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Author
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
xi, 317 pages : map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"From a 2017 Pulitzer-winning newspaperman, an unsentimental ode to America's heartland as seen in small-town Iowa--a story of reinvention and resilience, environmental and economic struggle, and surprising diversity and hope. When The Storm Lake Times, a tiny Iowa twice-weekly, won a Pulitzer Prize for taking on big corporate agri-industry for poisoning the local rivers and lake, it was a coup on many counts: a strike for the well being of a rural...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
""The story of the Chicago Defender is the story of race in the twentieth century." -- Alex Kotlowitz, author of There Are No Children Here Giving voice to the voiceless, the Chicago Defender condemned Jim Crow, catalyzed the Great Migration, and focused the electoral power of black America. Robert S. Abbott founded The Defender in 1905, smuggled hundreds of thousands of copies into the most isolated communities in the segregated South, and was dubbed...
Publisher
CBS DVD
Pub. Date
©2009
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (16 hr., 42 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Commodities trader Gary Hobson is given a look into the future when tomorrow's newspaper mysteriously arrives today. Reluctantly, he uses his mysterious abilities to change the course of events to help people avert tragedy and misfortune.
Publisher
CBS DVD
Pub. Date
©2008
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (approximately 1031 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Commodities trader Gary Hobson (Kyle Chandler) is losing it: his job, his home, and his brilliant attorney wife. He thinks he may even be losing his mind when tomorrow's newspaper mysteriously arrives today giving him a disconcerting look into the future. What will he do with tomorrow's news? While his best friend Chuck (Fisher Stevens) sees the newspaper as a ticket to personal gain, co-worker Marissa (Shanesia Davis) convinces Gary that the early...