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Author
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
A reporter for the Bergen News, Chris Turley could never measure up to his father. Edward Turley, a combination of Bob Woodward and Ernie Pyle, was one of the last great investigative reporters and a difficult man to impress. While stuck covering press conferences and town hall meetings, Chris, his father’s legend in mind, has always dreamed of his own Pulitzer, however unlikely it seems. Then one day while he’s waiting to meet a source, a giant...
2) The rowan
Author
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
192 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
A rowan tree with mysterious and unique powers is extending its grip over humanity, and investigative writer Valentina Garnier is caught up in a battle between supernatural forces and the federal government.
3) 1989
Author
Series
Allie Burns volume 2
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
416 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A riveting thrill ride of a novel from a captivating new series, 1989 confirms internationally bestselling author Val McDermid as one of crime fiction's true masters. It's 1989 and journalist Allie Burns is growing up. Older and maybe wiser than the hustling young hack we met in 1979, she's running the northern news operation of the Sunday Globe, chafing at losing her role in investigative journalism and at the descent into the gutter of the UK tabloid...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
139 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
When Appleton Elementary's new school board president, Ivana Beprawpa, uses her position to line her own pockets, student sleuths Sara and May, supported by passionate librarian Rita B. Danjerous, seek the truth. Told through letters, memos, and text messages.-- Provided by Publisher.
5) The love dog
Author
Publisher
Kennebec Large Print, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
449 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Samantha is thrilled when a Hollywood tabloid hires her to write an expose on the reality TV dating show, The Love Dog. Working as the golden retriever's handler, she has trouble digging up dirt on the show. When she falls for both the dog and the leading man, will she have the heart to do it?
6) The first 48
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
This is the latest from Green, whose previous novel, "The Fifth Angel" hit the "New York Times" extended bestseller list. Green is a featured commentator on NPR and FOX Sports, and he's a regular contributor to "Salon" and "USA Today."
7) Night film
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the daughter of a cult horror film director is found dead in an abandoned Manhattan warehouse, investigative journalist Scott McGrath, disbelieving the official suicide ruling, probes into the strange circumstances of the young woman's death.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Tom Sagan and an unscrupulous zealot, Zachariah Simon, square off in a dangerous game to find the key to a 500 year-old mystery--a treasure with explosive political significance in the modern world: the lost treasures of the Temple of Jerusalem.
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
339 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
An ex-mercenary and an embattled journalist find themselves unlikely allies against a corrupt defense contractor in this "noir for modern times" (Ace Atkins). Ray Devlin is retired, living a simple life off the grid in Florida, when a visit from an old colleague stirs some bad memories--and ends with a gunshot. Soon Devlin is forced to again face a past he'd hoped to leave behind, as a member of a mercenary force that helped put a brutal South American...
10) The Store
Author
Language
English
Description
Imagine a future of unparalleled convenience. A powerful retailer, The Store, can deliver anything to your door, anticipating the needs and desires you didn't even know you had. Most people are fine with that, but not Jacob and Megan Brandeis. New York writers whose livelihood is on the brink of extinction, Jacob and Megan are going undercover to dig up The Store's secrets in a book that could change the entire American way of life -- or put an end...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
352 p.
Language
English
Description
"From the prize-winning, New York Times bestselling author of SAY NOTHING and EMPIRE OF PAIN, twelve enthralling stories of skulduggery and intrigue by one of the most decorated journalists of our time "I read everything he writes. Every time he writes a book, I read it. Every time he writes an article, I read it ... he's a national treasure." - Rachel Maddow Patrick Radden Keefe has garnered prizes ranging from the National Magazine Award to the...
12) Escape artist
Author
Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
Language
English
Description
In 1904, the future bestselling writer Edna Ferber is still just a teenager trying to find her place in the world. Most people in Appleton, Wisconsin, don't approve of Edna becoming a newspaper reporter including her family, but Edna is determined to succeed. In a stroke of good luck, Edna gets the opportunity of a lifetime to interview the famous escape artist Harry Houdini when he comes to town. After Frana Lempke, a beautiful young German high...
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (231 pages) : illustrations
Language
English
Description
Meet Jonny Jakes, undercover reporter for banned school newspaper The Woodford Word. Nothing will stop his pursuit of the truth. Not teachers. Not parents. Not even detention. When a new principal arrives halfway through the semester, Jonny smells a rat. Teachers handing out candy? All-you-can-eat hamburgers? He's determined to get to the bottom of it, because Jonny Jakes investigates the same way he eats his hamburgers: with relish.
14) Dreambound
Author
Publisher
Del Rey, an imprint of Random House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
385 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
In this contemporary fantasy novel, a father must investigate the magical underbelly of Los Angeles to find his daughter, who has seemingly disappeared into the fantastical universe of her favorite books. When Byron Kidd's twelve-year-old daughter vanishes, the only clue is a note claiming that she's taken off to explore the Hidden World, a magical land from a series of popular novels. She isn't the only child to seek out this imaginary realm in recent...
Author
Series
Discworld volume 25
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
324 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
16) The cellist
Author
Series
Gabriel Allon volume 21
Language
English
Description
"The fatal poisoning of a Russian billionaire sends Gabriel Allon on a dangerous journey across Europe and into the orbit of a musical virtuoso who may hold the key to the truth about his friend's death. The plot Allon uncovers leads to secret channels of money and influence that go to the very heart of Western democracy and threaten the stability of the global order.
17) Spotlight
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray videodisc (2 hr., 9 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 videodisc (129 min. : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.)
Language
English
Description
It tells the riveting true story of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Boston Globe investigation that would rock the city and cause a crisis in one of the world's oldest and most trusted institutions. When the newspaper's tenacious "Spotlight" teams of reporters delve into allegations of abuse in the Catholic Church, their year-long investigation uncovers a decades-long cover-up at the highest levels of Boston's religious, legal, and government establishment....
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
396 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A historical novel about Ida B. Wells, from her teen years up through becoming an investigative journalist and civil rights crusader without peer"-- Provided by publisher.
19) Dangerous games
Author
Language
English
Description
Television correspondent Alix Phillips dodges bullets and breaks rules to bring the most important news to the world -- from riots in America to protests on the streets of Tehran. With her daughter in college, and working alongside cameraman Ben Chapman, a deeply private ex-Navy SEAL, Alix revels in the risks and whirlwind pace of her work. But her latest assignment puts her at the center of an explosive story that will reshape many lives, including...
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
As the social fabric of life in rural India disintegrates in the late 1990s, journalist Manav Banerjee moves with his pregnant wife to the town of Orissa in the hope of a better life and the promise of a lucrative career. When speculation mounts that local Australian missionary Graham Staines is illegally proselytizing leprosy patients, Manav agrees to investigate undercover for the newspaper. What he finds is a series of revelations that are difficult...