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  • Cecil Brown

    The Murrow Boy Who Became Broadcasting's Crusader for Truth

    by Reed W. Smith ...
    The son of Jewish immigrants, war correspondent Cecil Brown (1907-1987) was a member of CBS' esteemed Murrow Boys. Expelled from Italy and Singapore for reporting the facts, he witnessed the Nazi invasion of Yugoslavia and the war in North Africa, and survived the sinking of the British battleship HMS Repulse by a Japanese submarine. Back in the U.S., he became an influential commentator during ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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  • All Over but the Shoutin'

    by Rick Bragg ...
    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the Pulitzer Prize–winner and bestselling author, "a grand memoir.... Bragg tells about the South with such power and bone-naked love ... he will make you cry" (Atlanta Journal-Constitution).This haunting, harrowing, gloriously moving recollection of a life on the American margin is the story of Rick Bragg, who grew up dirt-poor in northeastern Alabama, seemingly ... Read more

    Was $12.99 USD Now $1.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • A Comrade Lost and Found

    A Beijing Memoir

    by Jan Wong ...
    A "suspenseful, elegantly written" account of the author's return to China after thirty years to search for the woman she betrayed to the authorities ( Publishers Weekly, starred review).In the early 1970s, at the height of the Cultural Revolution, Jan Wong traveled from Canada to Beijing University—where she would become one of only two Westerners permitted to study. One day a fellow student, Yin ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Adventures in Solitude

    What Not to Wear to a Nude Potluck and Other Stories from Desolation Sound, Abridged

    by Grant Lawrence ...
    From Captain George Vancouver to Muriel Curve of Time” Blanchet to Jim Spilsbury’s Coast” Spilsbury, visitors to Desolation Sound have left behind a trail of books endowing the area with a romantic aura that helps to make it British Columbia’s most popular marine park. In this hilarious and captivating book, CBC personality Grant Lawrence adds a whole new chapter to the saga of this storied piece ... Read more

    $19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Assignment to Hell

    The War Against Nazi Germany with Correspondents Walter Cronkite, Andy Rooney, A.J. Liebling, Homer Bigart, and Hal Boyle

    by Timothy M. Gay ...
    “A book every modern journalist—and citizen—should read.”—Tom Brokaw, Author of The Greatest GenerationIn February 1943, a group of journalists—including a young wire service correspondent named Walter Cronkite and cub reporter Andy Rooney—clamored to fly along on a bombing raid over Nazi Germany. Seven of the sixty-four bombers that attacked a U-boat base that day never made it back to England. A ... Read more

    Was $8.99 USD Now $4.99 USD

  • The Good Fight

    From Bullets to Bylines - 45 Years Face-to-Face with Terror

    by Jim McDowell ...
    The year is 1969. The start of the Troubles in Northern Ireland. For Jim McDowell, a rookie reporter, it was the beginning of a life at the heart of one of world's most notorious and bitter conflicts. His gripping memoir reveals what it was like to live under constant fear of attack and delves into Northern Ireland's criminal underworld, including Jim's tense encounters with infamous terrorist ... Read more

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  • Take a Stand

    Lessons from Rebels

    by Jorge Ramos ...
    Emmy Award-winning journalist and Univision anchor Jorge Ramos looks back on groundbreaking interviews with rebels such as President Barack Obama, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Spike Lee, Barbara Walters, Fidel Castro, and more.After 30 fascinating years uncovering the hard truth, journalist Jorge Ramos opens up for the first time about life-altering lessons by sharing captivating never ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Up from the Projects

    An Autobiography

    by Walter E. Williams ...
    Nationally syndicated columnist and prolific author Walter E. Williams recalls some of the highlights and turning points of his life. From his lower middle class beginnings in a mixed but predominantly black neighborhood in West Philadelphia to his department chair at George Mason University, Williams tells an "only in America" story of a life of achievement. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • To Experience Wonder

    Edna Staebler: A Life

    by Veronica Ross ...
    Canada's foremost cookbook author began her career, not as a cook, but as a journalist writing for Canadian magazines. She was 60 when she turned her attention to food. Food That Really Schmecks immediately became a best-seller, and continues to sell 35 years later. It's more than a book of wonderful recipes - it also describes the Mennonite way of life. The success of that book led to two more ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Train through Time

    A Life, Real and Imagined

    by Elizabeth Farnsworth ...
    "It has been a long time since I read a book so moving, plainspoken, and beautiful." —Michael Chabon, Pulitzer Prize winner and author of MoonglowHow much of our memory is constructed by imagination? And how does memory shape our lives? As a nine–year–old, Elizabeth Farnsworth struggled to understand the loss of her mother. On a cross–country trip with her father, the heartsick child searches for ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Shooting History

    A Personal Journey

    by Jon Snow ...
    The compelling autobiography of one of the great and most committed newsmen of our time: full, frank, and occasionally very funny, Jon Snow’s memoirs are as revealing about the great and the not-so-good as about his own passionate involvement in the reporting of world affairs.Jon Snow is perhaps the most highly regarded newsman of our time; his qualities as a journalist and as a human being – his ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Hunter S. Thompson: The Last Interview

    and Other Conversations

    by Hunter S. Thompson ...
    Series series The Last Interview Series
    Hunter S. Thompson was so outside the box, a new word was invented just to define him: Gonzo. He was a journalist who mocked all the rules, a hell-bent fellow who loved to stomp on his own accelerator, the writer every other writer tried to imitate. In these brutally candid and very funny interviews that range across his fabled career, Thompson reveals himself as mad for politics, which he thought ... Read more

    $9.99 USD