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|  | | Berman's Lament
Jed Berman forsakes the comfortable world of print journalism for the higher pay and broader exposure of TV news. The decision leads to some lively action, good sex, and a close look at what broadcast news has become today.
"Berman's Lament" is my effort to tell an engaging story that takes readers inside the world of local TV news. In the process, I've tried to create some believable characters: Jed Berman (investigative reporter extraordinaire), Charlotte Spanner (a poor, single mother who loves her children but has few tools for dealing with a system that looks down on her), Hildy Mazer (an overzealous caseworker who allows her religious fervor to contaminate her work with clients), consultant Autry Domain (the embodiment of the slick, sensationalized world of today's TV news), Jane Filips (Berman's love inter | |  | | Engaging News Media: A Practical Guide for People of Faith
Engaging News Media encourages readers to examine their own thought processes to identify the mindset (attitudes, beliefs, biases) they bring to their encounter with news media. With those discoveries in place, the book takes open-minded readers inside the news business, providing insights and strategies for finding the truth, at least to the extent that news professionals provide it.
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Based on a real life story, Rain of Ruin tells the story of a bright, young woman who signs on with the atomic bomb project in Washington, D.C. during WWII and pays a tragically high price for doing her duty.
Military leaders and historians have told the story of the atomic bomb. But the official accounts never focus on the thousands of ordinary Americans who helped make it happen. Rain of Ruin tells the story from their point of view for the first time. It follows Agnes Jenkins Flaherty, an eighteen-year-old country girl, as she takes her devout religious faith and towering sense of responsibility to wartime Washington, D.C. to work with the Manhattan Project.
She quickly finds love in the city, but her budding romance is overshadowed by a growing sense of terror when she learns, from th |
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Galveston, 1900 Indignities, The Arrival
by N Brown
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 Compelling historical fiction that traces the life of a young English immigrant woman who travels to America at the turn of the century to start a new life for herself. Encountering danger, romance, heartache and tragedy, she strives to fit into a |
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