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English
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A young TV station workaholic desperately tries to avoid the ad executive who once captivated her with a kiss — but now, he will stop at nothing to have her.Megan Lambert can deal with her high-pressure job as sales manager for an Atlanta radio station. She just can't handle her antagonism toward Josh Bennett, a major advertiser. Now Josh wants a meeting with her, and Megan doesn't know why. Josh is many things — powerful, handsome,...
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Joe was a hockey player and Kristi a cheerleader in high school, now Joe works in the local grocery store. The path Kristi has charged down, on the other hand, is as wild as Joe's is tame--or at least that's how it appears. But who has really risked more? Who has lived more? And who is truly happy? As Joe discovers, sometimes people are lucky enough to be standing in the one place where the view of the world is breathtaking, if only they'll open their...
Author
Publisher
Cherry Lake Pub
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 online resource (32 p.) : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1920, the first collegiate football game was broadcast on Radio. Today, many sports actually allow viewers to control which camera picture they see. How has this innovation occurred? This book uses a familiar topic, sports broadcasting, to introduce kids to the concept of innovation and its impact on their everyday life
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
In London covering the Blitz with Edward R. Murrow, Frankie Bard meets a Cape Cod doctor in a shelter and promises that she'll deliver a letter for him when she finally returns to the United States. Filled with stunning parallels to today's world, "The Postmistress" is a sweeping novel about the loss of innocence of two extraordinary women--and of two countries torn apart by war.
5) Radio girls
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Language
English
Description
"The Great War is over, and change is in the air, in this novel that brings to life the exciting days of early British radio...and one woman who finds her voice while working alongside the brilliant women and men of the BBC. London, 1926. American-raised Maisie Musgrave is thrilled to land a job as a secretary at the upstart British Broadcasting Corporation, whose use of radio--still new, strange, and electrifying--is captivating the nation. But the...
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Series
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English
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After Brady Collins' ex-wife dies, he receives devastating news--his son Sam isn't his son at all. And Sam's wealthy maternal grandparents want custody of the child. Brady knows he's in for the fight of his life. But regardless of what any blood test says, Sam is his son, and Brady will go to any lengths to keep him. Brady's attorney tips him off that one major life change would virtually assure him of winning guardianship of baby Sam at the final...
8) Torch
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Language
English
Description
Teresa Rae Wood is a local celebrity in the town of Midden, Minnesota. Her popular radio show, Modern Pioneers!, a kind of hippie Prairie Home Companion, is an eternal embarrassment to her two children, Claire and Josh, and a source of amused pride to her common-law husband, Bruce. When Teresa summons Claire and Josh home unexpectedly, they are floored by her news: Teresa, only thirty-eight, is dying of cancer. In a few weeks, she is gone. Now the...
9) Begin again
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
Andie Rose has a plan: transfer from community college to competitive Blue Ridge State, major in psychology, and become an iconic self-help figure. Her plans go off the rails as soon as she arrives, and soon they're in rubble at her feet. Andie finds the power of her voice on the school's legendary pirate radio station--the same one her mom founded--and begins to find that the best-laid plans--and friend groups--are not necessarily the right ones....
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
xvi, 317 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
When it first appeared in the 1930s, FM radio was a technological marvel, providing better sound and nearly eliminating the static that plagued AM stations. It took another forty years, however, for FM's popularity to surpass that of AM. In Sounds of Change, Christopher Sterling and Michael Keith detail the history of FM, from its inception to its dominance (for now, at least) of the airwaves.Initially, FM's identity as a separate service was stifled,...
11) Frankly, Frannie
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Lexile measure
710L
Physical Desc
123 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Frannie Miller, who cannot wait to grow up and work in an office with a swivel chair and her own assistant, causes havoc when she tries to help out while on a school field trip to the local radio station.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2003
Lexile measure
510L
Physical Desc
122 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Alden children are helping out at a radio station, and they're going to be actors in a live mystery show. But when strange things keep happening, people in town say the station is haunted. Can the Boxcar Children catch the radio ghost before the station's listeners are scared away?
Author
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Neighbor Dorothy, the lady with the smile in her voice, keeps everyone informed of all the local news with her daily radio broadcasts, and there is always something going on in Elmwood Springs, Missouri, a town right in the middle of the country and right in the middle of all the changes, trials, and transitions that occur from 1946 to the present.
Author
Series
Baby-sitters Club volume 85
Pub. Date
1995
Lexile measure
570L
Physical Desc
135 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Claudia has to sort things out with an assistant, audition dozens of acts, and cope with some difficult "guests" before her radio show, For Kids Only, gets on the air. Will she be ready when Stoneybrook tunes in?
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A timely cannon blast at the right-wing media machine and how it subverts the principles of democratic representation.
Talk radio has done an end run around the voting populace. With Rush Limbaugh now the unofficial leader of the Republican Party and the far right controlling the five major syndicates, conservatives have a disproportionate voice in the medium-even in liberal cities such as New York, Boston, and San Francisco. Writing with his characteristic...
Author
Series
Hardy boys mystery stories volume 95
Pub. Date
1989
Physical Desc
151 pages ; 19 cm.
Language
English
18) Jakob the Liar
Pub. Date
2000
Edition
Widescreen and standard full screen versions.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In Nazi-occupied Poland, a poor Jewish cafe owner invents fictitious news bulletins about Allied advances against the Nazis. These lies keep hope and humor alive among the ghetto inhabitants. When the Germans learn of the mythical radio, they begin a search for the resistance hero who operates it.
Author
Publisher
Calkins Creek, an imprint of Highlights
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
1000L
Physical Desc
139 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Describes the panic induced when listeners believed Orson Welles' radio broadcast of "The War of the Worlds" to be news of an alien invasion, discussing the context in which the broadcast was aired and why it was so convincing.