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Susan Page, author of The Rulebreaker: The Life and Times of Barbara Walters

Barbara Walters was a force from the time TV was exploding on the American scene in the 1960s to its waning dominance in a new world of competition from streaming services and social media half a century later. In THE RULEBREAKER, Susan Page conducts 150 interviews and extensive archival research to discover that Walters was driven to keep herself and her family afloat after her mercurial and famous impresario father attempted suicide. But she never lost the fear of an impending catastrophe, which is what led her to ask for things no woman had ever asked for before, to ignore the rules of misogynistic culture, to outcompete her most ferocious competitors, and to protect her complicated marriages and love life from scrutiny.

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Week of April 14, 2025

Paperback releases for the week of April 14th include Beatriz Williams' HUSBANDS & LOVERS, a sweeping novel in which two women --- separated by decades and continents, and united by an exotic family heirloom --- reclaim secrets and lost loves; THE RULEBREAKER by Susan Page, the definitive biography of the most successful female broadcaster of all time --- Barbara Walters --- whose personal demons fueled an ambition that broke all the rules and finally gave women a permanent place on the air; THE FAR SIDE OF THE DESERT, a family drama and political thriller from Joanne Leedom-Ackerman that explores links of terrorism, crime and financial manipulation, revealing the grace that ultimately foils destruction; and the paperback original MURDER BY CHEESECAKE,   the first installment in Rachel Ekstrom Courage's Golden Girls cozy mystery series, in which the murder of Dorothy's obnoxious date threatens the elaborate St. Olaf-themed wedding that Rose is hosting. 

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