Posts Tagged ‘book’
Friday, September 3rd, 2010
From total believers to complete sceptics, the author of Mirage Men selects books that are 'informative, entertaining, puzzling or all three at once' Mark Pilkington is a writer with a fascination for the further shores of culture, science and belief. He also publishes books as Strange Attractor Press .

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Other world literature
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Tuesday, August 31st, 2010
Fast becoming a pivotal event in the literary calendar, this is the coveted honour decided by readers of the Guardian books blog.

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Not the Booker prize 2010: nominate now!
Tags: book, booker, booker-prize, culture, guardian, recommend, report, samjordison, words, year
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Monday, August 30th, 2010
It's one of those rare books that needs no introduction. Harper Lee didn't want it to have one, either. In writing the foreword to her Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee noted:

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Annette John-Hall: 'Mockingbird' still sings
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Monday, August 23rd, 2010
Here are five books that help to place the egg recall in context.

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Five books to read after checking the egg recall list
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Tuesday, August 17th, 2010
Jersey Shore's Snooki could still win the trademark rights to her nickname for use in books. The sisters who wrote The Adventures of Snooky, staking a prior claim, are willing to discuss a deal.

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Local sisters offer Snooki a trademark deal
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Tuesday, August 17th, 2010
Cultures have risen and vanished around the making of books. How will the industry adapt to the era of Kindles and Nooks?

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Codex in the Morning
Tags: analysis, book, books, breaking-news, correspondents, culture, opinion, popular-culture, richard-florida, ta-nehisi-coates, the-atlantic
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Saturday, August 14th, 2010
Library collections that arent books are often measured in linear feet the amount of shelf space the materials take up. Bruce McKinney, a Wichita collector of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered ephemera, recently donated his collection of more than 160 linear feet of materials to the Spencer Research Library

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Spencer rarities: Library houses varied and diverse collection of books
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Wednesday, August 11th, 2010
GREENWICH -- One of Inge Isler 's recollections from her childhood in Germany is the extensive library accumulated by her father -- a huge room in their home filled with books.

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Books seized by Nazis returned to Greenwich woman
Tags: book, entertainment, greenwich, library, longtime-member, music, nazi-looted, opinion, Philosophy, possessions, rare-collection, rightful-heir, rightful-owner, secret-police, war
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Monday, August 9th, 2010
Ken Sanders has been selling rare books for 35 years and one cop of the most printed book in history may be his rarest.

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Original Bible of LDS Prophet Joseph Smith selling for $1.5M
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Monday, August 2nd, 2010
A rare copy of the first Batman comic book, published in 1940, is expected to sell for at least $35k in an auction .

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'Batman' No. 1 comic to be sold for some $35k
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