Several rare early American Jewish books will be auctioned in New York. Among the offerings at next month’s sale by Swann Auction Galleries is an early Jewish-American cookbook and the first Hebrew Bible printed on American soil.

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Early American Jewish books to be auctioned (The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles)

NEW YORK CITY-In spite of a slight uptick in the fourth quarter, 2009 went down in the record books as the worst year for apartment sales volume.

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QUICK POLL (GlobeSt.com)

Photo by sadjeans via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr Venice's Equator Books has been a welcoming independent option for book lovers on Abbot Kinney for over five years, but now they have announced that this weekend they are closing their doors for good. In an announcement sent out by email and posted on their website, the bookstore's owners are asking their customers to come by and ...

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Equator Books in Venice to Close Up Shop Sunday (LAist)

BEIJING (AP) — Google's threat to pull out of China over censorship is a rare display of defiance in a system where foreign companies have long accepted intrusive controls to gain access to a huge and growing market.

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Google threat a rare show of defiance in China, where companies have long accepted controls (Chicago Tribune)

The people at Skyline Books emailed us to let us know they'd be closing up shop January 31st, 2010 — after being in business since September of 1990.

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Rare Bookstore Cat Soon To Be On Streets? (Gothamist)

Though it's not what he's known for, Andy Warhol created some really cute illustrations for a children's book series ! And now a set of those illustrations is headed toward the auction block next month as part of Bloomsbury's Illustrated Books auction . Reportedly "they were drawn by Warhol early in his career, between 1957 and 1959, for the Doubleday Book Club's popular series Best in Children ...

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Sendak and Warhol on the Block (Gothamist)

Sea Wolf in concert | Photo by Koga /LAist It was just a few months ago when 6-year old Pablo Castelaz lost his battle with cancer, after treatment at Childrens Hospital Los Angeles. 13 months before that, he was diagnosed, almost seemingly out of nowhere showing no warning signs prior, with bilateral Wilms’ Tumor, a rare form of children’s cancer.

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Sea Wolf, Band of Horses & Others to Play this Saturday to Fight Children's Cancer (LAist)

What are you grateful for? I am grateful for libraries, authors, books, words, poems, awesome illustrations, books on CD and time -- time to snuggle under a fluffy blanket, falling into worlds I never imagined with a good book.

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Books to gobble up (The Herald News)

North Central College gave stargazers a view of the galaxy Tuesday they couldn't get from a typical telescope.

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North Central offers rare view of Milky Way (Daily Herald)

Given a rare chance to look at the Kane County's budget situation as one big group, county board members decided Tuesday it's time to talk about the issues that have been dodged in committee.

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Kane Co. studies options to solve budget crisis (Daily Herald)