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Treasure hunt with Newberry’s Book Fair

admin — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:14:43 +0000

Even for a library, the Newberry Library on the city's Near North Side has been getting an awful lot of books delivered to its freight dock in the last couple of weeks more than 120,000. And as it opens its 26th annual book fair Thursday, it expects more than 100,000 to leave again by Sunday.

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Treasure hunt with Newberry's Book Fair

Rare prowfish identified in Petersburg in the 1950s

admin — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 12:18:51 +0000

A rare fish was brought into Petersburg in early September 1954. The strange critter was taken by a Petersburg fisherman, Ernest Enge, who was fishing in Chatham Strait.

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Rare prowfish identified in Petersburg in the 1950s

FBFW: Consistency a prized commodity in fantasy

admin — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 12:11:09 +0000

In baseball terms, a no-hitter is a game in which, by definition, one team does not successfully reach base by means of a hit. It all sounds simple enough. Simple, perhaps, but still rare.

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Cambridge graduate jailed for

admin — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 06:53:12 +0000

A tome raider who stole antique books worth £40,000 from a world-famous library was jailed for three-and-a-half years today. Cambridge University graduate William Jacques, who stole £1 million of rare books in the late 1990s, drew up a "thiefs shopping list" as he continued his life of crime.

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‘Tome Raider’ jailed over thefts

admin — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 06:46:40 +0000

A man is jailed for three-and-a-half years for stealing rare books valued at £40,000 from a London library.

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Books: Five Best Crime Novels

admin — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 15:19:49 +0000

I read a lot of crime fiction in between the more respectable books sort of a guilty pleasure I dont feel guilty about. Im not talking Agatha Christie whodunits or cozy mysteries with knitting themes.

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Books: The Cookbook Collector.

admin — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 00:08:35 +0000

Goodmans charming reworking of Sense and Sensibility follows two sistersEmily, the C.E.O.

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‘Inception’ earns dreamy reception with $60.4M

admin — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 14:01:47 +0000

Leonardo DiCaprio and Christopher Nolan's "Inception" is anything but a sleeper as the thriller opened big with $60.4 million and a No.

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Conspicuous generosity

admin — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 06:30:54 +0000

Lisburn soldier hands over gallantry medal

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Highlights of S.F. Jewish Film Festival

admin — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 03:21:59 +0000

Ahead of Time U.S.A., 73 minutes 11:30 a.m. July 27, Castro; 2 p.m

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Highlights of S.F. Jewish Film Festival