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

Carol Mikulski, a volunteer at the Book Seller Used Book Store in the same building as the Wallingford Public Library talks with Vanessa Fyfe, a visiting Sydney, Australia resident who needed help selecting a book for her flight home.

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Book supply outstrips demand

Stephen Hawking hasn't had a major new work in nearly a decade.

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Stephen Hawking book 'The Grand Design' out in September

PARIS - A French auction house is selling rare memorabilia of Tintin, the comic strip reporter and globe trotter whose stories have been translated into 80 languages and sold over 200 million books in the past eight decades.

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Rare Tintin memorabilia for sale

By: By Sydney Ember Scott Zager Even as he fought a losing battle with testicular cancer   through multiple rounds of chemotherapy and a stem cell transplant Scott Zager was always thinking about math and returning to Brown....

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A rare mind, taken too soon

NEW YORK (CNS) -- Liana Lupas stands out in New York, even by the standards of a city that defines itself with superlatives and seems to have world-class specialists in every conceivable discipline. She calls herself "the only librarian in the world who takes care of one book."

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Librarian oversees rare collection of Bibles from past six centuries

It shouldn't be surprising that Panasonic's star manager for developing appliances for women is a woman herself -- except that this is Japan, a nation

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Lifestyle Beauty product maker offers women rare promotions

DOWNEY Award-winning author Lisa See will be the featured speaker at a luncheon and book-signing June 5 at the Rio Hondo Event Center. Tickets are $25 and include the author talk and a Chinese buffet meal.

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Author to speak, sign books

Old, rare and out-of-print books will be sold alongside maps, photographs, manuscripts - just about anything paper - at the Gold Rush Book Fair in Grass Valley May 15. Distinguished dealers from Nevada County and across the West will offer a broad range of material - even plain old used books

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Book fair to benefit county libraries

Books: 'Time in Andalusia Poetry' and 'History of the Levant at the Outset of the Ottoman Empire'.

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Abu Dhabi's National Library publishes two new titles