Posts Tagged ‘living’

Eliezer Sobel: What Really Matters?

Tuesday, July 6th, 2010

Which weighs more on the What Really Matters scale, a life of selfless, loving service to loved ones, or a couple of published books? How do we measure the value of our time?

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Eliezer Sobel: What Really Matters?

‘I’ll Mature When I’m Dead: Dave Barry’s Amazing Tales of Adulthood’

Sunday, May 9th, 2010

After two dozen books that offer his peculiar take on things like marriage, travel and turning 50, fans know what to expect from Dave Barry: joke-packed prose and one-liners -- basically standup comedy on a page.

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'I'll Mature When I'm Dead: Dave Barry's Amazing Tales of Adulthood'

Superman debut fetches powerful sum (The Star-Ledger)

Wednesday, March 31st, 2010

In this file photo released by Metropolis Collectibles, Friday, Feb.

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Superman debut fetches powerful sum (The Star-Ledger)

Little Golden Books (San Francisco Chronicle)

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

I spent my first 5 years living in the Vanderveer section of Brooklyn, NY. My very earliest memory in life was of a large stack of Little Golden Books that sat on the floor, next to a big 1950's style sofa.

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Little Golden Books (San Francisco Chronicle)

Hawaii’s tsunamis: Scenes of destruction and how to survive (San Francisco Chronicle)

Friday, March 5th, 2010

While the tsunami launched by Chile's Feb.

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Singletary’s rare traits yet to show in results (San Francisco Chronicle)

Saturday, January 2nd, 2010

Today, Mike Singletary will end his first full season as a head coach in mediocrity, an unfamiliar state for someone who has personally achieved excellence almost every day he spent on a football field.

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Singletary's rare traits yet to show in results (San Francisco Chronicle)

Books get cooking (San Francisco Chronicle)

Saturday, January 2nd, 2010

Title: Owner Company: Omnivore Books on Food, 3885-A Cesar Chavez St., San Francisco Q: Before you opened the store, you started your own cookbook collection some years ago while you were a rare-book specialist at an auction house. Why cookbooks? A:..

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Books get cooking (San Francisco Chronicle)

The top 100 books of 2009 (The Kansas City Star)

Friday, December 4th, 2009

Ask a roomful of people to name their favorite book of this or any year and you are likely to get a roomful of answers. We polled some of our regular book critics and staffers to compile this list of the top 100 books of the year.

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Required Burning Man reading (Reno Gazette-Journal)

Sunday, August 30th, 2009

Here is a sampling of Burning Man books and their product descriptions:

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Required Burning Man reading (Reno Gazette-Journal)

See Dick and Jane … on a child’s bedroom wall (San Francisco Chronicle)

Tuesday, July 28th, 2009

"Look, Spot! Look and see ..." For many grown-ups, Indiana schoolteacher Zerna Sharp's wholesome world of Dick, Jane, Spot and the rest was a comforting hallmark of childhood reading. And for a new generation of parents who didn't grow up with the books, it'...

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