RARITAN TOWNSHIP — Rare treasures are already surfacing as the book donations drive for the Hunterdon County Library System's annual sale continues.

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Annual book drive for Hunterdon County Library sale unearthing rare finds (MyCentralJersey.com)

Photo courtesy Canary Promotions It is rare that Phillyist becomes so passionate about an event that we shift our tone from "Perhaps you'd like to check this out," to "GO! FOR THE LOVE OF GOD! GO NOW!" The Sendak in Spring Program at the Rosenbach Museum and Library this weekend is deserving of the upgrade in urgency. Continuing their year-round mission of passing on the love of literacy and ...

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Where the Wild Things Are (Phillyist)

Twilight fans now have an addition for their collection, with the first volume in the graphic novel adaptation of Stephanie Meyer's books hitting stores.

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Twilight the graphic novel on the way (Sky News Australia)

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Nigeria : Aderinokun At 70 - Living in Forest of Books (AllAfrica.com)

THE PEOPLE pounding the pavements above are oblivious, but under the streets of central Auckland lies a vault holding comic books of such worth that they have been brought out of their secure holding only three times in the past eight years.

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Comics good as gold (Marlborough Express)

The rumors traveled urgently from Haiti: Beyond all the death and wreckage, one of the nation's greatest exports -- its cultural scholarship -- was buried that awful afternoon in January.

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Digital archivists work to save rare books, historical documents (Miami Herald)

Old Editions Book Shop and Cafe has been operating for the past 33 years. The four story store and book warehouse at 74 East Huron Street in Buffalo offers a wide variety of used or out of print books including some very valuable first editions of books.

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Unique Places: Old Editions and Book Collecting (WGRZ-TV Buffalo)

Eighth-seeded Sam Querrey upset top-seeded Andy Roddick 7-5, 3-6, 6-1 to book a semi-final berth as top seed Maria Sharapova moved into the women's final at this combined ATP/WTA tennis tournament.

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Roddick ousted as Sharapova books final berth (Fijilive)

The most expensive comic book in history belongs to a Rochester collector and is being sold at auction, with the top bid so far of $350,000.

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Rare 1939 Batman comic book may fetch big bucks (Rochester Democrat and Chronicle)

AMHERST – Are those old books you found in your grandmother’s attic rare first editions or just interesting? At 7 p.m.

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Old book expert to talk about finds (The Nashua Telegraph)