Lucky Bay Area shoppers: C&T Publishing, an industry leader in the publishing of books and products for quilters and fiber arts markets worldwide, has its headquarters and distribution center in Concord. On Saturday, it will open its warehouse for its annual...

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C&T Publishing sale in Concord

Genzyme Corp Chief Executive Henri Termeer said he is willing to sell the company he built up over 25 years, but not for $69 a share.

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Genzyme CEO open to sale, not at $69 a share

The battle for the digital books market intensified on Tuesday, as office supplies retailer Staples Inc said it would start selling Amazon.com Inc's Kindle, and bookseller Borders Group Inc said it was cutting its prices on some e-readers.

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Staples to sell Kindle, Borders cuts reader prices

Biotech company Genzyme Inc rejected an $18.5 billion buyout offer from French drugmaker Sanofi-Aventis SA on Monday, setting the stage for a protracted and potentially hostile takeover battle.

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U.S. biotech group Genzyme rejected an $18.5 billion takeover proposal by French drugmaker Sanofi-Aventis on Monday, setting up what could be a protracted battle.

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It's one of those rare books that needs no introduction. Harper Lee didn't want it to have one, either. In writing the foreword to her Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee noted:

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Annette John-Hall: 'Mockingbird' still sings

In her 30 years as a kindergarten teacher in Illinois and Massachusetts, Jane Katch has watched graham crackers, a pretzel, celery, tree bark and fingers all become transformed into imaginary guns and other weapons. And she has learned to work with, rather than against, the violent boyhood fantasies that accompany these transformations.

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Clyde Jurey of Jurey's Bookbinding in Wellington shows one of his binding projects in his home workshop on Thursday. The binding of a ledger book discovered in Virginia City that Jurey's Bookbinding in Wellington repaired.

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Preserving pages of history: Nevada bookbinder restores old, rare books

NEW YORK - Author Suzanne Collins, her gentle smile and soft features framed by waves of blond hair, looked out upon hundreds of fans crowded into the Books of Wonder store in Manhattan and unveiled the most anticipated young adult novel of the summer, "Mockingjay."

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The fans turn out in NY for midnight 'Mockingjay' release

Cathy Cranston, a CSU librarian, found a small stack of papers slid under her office door one summer day in 2008. It was a research paper from a student she had helped that previous school year.

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Brains among all the books