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Old fashion thrives at downtowns The Book Gallery

admin — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 19:45:54 +0000

The Book Gallery in McKinney is becoming as rare as the books it sells. There are not a lot of these old book stores around, owner Jim Parker said. I travel a lot around the country buying books and theyre disappearing.

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New and noteworthy paperbacks

admin — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +0000

The problem with writing about children, Alison Gopnik admits in The Philosophical Baby (Picador, $16), is that "practically everything you say turns out to sound like a greeting card." But that hasn't stopped Gopnik, a philosopher and a professor of psychology at the University of California,...

LAUSD lost almost $10 million due to inefficient inventory system, audit finds

admin — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 00:36:04 +0000

The report says thousands of textbooks are not bar-coded or returned by students and poor communication between schools has led to unnecessary purchases. An audit of textbooks at 21 local high schools has found that lost books and excessive purchases at these campuses cost the Los Angeles Unified School District nearly $10 million.

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CHESS Stephen Dann

admin — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 04:50:48 +0000

You may remember hearing of the April estate auction of chess books in Buffalo, N.Y. This writer interacted with bidders, at least one of whom spent $10,000 to purchase rare volumes dating back to the 19th century

Stumbling across a rare find on a Country Fair walk

admin — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 12:17:18 +0000

A second look at one of the tables revealed a mass-market paperback copy of "The Aristos" by John Fowles.

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Stumbling across a rare find on a Country Fair walk

Into the belly of the beast

admin — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 05:14:43 +0000

On Thursday, other members of the media and myself were given the rare opportunity to fly aboard a KC-135R Stratotanker in Spokane tasked with the mission to refuel the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds en route to Fairchild Air Force Base. As we strapped into the nylon mesh seating, crew members moved about the cramped fuselage with a sense of purpose and calm composure prior to the precise operation ...

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A critic raves: Post reviewer Celia Wren dives into Fringe in ‘The Rave Scenes’

admin — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +0000

"This is a rare opportunity where everything that could possibly go wrong in a show . . . has," my castmate Danny Pushkin says with improbable cheerfulness as a rehearsal of "The Rave Scenes," the new play we're acting in, chugs into gear

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A critic raves: Post reviewer Celia Wren dives into Fringe in 'The Rave Scenes'

Richard North Patterson’s ‘In the Name of Honor’

admin — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 13:07:16 +0000

Richard North Patterson -- lean, pleasant, sandy-haired, jeans and a wheat-colored sport coat, prefers you call him Ric -- is prompt for lunch at Bourbon Steak in the Four Seasons Hotel in Georgetown. It's on the official publication date for his 18th book, "In the Name of Honor," now adding to the...

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Alabama butterflies radiant, but ‘picture is not rosy,’ expert says

admin — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 07:39:18 +0000

Sprites of summer growing more rare.

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Alabama butterflies radiant, but 'picture is not rosy,' expert says

A charming hideaway for rare-book lovers

admin — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 23:24:21 +0000

Those who've been to William Andrews Clark Memorial Library love its intimate, elegant grounds and trove of historical writings. Run by UCLA but tucked away in Jefferson Park, it gets few visitors. Tom Lolis, who studies English literature, was looking through volumes of religious writings at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library last fall when he came across something unexpected.

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