Jeff Kinney had a clear template when it came time to adapt his wildly successful Diary of a Wimpy Kid children's books to the big screen.

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From stick figures to sweet flick (The Philadelphia Inquirer)

Just what makes this mighty media organisation tick? An exclusive extract from a new book about the company offers some insights To visit Google's headquarters in Mountain View, California, is to travel to another planet

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A rare peek inside Google's HQ (Guardian Unlimited)

CHELTENHAM – The Phil-Mont Christian boys’ basketball team has already put their names in the school’s history books by being the first team to reach the quarterfinals of districts, but they wanted more.

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Phil-Mont Christian boys cooled off by Girard (Springfield Sun)

Kids might never have been so quiet. Today more than 6,000 Columbia Public Schools elementary students stopped what they were doing and read for 15 minutes as part of Read Across America, sponsored by the National Education Association.

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Classrooms silent in rare event (Columbia Daily Tribune)

As SETI approaches its 50th anniversary, three books tackle the question of why we have not yet found evidence of alien intelligence

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The mystery of the silent aliens (New Scientist)

Even through his shaded glasses, Tim Burton clearly was wide-eyed.

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Batman, Superman comic books set records for sale price (Washington Post)

I love when a book holds my interest so well that as soon as I finish, I need to know more. REMARKABLE CREATURES is one of those rare books for me.

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REMARKABLE CREATURES (Book Reporter)

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Digital archivists work to save rare books, historical documents (Miami Herald)

(JTA) -- Several rare early American Jewish books will be auctioned in New York. Among the offerings at next month's sale by Swann Auction Galleries is an early Jewish-American cookbook and the first Hebrew Bible printed on American soil.

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Early American Jewish books to be auctioned (JTA)

Q. What do quantitative easing and super-hero comic books have in common? A

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From easy money to $1m comic books (My Village City of London)