Posts Tagged ‘search-archives’
Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010
Dogs are easy to love. Dog books are trickier. For every "My Dog Skip" or " The Dog That Bit People ," there's an author out there exploiting dogs' selflessness for his own mawkish ends.

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Five new books about dogs
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Wednesday, June 16th, 2010
Three books evoke the charms, and trials, of modern fatherhood. Ugly ties and superfluous power tools aren't the only things being wrapped up for Father's Day this year. In our post-feminist, recession-wracked era of unconditional love, flex time and gender-neutral diaper stations, the very defi...

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Three new books for Father's Day by Bruce Feiler, Donald Unger and Jay Mohr
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Saturday, June 5th, 2010
Over the past two years, economic hard times have loomed as large at Washington National Cathedral as the Gothic spires that grace the city's skyline.

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Washington National Cathedral ponders sale of rare books
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Tuesday, March 16th, 2010
Michael Mewshaw did a dangerous and perhaps foolhardy thing for his 65th birthday: He embarked on a 4,000-mile overland journey through the terrorist-ridden lands of North Africa. But now that his firsthand account has hit the bookstores, he says his roughest experience has come at the hands of the U.S. State Department.

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U.S. takes issue with author's account of visit at embassy in Algiers (Washington Post)
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Sunday, March 14th, 2010
Minnesota held No. 6 Purdue to the worst first half in the Boilermakers' record books and rolled to a 69-42 victory in the Big Ten tournament semifinals Saturday in Indianapolis.

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Minnesota upsets Purdue, 69-42, in the Big Ten tournament (Washington Post)
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Saturday, February 27th, 2010
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)
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Monday, November 16th, 2009
Jimmie Johnson rebounds from a rare bad race with a dominating victory at Phoenix that pushes him to the edge of a NASCAR-record fourth straight championship.

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Another victory brings Jimmie Johnson closer to history (Washington Post)
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Thursday, October 22nd, 2009
Oct. 22 USED-BOOK SALE Find rare books, children's books, popular fiction, non-English texts, CDs and VHS tapes at this semiannual sale.

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Going Out Guide for Fairfax (Washington Post)
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Wednesday, September 16th, 2009
In 1782, during the waning days of the American Revolution, Philadelphia printer Robert Aitken obtained the authorization of Congress to print a rather patriotic Bible. The tome would be printed in the Colonies, independent of the authority of the King of England, who had slapped an embargo on Bi...

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Swann Galleries to Auction Virginia Man's Rare Bibles (Washington Post)
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Thursday, September 3rd, 2009
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