Liz Carpenter, an author and former press secretary to first lady Lady Bird Johnson, died Saturday at an Austin hospital after contracting pneumonia earlier in the week, said her daughter, Christy Carpenter. Carpenter was 89.

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Chimen Abramsky, who has died aged 93, was a Jewish intellectual, historian, book collector and bibliographer of world renown. Although he wrote many academic papers, he published few books. Yet his academic legacy was huge.

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Frail, bone-cold and surrounded by death, Jewish teenager Anne Frank did her best to distract younger children from the horrors of a Nazi concentration camp by telling them fairy tales, a Holocaust survivor says.

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Hollywood actor to read Jim Morrison's poetry on soundtrack album for forthcoming documentary The soundtrack album for a forthcoming Doors documentary will feature 12 of the band's classic songs, five rare clips – and 15 tracks of Johnny Depp reading poetry. The actor appears on almost half of the record's cuts, reciting verse written by Jim Morrison. Depp provides the narration for When You're ...

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My friend André de Wet, who has died aged 75, was a photographer with a sharp eye for news pictures and a rare sense of artistry. Born in Cape Town, he was educated at Wellington boys high school, in Cape Province

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NMS will market the Espresso Book Machine(R) to the collegiate marketplace and permission academic content.

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NACS Media Solutions and On Demand Books Form Partnership (PR Newswire via Yahoo! News)

Just as prices for collectible comics are rocketing to new highs with the sales of two comic books for $1 million each, longtime comic collector and roleplaying-game trailblazer Stewart Wieck unveiled a new comic-auction site called GetSlabbed.com.

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New Comic Auction Site Launches As Comic Books Set Record Prices (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)

PAUL Reid should be dead.

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Can apricot kernels keep cancer at bay? (North Queensland Register)

With Over 50 Million Books Sold, John Gray Releases Highly-Anticipated Follow Up (PRWeb Mar 2, 2010) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2010/03/prweb3651274.htm

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CDJapan is an online shop that offers Japanese entertainment products including CDs, DVDs, Blu-rays, anime characters, and fashion items.

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