Posts Tagged ‘texas’

Kinky Friedman, Texas Troubadour, Boots Politics for Music Tour

Monday, June 28th, 2010

Richard Kinky Friedman , the country singer and detective novelist who has twice run for Texas governor, says hes through with politics.

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Kinky Friedman, Texas Troubadour, Boots Politics for Music Tour

Rare book value declines with wear and tear

Sunday, May 2nd, 2010

Rare book value declines with wear and tear

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Rare book value declines with wear and tear

Check out the bibliophile paradise of Powell’s City of Books, Portland

Friday, April 23rd, 2010

PORTLAND, Ore. - The word "City" in Powell's City of Books is not to be taken lightly.

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Check out the bibliophile paradise of Powell's City of Books, Portland

Window into the past

Friday, April 16th, 2010

Its no secret that a book easily can show wear and tear.

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Renowned Physicist Stephen Hawking Comes to Aggieland (KBTX 3 Bryan – College Station)

Friday, March 26th, 2010

Renowned physicist Stephen Hawking returns to Aggieland next month to present a rare public lecture, and officials in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Texas A&M University encourage Brazos Valley residents and members of the campus community to take advantage of a major opportunity to experience one of the most brilliant scientific minds of all time.

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Former press secretary for Lady Bird Johnson dies (AP via Yahoo! News)

Saturday, March 20th, 2010

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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Sniffing out a rare book, dirty history (The Facts)

Monday, February 8th, 2010

My “Brazoria County History-Miscellaneous” file includes all manner of tidbits, including a column called “Keeping Up with the Joneses” that I wrote for The Facts more than 40 years ago about my daily life and young family.

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Flea markets offer savings, rare items (Beaumont Enterprise)

Friday, February 5th, 2010

Cene Cooley of Conroe runs the flea market circuit a couple of times a month and likes antiques, especially old tools.

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Flea markets offer savings, rare items (Beaumont Enterprise)

Write time for Barwise eighth-grader (Wichita Falls Times Record News)

Monday, February 1st, 2010

When published author Kimberly Willis Holt spoke to students at Barwise Junior High School in October, she was so impressed with the caliber of students and their interest in writing that she made a rare overture.She offered to serve as a writing mentor for one of them. Not just for this year or next, but until he or she graduated from high school.The author of award-winning young adult books ...

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Write time for Barwise eighth-grader (Wichita Falls Times Record News)

Teen stayed strong for family while suffering leukemia (San Antonio Express-News)

Friday, January 15th, 2010

Though rare in children, AML is considered the most common kind of acute leukemia by the National Marrow Donor Program. In the United States, almost 12,000 new cases arise each year, most in older adults.

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Teen stayed strong for family while suffering leukemia (San Antonio Express-News)