Posts Tagged ‘travel’

C&T Publishing sale in Concord

Friday, September 3rd, 2010

Lucky Bay Area shoppers: C&T Publishing, an industry leader in the publishing of books and products for quilters and fiber arts markets worldwide, has its headquarters and distribution center in Concord. On Saturday, it will open its warehouse for its annual...

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Tweeting comedians – being funny in 140 characters or less

Friday, September 3rd, 2010

NEW YORK - Earlier this summer, Michael Ian Black took to his blog to defend himself against those appalled that the comedian was - gasp! - inserting rare advertisements to his popular Twitter feed.Black explained that occasionally...

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Local books: A Seattle environmental-activism history, a study of ‘design thinking’ and a paranormal romance or two

Monday, August 30th, 2010

Seattle author Jayne Ann Krentz's latest "Arcane Society" novel leads off this week's list of titles of local interest.

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Local books: A Seattle environmental-activism history, a study of 'design thinking' and a paranormal romance or two

‘The Tiger’: John Vaillant’s mesmerizing tale of a man-eating tiger, vengeance and survival

Saturday, August 28th, 2010

Book review: John Vaillant's "The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival" tells the mesmerizing true-life story of the hunt for a man-killing Siberian tiger. Vaillant, the Canadian author who wrote the acclaimed 2005 book "The Golden Spruce," discusses his book this week at Seattle's Elliott Bay Book Co.

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Landmark Frank Lloyd Wright houses languish on the market

Saturday, August 28th, 2010

After slashing the listing price on the Frank Lloyd Wright textile=block house in the past two years from $7,733,000 to $4,995,000 and not finding a buyer, Crosby Doe says he's "talking to an international art dealer with Japanese art-collector clients who might be interested in buying the house."

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Rare Bible donated to St. Mary’s College

Friday, August 27th, 2010

SOUTH BEND, Ind.

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Rare books stolen from farmhouse

Friday, August 27th, 2010

Grampian Police investigate the theft of rare books and paintings from a farmhouse in Moray on Wednesday.

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Tribunal says no to dams over Gollum fish

Wednesday, August 25th, 2010

A recommendation to ban the construction of dams on a Central Otago river to protect a rare fish called Gollum, named from The Hobbit book, has been hailed as a major victory by environmental groups.A tribunal - appointed by...

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When kids cross the gender divide

Tuesday, August 24th, 2010

With celebrity gossip sites buzzing over Angelina Jolie's comment that her 4-year-old daughter, Shiloh, wants to be a boy, media reports spotlighting rare cases of transgender children and even children's books beginning to tackle the issue, concerned parents are sifting through a lot of contradictory information.

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Nonfiction review: ‘Hollywood: A Third Memoir’ by Larry McMurtry

Saturday, August 21st, 2010

"Hollywood" is by far the most enjoyable of McMurtry's short memoirs that began with "Books" and continued with "Literary Life."

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Nonfiction review: 'Hollywood: A Third Memoir' by Larry McMurtry