Keeping a used bookstore open these days is getting harder than ever. Broward has fewer than a half-dozen secondhand bookstores still in business and they face an uncertain future. Not only has the Internet stolen potential customers who can buy books at bargain prices online, but also the growing popularity of e-books and digital readers, such as Amazon's Kindle and Barnes & Noble's Nook ...

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Used bookstores in Broward offer bargains and more

For 22 years, Dave Crisp had tramped out every week with his metal detector slung across his shoulder in the hope of finding a hoard of buried treasure that he promised his wife he would one day bring back home to her. After waiting for over two decades for the discovery that had so far eluded him, he stumbled across not just one rare Roman treasure trove of coins but two in the space of a ...

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You wait ages to find one hoard of gold coins...

You would be surprised, in other words, by how many people who want to publish a book haven't actually read one. In a very, very long time.

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Melanie Benjamin: Investment Tips For the Aspiring Writer

Which weighs more on the What Really Matters scale, a life of selfless, loving service to loved ones, or a couple of published books? How do we measure the value of our time?

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Eliezer Sobel: What Really Matters?

Nadal etching out a lofty place in tennis lore. Tennis - sport - Rafael Nadal - Andy Murray - Roger Federer

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Nadal puts himself among tennis legends

Wimbledon win would put Nadal in company of rare greatness.

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Nadal eyes rare French-Wimbledon feat

Rare memorabilia of former French Emperor Napoleon 1st, including a lock of hair cut from his head after he died in exile in 1821 on the remote island of St. Helena, have fetched 140,000 New Zea...

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Rare Napoleon memorabilia, including a lock of his hair, sold in New Zealand auction

PEPPERTOWN, Miss. - It's extremely rare to find men working in day care, but in Itawamba County two young guys have been on staff at a child care center for the past year and the difference they're making could be considered priceless.

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Dudes in Daycare

goatTitle--92YTRIBECA Patricia Morrisroe discusses her new book, Wide Awake: A Memoir of Insomnia.

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Goings on About Town: Readings and Talks

No more Mr. Nice Guy.

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Johnson displays rare edge in second straight victory