Lara Killian

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Who Says Libraries Are Just About Books?

[16.Apr.08] :. Quiet, Please author Scott Douglas speaks out about the future of libraries, being played by Oprah in the movie version, and his recent library-themed wedding.

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The Rough Guide to Europe on a Budget by

[7.Jul.08] :. This guide will help you pinch your pennies along the journey so you can splash out when it counts.

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DVDs

The Elizabeth Gaskell Collection

[20.Jun.08] :. Though her name is not a household one, Gaskell's willingness to take on some of the important social issues of the era make her an author deserving of wider exposure.

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The Stone Gods by Jeanette Winterson

[22.May.08] :. Winterson experiments with the components of a story and comes out with a tale that is greater than the sum of its parts.

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DVDs

The Golden Compass

[13.May.08] :. Scruffy and unpolished in the open casting call, Dakota Blue Richards shines in her role as the gutsy heroine.

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DVDs

Sense & Sensibility

[9.May.08] :. A dramatic Devonshire setting, a feminist younger sister, and a wet shirt wood-chopping scene: a few details are frankly invented, but for the most part this new adaptation is true to Austen's novel.

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Books   Wolves of the Crescent Moon by Yousef Al-Mohaimeed

Books   Quiet, Please by Scott Douglas

Books   The Prince by Hushang Golshiri

Books   The Blood of Flowers by Anita Amirrezvani

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Summer Book Sales

[21.Jul.08] :. One thing I love to keep an eye out for in the summer is a good book sale. Not only do brick-and-mortar bookstores tend to put out more sale items in sunny weather to get window shoppers to pause in...

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After Dark with Murakami

[14.Jul.08] :. Many of us are excited about Stephenie Meyer's upcoming Breaking Dawn. Her Twilight series is Harry Potter huge -- even if the latest cover of Entertainment magazine was...

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Travel Reads

[7.Jul.08] :. Yiddish or otherwise: What summer vacation reads are you itching to start?

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Markus Zusak

[16.Jun.08] :. This week I finished reading Markus Zusak's I am the Messenger (2005). It's worth the read but the first Zusak I'd recommend is definitely The Book Thief (2006). These books are two...

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A Mixed Bag

[9.Jun.08] :. It's a totally mixed bag this week. I've just started reading Michael Pollan's The Omnivore's Dilemma, and I'm halfway through Markus Zusak's I am the Messenger. Firoozeh Dumas'...

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Re:Print   Persepolis: the Story of a Reading

Re:Print   Another Evil Genius

Re:Print   By These Ten Bones

Re:Print   In search of a Complete Proust

Re:Print   The End of Gemma Doyle

Re:Print   Evil Boy Genius

Re:Print   Spring Break Reading

Re:Print   Window into Botswana

Re:Print   Reading at Random: Funke's Fiction

Re:Print   Travel + Leisure's Unexpected Italy

Re:Print   Even more audio books

Re:Print   Riffing on Audio Books

Re:Print   The Value of Words

Re:Print   Bookmarks: Travel + Leisure's Unexpected France

Re:Print   When to put it down?

Re:Print   Reading at Random

Re:Print   Anticraft: Knitting, Beading and Stitching for the Slightly Sinister

Re:Print   Our Dumb Century: The Onion Presents 100 Years of Headlines from America's Finest News Source

Consuming Consumables   Cool Green Stuff by Dave Evans [$14.95]

Consuming Consumables   Our Dumb Century: The Onion Presents 100 Years of Headlines... [$23.95]

Re:Print   Cool Green Stuff: A Guide to Finding Great Recycled, Sustainable, Renewable Objects You Will Love

Re:Print   Everything ever published, ever.

 
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