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Beach reads can be frothy fun or unexpectedly enlightening
01.07.2009 20:20
usatoday.com
It's the first full day of summer, and the masses are descending on Rehoboth Beach, Del., towels and umbrellas and buckets in ...
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You can tell these beach books by their titles
01.07.2009 20:20
usatoday.com
Driftwood, dune, swimming. If the words in a novel's title evoke the season, it's sure to grab our attention while the weather's ...
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Judge blocks publication of J.D. Salinger spinoff book
01.07.2009 20:20
usatoday.com
A Swedish author whose new book was promoted as a sequel to J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye cannot publish it in the United ...
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New 'American Patriot's Bible' sees USA's 'godly roots'
01.07.2009 20:19
usatoday.com
Americans looking to combine love of God with love of country this July 4th can quote the new American Patriot's Bible, which ...
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'Beowulf on the Beach' author: Read classics for an epic time
01.07.2009 20:19
usatoday.com
Jack Murnighan, author of Beowulf on the Beach explains to why a literary classic is the perfect book to take to the shore.
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Book Buzz: What's new on the list and in publishing
01.07.2009 20:19
usatoday.com
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo returns to the list at No. 11, weeks before the sequel is published. Alice Hoffman lashes out ...
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New in paper: Akpan's stories of African children
01.07.2009 20:19
usatoday.com
Say You're One of Them by Uwem Akpan (Back Bay Books, $14.99, fiction, reprint) USA TODAY's Deirdre Donahue wrote that this story ...
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'The Great World': Setting, history and characters in fine balance
01.07.2009 20:19
usatoday.com
Colum McCann's novel opens with a stunning five-page set piece about a tightrope performance that was called "the artistic crime ...
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In 'Brooklyn,' the life of an Irish immigrant takes root
01.07.2009 20:19
usatoday.com
Colm Toibin's Brooklyn, about a young Irish woman coming to New York in 1952, is one of those magically quiet novels that sneak ...
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Slow-starting 'Marriage Bureau' weds love story, Indian culture
01.07.2009 20:19
usatoday.com
Jai ho! The Marriage Bureau for Rich People, the first novel by Indian-born, London-based investment banker Farahad Zama, doesn't ...
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Regenerated legs no big trick for salamanders
01.07.2009 18:00
reuters.com
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Mexican salamanders who can re-grow amputated legs are not pulling off quite as big a biological trick as scientists had first thought, which may help doctors trying to regenerate human limbs.
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More than 800 wildlife species now extinct
01.07.2009 18:00
reuters.com
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More than 800 animal and plant species have gone extinct in the past five centuries with nearly 17,000 now threatened with extinction, the International Union for Conservation of Nature reported on Thursday.
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BBJ - Bad Blow Job
01.07.2009 14:10
roomthirteen.com
Like the band’s name this is mundane boring and a total anti-climax. Bland AOR from the 1980’s!
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Dusty Rhodes And The River Band - Palace And Stage
01.07.2009 14:10
roomthirteen.com
Less raw and grass roots this time around the second album is polished and well executed!
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Rory Stewart: Why Are We in Afghanistan?
01.07.2009 12:23
lrb.co.uk
Obama and Brown rely on a hypnotising policy language which can - and perhaps will - be applied as easily to Somalia or Yemen as Afghanistan. It misleads us in several respects simultaneously: minimising differences between cultures, exaggerating our fears, aggrandising our ambitions, inflating a sense of moral obligations and power, and confusing our goals. All these attitudes are aspects of a single worldview and create an almost irresistible illusion.
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