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4 good reads on the home
Tribune NewspapersBy Martha Phifer How can your kitchen be the heart of your home if it's not functional? "Classic Kitchen Style: The Essential Handbook for a Timeless Design (Filipacchi Publishing; $16.99; paperback) by Mervyn Kaufman and the editors of Woman's Day,...Tags: House and Home
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Next Stop, Waitsville
Since 2003, publisher Continuum has put out charming little bonbons of books as part of the 33 1/3 series. Ranging from the scholarly to the fantastical, these tributes to the landmark albums of rock 'n' roll have featured bands as diverse as Jethro...Tags: Tom Waits
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Craziness required
"Mr. Ambassador" as a title sounds dignified, statesmanlike. But for Jon Scieszka, it's all about anarchy. As national ambassador for young people's literature, a position instituted jointly this year by the Library of Congress Center for the Book and the...Tags: Literature, Game Playing, Clothing and Textiles Industry, Minnesota Twins, Roman Catholic
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E-textbooks may not be cheaper than printed ones, report says
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterOver the past year, seemingly everyone from Congress to the California auditor have decried college textbook costs, which have soared to an average of $700 to $1,000 per student each year. Many of these critics have pointed to online digital textbooks,...Tags: MySpace, Facebook, National Government, Electronics, Consumer Electronics Industry
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'Peterson Field Guide to Birds of North America,' 'Smithsonian Guide to the Birds of North America'
Peterson Field Guide to Birds of North America
Roger Peterson
Houghton Mifflin: 532 pp., $26
Smithsonian Field Guide to the Birds of North America
Ted Floyd
Collins: 512 pp., $24.95
PICKING a birding field guide is a little like picking a spouse....Tags: David Allen
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Obama Must Seize The Reins
As the Democrats assemble in Denver, there's an odd dissonance to the party. The star of the show is "Mr. Cool," Barack Obama, the ultra-charismatic senator who landed on the national stage as if from outer space — seemingly untouched by the usual...Tags: George Bush, Gang Activity, National Government, Wages and Pensions, Social Security
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'Yesterday's Weather: Stories' by Anne Enright
Yesterday's Weather
Stories
Anne Enright
Grove Press: 320 pp., $24
NO ONE ever said fiction was supposed to make you feel good. Anne Enright, whose novel "The Gathering" won the Man Booker Prize last year, makes up for her consistent failure to... -
Discoveries: Books by Kingsley Amis, Linda Robertson and Richard Murphy
Every Day Drinking
The Distilled Kingsley Amis
Kingsley Amis with an introduction
by Christopher Hitchens
Bloomsbury: 302 pp., $19.99
IT'S ENOUGH to make you dedicate your life to the subject. The essays collected here were written between 1971 and...Tags: Ethics, Wine, Beer, and Spirits, Values, Christopher Hitchens
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Booksellers Object To Amazon Deal
ASSOCIATED PRESSA new book about Sen. Barack Obama has intensified a rivalry between two powerful competitors: Barnes & Noble and Amazon.com. Chelsea Green Publishing, a small, liberal publisher based in Vermont, is releasing Robert Kuttner's "Obama's Challenge," a call...Tags: Political Candidates, Internet, Elections, Amazon.com Inc., Barnes & Noble Incorporated
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Palm Beach County library events
Boca Raton 200 NW Boca Raton Blvd. 561-393-7852. Drop-in Story Time, 10 a.m., Saturday. Boynton Beach 208 S. Seacrest Blvd. 561-742-6390. Pajama Storytime, 7 p.m. Wednesday. Children wear pajamas for stories and songs. Ages 3-6. Quilters, 9 a.m....Tags: Doris Day, Palm Beach (Palm Beach, Florida), Preschools, Microsoft Corp., Boynton Beach
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Review: 'Traffic' by Tom Vanderbilt
Bloomberg NewsTRAFFIC: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us), by Tom Vanderbilt. Alfred A. Knopf, 402 pp., $24.95. I knew when I moved from New Jersey to Brooklyn that I would never see any of my friends again. That's because of The Traffic,...Tags: Car Safety Tips and Advice, Vehicles, Philosophy
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