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With courthouse closed, couple ties the knot at Annapolis Bookstore
The bride looked radiant in her pink and white dress. The groom was dapper in his business suit. The ceremony backdrop consisted of books on shelves, books on tables and a backroom cafe with patrons who seemed oblivious to the whole thing. Welcome to...
Tags: Family, Immigration, Marriage, Annapolis, Weddings
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Share Your Blessings: Where to donate this holiday season
As we come to the close of another challenging year on the economic front, local nonprofit groups throughout the area are still struggling to make ends meet and address growing needs in the community. These groups and the people they serve need our help...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Apple iPad, Wii, Baby Products, Agricultural Research and Technology
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Children's Bookstore hosts panel of city-raised authors at Baltimore Book Festival
Children's author Laurel Snyder, 38, lives in Atlanta, but her own childhood in north Baltimore is never far from her thoughts. Snyder, who grew up in Radnor-Winston and went to Roland Park Elementary/Middle School, said she and her friends would walk to...
Tags: Baltimore Book Festival, Roland Park, Mount Vernon, Authors, Festive Events
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Editorial: At libraries, it's out with the old
Even as electronic books and other computerized innovations have become vital sources of information for everything from the most frivolous of Hollywood gossip to the most tedious of new theories in advanced physics, books in print remain vital sources of...Tags: Electronics, Books, Libraries
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Police crack down on Harford 'adult bookstores'
The Harford County Sheriff's Office is cracking down again on illegal activity in the so-called "adult bookstores" in Harford County — an effort which resulted in the arrest of a Towson priest — while considering how it might be able to shut...Tags: Fines, Police Arrests, Business, Lawyers, Laws
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Baltimore Co. school board questions administrators over spending
Saying that money had been wasted and school system policies had not been followed in the purchases of books and writing of curriculum, Baltimore County school board members asked administrators Tuesday night for reassurances that similar mistakes would...Tags: Baltimore County, Language, Joe A. Hairston, Books, Teaching and Learning
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For many parents, books that can be held are still the first choice
Jo Keller relies on her Kindle when she travels so she can forgo lugging hardback books, but when it comes to her children's reading habits, she feels differently.
She has squirreled away many of the books she read as a child growing up in England and is...Tags: American Academy of Pediatrics, Technology, Literature, Apple iPad, Amazon Kindle
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Lovers of books welcome at Violetville church bazaar April 28
Those who want to read all about it should spring forth to the Bargain Hunters' Book Fair Bazaar, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Saturday, April 28, at Violetville United Methodist Church, 3648 Coolidge Ave. Gently used books, attic treasures, hand crafts and baked...Tags: Methodist, Mother's Day, Cookbooks, Christianity, Halethorpe
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Shepherd of the Glen's annual book sale is a can't-miss event
It's almost here. Just a few more weeks until the 16th annual book sale held the first weekend of September each year at the Shepherd of the Glen Lutheran Church, on Burnt Woods Road. I must admit I've never met a used book store I didn't love. While...Tags: Anglicanism, Howard County, Maryland, Ellicott City, Books
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Columbia Borders and Borders Express will be closed by September
The Columbia Borders and Borders Express, like all the stores in the bankrupt book franchise, are closing, leaving Howard County book lovers disappointed.
"It's devastating," Columbia resident Tonya Eady said after shopping Sunday, July 24 at the Borders...Tags: Clarksville, Newspaper and Magazine, Books-A-Million Incorporated, Books, Barnes & Noble, Inc.
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Not really 'bookstores'
It's become something of a euphemism in American English that the words "adult books" mean something other than what they mean. Even now, most public libraries have a children's book section and an adult book section, yet the notion that adult books refer...Tags: Lawyers, Laws, Television Industry, Judges, Larry Flynt
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Demise of Borders recalls the end of Remington's
The news that Borders, the nation's second-largest book chain, is giving up the ghost and closing its doors after 40 years came as no real surprise to anyone. The Wall Street Journal observed last week that Borders' exit was the "'first major casualty of...Tags: Joseph Conrad, Roland Park, New Year's Day, The New York Times, Amazon.com Inc.
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