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Borders Goes Beyond Books
In the wake of disappointing sales for the second quarter, Borders Group has announced plans to expand non-book products in many of their 679 stores. ...

Book details John Travolta's alleged secret gay life
But in a new book “You'll Never Spa in This Town Again,” author Robert Randolph dishes on the secret world of celebrity 'gay spa sex,' and says that John ...

Mark Twain Library book sale marks 50 years this weekend
The Mark Twain Library in Redding will mark the 50th anniversary of its annual book sale this weekend. More than 50000 books will be offered, on everything ...

Georgia Pellegrini's new book celebrates food heroes and culinary artisans
Now with one book under her belt and filming underway on a television pilot, "Girl Hunter," about hunting, gathering and cooking, Pellegrini, 29, ...

Students face new textbook picks: Rent vs. buy, print vs. e-book
CourseSmart would not disclose how e-book sales are going so far this season, saying it was too early, but that it is optimistic. "We expect triple-digit ...

Book drive campaign launched for local school libraries
By TONIE MARRIOTT — staff writer | 0 comments The Mt. Carmel Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) is launching a book drive campaign, ...

Russia - Prime Minister Vladimir Putin visits the Moscow International Book Fair
Vladimir Putin spent over an hour looking at books in the new pavilion at the All-Russian Exhibition Centre, where the 23rd Moscow International Book Fair ...

Canada's Indigo, Borders-owned Kobo to Manage Samsung Tablet's Bookstore
By Matt Townsend - Thu Sep 02 14:52:59 GMT 2010 Kobo Inc., the digital book provider owned by Indigo Books & Music Inc. and Borders Group Inc., will provide ...

New Kindles reinforce e-reader's best-seller status
Add the 670000 e-books on sale in Amazon's US Kindle Store — and the fact that you can download them in less than a minute via 3G or, now, Wi-Fi— and the ...

Discounted digital books to help Cal State students save money
Students at five Cal State University campuses will be able to save hundreds of dollars on books under a pilot project that will allow them to view course ...

Literary Matters - local book sharing on the web
I like to stay on top of the world of books. I would ask her recommendations." It was soon after the Pandolfinos sold their successful Plum Foods Shop in ...

Students take advantage of book rentals
She rented her Abnormal Psychology book from the University Bookstore. And she saved $120. "It's definitely a lot cheaper; it ended up to be less than half ...

Book review: 'Let's Take the Long Way Home' by Gail Caldwell
Caldwell, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 2001 for her work as chief book critic for the Boston Globe, beckons us into her story with lines that evoke ...

Former champion Kuznetsova books spot in third round
By Matt Majendie NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former US Open champion Svetlana Kuznetsova produced a far stronger second performance at Flushing Meadows with a ...

Freedom
Oh sure, books that attract a large female audience are too often unfairly dismissed. But Franzen hasn't gotten a free pass from the Times. ...

Borders in Aventura to close
Books & Books has a store in the Bal Harbour Shops at 9700 Collins Avenue. Also, Trader Johns Book & Records has a wide selection of used books at their ...

'Friends' to host fiction-only book sale in Greece
By Staff reports The Friends of the Greece Public Library are hosting a fiction-only book sale from Sept. 23 through 25. A preview night for members only or ...

Self-Made Golem
Wiesenthal started by collecting information from his fellow camp survivors and then looking up SS murderers in Austrian phone books and pressuring ...

BA schools approve profane book
The Broken Arrow school board has a message for its students – it's okay to read books with obscenities. In fact, the board voted to extend that policy to ...

Hardcover Nonfiction Bestsellers For Sept. 2
Book descriptions are based in part on publishers' information. By Justin Halpern After being dumped by his longtime girlfriend, 28-year-old Justin Halpern ...

Tony Blair has rewritten history - without modesty or shame
These were the boom years, or so we were told, but instead of balancing the books – or, better still, saving a few quid – the chancellor was allowed to ...

Check It Out at the library: Do you have a library card?
Butte College Road Runner Community Market and Love Your Library Committee will present All About Books, a book festival, 9 am to 2 pm Sept. 18-19. ...

One to Watch: Chinese Hot Stock Launches E-Book Service
Baidu also started its new service for e-books, adding about 500 applications to its Web site. This initiative is the part of the company's strategy to ...

RARE BOOKS DEPT
Top story: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas will resume direct negotiations this morning at the ...

Best Sci-Fi Books for Kick-Starting Your Brain Fry
It is intended to introduce the novice student of SF literature to the major themes in the genre, as well as books and authors who are representative of ...

Phillies score in Guinness book
By Dan Gross PHILLIES RYAN Howard and Chase Utley have secured spots in the "Guinness World Records 2011" book, due out Sept. 15. ...

Web site of the week: Browse for books at Simonandschuster.com
By AMANDA LILLY A website filled with great books geared toward teens, teens.simonandschuster.com offers recommendations and reviews on new releases, ...

Borders Posts Quarterly Loss on 12 Percent Decline in Revenue
Lower prices, the introduction of text books and a faster checkout system, drove the gain, Edwards said. E-books, which the company began offering in July, ...

Scholastic Book Clubs' ClassroomsCare Invites America's Students to Join the ...
By participating in Scholastic Book Clubs' ClassroomsCare program, a philanthropy-based literacy campaign designed to teach children about the joys and ...

I write a nasty book. And they want a girly cover on it
Freedom secured two worshipful reviews from the New York Times in one week, the Book Review's lengthy cover essay drooling with such jaw-dropped awe that it ...