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'From the library of ...': the artistry of bookplates
The Seattle Times
'From the library of ...': the artistry of bookplates
Fri, 20 Jan 2012 06:02:27 -0800

The exhibit "Ex Libris: Contemporary & Antique Bookplates" at Davidson Galleries in Seattle celebrates the art of bookplates, which identify books ' owners. By Gayle Clemans Above: Enrico Vannuccini's "Cross Section of Human Head," Ex Libris for Berbard ...
School trades text books for i Pads
WJXT Jacksonville
School trades text books for i Pads
Fri, 20 Jan 2012 01:21:27 -0800

University Christian School on the Southside has decided that all students in grades 8 through 12 will be using i Pads, rather than traditional text books . "That's a lot better for us because we don't have to carry all the weight and you can have it all ...
The Book People builds up to the Imagine Festival 2012
Web Wire (press release)
The Book People builds up to the Imagine Festival 2012
Fri, 20 Jan 2012 02:07:09 -0800

The Imagine Festival, sponsored by online book retailer the Book People, is currently having the final touches put to it before the doors open at the Southbank Centre in London on February 11th. The Imagine Festival, sponsored by online book retailer ...
GLAAD's Unsung Heroes of 2012
Comic Book Resources
GLAAD's Unsung Heroes of 2012
Fri, 20 Jan 2012 10:04:28 -0800

Step into any comic book shop and ask the first sweater-wearing, bespectacled dude you bump into which books would be nominated for depicting "outstanding images" of the LGBT community, and that dude would be able to rattle off these nominees ...
How NFL conference championship weekend shapes up for local sports books
Las Vegas Sun
How NFL conference championship weekend shapes up for local sports books
Fri, 20 Jan 2012 02:05:09 -0800

By Case Keefer (contact) Las Vegas sports books only considered nine teams less likely to win the 2012 Super Bowl than the San Francisco 49ers at the beginning of the NFL season. Four months later, San Francisco is the favorite to represent the NFC in ...
Words Matter! Using Kids' Books to Celebrate No Name-Calling Week at Home
Huffington Post
Words Matter! Using Kids' Books to Celebrate No Name-Calling Week at Home
Fri, 20 Jan 2012 08:10:30 -0800

Check out these great children's book titles that can help you reinforce this important message at home: This easy-to-relate-to children's book tells the tale of Brenda Bailey, a bully who persistently and relentlessly taunts and teases her classmate, ...
 Book's narrator sympathetic, but fallible
Vancouver Sun
Book's narrator sympathetic, but fallible
Fri, 20 Jan 2012 09:25:59 -0800

The Vancouver Sun book club is discussing Victoria author Esi Edugyan's Half-Blood Blues, which won the Scotiabank Giller Prize and was nominated for the Man Booker Prize, the Governor General's Award and the Roger's Writers Trust Fiction Prize. ...
Review: 'Sins of the Highlander' by Connie Mason and Mia Marlowe
USA TODAY
Review: 'Sins of the Highlander' by Connie Mason and Mia Marlowe
Fri, 20 Jan 2012 14:05:05 -0800

Connie is an extraordinary author with many, many books to her name. She was named Story Teller of the Year in 1990 by Romantic Times magazine and has a fantastical imagination. Sins of the Highlander is hot. I mean, the hero and heroine meet each ...
GLAAD's Unsung Heroes of 2012
Comic Book Resources
GLAAD's Unsung Heroes of 2012
Fri, 20 Jan 2012 10:04:28 -0800

Step into any comic book shop and ask the first sweater-wearing, bespectacled dude you bump into which books would be nominated for depicting "outstanding images" of the LGBT community, and that dude would be able to rattle off these nominees ...
 Books : Crass Struggle, by RT Naylor
Waterloo Record
Books : Crass Struggle, by RT Naylor
Fri, 20 Jan 2012 14:00:48 -0800

Crass Struggle: Greed, Glitz and Gluttony in a Wanna-Have World, By RT Naylor (Mc Gill-Queen's University Press, 487 pages, $34.95 hardcover) Just in the past year or so there have been a couple of prominent books Cheap by Ellen Ruppel Shell and ...
Guardian Books podcast: Chad Harbach and Andrew Miller
The Guardian
Guardian Books podcast: Chad Harbach and Andrew Miller
Fri, 20 Jan 2012 05:16:12 -0800

BTW the book is enjoyable, but the amount of baseball stuff might be off-putting to the many British readers. Me either, and I'm glad someone else has raised this. Like a lot of poor people, I use pay-as-you-go mobile broadband. ...
Morgan Stanley books narrower loss than expected
Sydney Morning Herald
Morgan Stanley books narrower loss than expected
Thu, 19 Jan 2012 11:08:52 -0800

Morgan Stanley has posted a fourth-quarter loss of $US275 million ($A264.4 million), its first since early 2009, as the investment bank booked a charge from settling a dispute over failed mortgage securities. The loss, a reversal from its gain of ...
Elmore Leonard returns to "Raylan" in new novel
CNN
Elmore Leonard returns to "Raylan" in new novel
Fri, 20 Jan 2012 12:05:11 -0800

The 86-year old author has been writing bestselling books for sixty years, mostly Westerns and crime novels. Many of them have been turned into hit movies, including "3:10 to Yuma," "Get Shorty" and "Out of Sight." Now, Leonard returns to one of his ...
OFFSTAGE: Brad Paisley Books Wrigley Field
CMT.com
OFFSTAGE: Brad Paisley Books Wrigley Field
Fri, 20 Jan 2012 10:16:07 -0800

In his Diary of a Player book , there's a part where he talks about winning the CMA horizon award in 2000 and the CMA entertainer of the year award in 2010. "If I were to have written the script for my life, I might have actually penned it so that I won ...
Digital Books : 'Enhanced' But for Whom?
Digital Books : 'Enhanced' But for Whom?
Fri, 20 Jan 2012 12:52:29 -0800

Forget your dusty old biology book . Life on Earth, a textbook by EO Wilson now available on i Tunes, may soon make it obsolete. Wilson's book is an enhanced digital book , meaning it incorporates video, animation and other high-tech features to explain ...
 Books : Crass Struggle, by RT Naylor
Waterloo Record
Books : Crass Struggle, by RT Naylor
Fri, 20 Jan 2012 14:00:48 -0800

Crass Struggle: Greed, Glitz and Gluttony in a Wanna-Have World, By RT Naylor (Mc Gill-Queen's University Press, 487 pages, $34.95 hardcover) Just in the past year or so there have been a couple of prominent books Cheap by Ellen Ruppel Shell and ...
Graphic Books Best Sellers: X-Men Take Over Top Spot
New York Times (blog)
Graphic Books Best Sellers: X-Men Take Over Top Spot
Fri, 20 Jan 2012 10:45:00 -0800

1 on the hardcover graphic books best-seller list this week. When an international incident sends hatred of mutants into a new frenzy, Cyclops and Wolverine are divided in their response and cause a rift in the team. This collected edition contains the ...
Graphic Books Best Sellers: X-Men Take Over Top Spot
New York Times (blog)
Graphic Books Best Sellers: X-Men Take Over Top Spot
Fri, 20 Jan 2012 10:45:00 -0800

1 on the hardcover graphic books best-seller list this week. When an international incident sends hatred of mutants into a new frenzy, Cyclops and Wolverine are divided in their response and cause a rift in the team. This collected edition contains the ...
Why ban the book 'Kosher Jesus'?
Ener Pub
Why ban the book 'Kosher Jesus'?
Fri, 20 Jan 2012 07:25:46 -0800

by Shmuley Boteach Rabbi Immanuel Schochet, who recently issued a letter banning anyone from reading my book Kosher Jesus, calling it heretical, is someone whose writings and lectures I have long admired. I also twice had the pleasure of hosting him at ...
Audubon's 'Birds of America' books fetch $7.9 million
msnbc.com
Audubon's 'Birds of America' books fetch $7.9 million
Fri, 20 Jan 2012 10:09:36 -0800

Another complete first edition of "The Birds of America" sold at Sotheby's in London in December 2010 for $11.5 million, a record for the most expensive printed book sold at auction. The 3 1/2-foot-tall books feature hand-colored prints of all the ...

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Wed Feb 1 08:22:19 2012

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Wed Feb 1 08:22:17 2012
The Online Books Page: Book Listings
onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu
The Online Books Page: Book Listings
BOOK LISTINGS Our local index includes more than a million works in various formats that meet these criteria. (Over 40,000 are in our "curated collection", representing ...
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Bing Web Search: "books",
Thu Jan 26 10:02:12 2012

A book is a set or collection of written, printed, illustrated, or blank sheets, made of paper, parchment, or other various material, usually fastened together to hinge at one side. A single sheet within a book is called a leaf, and each side of a leaf is called a page. A book produced in electronic format is known as an electronic book (e-book).
from: Wikipedia: books,
Fri Jan 13 17:36:50 2012

Noun

books
  1. Plural form of book.
  2. (plural only; not used in singular form) (accounting) Accounting records.
Verb books
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of book.

from: Wiktionary: books,
Fri Jan 13 17:36:52 2012