01/09/2009
New books improve checkout rate at Hiatt library (The Des Moines Register)
$10,000 used to purchase 700 new books at Hiatt Middle School as part of effort to improve reading scores.
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01/09/2009
Donate books at recycling center (Hampton Union)
HAMPTON — The town has partnered with Got Books to place a reuse container for donated books, CDs, DVDs, videos and audio books at the town recycling center on Hardardt's Way. A portion of the proceeds benefits Hampton's general town funds. For...
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01/09/2009
Best books of 2008 hardly an objective list (Contra Costa Times)
This is not an objective list. How could it be? Nearly 50 times a year, I provide my opinions on one to four current business books I've read — just my opinion, not the definitive judgment.
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01/09/2009
Committee members needed for Festival of books (Rapid City Journal)
South Dakota Humanities Council members are recruiting local and area volunteers to take part in its committee meeting for the 2009 Festival of Books in Deadwood.
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01/08/2009
Holiday sales fall for Books-A-Million (BizJournals)
Book retailer Books-A-Million Inc. reported a drop in holiday sales of 2.5 percent over last year.
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01/09/2009
Positive books for kids (Mesabi Daily News)
VIRGINIA — Children are bombarded with negative influences on a daily basis, says John Wirth. And that’s why it’s important to offer something to counter that — in this case in the form of a couple of thousand books.
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01/09/2009
Pick of the Picture Books: Kandinsky, edited by Helmut Friedel and Annegret Hoberg (Independent)
Weighing in at nearly a stone, this beautifully-produced, massive collection of Kandinsky scholarship is one of the most weighty books about the author ever published, the result of years of work by the world's foremost experts. Kandinsky, edited by Helmut Friedel and Annegret Hoberg (Prestel, £99, with a facsimile of the portfolio of 12 prints Kleine Welten) is a collection of essays by ...
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01/08/2009
Foley Public Library opens store for used books (Mobile Press-Register)
With a new wing opened, the Foley Public Library has also begun selling used books year-round in a store staffed by volunteers. The Friends of the Library Bookstore is open Monday, Tuesday and Saturday. The store will sell surplus library...
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01/08/2009
Maytas Infra also fudged books (Express India)
Satyam Computer is not the only Ramalinga Raju family-promoted company that fudged books, but Maytas Infrastructure also seems to have mis-represented its financials.
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01/08/2009
Books: Local bestsellers (Denver Post)
The Denver area's best-selling books, according to information from the Tattered Cover Book Store, Barnes & Noble in Greenwood Village, the Boulder Book Store, and Borders Books in Lone Tree.
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