10/11/2008
REGION: Preschoolers receive books to build literacy (North County Times)
Preschoolers in Lake Elsinore and Wildomar soon will be receiving new books each week as part of a program to encourage early literacy among young children. Project Read With Me is a 7-year-old effort to spur parents to read with their children, teac
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10/10/2008
Venezuela Closes McDonald's for 'Cooking the Books' (Fox News)
The Venezuelan government has ordered all McDonald's restaurants closed for 48 hours for what it calls irregularities in the fast-food chain's financial books.
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10/11/2008
Chamber to sponsor Quick Books course (Savannah Morning News)
SPRINGFIELD - The Effingham County Chamber of Commerce, along with the University of Georgia Small Business Development Center, will sponsor a Quick Books seminar Thursday at Effingham County High School.
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10/11/2008
Book junkies: America reading less, but some people still love books (The Charleston Gazette)
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Even when she watches TV, Cindy Lilly is usually flipping through a book or magazine. The 47-year-old secretary reads four to six books a week. She loves books of all kind: mysteries by Janet Evanovich, books on spirituality, classics...
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10/11/2008
Books For Offenders Program Brainchild Of Park Tudor Student (WRTV Indianapolis)
Young offenders at the Marion County Juvenile Detention Center will soon be given books thanks to a program started by a Park Tudor High School student.
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10/11/2008
Book junkies: America reading less, but some people still love books (The Charleston Gazette)
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Even when she watches TV, Cindy Lilly is usually flipping through a book or magazine. The 47-year-old secretary reads four to six books a week.
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10/11/2008
Catholicism trendy topic in books (The Wichita Eagle)
For American publishers, Catholics suddenly seem trendy. Three books by high-profile names from pop fiction, Hollywood and politics have arrived or will soon arrive in bookstores: "Called Out of Darkness: A Spiritual Confession" (Knopf), by Anne Rice, the best-selling queen of vampire novels. Since her return to Catholicism in 1996, Rice has written two novels about the young Jesus and now ...
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10/11/2008
Children's Books (New York Times)
1. BIG WORDS FOR LITTLE PEOPLE, by Jamie Lee Curtis 2. TEA FOR RUBY, by Sarah Ferguson 3. ON A SCARY SCARY NIGHT, by Walter Wick 4. GALLOP!, written and illustrated by Rufus Butler Seder 5. WE THE PEOPLE, by Lynne Cheney
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10/10/2008
Lifted iPhone NDA opens the door for conferences, books (InfoWorld)
The collective sigh of relief when Apple lifted the iPhone NDA , which had prevented developers from discussing iPhone programming, came not just from developers, but also from educators, authors, and publishers. With the NDA gone, iPhone-related books can be published, and conferences can be much more detailed, leading to better education. Publishers and authors who had books ...
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10/10/2008
Books: What's new (Wisconsin State Journal)
NONFICTION Favre: His Twenty Greatest Games by Doug Moe (Trails Books, $19) Say what you will, there's no denying that Brett Favre has had an incredible career as a quarterback. Wisconsin State Journal columnist Doug Moe has written a tribute to Favre's legacy that reminds fans why Favre is the football icon he's become. "Favre: His Twenty Greatest Games" is a kind of time capsule, a ...
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