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  The nearly 150,000 inmates in Texas prisons are … prohibited from reading the pop-up edition of “A Charlie Brown Christmas,” “The Color Purple” and the 1908 Sears, Roebuck catalog....

  • December 8, 2017
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  For you embroidery lovers

  This is a new niche in Kindle books. This is only one of about 15 available designs. Photos of the designs and detailed charts of the design are presented....

  • September 2, 2017
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  Director of Ukrainian Library in Moscow Receives Suspended Term – The New York Times

  The court ruled that Natalia G. Sharina purchased anti-Russian books and other materials and put them on the library’s shelves to help Ukrainian nationalists get a foothold in Moscow....

  • June 9, 2017
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  New B & N stores with beer and wine

  Barnes & Noble says it is opening four ‘concept’ stores in the next year that will feature restaurants with an expanded menu including beer and wine. First store will...

  • June 25, 2016
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  Top 10 Medieval Book Curses

  At the end of a Bible, written around the year 1172, the scribe added this statement: If anyone take away this book, let him die the death; let him be...

  • December 14, 2015
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  Amazon.com prices vs Amazon.co.uk prices?

  Amazon dominates the UK ebook market just as it dominates the US ebook market, and Amazon.co.uk is the second largest retailer of English-language ebooks in the world. However, indie authors are doing worse...

  • December 13, 2015
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  Let’s not do this in the USA

  Since Donald Trump as a Presidential candidate apparently wants to devolve the United States into a Nazi-like country, tracking and harassing people of a non-Christian religion, I thought it...

  • November 22, 2015
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  Amazon Opens a Real Bookstore?

  “No longer just a one-stop digital book shop available on a tablet or computer screen, Amazon Books now occupies a brick-and-mortar storefront next to a Banana Republic in Seattle’s...

  • November 11, 2015
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  Bram Stoker & Dracula

  “Who Was Dracula” is not really a book about Dracula, but instead is a well researched book about how Bram Stoker got the idea for his novel and where...

  • October 28, 2015
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  Was Hitler a Junkie?

  Hitler on drugs? I had never considered that, but a new book has been published (unfortunately only in German) that details Hitler’s drug addiction and also drug use by...

  • October 3, 2015
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