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Do Judge A Book By Its Cover

Lee Woodruff | Posted 05.31.2012

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Lee Woodruff

This is the era of Facebook and Match.com. We can go right to the visual and decide if we want to fondle the goods or click on by. The cover of a book is the eye candy for the IQ inside. It's the hooked worm on the bobber.

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The Book We're Talking About This Week

Zoë Triska | Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: Narcopolis, New Books, Indian Literature, Book We're Talking About, New Book, Jeet Thayil, Books News

"Narcopolis" by Jeet Thayil Penguin Press, $25.95 Published on April 16, 2012 What is it about? The book begins in Bombay in the late 1970s. Th...

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Widower Of Selena Writes Book

AP | By E.J. TAMARA | Posted 03.08.2012

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LOS ANGELES -- The new book "To Selena, With Love" reveals intimate details about the late Tejano star's life, but the book's author – her widow...

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Are You Addicted To Change?

Winifred Gallagher | Posted 03.17.2012

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Winifred Gallagher

To understand your own response to new things, you first need to know a little about Homo sapiens's unique "neophilia"--an affinity for engaging with novelty and adapting to change that distinguishes us from all other species.

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The Early Days Of Clergy Abuse: A San Francisco Story

Julian Guthrie | Posted 10.20.2011

Read More: San Francisco, New Book, Catholic Clergy Abuse, St-Brigid, Catholic Church, Clergy Abuse, San Francisco Clergy Abuse, Religion News
Julian Guthrie

Early in the spring of 1994, a hard-charging San Francisco lawyer named Robert Bryan hired a private investigator to do some digging into what was happening at the San Francisco Archdiocese.

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Bill McKibben On 'The Biggest Crisis That Humans Have Ever Faced'

Mother Jones | Posted 09.13.2011

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When we talk about global warming, much of the debate centers on separating facts from fluff, and environmental activist and Mother Jones contributor ...

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Quitting For Dummies! by Sarah Palin

Shannyn Moore | Posted 05.25.2011

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Shannyn Moore

Publisher HarperCollins has announced Sarah Palin's next venture in book makin.' According to them, she is working on a "celebration of American virtues and strengths." Good Lord, you've got to be kidding.

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If You Put A Dog On The Cover, It'll Sell (PHOTOS, POLL)

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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If you put a dog on the cover, it'll sell. Must Love Dogs, Marley and Me, The Dog Whisperer, the list is inexhaustible and it's something that every v...

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WATCH: Sully On The Daily Show

The Huffington Post | Jessie Kunhardt | Posted 05.25.2011

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Captain Chesley Sullenberger, or Sully, the pilot who became famous this summer for emergency landing a plane in the Hudson River, spoke to Jon Stewar...

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Self-described "Abortion Addict" Confesses To 15 Procedures

National Post | Mary Vallis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Abortion, Irene Vilar, Impossible Motherhood, Books, Abortion Addict, Abortion Addiction, Pro-Life, Pro-Choice, New Book, Vilar, Books News

Fifty one rejection letters -- that is the number Irene Vilar received before she finally found someone to publish a tale so extreme it would surely b...

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Winnie The Pooh Is Back!

AP | JENNIFER QUINN | Posted 05.25.2011

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LONDON — When we left them, Christopher Robin was going away, and Things were going to be Different. Now, more than eight decades later, a rumo...

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As Congress Moves to End Gay Ban, Don't Let History Repeat Itself

Nathaniel Frank | Posted 05.25.2011

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Nathaniel Frank

Rep. Ellen Tauscher has just announced she'll introduce a bill to repeal the ban on open gays in the military, a momentous step that comes on the 15th anniversary of this highly unpopular policy.

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