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How To Spend Money Like Jane Austen

Posted 04.02.2013 | Books

Reprinted from Jane Austen's Guide to Thrift by Kathleen Anderson and Susan Jones by arrangement with Berkley, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc., C...

Organic Authority's Favorites: 5 Best Natural Laundry Detergents

Organic Authority.com | Posted 01.08.2013 | HuffPost Home
Organic Authority.com

Free of chlorine, sulfates, parabens and other nasties.

VOTE: What Is The Best Novel Of All Time?

Posted 08.20.2012 | Books

The Best Novel of All Time? It's an impossible statement of course, but while we wait for the big titles of the fall to hit, and everyone is talking a...

Jane Austen Under the Stars (PHOTOS)

Erin Ruberry | Posted 08.28.2012 | DC
Erin Ruberry

What better place to watch Jane Austen's books-turned-movies than a historic home dating from the same period as Austen's classic novels?

Travels With Jane Austen

Lev Raphael | Posted 08.27.2012 | Books
Lev Raphael

My favorite memory of Emma is reading it in a hammock at the edge of my uncle's orchard outside Tel-Aviv. I loved it best among her books at the time, and I'd brought it with me almost as a talisman since I'd never been so far from home.

Africa to Kony 2012: Stop Treating Us Like Victims

James Marshall Crotty | Posted 05.23.2012 | World
James Marshall Crotty

Africans want capital investment, access to global markets, and to be treated as self-sufficient players, not victims in need of continual rescue by their former colonizers. That is the respectful, tough-love attitude that will raise all boats on the African continent.

The 10 Best Literary Picnics

The Observer | Kate Kellaway | Posted 08.31.2011 | Books

In a boat, in the nude, with cold chicken, warm bananas, Mr Knightley or Mole…...

Books You Should Have Read By Now: Readers Admit What Made Their Lists (PHOTOS)

Posted 05.27.2011 | Books

Penguin Books (@penguinbooks) recently tweeted, "So who is up for admitting what books they should have read by now? #abouttimeiread" We've all go...

It's Jane Austen's Birthday!

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books

Today scholars, readers and insanely devoted fans alike celebrate the birth of British novelist Jane Austen 235 years later. Since penning classics th...

Jane Austen's 'Emma' Rare Copy Sells For Almost $500,000

The New York Times | RACHEL LEE HARRIS | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books

A rare copy of Jane Austen's "Emma," signed by the author, has sold for almost $500,000, according to the BBC News....

Con Games: Church Beats State Near Aspen

Michael Conniff | Posted 05.25.2011 | Denver
Michael Conniff

A megachurch in my neighborhood I can live with, especially on private land. But a church holding services in a county buidling is like a stake by the state to the heart.