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Category Archives: Books
Memorial De La Shoah
The central Paris Memorial de la Shoah on Wednesday launched a moving exhibition in tribute to the French -Jewish writer Irène Nemirovsky.The extensive collection includes a series of letters she sent months before her arrest and deportation to Auschwitz and … Continue reading
Stay on Track with FictFact
The website FictFact has compiled an enormous database of serial fiction, keeping track of the order and release dates of hundreds of book series so you don’t have to. As readers and fans, we often come late to a compelling … Continue reading
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Not Your Local Starbucks
Located just a block east of the historic New York Public Library at Bryant Park, the new D’Espresso coffee bar takes the comforting library environment and flips it on its side. Anurag Nema and his design team at nemaworkshop created … Continue reading
The 19th Century Kindle
Lighthouses were often time located in remote areas and as such had no access to city services such as libraries, bookshops, entertainment, etc. that most people enjoyed who lived in a town or city. As light keeping was a … Continue reading
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Happy Birthday to the Dickens of Detroit
Elmore Leonard was born in New Orleans on October 11, 1925, so is celebrating his 85th birthday next week. In the 1950s, he wrote western novels and short stories, and finished his first crime novel, The Big Bounce, in 1969. … Continue reading
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Out-of-Print But In Demand
Out-of-print and in demand Every year BookFinder.com tracks the most sought-after out-of-print titles in America. In this, the eighth edition, several books garnered enough attention for publishers to re-print them in the near future. They also find some out-of-print mainstays … Continue reading
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Everyone Has Secrets
PostSecret is an ongoing community art project where people mail in their secrets anonymously on one side of a postcard. There is also a series of PostSecret books published by Harper Collins, and “PostSecret Live” – a multi-media presentation by … Continue reading
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Bye-Bye Banned Books Week (til next year)
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Remembering the Bookseller, Not the Books
I was saddened to hear this week of the passing of Dublin’s most genial bookseller, Mr.Enda Cunningham of Cathach Books on Duke Street. It’s been about four years since I last visited the bookshop, and I can’t recall the last … Continue reading
