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Malcolm Gladwell's "Outliers" Now at Local Bookstores

Gladwell: "People are experience rich and theory poor. People who are busy doing things as opposed to people who are busy sitting around, like me, reading and having coffee in coffee shops."

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New Zealand Fantasy Novel Pushes Back Frontiers of Space and Science

Ben Brown's Adventure Beyond the Universe - The Return of the Nephilim, is a new fantasy/adventure novel by New Zealand author, Michael Thorp, which pushes back the frontiers of space and science, albeit in the realms of science fiction fantasy.

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Ben Brown's Adventure Beyond the Universe - The Return of the Nephilim

A new fantasy/adventure novel, Ben Brown's Adventure Beyond the Universe - The Return of the Nephilim, will be released January 2009.

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New book about Grey Gardens now available for pre-order

We had heard about a book from Maysles Films about Grey Gardens a while back, and now it seems that the book is available for pre-order!

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Best-Selling American Author Breaks All Records in South America

Two 20-year old self-help/relationship titles picked up by Brazil’s Marcos Pereira of GMT Sextante – “What Smart Women Know” and “Men Like Women Who Like Themselves” – are hitting a nerve with a generation of Brazilian women who are just now climbing the economic ladder that their American counterparts scaled 20 years before.

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23 Year Old Millionaire Launches 50 City Book Tour

23-year-old self-made millionaire James White is sharing his financial wisdom and dynamic energy with fellow members of “Generation Y” this summer.

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Armenian Genocide Museum Presents "My Memories"

On July 15th of 2008, the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute, located in the capital of Armenia, Yerevan, will host the congratulatory event dedicated to Sirak Sarhatian's “My Memoirs” book.

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400-Year-Old Volume of Shakespeare Recovered

A 400-year-old volume of Shakespeare stolen in England a decade ago and valued at 15 million pounds (USD 30 million) has been recovered after a man walked into a library in Washington and asked to have it authenticated.

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New Book From Glasgow Museums

A unique photographic record of the city of Glasgow and the people living here in the 1950s has just been published by Glasgow Museums.

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Marion Kaplan Discusses Her Book Dominican Haven

On Thursday, June 12 join author Marion Kaplan for a discussion of her new book Dominican Haven: The Jewish Refugee Settlement in Sosua, 19401945 (Museum of Jewish Heritage, 2008), which serves as the companion volume to the groundbreaking, bilingual installation, Sosua: A Refuge for Jews in the Dominican Republic (Sosua: Un Refugio de Judios en la Republica Dominicana).

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Scott McClellan Tells It All, But Not A Hero

Scott McClellan, President Bush's former press secretary, is out with a book, and low and behold he tells much that was not told before.

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Rabbi Harold Kushner Discusses His Book

On Wednesday, May 28 at 6:30 P.M. join Rabbi Kushner at the Museum of Jewish Heritage—A Living Memorial to the Holocaust as he offers practical and inspiring advice on continuing to dream in the face of disappointment. The Jerusalem Report describes Overcoming Life's Disappointments as "an articulate, nononsense treatise… A readably inspirational homily leavened with subtle humor."

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