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• Lost Angel Walkabout

  

  By Dick Jordan Adventure travel writer Linda Ballou knows how to bring home a great story when she goes on a trip: Get into trouble. For her, the deeper the... Read more

  The 12 October 2011 by   Bookpassage
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• K.P. Smith’s “Growing Pains: Kendra’s Diaries”

  

  Even though some of us might prefer to forget, we all remember growing up. Coming of age is a journey and it can be a difficult journey. If we knew when we... Read more

  The 11 October 2011 by   Fiafox
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• Guest Blogger: Eleanor Sullivan: 19th Century Medicine, Part 1

  

  I want to welcome Eleanor Sullivan to The Writers Forensics Blog. She will post a two-part series on the state of medical care in the 19th Century. Medical... Read more

  The 09 October 2011 by   Dplylemd
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• Interview with Adam Mansbach - Author of Go the F*ck to Sleep

  

  Adam Mansbach's spoof children's book, Go the F*ck to Sleep, has been flying off bookshelves and delighting exhausted parents since it was published this spring... Read more

  The 08 October 2011 by   Bookpassage
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• Sniffing Out the Time of Death

  

  You’ve seen a paramecium before. It was that little football-shaped (actually a prolate spheroid) critter that you viewed under the microscope in high school... Read more

  The 05 October 2011 by   Dplylemd
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• Bob Dylan Tipped to Win Nobel Prize in Literature

  

  Singer Bob Dylan is a living legend. Could he scoop the Nobel Prize in Literature this Thursday? The betting markets suggest he has a decent chance. But Nobel... Read more

  The 05 October 2011 by   Periscope
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• John Huston: Courage and Art

  

  We booksellers at Book Passage — especially those who love the movies — are excited about our October 6th event with acclaimed biographer and independent schola... Read more

  The 30 September 2011 by   Bookpassage
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• Xiaorenshu: 小人书 Collecting "little Picture Books" Nostalgia | Xinhuanet.com

  

  Little picture books: nostalgia in palms: 一箱老旧、泛黄的连环画册开启了我的记忆之门。A box of old, yellowed comic book opened the door to my memory. "It is not unusual for... Read more

  The 29 September 2011 by   Dotpattern
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• We Read Banned Books!

  

  Celebrating Banned Books Week 2011Banned Books Week - Celebrating the Freedom to Read is observed during the last week of September each year. Observed since... Read more

  The 27 September 2011 by   Bookpassage
  

• The Taj Mahal: A Collaboration

  

  In the spring of 2000, I went to India to do an author visit at the American Embassy School in New Delhi and was taken to see the Taj Mahal. Despite all the... Read more

  The 21 September 2011 by   Carolinearnoldtravel
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