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Fall Books: Topical, escapist, businesslike (AP via Yahoo! News)
Election years are supposedly off years for books, when we're all too busy following the news. Author-filmmaker-activist Michael Moore thinks we should even take a break from reading any of the fall releases, including his own, and get out there and work for our favorite (progressive) candidates.
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Kuwait bans images of celebrities on school books (Russian Information Agency Novosti)
DAMASCUS, August 29 (RIA Novosti) - The Kuwaiti education ministry has banned schools pupils from bringing exercise books and other school items, decorated with photos of soap stars to classes, local media said on Friday.
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So hooked on books, he now reads them to mum (Margaret River Mail)
HARRISON CHUNG loves books. So much so the Floraville Public School kindergarten student, who has been a regular borrower at his public library since he was two, has charged ahead in the Premier's Reading Challenge, clocking up more than 150 books.
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Library hikes books budget (Fort Wayne Journal Gazette)
Staffing cuts will allow the Allen County Public Library to increase spending on books and other materials for the first time in years while keeping a balanced budget in 2009. The library board Thursday was presented its $30.7 million budget, which includes about a 4 percent increase in property taxes.
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Saints are thinking of fun, not the record books (Evening Standard)
Prop forward James Graham insists his St Helens team-mates will not be thinking of the record books during tomorrow's Challenge Cup Final against Hull.
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Librarians find the weirdest things in returned books (The Arizona Republic)
Chandler librarians say they routinely find oddities between the pages of returned books: from cash and lottery tickets to love letters. And patrons rarely come back to claim the stuff.
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Anti-porn group wants teen books under wraps (West County Journal)
A citizens anti-pornography group wants certain books in the St. Louis County Library's teen section segregated from younger eyes and placed in the adult section.
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PACIFIC: Tourism Committee offers funds for memorial books (Tri-County Journal)
Pacific aldermen are considering using Tourism Committee funds to pay for memorial books for the city's sesquicentennial celebration.
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Babies and Books at Johnston library (The Altoona Herald-Mitchellville Index)
Registration begins Sept. 11 for the Babies and Books program at the Johnston Public Library, 6700 Merle Hay Road. Participants will meet at 12:30 p.m. each Thursday from Sept. 18 to Oct. 23 at the library.
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State library announces best books of Indiana awards (The Times of Northwest Indiana)
Times Staff Report The 2008 Best Books of Indiana were named last week at an awards ceremony at the Indiana State Library. Â
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