BookReporter.com’ blog posted an entry that begins:
“I love to read and I love to swim. Watching Michael Phelps this week I was thinking that the way he swims is like plotting a memorable book.
He takes off from the wall like a great novel grips you and pulls you in. As he moves down the lane, […]
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Football season is right around the corner! Here is an interesting college football book that you might enjoy. Do you have other suggestions?
“Sally Jenkins, bestselling co-author of It’s Not About the Bike, revives a forgotten piece of history in The Real All Americans. In doing so, she has crafted a truly inspirational story […]
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Randy Pausch, co-author of The Last Lecture, which became a bestseller after being published by Hyperion in April, died last Friday. He was 47 and had been battling pancreatic cancer.
A computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon, Pausch gave a talk last September modeled on the kind where professors are asked to pretend they are dying […]
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I’ve written several times about Maran Illustrated and their online eBooks including the following posts. I started with…Maran Illustrated Yoga eBook available online for FREE!. I then added updates:
Maran Graphics Family Gives Away the Store (or at least the books)
Maran Illustrated Student Library is Now Online
More Maran eBooks available online for […]
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An interesting article appeared in the InsideHigherEd.com newsletter. It was the title caught my attention! FISH TO PROFS: STICK TO TEACHING. I could just visualize one of those mounted ’singing catfish’ talking to a group of professors! The article, of course, was more serious. The premise - “Should we […]
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John Mutter, editor-in-chief, of the Shelf-Awareness newsletter announced their 3rd anniversary via the newsletter. If you aren’t familiar with the newsletter these highlights will help you become more familiar. You may sign up for the FREE newsletter and see back issues at Shelf-Awareness.com
“Yesterday marked the third anniversary of our first issue. […]
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As a newbie at buying and selling domain names through my business, DomainsPromote.com, I was interested to read this new book. The book was written by David Kesmodel, a staff reporter for The Wall Street Journal.
The Domain Game
After looking for it in all of the local stores and not finding it, I ordered it […]
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Picked up an interesting book yesterday at Goodwill called, “Specialty Shop Retailing: How to run your own store - Innovative ideas for retail success”. The copy that I found had a copyright of 1997. Was curious about the author’s business success so I looked up Orange Tree Imports
and found that it is […]
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Goosebumps HorrorLand #1: Revenge of the Living Dummy
Do your kids or students enjoy the Goosebumps books? If so, they will LOVE the new Website that Scholastic has created for his new ‘HorrorLand’ series. The first two books are now available.
Karen MacPherson of Scripps Howard News Service published a good article about […]
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Steve Weber of WeberBooks.com had a posting about libraries ‘Throwing good books into the dumpster‘. This IS a problem and often goes against the wishes of the librarian or media specialist. Some public library systems and school systems have policies against giving away or selling discarded books. Any experience with […]
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