Here is an update from the Marans:
Great News!
We thought you might be interested to know we have recently updated our website to include over 200 of our electronic guides
in a new easy to use format. You can view our new e-guides by visiting our website:
http://www.maran.com/MI/maran_illustrated_kitchen_e.html
Enjoy!
The Marans
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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
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Ruth V. Small of Syracuse University wrote an article, Librarians hold key to world of books, for Children’s Book Week that appeared on Syracuse.com.
She says,
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AudibleKids.com (from Audible, Inc.) is an engaging, interactive community of parents, their kids, and educators that promotes the fun of storytelling through audiobooks. Listen to books, read and post reviews, and share your favorites with others. Categories include:
Animal Stories
Biographies & History
Classics & Poetry
Fables
Fairy Tales & Myths
Fiction
Mysteries
Nonfiction
Parenting & Teaching
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Study Guides & Foreign Language
For the […]
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An interesting article appeared in The Washington Post entitled, ‘Question for the Ages: What Books When?‘ The article was written by Valerie Strauss of the ‘Post’. After giving a few examples of parents being upset about books their children were reading or being read to at school she says,
‘The episodes illustrate […]
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Just received this email from Real Eyes Bookstore:
Dear Literary Family,
We hope you have already marked your calendars for September 6, 2008! The CLF committee has been working hard to bring great authors, awesome bands, and speakers that will bring awareness to the community. As I stated before we are excited to announce Family Dollar as […]
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Sara Rimer of the New York Times wrote a column entitled, Gatsby’s Green Light Beckons a New Set of Strivers. In the article she says that ‘Urban students see glimmers of their own evolving identities and dreams in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel’. The article was published on February 17, 2008.
Great Gatsby books, etc. […]
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Anita Silvey has done it again! She provided us the wonderful resource, 100 Best Books for Children, and now she has a book for Teens. Jeri Krentz, the Reading Life Editor of The Charlotte Observer writes about the book in her column on Suncday, Dec. 3rd, 2006. She says, the “guide features ‘older gems’ and […]
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David Twiddy, an Associated Press writer, had an interesting article on a Missouri bookstore owner burning books. The article was entitled, Mo. man burns books as act of protest“. The man burned books over his beliefs that people were not reading as much and were getting their information from TV and the Internet instead.
We’ve definately […]
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InsideHigherEd.org published an article about CiteULike.com entitled, “KEEPING CITATIONS STRAIGHT, AND FINDING NEW ONES“. - CiteULike.com is an academic Social Bookmarking site. Check it out!
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