Books
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No Gambling Expansion; Hot Wx; Lone Star Tick
CommentToday on NewsTalk, we spoke with Maryland Comptroller Peter Franchot, Meteorologist Brian Van De Graaff, Dr. Libby Kelly, and author Leslie Maitland
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"Rewire your brain for love"
CommentEver feel like you're stuck in relationship woes? We talked to the author of "Rewire your brain for love" who tells us how you can fix your slump.
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"Rabbit's Foot"
CommentWe're talking to the author of a new book and exploring the impact of relationships with our fathers.
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Tonight: 'How to Be Black' and Environmental Film Fest launch party
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The Onion's Baratunde Thurston discusses his new book.
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D.C.'s best job: Buying books for Smithsonian gift shops
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Getting to pick all the books for 19 Smithsonian museum gift shops might be the greatest gig in Washington.
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Free Minds Book Club give books to teens behind bars
CommentA D.C. non-profit is working to give books to teens behind bars.
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Former Gov. Bob Ehrlich's new book title reveals the power of cars
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The Maryland politician rides forth with a new book entitled Turn This Car Around: The Roadmap to Restoring America. The transportation metaphors are nothing new in our culture but their prevalence does raise the question: How has the language of the automobile permeated our everyday psychology?
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Rare Book School: Where writers of rare books come to worship rare books
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For five weeks every summer, a bunch of writers of rarely read books meet in the basement of UVA's main library to thumb through even rarer books — and to bemoan the ascendance of the e-book, which has the nerve not to be heavy, or take up tons of space, or wither and crumble over time.
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Borders bookstore closing nationwide
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Another farewell to a corporation that flourished in the olden days: the Borders bookstores chain is dead, reports the Wall Street Journal. Originally a mom-and-pop shop — it was founded in Michigan, in 1971, as a used bookstore — its profits soared in the '90s, but then the Internet happened, and Amazon.com was born, and people stopped reading.
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Harry Potter announcement: Wizard series to be sold as e-books
Harry Potter's adventures are going digital.
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Arlington among the top ten ‘well-read cities’ in U.S.
Arlington has been ranked among the most “well-read cities” in the United States.
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A dream leads author to published career
As a child, Sandra Parshall spent many hours gathering stacks and stacks of books to rent from the library, fueling her love for writing.
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Swami's weekly Book list : Content Rules , Open Source & other interesting Books
From the Economist Book review : The Comingled Code : Open Source and Economic Development By Josh Lerner and Mark Schankerman. At least theoretically, open source could also resolve the main dilemma that bedevils innovation policy. On the one hand, most inventors need incentives to keep inventing. On the other, the social value of an invention is maximised if anyone—not just those willing to pay for it—can use it. Open source seems to satisfy both conditions. Developers contribute vol
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Most borrowed books in 2010
? Thanks to our friends at the Prince William County Library system, we have a list of the top ten checked out books from 2010
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Three great books for last-minute shopping
For new and old newspaper people, The Imperfectionists is divine, and I am not a fan of contemporary fiction, but how much of it is fiction?
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Portrait Gallery censorship: Controversy increases Hide/Seek catalog sales
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A controversy over the National Portrait Gallery's decision to remove a work of art from a show has made a collector's item of the catalog.
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Gift idea: Foodie books by local authors
I often say my favorite gifts are the edible kind. But next on my list: books about food.
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The final frontier: This week in books and film
Express Night Out's featured books and films.
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