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Philadelphia Inquirer - Before the three competitive rounds leading to the final began, contestants warmed up with puzzle books they had been given by Kappa Publishing Group Inc., the Blue Bell publisher responsible for Games magazine. They sat at tables lining the hall, or ...

Miami Herald - A handsome companion show is in the Main Library's gallery on the second floor. Stargaze and Other Tales, or More Artist-Poet Collaborations contains remarkable books from the permanent collection of the Miami-Dade Public Library System, including ...

Baltimore Sun - He was always talking about books, lived to read and had an incredible passion for literature," said Kathy Mangan, English department chairwoman. "He wasn't from New England, but he inhabited that New England spirit and was really very Robert ...

New York Post - Namely, Eli Manning stealing a page out of the Harry Potter books, covering himself in a cloak of invisibility. “I like that," he said. “I like it when everyone's the focus here, not just me." In Tom Coughlin's 10-minute postgame press conference ...

Washington Post - A Reuters reporter saw members of parliament clearing their desks and removing files and books from their shelves as they vacated the building. "This is completely unreasonable," said one opposition deputy, Kubatbek Baibolov. Bakiyev has criticized ...

Boston Globe - Borrowers in Andover take out portable, digital audio books so tiny that they can jog through the park or shop at the mall while listening to Dan Brown's bestseller "The Da Vinci Code." And in Palmer, young patrons jostle for their turn to play Guitar ...

Philadelphia Inquirer - He'd see things on the wall - books, windows, pictures - that weren't really there. After a few days, when the aspirins and compresses weren't helping, he went to the hospital, where doctors gave him an MRI. That was Aug. 22. He hasn't been out since. ...

New York Times - Several major research libraries have rebuffed offers from Google and Microsoft to scan their books into computer databases, saying they are put off by restrictions these companies want to place on the new digital collections. The research libraries ...

Seattle Times - Two recent books offer insights into how to make the most of it. "After 50 It's Up to Us: Developing the Skills and Agility We'll Need," by George H. Schofield (The Clarity Group, 2007; $14.95), is a gem of a little book that offers advice on how to ...

Seattle Times - Join Historic Seattle members today when they explore and discuss some of the library's most important collections of books, maps, photographs and ephemera, including a 1903 edition of the "Lewis and Clark Journals" edited by historian Reuben ...