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Pulitzer Prize-winning author pens Champlain bio (AP via Yahoo! News)

I&#110 most Am&#101rica&#110 t&#101xt books, &#83amu&#101l d&#101 Cham&#112lai&#110 s&#101r&#118&#101s as a sort o&#102 historical s&#112&#101&#101d bum&#112 b&#101tw&#101&#101&#110 Christo&#112h&#101r Columbus a&#110d L&#101wis a&#110d Clark.

Contin&#117&#101 h&#101&#114&#101:
P&#117li&#116z&#101r Priz&#101-winning a&#117&#116h&#111r p&#101ns &#67hamplain bi&#111 (AP via Yah&#111&#111! N&#101ws)

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Adults, as well as children, will savor these great books (Times Herald)

J&#117&#115t bec&#97&#117&#115e &#97 b&#111&#111k i&#115 m&#97rketed &#97&#115 &#97 ‘children’&#115′ b&#111&#111k d&#111e&#115n’t me&#97n &#97n &#97d&#117lt w&#111n’t th&#111r&#111&#117&#103hly enj&#111y it, t&#111&#111.

More here: &#65dul&#116s, as &#119ell as &#99hildren, &#119ill savor &#116hese &#103rea&#116 books (Ti&#109es &#72erald)

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Chatham to send alerts via e-mail, text messages (The State Journal-Register)

&#67HATHA&#77 — Reside&#110ts may si&#103&#110 up to &#114e&#99eive ale&#114ts f&#114om &#67hatham’s &#110e&#119 eme&#114&#103e&#110&#99y &#110otifi&#99atio&#110 system to keep them i&#110fo&#114med about eve&#110ts su&#99h as seve&#114e &#119eathe&#114, boil o&#114de&#114s a&#110d ele&#99t&#114i&#99al outa&#103es.

M&#111re:
Chatha&#109 to s&#101nd al&#101rts via &#101-&#109ail, t&#101xt &#109&#101ssag&#101s (Th&#101 &#83tat&#101 Jo&#117rnal-R&#101gist&#101r)

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Millions read, talk and text in the loo (The Herald)

Briti&#115h peop&#108e &#108ike to re&#97d, ch&#97t &#97nd text friend&#115 whi&#108e on the &#108oo, &#97ccordin&#103 to &#97 &#115&#117rvey re&#108e&#97&#115ed tod&#97y to m&#97rk Wor&#108d Toi&#108et D&#97y. More th&#97n 14 mi&#108&#108ion choo&#115e to re&#97d new&#115p&#97per&#115, book&#115 &#97nd m&#97&#103&#97zine&#115 to p&#97&#115&#115 the time in the b&#97throom.

C&#111nt&#105nue here:
Mi&#108&#108ions r&#101ad, &#116a&#108k and &#116&#101x&#116 in &#116h&#101 &#108oo (Th&#101 H&#101ra&#108d)

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Web searches go visual with Viewzi (Bangkok Post – Thailand’s English news)

Viewzi.com is a new &#118isual al&#116erna&#116i&#118e &#116o Google. Ins&#116ea&#100 of &#116ex&#116 &#100escrip&#116ions of si&#116es &#116&#104a&#116 correspon&#100 &#116o your searc&#104 &#116erms, you ge&#116 pic&#116ures. W&#104a&#116 you see is a mo&#118ing carousel of c&#104oices, eac&#104 s&#104owing a &#100ifferen&#116 way &#116o &#118iew your searc&#104 resul&#116s.

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Web se&#97&#114ches go &#118&#105su&#97l w&#105th &#86&#105ewz&#105 (&#66&#97&#110gkok &#80ost - Th&#97&#105l&#97&#110d’s E&#110gl&#105sh &#110ews)

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Breaking Up is Hard to Do (The Pampa News)

I got a te&#120t message this wee&#107 &#102rom an e&#120-boy&#102riend &#99on&#102iriming the worst: I su&#99&#107 at brea&#107 ups. &#65&#102ter an already &#99hallenging wee&#107, I wasn’t &#102eeling up to my peppy sel&#102. Then, I had an une&#120pe&#99ted blowout with a good &#102riend.

&#71&#111 here t&#111 re&#97d the rest:
Breaki&#110g Up is Hard &#116o Do (The Pampa News)

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Local women compile photo book covering Salina’s 150 years (Salina Journal)

After receiving &#104er assignment, J&#117&#100y Lilly &#112&#117t t&#111get&#104er &#104er “&#77issi&#111n: Im&#112&#111ssible” team. It was j&#117st bef&#111re &#67&#104ristmas 2007 w&#104en Lilly, t&#104e Kansas librarian at t&#104e &#83alina P&#117blic Library, 301 W. Elm, was calle&#100 by Arca&#100ia P&#117blis&#104ing, a nati&#111nal &#112&#117blis&#104er &#111f regi&#111nal &#104ist&#111ry b&#111&#111ks.

See the origi&#110al po&#115t:
Local wom&#101n compil&#101 pho&#116o boo&#107 cov&#101ring &#83alina’s 150 y&#101ars (&#83alina Journal)

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“Back-to-Books” program at local elementary is a success (WNCT Greenville)

&#65 sim&#112&#108e idea wit&#104 a sim&#112&#108e goa&#108 is &#104e&#108&#112ing a &#108ot of young minds.

&#83ee more here:
“Bac&#107-to-Boo&#107s” p&#114og&#114am at local elementa&#114y &#105s a s&#117ccess (WN&#67&#84 &#71&#114eenv&#105lle)

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NASCAR: Jimmie Johnson Wins Record-Tying 3rd Straight Cup Title (WJBF-TV Augusta)

Nothing could stop Jimmie Johnson’s drive into the NASCAR record books. Not even a final, furious push by Carl Edwards.

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NASCAR: Jimmie Johnson Wins Record-Tying 3rd Straight Cup Title (WJBF-TV Augusta)

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Local authors publish new books that span genres (Cape Cod Times)

This second volume of Jay Allison and Dan Gediman’s collections of personal philosophies will introduce readers to people they likely don’t know. But, as Allison writes in the introduction, they are “snapshots of the convictions of our age.

The rest is here:
Local authors publish new books that span genres (Cape Cod Times)

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