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Eye of the beholder (Mail and Guardian)

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Vi&#101w &#112ost:
Eye o&#102 the behol&#100er (Mail a&#110&#100 Guar&#100ia&#110)

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Massive EU online library looks to compete with Google (Mail and Guardian)

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Massiv&#101 EU onlin&#101 library loo&#107s to com&#112&#101t&#101 &#119ith Googl&#101 (Mail and Guardian)

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Proposed policy on parental inspection of books (The Morganton News Herald)

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COLUMN: Top 10 books for people who don’t like to read (The Oklahoma Daily)

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R&#101ad th&#101 r&#101&#115t h&#101r&#101:
C&#79LUMN: Top 10 book&#115 for people who &#100on’t like to rea&#100 (The &#79klaho&#109a Dail&#121)

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A lively rate of exchange (Mail and Guardian)

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Con&#116inue here: A lively rate o&#102 e&#120&#99hange (Mail and &#71uardian)

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Book sale (Sonoma Index-Tribune)

Volunteer Tina Wolter re-stocks books Friday during the quarterly book sale at the Sonoma Valley Regional Library. All the money raised at the sale is used to support the local library.

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Book sale (Sonoma Index-Tribune)

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Book review: ‘A Great Idea at the Time’ (International Herald Tribune)

Alex Beam relates how Robert Maynard Hutchins, Mortimer Adler and a few others whittled the literary, scientific and philosophical canon down to 443 exemplary works to be included in their Great Books of the Western World.

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Book review: ‘A Great Idea at the Time’ (International Herald Tribune)

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