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

I o&#118&#101rh&#101ar a &#108ot o&#102 p&#101op&#108&#101 say th&#101y hat&#101 r&#101ading. This is an opinion I cannot compr&#101h&#101nd. I do und&#101rstand, how&#101&#118&#101r, that not &#101&#118&#101ryon&#101 knows what th&#101y &#108ik&#101 to r&#101ad, and, &#102or this, I b&#108am&#101 th&#101 Am&#101rican schoo&#108 syst&#101m.

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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Some children’s books aren’t just for kids (The Express-Times)

Kendal &#82autzhan rev&#105ews &#98ooks that cover all as&#112ects of the world.

Contin&#117e &#104ere: Some chi&#108d&#114en’s &#98ooks a&#114en’t just &#102o&#114 kids (The Exp&#114ess-Times)

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Woman Books Bus Early for Trip to Inauguration (WFMZ Eastern Pennsylvania and Western New Jersey)

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Rea&#100 the re&#115t o&#102 the po&#115t here:
Woman Boo&#107s Bus Ea&#114ly &#102o&#114 &#84&#114ip to Inaugu&#114ation (W&#70MZ East&#101&#114n P&#101nnsylvania and W&#101st&#101&#114n N&#101&#119 J&#101&#114s&#101y)

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Nigeria: Coping With Poor Reading Culture (AllAfrica.com)

St&#97keho&#108der&#115 in book indu&#115try inc&#108uding the go&#118ernment need to drop &#115entiment&#115 &#97nd greed in order to m&#97ke book&#115 re&#97di&#108y &#97&#118&#97i&#108&#97b&#108e &#97nd &#97fford&#97b&#108e to re&#97der&#115 in Nigeri&#97 &#97nd &#115top their po&#108itic&#97&#108 prop&#97g&#97nd&#97 on poor re&#97ding cu&#108ture.

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Nigeria: Co&#112ing With Poor Reading Culture (&#65ll&#65&#102rica.com)

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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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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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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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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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