Let the Great World Spin, A Novel by Colum McCann
Asiaing.com (Free subscription) | 12/09/2009
2009 National Book Award Winner Amazon.com's Book of the Year Oprah.com's Books You Can't Put Down Summer Reading Selection
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The Beautiful and the Random
Style Child (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
I really have got to read The Beautiful and the Damned. Over the summer I read The Catcher in the Rye, and then at the beginning of the school year I read it for school. The below picture is supplies needed for a weekend's worth of homework, plus my list notebook on top. I read somewhere the French verb "enguiller", and then of course looked it up, and it means "to make proud"....
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Closing Highway Rest Stops due to Virginia State Budget Cuts: The Impact on Drowsy Driving
Allen & Allen Law Blog (Free subscription) | 12/08/2009
Personal injury attorney George E. Allen, III Author: Attorney George E. Allen, III This past summer, I read a newspaper article announcing that the State of Virginia was closing many of its highway rest stops because of the State’s budget shortfall. A few weeks later as I drove along Virginia’s major thoroughfare, Interstate 95, I observed that all but one or two of the rest stops...
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Holiday Donation Idea: Blood
FitSugar (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
Over the Summer I read about a surprising side affect of the recession: blood drive donations were down. Fewer employees hiding out in cubicles translated to fewer arms available to give blood. Blood banks around the nation suffered a second blow this Fall due to swine flu outbreaks , when many blood drives at schools as well as businesses were canceled due to a high volume of absenteeism credited...
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December's New Releases
Favorite PASTimes (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
... sequel to the award-winning debut novel, Child Finder, which Library Journal placed on its 2009 Summer Reads list for Christian fiction! 5. Christmas Peril , by Margaret Daley from Steeple Hill Love Inspired Suspense. Christmas themed, romantic suspense stories. 6. Cup of Joe , by Teri Wilson from White Rose Publishing. A grieving woman resists the cups of comfort offered by the shy, but...
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Ja mie Oliver whisks his way to...
Beattie's Book Blog (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
... spent on books in the 2000s. Only five authors featured in Richard & Judy's Book Club's and Summer Reads appear in the top 100: Alice Sebold, Martina Cole, Jodi Picoult, Khaled Hosseini and Cecelia Ahern.