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		<title>Living for the City</title>
		<description><![CDATA[  Robert Clifton Weaver and the American City: The Life and Times of an Urban Reformer by Wendell E. Pritchett
  Reviewed by Kim Phillips-Fein
  The Nation
  In July 2000 a ceremony was held to commemorate the renaming of the headquarters of the Department of Housing and Urban Development in Washington, a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Squirrel&#8217;s Name? Morrison</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In all, 414 people entered our name-the-squirrel contest. Some submitted only a name, but most included stories to support their choices (including a colorful, fake Wikipedia entry).
Why Morrison? Do you really have to ask?
Okay. Because we liked it. Hah!
In fact, the guy who designed the squirrel image &#8212; that'd be Trent &#8212; winnowed 414 entries [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Emperor Penguins</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This early reader is full of fun facts about emperor penguins — their lifecycle, habitat, predators, and even what they like to do for fun. With easy-to-understand explanations and plenty of illustrations, Emperor Penguins is a great choice for young animal lovers.

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		<title>2008 Employee Favorites: Jill Saginario</title>
		<description><![CDATA[1. Paper Towns by John Green
After I read an advanced copy of this book, the anticipation of its release seemed almost unbearable. And, apparently, I was not alone: soon after the book came out, customers started leaving notes in our stock, urging other people to read it! John Green has set a new standard for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Snow Wonder</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With so much to do — like sledding, ice skating, and cookie-baking with grandma — it's "snow" wonder that this brother-and-sister duo has such a great day of wintery fun.  Early readers will love Snow Wonder for its rhyming story, sticker sheets, and colorful illustrations. (The little dog is especially cute!)

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		<title>Less Stuff, More Substance</title>
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		<title>Book News for Monday, January 5, 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
 Reminder: You only have the rest of today to submit your word to win a FREE set of the 20-volume The Oxford English Dictionary!
And don't forget to add why you picked the word.  Good luck!
 In Memoriam: Glenn Goldman, owner of the renowned L.A.-area independent bookstore Book Soup, passed away over the weekend [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Churning Butter with Tina Fey</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I live two completely different lives. One is my farm life. I live that version up a steep hollow, in the Green Mountains of southern Vermont. I rent this little cabin in a clearing with six acres and a few loud streams running through it. There I live with my two sled dogs, and raise [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can You Spare a Dime?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[  The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson
  Reviewed by Robert Skidelsky
  New York Review of Books
  1.
 The historian Alan Taylor used to say, mischievously, that the only point of history is history. The idea that one could use it to predict the future, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Post Hoax, Ergo Propter Hoax</title>
		<description><![CDATA[  Beyond the Hoax: Science, Philosophy and Culture by Alan Sokal
  Reviewed by Michael Bérubé
  American Scientist
  In 1996, physicist Alan Sokal played an elaborate trick on some unsuspecting humanists and social scientists -- namely, the editors of the leftist journal Social Text -- by submitting an essay filled with at [...]]]></description>
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