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- School roundup (The York Dispatch)
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- In transit - The Times
In transitThe Times, South Africa - 3 minutes agoThe UK’s Dolman Best Travel Book Award 2008 has been won by John Lucas, a former poetry editor, for 92 Acharnon Street, a portrait of Greece. ...
- Celebrate writer James Reaney dies (Stratford City Gazette)
Celebrated Canadian writer James Reaney, 81, died in London on Thursday night following a lengthy illness. The native of South Easthope Township just east of Stratford enjoyed a 50-year career as a playwright, poet and professor.
- Missouri City man wins 1st place in short story competition - Villager
Missouri City man wins 1st place in short story competitionVillager, TX - 30 minutes agoThe contest is also accepting entries for short stories, personal essays, book reviews and poetry. The deadline for entries is Aug. 30.
- Holy Rollers: ministry keeps ladies looking, feeling good - Temple Daily Telegram
Volunteer Jan Doke gives the grinning Olamae Kelly a new hairdo on June 6. On Friday mornings, the Holy Rollers from Belton Church of God in Christ work a makeshift beauty salon at Crestview nursing home. (Mitch Green/Telegram) The Beatles took a sad ...
- Author of youth novels, Eyerly dies at age 100 - DesMoinesRegister.com
Author of youth novels, Eyerly dies at age 100DesMoinesRegister.com, IA - 18 minutes agoOn that machine, Eyerly, who died Monday in Des Moines at age 100, churned out 18 novels for children and two books of poetry and co-wrote a nationally ...
- Ancestral Journeys (New York Times)
In tracing his family?s history in Lebanon and beyond, Amin Maalouf also traces the changing nature of Arab identity.
- No plea from NH child-sex fugitive on FBI's most-wanted list (KAUZ Wichita Falls)
San Jose de Gracia, Mexico (AP) - An FBI most-wanted fugitive charged with molesting the 5-year-old son of a couple who befriended him is being held without bail after his years on the lam abruptly ended with his arrest in Mexico.
- Academy to update Kashmiri encyclopaedia - GreaterKashmir.com (press release)
Academy to update Kashmiri encyclopaediaGreaterKashmir.com (press release), India - 58 minutes agoThe book titled “Modern Kashmiri Poetry”—an anthology of poems by Abid Ahmad—was jointly released by Manhas and Director Doordarshan Kendra Srinagar, ...
- Kay Ryan goes to Washington -- as poet laureate (Miami Herald)
Kay Ryan, award-winning poet, mountain-bike enthusiast and self-described ''modern hermit,'' will soon be going to Washington. The Library of Congress announced Thursday that the lifelong Californian, whose compressed, metaphysical poetry has been compared to Emily Dickinson's, will succeed Charles Simic as the 16th U.S. poet laureate starting in the fall. The appointment lasts a year and comes ...
- Ravi Zacharias — Defense of Christian Faith - NewsMax.com
As a former skeptic, I have a particular interest in Christian apologetics: the defense of the Christian faith. I've read and recommended many excellent books on the subject but want to call your special attention to one I've most recently read ...
- Austen? Buchan? It's time for more unusual adaptations - Guardian Blogs
Rupert Penry-Jones of Spooks ... a dashing choice to star in the Buchan classic, but how about making more novel steps? Photograph: Talkback Thames/BBC So Rupert Penry-Jones is to play Richard Hannay in a new version of The 39 Steps . Lizzie Mickery ...
- Beyond the Multiplex - Salon
There are viewers -- American and otherwise, right wing and otherwise -- who will really hate "A Mighty Heart" for its perceived politics. Without remotely excusing the heinous crime committed by Daniel Pearl's kidnappers, Winterbottom and Orloff ...
- Books can help kids look forward to school (Tacoma News Tribune)
At this point during the summer, both parents and children count the hours until the start of school – some with relief, some with excitement and some with anxiety. Good books help pass the time.
- Come to the World eBook Fair! - InfoToday.com
Come to the World eBook Fair!InfoToday.com - 1 hour agoThe Sound of Literary Works, by LiteralSystems, provides Classic Literature and Poetry recited, performed, and made into downloadable MP3 audio files. ...
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