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Reading getaways: ‘Book’ your Book Getaway now

July 22, 2011
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Reading getaways: ‘Book’ your Book Getaway now

While no place on earth can rival the landscapes our imaginations are able to conjure, don't physical traveling and book traveling sound like two great tastes that go great together?
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‘Meowmorphosis’: Existentialism, transformation and kittens

June 1, 2011
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‘Meowmorphosis’: Existentialism, transformation and kittens

Consider this: imagine that Gregor Samsa, instead of being transformed into an insect, is transformed into a...kitten. That changes the flavor of the story altogether. For one, a kitten is way more complex than an insect. Also, a kitten is a helluva lot cuter.
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San Antonio: Brian Dettmer, aka The Book Surgeon, is in

March 11, 2011
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San Antonio: Brian Dettmer, aka The Book Surgeon, is in

Dettmer explains how his work is driven by a desire "to open a conversation think about book's current role in media culture, its history and its future."
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San Antonio, the NEA and books: to read or not to read

March 7, 2011
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San Antonio, the NEA and books: to read or not to read

The problem isn't that San Antonians don't read or that Texans don't read or even that Southerners don't read. The problem is that Americans across the country have fallen out of love with books.
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Daughter of Immigrants – Deluxe Version

November 29, 2010
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Daughter of Immigrants – Deluxe Version

María Antonietta Berriozábal, a woman whose name is synonymous with community organizing and political movement, will release her memoir in May 2011, chronicling her family’s experience of immigrating to the United States and her subsequent rise to become the first Latina to serve on the city council of a major U.S. city.
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Bread for the Masses…

November 16, 2010
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Bread for the Masses…

While The Hunger Games is billed as a quasi-science fiction trilogy targeted at the adolescent market, its message resonates with a much broader appeal.
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