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Gold donates books to New Orleans school (The Journal News)
Austin Gold of New City, who is a student at Felix Festa Middle School in West Nyack, collected about 2,700 books for the New Orleans Free Academy, which lost its library to Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
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Sadies encourages ladies to enjoy free fun (The Optimist)
Sadies Week is back again and offering sweet deals for all students this year. Women can put the books down and take their favorite men on free dates Monday through Friday, courtesy of the Campus Activities Board. "Its purpose is to provide the students the opportunity to shake things up a little," said Hannah Anderson, Campus Activities Board coordinator and senior elementary education major ...
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Best-sellers Books Top 10 (AP via Yahoo! News)
1. "The Christmas Sweater" by Glenn Beck (Threshold Editions)
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More top 100 online retailers offer free shipping (InternetRetailer.com)
Free shipping offers were more common this week than last week among the top 100 online retailers, as nine more introduced the offers while four discontinued them, a survey by Internet Retailer finds. In all, 67 offered free shipping on the web sites this week, up from 62 last week.
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Free European online library launches, crashes (Macworld UK)
Europeana , a new multilingual pan-European resource offering over two million digitised books, maps, recordings, photographs, archive documents, paintings and films has crashed due to high demand.
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Greece schools 'Zip' books to Louisiana (Rochester Democrat and Chronicle)
Greece schools get involved in Zip-It-Up and send books to schools still recovering from Hurricane Katrina.
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Online source helps local child literacy effort (The Wayne Independent)
Needy children in Wayne and Pike counties have received a many as 8,000 to 10,000 free books each year, thanks to the First Book program and donors. Now, purchases made to an on-line children’s book resource can help as well.
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Tonight at Powell’s: Free Speech and the Internet (Willamette Week)
Hey, just noticed this event on the Powell’s Books calendar: Tuesday, November 18th @ 7:30pm American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression, the bookseller’s voice in the fight against censorship, presents a free-wheeling discussion of citizen journalism and the limits of free speech, featuring guests Ian Gillingham, an editor at Willamette Week, and Kevin Kono, attorney for Davis [...]
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New mechanism to reduce textbook costs (Daily News)
The Education Ministry has introduced a mechanism to avoid unwarranted spoilage of school text books while getting the best use of school text books which are distributed free each year by the Government, spending millions of rupees.
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Rare book expert is coming to Saugus Dec. 2 (Saugus Advertiser)
Kenneth Gloss, proprietor of the Brattle Book Shop in Boston's Downtown Crossing, will give a free talk "Treasures in Your Attic: Old and Rare Books" Tuesday, Dec, 2 at the Saugus Public Library.
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