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		<title>RIP John Updike 1932 - 2009</title>
		<link>http://librarybooklists.org/wordpress/2009/01/27/rip-john-updike-1932-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 19:59:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>M Wms</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Novelist John Updike died yesterday at age 76 of lung cancer. Hillel Italie of the AP describes him as a &#8220;Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, prolific man of letters and erudite chronicler of sex, divorce and other adventures in the postwar prime of the American empire,&#8221; best known for his four &#8216;Rabbit&#8217; novels.
Also in the Boston Globe [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s the President Reading?</title>
		<link>http://librarybooklists.org/wordpress/2009/01/19/whats-the-president-reading/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2009 22:08:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>M Wms</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Reader&#8217;s Advisor Online is compiling lists of Barack Obama&#8217;s reading, including recent reading, earlier reading, and his favourite books.  Includes links to the sources for all titles on the list.
Some recent books:
Younger Next Year: Live Strong, Fit, and Sexy &#8212; Until You’re 80 and Beyond by Chris Crowley and Henry S. Lodge, M. D.
Critical: What [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fiction (and Film) Set at the World’s Fairs and Expositions</title>
		<link>http://librarybooklists.org/wordpress/2009/01/11/fiction-and-film-set-at-the-world%e2%80%99s-fairs-and-expositions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 01:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>M Wms</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://librarybooklists.org/wordpress/?p=162</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[(Duplicate of my post at Beyond Rivalry)


This booklist of mostly fiction titles — for children, young adults, and adults — and a few films, all with World’s Fair settings, was developed in 2008 with help from Fiction-L list members. It’s arranged chronologically by Fair, then by date of publication. Additions and corrections welcomed.
A list of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Way Too Many Year-End Booklists</title>
		<link>http://librarybooklists.org/wordpress/2008/12/07/way-too-many-tear-end-booklists/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Dec 2008 16:39:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>M Wms</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[About 250 year-end and &#8216;best of 2008&#8242; booklists collected at Largehearted Boy.
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		<title>European Online Library: Europeana</title>
		<link>http://librarybooklists.org/wordpress/2008/11/21/european-online-library-europeana/</link>
		<comments>http://librarybooklists.org/wordpress/2008/11/21/european-online-library-europeana/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:40:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>M Wms</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://librarybooklists.org/wordpress/?p=157</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[More than 1,000 cultural organisations &#8212; including the British Library, the European Commission, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, and the Louvre &#8212; are contributing material to Europeana, the European online library: &#8220;Internet users will be able to access more than two million books, maps, recordings, photographs, archive documents, paintings and films. &#8221; More at BBC today, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama Bookarama</title>
		<link>http://librarybooklists.org/wordpress/2008/11/16/obama-bookarama/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 01:10:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>M Wms</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[PW reports lots of books about President-Elent Barack Obama in the offing, and the LA Times reports that &#8220;there are at least nine books about the president-elect and the 2008 campaign coming out in the next few months,&#8221; among which:

NBC’s Chuck Todd and polling expert Sheldon Gawiser will co-write How Obama Won, &#8220;a state-by-state guide [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Priest and Novelist Andrew Greeley Critically Injured</title>
		<link>http://librarybooklists.org/wordpress/2008/11/08/priest-and-novelist-andrew-greeley-critically-injured/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Nov 2008 00:28:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>M Wms</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The AP reports tonight that the 80-year old Catholic priest, columnist and novelist Andrew Greeley &#8220;is in critical condition at a Chicago-area hospital after falling and fracturing his skull. &#8230; Greeley&#8217;s family says he snagged his jacket in the door of a taxicab Friday afternoon and fell. Friends say he suffered bleeding on the brain.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Holiday Fiction, Mystery, Romance</title>
		<link>http://librarybooklists.org/wordpress/2008/11/06/holiday-fiction-mystery-romance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 21:12:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>M Wms</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Library Journal&#8217;s annotated list of fiction and mystery titles for the holiday season offers 16 books, including a some food-themed cozies, a new Sneaky Pie Brown (Santa Clawed: A Mrs. Murphy Mystery), and a short Austrian tale of literary fiction by Adalbert Stifter, Rock Crystal.
LJ&#8217;s similar list of romance titles has another 14 holiday titles [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RIP Michael Crichton 1942-2008</title>
		<link>http://librarybooklists.org/wordpress/2008/11/05/rip-michael-crichton-1942-2008/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 20:43:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>M Wms</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[

michael crichton


Writer Michael Crichton died yesterday of cancer at age 66. He&#8217;s the author of The Andromeda Strain (1969), Jurassic Park (1990), and other novels, and the creator of the long-running medical drama series, ER.  He graduated summa cum laude from Harvard University, studied anthropology at Cambridge University, and graduated from Harvard Medical School in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sub-Genre: Ancient Alien Astronauts</title>
		<link>http://librarybooklists.org/wordpress/2008/10/30/sub-genre-ancient-alien-astronauts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 13:53:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>M Wms</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Wow. Pretty much all you could wish for in an overview of the ancient astronaut sub-genre of science fiction, which thrived in the U.S. in the 1960s and 1970s.  Nathan Schneider&#8217;s detailed examination of the phenomenon, which often incorporates an element of technological apocalypse, includes discussion of the Hebrew Bible; Garrett P. Serviss&#8217;s  Edison&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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