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Books-A-Million to Host Glenn Beck for 6 Signings
BIRMINGHAM, Ala.----Books-A-Million, Inc. : Who: Glenn Beck, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller An Inconvenient Book and host of the nationally syndicated radio show The Glenn Beck Program, introduces his new book The Christmas Sweater.
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Books-A-Million to Host Alabama Lead Singer Randy Owen for 5 Signings
BIRMINGHAM, Ala.----Books-A-Million, Inc. : Who: For over twenty-five years Randy Owen was the front man and lead vocalist of Alabama, one of the most prolific groups in the history of music and the biggest country music group of all time.
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EU opens digital library to public with over 2 million works
The EU has finally launched Europeana, a digital online library that hosts more than 2 million books, maps, recordings, photographs, paintings, and documents from cultural institutions in its 27 member states. The EU hopes to have 8 million more works added by 2010. Read More...
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UAE children read over million books in charity campaign
By Aroonim Bhuyan, Dubai, Nov 20 : The count is out. And a total of 1,323,218 books were read by children between the ages of three and 14 in the course of a two-week campaign in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) aimed at helping the education of children in developing nations.
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$1 Million Donation? The Author Did It
Patricia Cornwell, the best-selling author, has made a commitment of $1 million to the Harvard Art Museum?s Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies.
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Nigeria: Group Petitions EFCC Over Bayelsa's N150 Million Book Contract
The last is yet to be heard of the N150 million law books contract in the Bayelsa State Ministry of Justice, as the Centre for Transparent Governance on Wednesday in Yenagoa, appealed to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to investigate the matter and bring the culprits to book.
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Books-A-Million to Host Glenn Beck for 6 Signings
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UAE students exceed one million book target
Children in the UAE collectively read 1,323,218 books during the two-week One Million Book Challenge organized by Dubai Cares. Organizers said 141,415 pupils from 159 schools in Al Ain, Ras Al Khaimah, Sharjah, and Dubai participated in the challenge.
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Were the World Mine (2008)
Tanner Cohen, left, and Nathaniel David Becker in “Were the World Mine,” inspired by “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.”
Model Karolina Kurkova world's sexiest woman: report
Lingerie model Karolina Kurkova has been voted the world's sexiest woman by E! entertainment television, beating sultry actresses Angelina Jolie and Scarlett Johansson for the honor.
NATO ready to help Africa, but is not world's policeman: chief
NATO is ready to strengthen its ties with Africa, but Africa should come up with solutions to its problems and not expect NATO to police the world, its secretary general Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said on Thursday.
World stocks down amid fears of deep recession
World stocks fell sharply Thursday as fears of a deep global recession gripped markets and sent oil prices below $50 a barrel to levels not seen in more than three years.
World Bank Arm Backs Small Palm Growers on Climate (Update1)
Nov. 21 (Bloomberg) -- The International Finance Corp. , the World Bank's investment arm, said it will help lenders in Indonesia to finance small-scale palm oil growers to encourage so-called sustainable practices and forestall climate change.
Google to shut down virtual world Lively at year-end
The Internet giant, which launched the site less than five months ago, says it wants to focus on its core search business. Not all Google Inc. endeavors turn into gold. Lively, a virtual world the Internet giant launched less than five months ago, will be shut down at the end of the year so Google can focus on its bread-and-butter search business.
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